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Several union representatives are standing near Lane County Commission Chair Joe Berney. They’re at the July 14 tour of Lane Transit District with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and Congressman Peter DeFazio, promoting a trillion dollar infrastructure bill being debated in Congress. It’s the first time that many of the union reps have seen one another since the start of COVID-19.
While I’m introducing myself to them, one of the reps tells me that unions love Berney.
That statement of adoration comes weeks after the Oregon Legislature passed Senate Bill 420, which lays a framework for state and local government agencies to adopt a community benefits bidding protocol. That’s an agreement that a public agency will accept bids only from contractors and businesses that meet a certain criteria such as offering year-round family health benefits and apprenticeship programs for historically excluded populations.
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Eugene software engineer Miguel Cervera has been a student of blockchain technology for years. “Many of the use cases for NFTs have not been discovered yet,” he says of the technology, which was developed in 2008. “There are a lot of ways we can benefit from it.”
So when
Eugene Weekly jumped on the blockchain bandwagon this spring and auctioned a unique digital image of its April 8 cover as an NFT, it naturally drew Cervera’s attention. The initial bid, from another local software engineer, was $50; Cervera bid it up in $100 increments until it reached $1,000 and won the
EW cover image when the auction closed April 23.
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KLCC s Brian Bull reports on the April 8, 2021 cover of the Eugene Weekly, which is also formatted as a non-fungible token and posted for auction.
Broken down, an NFT is a unique, one-of-a-kind unit of digital data, which can be an image, video, or similar medium. Many have sold as exclusive editions, in the burgeoning field of techno-art collection.
Bob Keefer, arts editor for the Eugene Weekly.
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Bob Keefer, arts editor for the
“I read that the
New York Times put up an NFT version of a story that they ran in the paper and it sold for half a million dollars,” Keefer told KLCC. “And I thought well, if they could just put a story out of the paper online and collect half a million dollars well, maybe Eugene Weekly can put our cover online and auction it off, and who knows what we’d get.”