Benjamin Von Wong, acclaimed photographer, multimedia artist, and activist, built an 11-foot tall skull, the "Skull of Satoshi," covered in electronic waste (E-waste) to "expose Bitcoin's impact on climate change."
Back in January, the tech world balked when a Kodak-branded Bitcoin miner called the Kodak KashMiner was unveiled at the CES trade show in Las Vegas. It seems that photography and cryptocurrency enthusiasts weren't the only ones that balked: the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) actually blocked the KashMiner from moving forward.
It turns out the new KodakCoin isn't the only way Kodak is joining the cryptocurrency craze. Kodak has also created the Kodak KashMiner, a bitcoin mining machine that you rent for $3,400 and share the profits on.
We didn't see this one coming: Kodak just joined the cryptocurrency craze by announcing a new "photo-centric" cryptocurrency called "KODAKCoin."
Bic Camera, one of Japan's largest camera and electronics retailers, will be accepting bitcoin as a payment option in all of its stores across the country.
A new copyright protection service called Binded just launched this week. It's actually a rebrand of the company formerly known as Blockai, and the purpose remains the same: using the Bitcoin blockchain to protect photographers' copyrights.
For better or worse, copyright law hasn't changed much in the United States even as technology has made it far easier for people to steal or "appropriate" your work. But a new service called Blockai thinks it can help by using something called the bitcoin blockchain.
Abigail Scarlett is a London-based photographer who believes that Bitcoin is the future. Her belief is so strong, in fact, that she's willing to put her digital currency where her mouth is. For the next half year, Scarlett will only be accepting photo work that is paid in Bitcoin.
The BitCoin boom of 2014 (and subsequent decline) helped introduced the idea of a digital currency to the general public. Photographer Sarah Meyohas wants to take advantage of this new awareness: she is launching her own "digital currency" called the "B*tchCoin" (BC) that's backed by her own photography.
Enthusiasts of bitcoin, the electronic cryptocurrency, have more ways than ever to spend their digital cash. But should professional photographers try to take advantage of the growing popularity of bitcoin and similar systems by accepting it as payment for their work?
A few photographers say so, but first, what is bitcoin and how does it work?