Author: parasew
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Polkadot Parachains: specialized subchains for blockchains
Polkadot, a next-generation blockchain platform, launched its first parachains in late 2021 after five years of technical development[1]. Parachains are individual blockchains running in parallel within the Polkadot ecosystem, and […]
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The perfect storm of FUD: DeFi winter, cascading Defaults, Bitcoin bottom and Ethereum pre-merge meltdown
Bitcoin ($BTC) fell below $21.000 ($20,193.23) on June 15, and Ethereum’s Ether ($ETH) has traded for a minimum of $1,023.18 this Wednesday. On Friday (June 17) 2022 Bitcoin dropped to […]
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Hot topics in Blockchain and Web3 (2023 edition)
2023 edition of trends in Blockchain and Web3. A previous version of this research has been published in Blockchain Technology Report, by Vienna Business Agency (2022). This post is an […]
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Query Publics in the Next Society
Is the term New Media Art is still relevant in the 21st century? In this paper we are presenting Artistic Technology Research as dispositif and synergetic discipline for the agency […]
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The roots of Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency in Austria
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency in Austria Seven years of Bitcoin, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency in Austria is an info-graphic by RIAT Institute. The research concluded findings from Bitcoin Austria, […]
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SHARE Handbook for Artistic Research Education
In the Context of Artistic Research Education: The opening part of this book consists of two chapters. The first of these attempts to outline the multiple genealogies and contexts of […]
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Crypto-Economics: Infrastructures and Artefacts
Crypto-Economics: Infrastructures and Artefacts (“Cryptoeconomics”) is an early publication from the RIAT Institute. The publication is showcasing the Austrian communities around cryptography, DLT and cryptocurrency. RIAT has produced this publication […]
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Openism – Projects and Conversations in Open Source Hardware
Openism unravels the development of open hardware from Richard Stallman, Joshua Pearce, Andrew Huang, Katherine Scott, Madeline Gannon, Silvia Lindtner and others. Stories of 3D-printed stethoscopes in the Gaza Strip, […]
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Making Artistic Technology: Illustrated book for kids, new makers and future hardware hackers
Hacking has an aura of rebellion and is democratizing decentralization. But products are not produced by sophisticated robots, but through working hands-on, hacking away under sometimes harmful conditions. Communities produce, […]
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Forking as Cultural Practice: Institutional Governance after The DAO
The “right to fork” is inherent in the fundamental software freedoms common. Forking also takes place in “traditional institutions” such as non-profit associations and political and religious movements. Forking was […]
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Future Cryptoeconomics: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Forking, and a novel discipline
Future Cryptoeconomics is publication that examines the global cryptoeconomic condition and its effects on culture and society. The Future Cryptoeconomics Magazine is available via Motto Distribution Geneva, Switzerland and is […]
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Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments
Cryptocurrencies as Distributed Community Experiments: how Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero and other Cryptocurrency is based on experimental economics of distributed experimentation. This chapter is part of the Handbook of Digital Currency: […]
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Faceless Praxis in the Age of Zero Trust: Strategies of Disappearance and distributed Pseudonymity in Art and Research
Faceless praxis in the age of zero trust is part of the book Faceless: Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies. We live in times of Zero (Western, 2013), a term […]
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RIAT decentral archive of process artifacts at the DATA LOAM exhibition
DATA LOAM is an exhibition in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Royal College of Art in London, RIAT International, as well as Arts & Science program […]