Virtual land in the Metaverse sells for millions of dollars as prices jump by 500%
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It used to be the case we bought and cherished physical assets but in the future digital assets could overtake all physical assets in value. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
Botto the decentralised AI artist bags its first million dollars
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It’s not just humans and animals that can create works of art – AI’s getting better at it to and it’s getting rich off it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech...
New survey says central banks are lining up to create CBDCs but not on the blockchain
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF While blockchain is the technology of the decade, alongside a few others, central banks don’t appear to be fans of it. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote,...
Walmart patents show it’s mulling entering the Metaverse with own NFTs and crypto
WHY THIS MATTERS The metaverse is potentially a multi-trillion dollar opportunity – eventually – and companies are experimenting and laying their stakes already. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. When...
PayPal code reveals the company might be creating its own Stablecoin cryptocurrency
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Almost everyone nowadays is minting their own money and there are very few companies that aren’t experimenting in the space. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
Daymak unveil Spiritus the world’s first cryptocurrency mining car
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Why can’t a car make you money instead of costing you money? And other great questions … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Most of us would love a free car. And...
Bitcoin wallets could be hacked by quantum computers by 2025 but there’s hope
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers will soon be so powerful they could crack 70% of the world’s encryption systems, so researchers are racing to find a solution. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. This year...
French central bank successfully completes first test of their sovereign digital currency
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF National fiat currencies will all one day be digital, and the move’s already starting … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. France’s central bank has announced it successfully completed a pilot transaction...
Facebook backed cryptocurrency Diem to launch later this year
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Facebook’s Libra could have changed the global financial system overnight, but after regulators blocked it they’re now taking a different approach … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Facebook wanted to revolutionise...
Green Bitcoin alternative Chia causes global hard drive shortages
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Bitcoin’s energy consumption is huge, rivalling most nations, and its unsustainable so people are trying to create “green” alternatives. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that run on...
Federal Reserve’s Digital Dollar initiative has Wall Street panicking
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A CBDC, a government digital currency, could cut the banking middle men, and that’s freaking some of them out. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. The financial services industry, braced for what...
A US realtor is trying to sell an actual house as an NFT now
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF NFT’s are normally used to sell digital assets, but this realtor’s now trying to use the technology to sell real objects … and it’s an interesting concept. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
Global NFT craze helps digital assets of all kinds sell for record breaking sums
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF NFT’s that allow people to sell any type of digital asset, from a tweet to a digital piece of artwork, are fuelling an unprecedented spending craze. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
Futurist Lecture, USA: Future of Blockchain and the 100X Human, Michigan State University
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We already live in a sci-fi world, but new technologies and new ways of working are soon going to help humanity reach new highs, accomplish new things, and unleash our potential like never before. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof...
India drafts legislation to ban private cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and develop a national coin
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cryptocurrencies and especially Bitcoin seem to freak most governments out because they reduces the state’s control of money, India could be setting a new global precedent. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
Blockchain would finally let gaming characters cross between franchises
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today none of your games characters, or any characters for that matter, can seamlessly jump from one game universe or franchise to another, but blockchain could make that happen. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch...
European Central Bank announces it’s seriously exploring a digital Euro
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Cash, sooner or later, will die, and several countries are trialling its replacements. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As the use of cash around the world continues to shrink, as...
China accelerates digital currency trials with massive 10 million Yuan giveaway
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The debate about cash being dead rages on, but as far as China concerned digital cash is the future. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential Academy, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Covid-19 has done many things this...
Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra was so powerful it could have ended state control of money
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Who is more powerful today – Trump, Xi, or Zuckerberg? Think about it … Technology and an increasingly connected society are now making individuals more powerful than the state. Interested in the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from our XPotential...
New peer to peer EV charging system means you’ll never run out of juice
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Range anxiety, the worry that your electric vehicle will run out of charge and leave you stranded, is a real thing, this could help solve that. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. As electric vehicles become more popular...
