Personal Technology with Joanna Stern

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Personal Technology with Joanna Stern

Season 1 Episode 97 December 13, 2021

Sometimes you just need to do an NFT for mom

By Joanna Stern December 13, 2021 11:30 AM

Do terms like “non-fungible token”, “coinage”, “gasoline charge” and more sound like a foreign language to you? To better understand and explain it, Joanna Stern of the WSJ turned her son’s art into an NFT on the Ethereum blockchain. Photographic illustration: Jacob Reynolds

Personal Technology with Joanna Stern

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