crypto/blockchain

The actor, best known for his starring role in “The O.C.,” has become an outspoken critic of a volatile market driven by speculation. Who’s listening?

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain, says the digital-asset universe may actually benefit from the current retreat in coin prices that’s cast a chill on investors and is being referred to as another crypto winter.

For some crypto holders, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an opportunity⁠—and a validation of their increasingly radical beliefs.

Of course it isn’t like the Internet. But this claim keeps coming up. Includes technologies Bitcoin and blockchains are actually comparable to.

Trendy digital assets are ridiculously easy to create. That’s a problem.

The hack reeks of social engineering for insider information, not sophisticated computer science brilliance.

That "rapper" accused of billions in crypto fraud was also a Forbes contributor. Is it finally time to move past the contributor network?

Technical mastery has long been part of religious or spiritual awe, as well as a means to create or strengthen power relations... Bitcoin and all the aura surrounding its creation had this same characteristic.

In the frenzy to attract venture capital funding and draw new users and investors into blockchain technologies, 'how will this technology be used to harass and abuse people?' is going unasked. While blockchain proponents speak about a 'future of the web' based around public ledgers, anonymity, and immutability, those of us who have been harassed online look on in horror as obvious vectors for harassment and abuse are overlooked, if not outright touted as features.

"Within our present oligarchic, exploitative, irrational, and inhuman world system, the rise of crypto applications will only make our society more oligarchic, more exploitative, more irrational, and more inhuman."

Breaking through crypto security

Web3 is self-referential in the extreme. The value of the tokens is expected to grow as everything is to become more liquid and interconnected: tokens from one DAO will be valuable in another; more activities will be fractionalized; more institutions will turn into DAOs; more objects into NFTs...

"Monetary policy is not a curse to be driven out by some non-political binding mechanism, algorithmic or otherwise, but an opportunity to expand the range of our politics and collective self-organization."

How I bluffed my way to a six figure job. Read part one of this incredible story here.

Bitfinex Securities will not charge a fee for this. They’re just being nice, see.

MOB surged from $7 to $68 in the last week before taking a dump and dropping to $39 overnight.

Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than ...

Knowledge of Kazakhstan in the West is extremely slim, particularly among western media, and many responses to events there have been wildly off-beam. The narrative on the right is that Putin is looking to annex Kazakhstan, or at least the majority ethnic Russian areas in the north. This is utter nonsense. The narrative on the […]

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Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele is spinning new projects as fast as he can.

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In the end, we're all bored apes

Announcing a new art project challenging the financial ideologies of digital ledgers

New research shows that just 0.01% of bitcoin holders controls 27% of the currency in circulation.

It has to be somewhere. Why not Ukraine?

Are they onto something huge again — or just fighting the last war?

Developers seek out populations suffering debt crises, war and climate disasters, the more scarred from past colonial abuse the better, to experiment and incubate new crypto ideas

Far from a modern idea, Blockchain, in fact, has a long history tracing all the way back to the tribal villages of the tiny island of Yap in 500AD.

For one of her startups. Afghan entrepreneur Roya Mahboob had trouble paying her (mostly female) users, 99% of whom did not have bank accounts. Her solution? Bitcoin.

Latin American nation will on Tuesday become first country to accept digital currency as legal tender