Prince Harry, singer-songwriter Billie Eilish, Olympian Simone Biles, and the Ethereum co-founder all made the cut. Time magazine has named Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin one of the most influential people this year, along with musicians, world leaders, activists, and others. Appearing in the list of Time’s innovators for 2021, Buterin is named alongside Nvidia CEO…
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Coinbase has launched a fact-checking portal to combat “misinformation and mischaracterizations about Coinbase or crypto” being shared online. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has announced the launch of what he’s calling a “Fact-Check” via the company’s blog. In a May 27 post titled “Announcing Coinbase Fact Check: Decentralizing Truth in the Age of Misinformation,” Armstrong expressed…
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Though Musk’s mother briefly mentioned the token during the Saturday Night Live opening monologue, the Tesla CEO followed up with an in-depth look for his Weekend Update segment. Meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin, often pushed by Elon Musk on Twitter, got its moment during the Tesla CEO’s appearance on Saturday Night Live, but the shoutouts didn’t drive…
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American content distribution company Cinedigm now uses Theta’s TFUEL cryptocurrency as a reward for sharing and watching content. Cinedigm, a major American content distribution company, is applying blockchain technology to one of its streaming channels. The company has partnered with decentralized video delivery network Theta Labs to integrate Theta’s peer-to-peer streaming technology and cryptocurrency rewards…
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“Everyone’s making so much money — can you please explain what’s an NFT?” asked Pete Davidson’s Eminem. The craze behind non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, has seemingly reached peak parody after NBC’s famed Saturday Night Live sketch comedy featured it in a skit with United States Treasury Secretary “Janet Yellen.” In last night’s show hosted by…
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How has the Bitcoin bull run changed crypto media? New opportunities arise during each Bitcoin bull run. The current ebullience has been driven by an influx of institutional investors, along with major payment providers like PayPal and Mastercard. But why are they here to begin with? Much of the recent enthusiasm can be attributed to…
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“The media industry is undergoing a rapid evolution,” says the job listing. A new job posting from Time magazine shows the 98-year-old publication is looking for a chief financial officer familiar with blockchain and cryptocurrencies. According to the job details listed on LinkedIn, Time is seeking a chief financial officer with more than seven years…
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More than 200,000 Redditors joined the page last week. One of the most well-known online Bitcoin communities passed two million subscribers in a surge of activity on Friday, purportedly due to the media attention over the r/Wallstreetbets subreddit. According to the Metrics For Reddit analytics website, the subreddit r/Bitcoin has 2,184,941 subscribers at the time…
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“Bitcoin is neutral like cash, and can’t discriminate between good and bad,” said Gladstein. Alex Gladstein, chief strategy officer at the Human Rights Foundation, is warning Americans about the narrative coming from media outlets reporting on crypto and other privacy tools. In an article for Time Magazine published today, Gladstein said that many news outlets…
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Too bad the brief crypto-related conversation was largely nonsensical. A number of TV shows have mentioned Bitcoin (BTC) or other cryptocurrencies over the years, including Big Bang Theory in 2017 and The Simpsons in 2020. One of the latest crypto mentions occurred during the premiere of the 11th season of Shameless, in an episode called…
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