A growing number of social media platforms have been integrating crypto and Web3 support, but opinions are divided on whether they are in it for the ethos or profit. The emergence of Web3 technologies has brought Web2-based companies to consider amendments to their current products and services. Many leading brands are using Web3 technologies such…
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Bitcoin’s creator seemed to succeed where others failed — initially. What did he do differently? He rotated record-keepers. All revolutions have their dogmas, and the cryptocurrency/blockchain insurgency is no different. It’s an article of faith among crypto adherents that decentralization will solve many of society’s ills, including the problem of governance. Vili Lehdonvirta — an…
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Social tokens are increasingly being used in online blockchain communities. They offer numerous benefits to users. The crypto world is going through a transformative chapter that is bound to revolutionize how the internet works and how online communities interact, and social tokens are at the heart of the latest inflective developments. Their rise comes at…
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Ori Freiman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Ethics, the University of Toronto._____ In recent years, we have witnessed a growing interest in the idea of central bank digital currencies. Similar to cash, central bank digital currencies are a form of money issued by central banks. … Read More: How Central Banks and CBDCs Could End Democracy…
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A 33-year-old South Korean crypto company chief has appealed a 25-year prison sentence after allegedly pushing his live-in girlfriend to her death from a 19th-storey window. Per Asia Today and Newsis (via Fn News), the man, referred to for legal reasons by his surname Kim, was the CEO of an unnamed crypto investment firm and…
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Tom Boellstorff, Professor of Anthropology, the University of California, Irvine. _____ Quick, define the word “metaverse.”… Read More: This Is Why How We Describe Metaverse Makes Difference Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin with Credit Card
Police in South Korea investigating the deaths of a 10-year-old child named Cho Yu-na and both of her parents have announced that the family had made numerous bitcoin (BTC) investments, but denied there was any evidence of luna classic (LUNAC) investments. The bodies of the trio were found in an upturned car in waters off…
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What’s behind Buterin’s embrace of “soulbound tokens”? Ensuring Ethereum’s dominance? A backlash against NFTs? Creating a better world? The attention, one might suspect, has much to do with the participation of Buterin, blockchain’s wunderkind and the legendary co-founder of the Ethereum network. But it could also be a function of the paper’s ambition and scope,…
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Jean Burgess, Professor and Associate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, the Queensland University of Technology._____ The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, seems set to purchase the social media platform Twitter for around USD 44bn. He says he’s not doing it to make money (which is good, because Twitter has…
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Luke Pearson, Associate Professor, Bartlett School of Architecture, Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL, Sandra Youkhana, Lecturer and PhD student, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL.______ Virtual real estate is booming. In December 2021, one buyer spent USD 450,000 on a plot of land in rapper Snoop Dogg’s virtual…
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