By: Ryan Borba
Kings Of Leonraised more than $600,000 for Crew Nation with an NFT-laden album drop in March.For the last couple years, the still-burgeoning world of cryptocurrency seemed like something out of science fiction, at least to most run-of-the-mill, regular-money-using people.
Even its name, with the prefix “crypto,” suggested a dark-web underworld where people traded things of nebulous worth for nebulous currency for nebulous reasons. While some mainstream outlets and businesses started accepting Bitcoin for transactions, and even just recently some major online brokerages started tracking cryptocurrency on their own exchange-traded funds, the crypto craze has mostly seemed to be as a new asset class for people hoping to make a quick buck.
By: Ryan Borba
Kings Of Leonraised more than $600,000 for Crew Nation with an NFT-laden album drop in March.For the last couple years, the still-burgeoning world of cryptocurrency seemed like something out of science fiction, at least to most run-of-the-mill, regular-money-using people.
Even its name, with the prefix “crypto,” suggested a dark-web underworld where people traded things of nebulous worth for nebulous currency for nebulous reasons. While some mainstream outlets and businesses started accepting Bitcoin for transactions, and even just recently some major online brokerages started tracking cryptocurrency on their own exchange-traded funds, the crypto craze has mostly seemed to be as a new asset class for people hoping to make a quick buck.
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The pandemic broke the traditional music industry playbook, so Kings of Leon got creative.
Manager Andy Mendelsohn teamed up with Josh Katz of YellowHeart to design an NFT album launch.
Katz told Insider how the tech opens up new possibilities for artists to engage with fans.
A little over a year ago, Grammy Award-winning rock group Kings of Leon had just wrapped up recording a new album and were getting ready to go on tour to promote it when the COVID-19 pandemic brought the live entertainment industry to a grinding halt.
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Oracle Corp. has been on something of a roll in 2021. The database giant received a boost from Gartner Inc. just before the start of the new year in a report that ranked the firm high among database management leaders for its ability to leverage on-premises strength in hybrid cloud deployment.
In March, the company made headlines with a well-received string of updates to its Autonomous Data Warehouse offering. The latest releases focused on simpler loads and transforms, autonomous machine learning models and facilitating citizen data science.
“If I’m an analyst, I want data and it’s still hard for me to go and get data from various data sources, transform them, clean them up and get them to a place where I can start querying,” said Andy Mendelsohn (pictured), executive vice president of database server technologies at Oracle. “What we’ve done in the new release is give data scientists and developers a true self-service experience, where they can do their job co