As NFT Sells for $69M, Artists Question Environmental Impact of Blockchain

Good morning. ⛅️ Today, artists question the environmental impact of NFTs, the Godzilla art collectiv

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Good morning. ⛅️ Today, artists question the environmental impact of NFTs, the Godzilla art collective withdrew from a planned retrospective, and Erin Thompson and Emiline Smith write: “We need to make it clear to our museums that we do not want to walk around in galleries of stolen artworks.”— Hrag Vartanian, editor-in-chief

As NFT Sells for $69M, Artists Question Environmental Impact of Blockchain As crypto-art speculation rises, so do the planet’s temperature and questions about the carbon footprint of non-fungible tokens. Valentina Di Liscia

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