Pawan Rochwani

Before the internet demanded our attention 24/7, television, radio, and lifestyle magazines had a very specific grip on the zeitgeist, combing youth culture to determine the next craze. Now, gauging cool is a far more democratic endeavor, and the escalating speed of digital culture means that fads can come and go before they even peak. Mediated... See more

Bull case: AI will lower the barrier to entry for artists to create digital art.

1. Create images from text.2. Create images from rough sketches. 3. Extend images beyond their borders.

5. De-Fi is an emerging financial technology that uses distributed ledgers to remove middlemen from financial transactions. They are a combination of smart contracts and DAOs.

Community commerce was born out of lockdown. There has been a 74% surge in online shopping in 2020 and 85% of people purchase products or services after seeing them reviewed on social media.

So, pursued the development of decentralized, cryptographically secure digital infrastructure.

In 2009, Cypherpunk Hal Finney became the first person to transact Bitcoin as well as the first maintainer of the Bitcoin software code base.

In 1975, the government introduced the Data Encryption Standard, a national encryption standard for public and commercial use. Thus limiting citizens’ access to cryptography knowledge and tools. This is part of a decades-long battle over data privacy known as the “Crypto Wars.”

In 2008, a group of developers released a whitepaper on the Cryptographers Mailing List.