Bitcoin is the New Data is the New Oil

For this episode I spoke with Maryam Monalisa Gharavi (@wcncnd), an Iranian-American artist, writer, and theorist whose work explores the interplay between aesthetic and political valences in the public domain.. She conceived of the Oil Research Group, a one woman collective exploring the relationship between oil, data, and bitcoin."Data is the new oil" was coined by the British mathematician Clive Humby in 2006 and since then has become a bit of a cliché phrase in the business world. While t...