From Collectibles to Crimes? FIFA’s NFT Platform Faces Gambling Allegations

In mid October 2025, the Swiss gambling regulator Gespa filed a criminal complaint with the competent prosecution authorities alleging that FIFA’s blockchain based NFT platform, FIFA Collect, is operating unlicensed gambling services in Switzerland. The complaint asserts that FIFA Collect offers various “competitions” (such as drops, challenges, airdrops) in which participation requires a monetary stake,…

Georg Brameshuber
Oct 23, 2025

From Collectibles to Crimes? FIFA’s NFT Platform Faces Gambling Allegations

In mid October 2025, the Swiss gambling regulator Gespa filed a criminal complaint with the competent prosecution authorities alleging that FIFA’s blockchain based NFT platform, FIFA Collect, is operating unlicensed gambling services in Switzerland. The complaint asserts that FIFA Collect offers various “competitions” (such as drops, challenges, airdrops) in which participation requires a monetary stake,…

Sasha Stiles, Completions: Fragments – Fragment #17, 1/1/30 2022.

Sasha Stiles: Redefining Cross-Media Art in the Age of AI

Poetry has long been a medium of human expression, a technology of language that encodes emotions, memories, and cultural narratives. Sasha Stiles is a pioneer of generative literature and language art, pushing the boundaries of what poetry can be, integrating artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and transmedia storytelling into her work. As a poet and language…

·May 20, 2021

EIP-1559 (Ethereum Improvement Proposal 1559)

Insight #1: EIP-1559, oder auch Ethereum Improvement Proposal 1559 genannt, ist einer der derzeit meistdiskutierten Vorschläge für Änderungen/Verbesserungen des Ethereum-Netzwerkes, welcher mit dem “London Hard Fork” diesen Juli eingeführt werden soll.