Ellen Britt

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Feb
03
2022
By Ellen Britt
Virtual Mortgages Become A New Industry In The Metaverse

Virtual Mortgages Become A New Industry In The Metaverse

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Ellen Britt for CNT #NFT A brand new economy powered by the Metaverse is rapidly emerging. And as virtual real estate becomes a thing, people who want to own homes and buy virtual land are turning to a new type of NFT financial instrument to finance their purchases. A New Financial Industry Is Born One such company is TerraZero Technologies, offering its first-ever Metaverse Mortage via the Decentraland platform. Clients explore listing right on TerraZero’s platform, including land, location, and prefab build options. Interested parties may also offer other NFT assets as leverage to get a mortgage and can interact with a TerraZero specialist to…
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Feb
02
2022
By Ellen Britt
Coachella To Sell Lifetime Passes As NFTs

Coachella To Sell Lifetime Passes As NFTs

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Ellen Britt for CNT #NFT If you want to purchase a lifetime pass to the Coachella Festival, you can do so, but only if you buy the NFT that is associated with it.  The Coachella Keys Collection is an exclusive group of ten NFTs going up for sale on February 4th that will grant buyers lifetime Festival tickets. Not only do the token owners get a yearly pass, but they will also be granted access to Coachella-produced virtual experiences. Perks will also include such goodies as 2022 Festival front row access as well as a dinner hosted by a celebrity chef.  Arena Naming Rights It’s…
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Feb
01
2022
By Ellen Britt
NFTs Are Holding Their Value Even As Crypto Drops

NFTs Are Holding Their Value Even As Crypto Drops

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Ellen Britt for CNT #NFT   Both Ether and Bitcoin, two of the most well-known cryptocurrencies, have taken a tumble. But NFTs, even though they are tied to crypto, are for the most part holding their position as a store of value.   DappRadar, a data analysis company, recently reported that even while cryptocurrencies were plummeting, losing nearly fifty percent of their all time highs in November, the top 100 NFT collections in total lost only fifteen percent of their value, and some collections even gained value during the same period.   Closely Linked But NOT The Same!   It’s important…
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Jan
31
2022
By Ellen Britt
Live Event Tickets Join The NFT Revolution!

Live Event Tickets Join The NFT Revolution!

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Ellen Britt for CNT#NFT  Ticket sales for live events are usually separated from the artist or performer by a third party, responsible for not only distributing those tickets but keeping track of sales. Not exactly a transparent system! But now, NFTs can create a completely transparent sales system and also generate a valuable asset by bringing value to the seat or place in a performer’s live event. The fanbase can have a direct relationship with the artist and bypass the middleman altogether. With A Little Help From My Friends Just think if you had a ticket stub from the iconic Woodstock Music Festival from…
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Jan
30
2022
By Ellen Britt
Picasso Art NFT Not Going To Be Sold After All

Picasso Art NFT Not Going To Be Sold After All

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Ellen Britt for CNT#NFT  A few days ago, the granddaughter of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and her son Florian Picasso, announced they were going to sell 1,010 digital art pieces of one of the late artist’s ceramic works that has never before been seen publicly.  This announcement understandably generated a lot of excitement in the art world, as Picasso, who died in 1973, had an enormous influence on 20th-century art with his unique style. A Family Squabble But now, all that excitement has fizzled, as a lawyer for the Picasso family say his heirs have not authorized such an offering, apparently signaling an intra-family disagreement. A…
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Jan
29
2022
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NFTs Get Real With NFT Real Estate Platform

NFTs Get Real With NFT Real Estate Platform

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Ellen Britt for CNT #NFT It’s one thing for NFTs to be getting a lot of attention in terms of artists’ creations and the embrace of all things NFT by such big players as Coca-cola, Crocs, the NFL, Mercedes-Benz, and now Lamborghini, but now things are getting real…with real estate that is! Last year, the blockchain startup Propy looked to use blockchain technology via smart contracts to smooth out actual physical real estate sales. The company did sell an apartment as an NFT but not in the U.S., as the apartment was in Ukraine. Now Propy is launching real estate-backed NFTs in the US…
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Jan
28
2022
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Lamborghini Puts The Pedal To The Metal With Release Of Its First NFT

Lamborghini Puts The Pedal To The Metal With Release Of Its First NFT

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Ellen Britt for CNT #NFT  The iconic Italian super-luxury car maker Lamborghini is releasing its first NFT soon! Unlike the cartoonish images that many NFTs portray, this is a sophisticated piece of art with an astronomical theme. The company plans to auction off a series of NFTs produced in collaboration with Swiss artist Fabian Oefner, which depicts a Lamborghini launched into space as it breaks down into its parts heading into orbit. The timing of the auction is in keeping with the rocket theme as well, with the first one beginning at 4:00 CET and each of the four other auctions starting and…
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Jan
27
2022
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NFT Ducks Save Couple’s Atlanta Homestead

NFT Ducks Save Couple’s Atlanta Homestead

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Ellen Britt for CNT #NFT  How’s this for hatching up a plan? Thorne Melcher and Mandy Musselwhite, who raise ducks and geese as well as other animals on their Atlanta area homestead, created an NFT collection of 10,000 cartoon ducks in an effort to avoid foreclosure due to mortgage back-payments that were overdue.  Mandy created the ducks and Thomas, who is a coder, learned a new coding language so he could mint the ducks as NFTs on the ethereum blockchain. They had to borrow money from a trusted friend just to pay the fees for the NFT collection. They incubated their plan in early…
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Jan
26
2022
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YouTube Is Hinting They Will Embrace NFTs

YouTube Is Hinting They Will Embrace NFTs

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Ellen Britt for CNT #NFT  The CEO of YouTube just published a letter saying the company is thinking of NFTs as a way to add revenue for its content creators.  Although they are not yet saying how NFTs would be integrated into the platform, we can take some clues from Twitter, which recently added the ability for its Twitter Blue users to add an NFT that they own as their profile pic, which will be hexagonal in shape, rather than round. Twitter and Meta Leading The Way Plus we are sure that YouTube is looking at what Facebook is doing as well, with its name…
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Jan
25
2022
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What’s Up Doc? Surgeon Tries To Sell X-ray As NFT

What’s Up Doc? Surgeon Tries To Sell X-ray As NFT

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Ellen Britt for CNT #NFT  Although there are tons of perfectly legitimate uses for NFTs and more on the way, a French surgeon recently crossed over to the dark side when he attempted to sell an X-ray of one of his patients as an NFT. The Guardian reported that Emmanuel Masmejean, a senior orthopedic surgeon at the Georges Pompidou hospital in Paris, offered an NFT on a major platform that consisted of an X-ray image of a woman’s forearm with a bullet lodged near the bone.  The French woman, whose name is being withheld, survived an attack on the Bataclan concert hall in 2015 and…
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