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Latashá Alcindor still has a day job, but it’s a lot more fun than the last few.Like many of the artists now intimately involved with non-fungible tokens (NFT), Alcindor – better known as the mononymous rapper Latashá – began the year without much

Latashá Alcindor still has a day job, but it’s a lot more fun than the last few.Like many of the artists now intimately involved with non-fungible tokens (NFT), Alcindor – better known as the mononymous rapper Latashá – began the year without much

Let’s start with a simple fact: Buying and holding bitcoin (BTC), the asset, is not what gives people power over the Bitcoin network. Holding bitcoin simply means being able to benefit from the network’s adoption and growth (expressed in price appreciation) and it aff

Garry Kasparov knows math. He knows logic, strategy and decision-making. Widely regarded as the greatest chess player in the history of mankind, the Russian grandmaster – ranked No. 1 from 1984 to 2005 – sees the world with a certain clarity.So it will delight many in

Garry Kasparov knows math. He knows logic, strategy and decision-making. Widely regarded as the greatest chess player in the history of mankind, the Russian grandmaster – ranked No. 1 from 1984 to 2005 – sees the world with a certain clarity.So it will delight many in

Privacy appears to be dropping down on the priority list of those designing a new digital euro, and experts are warning that the design choices being made could make privacy harder to achieve.There have been no formal policy decisions about whether to issue the euro in a new, dig

Non-fungible tokens (NFT) and their biggest fans headed west this week for NFT LA, the latest gathering of JPEG enthusiasts during the technology’s extended coming-out party, now in its ninth month.The week began with warm Los Angeles rainfall, dampening the conference&rsqu

Ethereum mastermind and co-founder Vitalik Buterin Friday morning published a blog post that, with compelling logic and detail, defended “Bitcoin maximalism.” The post seems largely serious, though its publication on April Fools’ Day introduces all sorts of ques

A centerpiece of Web 3 is the metaverse – an immersive online space that recreates and augments reality, as envisioned by developers, businesses and even jokes from the U.S. government.Its most prominent champion may be web mogul Mark Zuckerberg – but Zuckerberg shoul

“You know what’s really punk? One billion dollars.”That line, from Wave Financial co-founder Les Borsai, a music manager-turned-NFT investor, stuck with me this week throughout NFT.LA, the latest in a series of non-fungible token events that have sprung up aroun

Will the developers for AAA video games ever get involved in the play-to-earn NFT space?

The Russia-Ukraine war has provided a demonstration of the vital need and benefits of cryptocurrencies and blockchain, the technology that underlies cryptocurrency, especially to underserved communities on a global scale.

A new Netflix documentary explores the suspicious death of Gerald “Gerry” Cotten and the scandal that ultimately revealed how the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange he founded, QuadrigaCX, had misappropriated customer funds and operated similarly to a Ponzi scheme.Quadr

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a blog post this week reflecting on the possible directions his creation could have taken. The piece, titled, "The roads not taken," is technical in places, but the main conclusions are easy to grasp.Ethereum today has resulted from p

Blockchain’s inherently open door cannot differentiate between the well intentioned and the criminally corrupt. By design, blockchain cannot discriminate between a Salvadorian migrant worker trying to avoid obscenely high remittance fees, or a Kremlin-backing kleptocrat.

The growing appeal of stablecoins in the cryptocurrency industry increases regulatory scrutiny. Tether, the leading stablecoin by market valuation, attracts much scrutiny. Other fiat-pegged currencies attempt different approaches to avoid using the banking system altogether.

Until the early 20th century, highly respected doctors would routinely engage in bloodletting to cure ailments ranging from acne to tuberculosis. While we have left bloodletting behind, we are still engaging in putatively helpful, but veritably destructive practices.Modern know-y

In this week’s World Reimagined, we look at the next generation of investors, how they compare to those that have come before, and how their investing preferences and habits differ from previous generations.

In the last month, we have seen two major developments that bode well for cryptocurrency’s future.On Feb. 26, the Ukrainian government began accepting crypto donations as it defends itself against Russia’s invasion. Then, on March 9, the White House issued an executiv

As anticipation and mainstream media coverage begin to ramp up ahead of “the Merge,” a popular narrative about staked ether (ETH) and its derivatives is beginning to take shape: namely, that staked ETH could be an ideal investment vehicle for major institutions lookin