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gital pieces of art as NFTs. If you are not yet familiar with NFTs, <a href="https://readmedium.com/are-socks-the-new-tulips-4825ab13695b">here’s</a> a quick 101 on them. Over one weekend, with pieces selling from 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars each, Beeple — an ‘average’ dad driving an ‘average’ car — netted $69 million.</p><p id="457e">That, is why you should know of the name Beeple. And why NFTs might be a trend you want to learn more about.</p><p id="f997">Why would anyone buy the ‘digital’ artwork, you may ask? Good question. After all, I just snipped a photo of it above, and pasted it right here, for free, where you also enjoyed it, also for free.<b> So why would someone pay up to$ 777,777 for one digital artwork, when we can all have access to it?</b></p><p id="9f8f">The sense of ownership, proprietary rights to the ‘original’.</p><p id="1545">Still doesn’t make sense? Well, you are not alone. And not wrong. It does not really make sense.</p><p id="2427">The world is going places we do not yet understand.</p><p id="5b1b">Stay with me for the ride!</p><h2 id="d280">Enter Liink.</h2><p id="735e">And JPM Coin, and Onyx, and Format, and Confirm.</p><p id="83cc">JP Morgan is on top of this.</p><p id="14b8">Here are the cole’s notes.</p><p id="a5ce">A couple of years ago [yes, already], JP Morgan created JPM Coin, a digital coin used to speed up transactions and transfers of USD across the network, built on an Ethereum network they called Quorom. JPM Coin is stable coin, pegged 1:1 to the US Dollar [<a href="https://readmedium.com/three-crypto-trends-to-get-into-early-5cf090b07334">here</a> is a simple explanation of stable coins].</p><p id="1047">If you are asking, why would JP Morgan need a blockchain network to simply trade coins where their value 1:1 US Dollar? Well;</p><ul><li>the coin can be exchanged between entities digitally, instantaneously, without the intermediate ‘processing’ period we sometimes have to get our money transferred.</li><li>To transfer a digital coin, you need a blockchain platform. Hence Quorom.</li><li>Because it is cool and they wanted to get into this! So ‘cool’ that some digital coin enthusiasts don’t even recognize this one as a true digital coin — discrimination in digital coins already!</li></ul><p id="7650">Once they set up Quorom, JPM started a payment messaging system, Liink.</p><p id="1759">The “IIN” in the middle stands for interbank information network. Any bank which joins this network can have access to the ledger of transactions done on the network, i.e. can see every payment which went through on Quorom.</p><p id="e47f">Also using Quorom, JP Morgan went on to start new tech-enabled solutions such as Confirm and Format [JPM seems to be into puns].</p><p id="1124"><b>Confirm </b>is used to validate account info before payment is done, this is so costs are not wasted on potentially fraudulent transactions. <b>Format</b>, you guessed it, checks if the format for payments match and conform to the receiving party’s country’s requirements.</p><p id="2f5f">Today, JPM no longer ow

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ns Quorom, it spun it off and invested in the new owner — ConsenSys — so it can remain independent as it creates more tech solutions.</p><h2 id="c8e1">Next up: Diem.</h2><p id="000b">Diem is Facebook’s digital currency — because, why not.</p><p id="ebaf">Facebook has been trying to get regulatory approval to issue its own stable coin, on its own payment network, Diem Association, for a while. It finally got approval last month.</p><p id="d413">Why is this one in particular an interesting one to watch, especially since it seems everyone wants to issue their own coin? Exhibit A [or F!]: Amazon made a similar announcement recently.</p><p id="3ed3">A Facebook coin has one major advantage — its potential customer base. Diem in itself is ‘just another stable coin’. Facebook however has almost 3 billion users. If, say, 15% of these users adopt Diem, it will far supersede the use of any digital currency so far, including Bitcoin. It will also make it a lot more ‘mainstream’ given the on-the-ground average-person users of Facebook.</p><p id="aedf">Worth keeping an eye out for. Might change the digital currency story.</p><p id="3be4">So, less awkward intro than you expected, I hope? Willing to go for another date? My guess is ‘crypto’ will keep us interested for a few more.</p><p id="2b4a">Quick note, some stories above are not as recent, e.g. JP Morgan’s plays. I included them because the stories continue to evolve, and these terms are making it into mainstream media; this gives the background of what you might come across more often now.</p><p id="f261">Keep watch for more crypto news, and shoot me a response if you want to learn of anything in particular.</p><p id="d2e8">Feel free to join my newsletter <a href="https://www.getrevue.co/profile/ialmouaswas">here</a>, where I send a summary of my weekly articles, usually including one crypto-based.</p><div id="e0c4" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/are-socks-the-new-tulips-4825ab13695b"> <div> <div> <h2>Are SOCKS the New Tulips?</h2> <div><h3>How socks became digital and memes became coins.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*kvKzo_U2ugHXMvGyulkurw.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="8299" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/three-crypto-trends-to-get-into-early-5cf090b07334"> <div> <div> <h2>Three Crypto Trends to Get into Early</h2> <div><h3>Get ready to pick your favourite content creator.</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*E7hcmlmlYS2afQMj4q9TpQ.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

25 Quotes About Lust

Because it makes the world go around

What is lust? How does it differ from love? Are they always connected or is there a way to separate the two? These are questions that people have probably been grappling with since the beginning of time and the quotes below provide some possible answers.

1. “If they substituted the word ‘Lust’ for ‘Love’ in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.” -Sylvia Plath

2. “I don’t think there’s anything like love at first sight. What happens is actually lust at first sight.” -Abhay Deol

3. “The more we are filled with thoughts of lust, the less we find true romantic love.” -Douglas Horton

4. “People wait around too long for love. I’m happy with all of my lusts!” -C. JoyBell C.

5. “Lust feels like love until it’s time to make a sacrifice.” -Unknown

6. “Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all — ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge are all founded on lust.” -Marquis De Sade

7. “Greed, envy, sloth, pride and gluttony: these are not vices anymore. No, these are marketing tools. Lust is our way of life. Envy is just a nudge towards another sale. Even in our relationships we consume each other, each of us looking for what we can get out of the other. Our appetites are often satisfied at the expense of those around us. In a dog-eat-dog world we lose part of our humanity.” -Jon Foreman

8. “Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.” -Mason Cooley

9. “Lust is a thing of the blood. Doesn’t need head or heart.” -Karen Marie Moning

10. “There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.” -Anne Fortier

11. “Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.” -Frederick Buechner

12. “Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.” -Teresa Mummert

13. “For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.” -Stephen King

14. “Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.” -Danielle Steel

15. “Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it’s easier to fight.” -Laurell K. Hamilton

16. “In love the other is important; in lust you are important.” -Osho

17. “It’s a pity nobody believes in simple lust anymore.” -Ava Gardner

18. “Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.” -Saint Ambrose

19. “If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.” -Marquis de Sade

20. “I don’t think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don’t think you can fake it.” -Keira Knightley

21. “Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.” -Tom Robbins

22. “Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards.” -R.D. Ronald

23. “Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.” -E.M. Forster

24. “Lust, forgetful of future suffering, hurries us along the forbidden path.” -Claudian

25. “When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.” -Rumi

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Sources:

Lust Quotes. BrainyQuote. https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/lust-quotes

Lust Quotes. Goodreads. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/lust

Lust Sayings and Quotes. Wise Sayings. https://www.wisesayings.com/lust-quotes/