The Ledger

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Opinion
McLeod: The traditional art world is opaque and plagued by data miners
“The art world broadly is unbelievably obtuse and opaque. You can vary that people are building very building businesses, simply just trying to data mine. What is going on at any time? These are the values collections, why things are happening in this case, we'…”
Tom McLeod Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 56:17 Winning at Startups and the Future of Culture
Opinion
Bloom: Web3 curation can dismantle imperialist gatekeeping of historical artifacts
“Like we can sort of remap that in a lot of ways and like, you know, kind of tear down some of the walls of like you know, colonialism and imperialism that I think have largely informed where some of these works exist.”
Sahil Bloom Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 1:09:45 Winning at Startups and the Future of Culture
Disclosure
McLeod: Web3 museum Arkive owns the patent for the ENIAC computer
“We have the patent for the ENIAC computer.”
Tom McLeod Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 53:28 Winning at Startups and the Future of Culture
Disclosure
McLeod: Arkive plans to launch a membership mint in Q1 2023
“Over the next six months, there'll be about four more cure, like curations on that first collection leading with most likely a mint for a membership in Q one, 20, 23.”
Tom McLeod Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 1:08:36 Winning at Startups and the Future of Culture
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McLeod: Arkive has a 2,000-person waitlist and admits 30 members weekly
“There's a kind of a crazy waiting list. I think we're over 2000 people right now and we're only letting in like 30 a week.”
Tom McLeod Aug 25, 2022 ▶ 1:07:59 Winning at Startups and the Future of Culture
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