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Category: Crypto

  • Mar 24, 2022

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    Crypto, News, NFT, Web3

    Tom Collichio and Spike Mendelson’s Pizza NFT Goes Live

    Chefs Tom Collichio and Spike Mendelson officially launched CHFTY Pizza NFT project this week. The official “mint” or release of its 2777 unique pizza designs began this week, with the pre-sale started yesterday Wednesday, March 23 and the public sale opening today. Each NFT is priced at .07 Ethereum (worth $204 as of this writing)…

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  • Mar 14, 2022

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    Crypto, News

    This Farmer’s Market Vendor Has Accepted Bitcoin for 5 Years. Here’s How Things Have Changed.

    Back in 2017, before much of the general public had given cryptocurrency a second thought, Alessandro Stortini started accepting bitcoin as a form of payment at his local farmer’s market stand, La Pasta. Since that time, virtual currencies have become mainstream as everyone from grandmas to pro athletes have jumped into the world of crypto. In…

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  • Mar 11, 2022

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    Crypto, metaverse, News, NFT

    Slim Jim is creating a “Meata-verse” and a marketplace for virtual food

    Last year, the meme-based cryptocurrency dogecoin got its first public earnings callout from the company that owns meat stick brand Slim Jim. Conagra Brands CEO Sean Connolly pointed to the social engagement from active dogecoin and Shiba Inu meme coin communities as big factors in Slim Jim’s win in the Adweek March Madness-style brand competition.…

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  • Mar 10, 2022

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    Crypto, News, NFT

    Emily Elyse Miller Wants to Reinvent Breakfast Cereal. That Means Vegan Ingredients, Edgy Mascots, and (Of Course) NFTs

    Emily Elyse Miller knows a thing or two about breakfast. Not only has the one-time journalist and fashion trends forecaster written a book on the topic (complete with 380 recipes from 80 countries), but she’d also run a consulting company that helped world-renowned chefs like Enrique Olvera develop breakfast events. But after years of writing…

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  • Feb 24, 2022

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    Crypto, News, NFT

    GourmetNFT Want to Help Culinary Creators Monetize Recipes & Food Experiences Using NFTs

    The tried-and-true cookbook is dead. Long live the fractional cookbook. The movement toward secure, one-of-a-kind recipes and food experiences are fueled by advances and acceptance of the technology surrounding Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). It could be a way to move beyond one-dimensional food presentations and feed the growing number of foodies who want more bells and…

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  • Feb 9, 2022

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    Crypto, News, NFT

    Ready or Not, OneRare’s Supreet Raju Wants to Welcome You to the Foodverse

    While we can’t (yet) enjoy food in all its multisensory glory in the virtual world, Supreet Raju thinks connecting food to the metaverse makes perfect sense. “Food has to be eaten in the real world,” said Raju, co-founder OneRare, a food-centric metaverse. “But there’s a lot of things that can happen in the virtual world…

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  • Feb 8, 2022

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    Crypto, News, NFT

    It Started as a Meme. Now friesDAO Is On Track to Buy a Restaurant After Raising Over $4M Selling NFTs

    When Bill Lee and Brett Beller started talking about the idea of using a DAO and NFTs to buy a McDonald’s, they were mostly joking around. “There was always this joke since the beginning of crypto where if you just traded very poorly, or if you lost a lot of money, you could always work…

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  • Jan 16, 2022

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    Crypto, News, Restaurant Tech

    Here Are The Details About Flyfish Club, Gary Vaynerchuk’s NFT Restaurant Opening in 2023

    While we already knew some of the basic details about Gary Vaynerchuk and VCR Group’s NFT restaurant concept, we’ve learned more in the last week about how the whole thing will work. Here’s some of what we’ve learned and my quick thoughts: Token as Membership. At a high level, the Flyfish Club and its NFT…

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  • Dec 3, 2021

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    Crypto, News, Restaurant Tech

    Now That Square is Block, Will Jack Dorsey’s Company Make it Easier to Buy Dinner With Bitcoin?

    Here’s what we know: On Monday, Jack Dorsey announced he’s stepping down immediately from the top job at Twitter. On Wednesday, his payments company Square said it would change its name to Block and would, among other things, double down on cryptocurrency, blockchain, and building a decentralized payment system. I haven’t checked the news today,…

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  • Oct 25, 2021

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    Crypto, News

    Dinner DAO is Creating IRL Dinner Clubs Built Around NFTs

    After eating at home for much of the past 18 months, most of us are itching to get out into the real world and have dinner with interesting people. If this is you, may I suggest a new way to break bread: An NFT dinner club. That’s the idea behind Dinner DAO, a new community…

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  • Sep 28, 2021

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    Crypto, Delivery & Commerce, News, Restaurant Tech

    The Culinary NFT Trend Is Just Beginning

    If you thought the romance between the culinary world and NFTs was a quick spring fling, I have some news for you: This relationship looks set for the long haul. The latest evidence of an embrace of non-fungible tokens by restaurants comes in the form of new promotion launches over the past few weeks by…

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  • Aug 23, 2021

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    Crypto, News

    Crypto Comes for Food Tech

    I’m a little embarrassed to admit this now, but at the start of the year, I sort of dived head first into the world of cryptocurrencies. I hoovered up books like The Basics of Bitcoin, The Infinite Machine, and Kings of Crypto. I bought my first cryptocurrencies and was transfixed as the value kept going…

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