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The Niche Application of Stablecoins Is Not a Bad Thing

3 years 9 months ago
In December, the United Nations announced a plan to start sending aid to Ukrainians displaced by the ongoing war with Russia using a stablecoin. Beginning in the cities of Kyiv, Lviv and Vinnytsia, the Office of U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) would send direct paymen
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How Smart TVs Could Help the Metaverse Crack the Mass Market

3 years 9 months ago
LAS VEGAS — Is Web3 ready for prime time?Some of the televisions unveiled this week at the annual CES trade show purportedly make accessing metaverse worlds or non-fungible token (NFT) wallets as easy as clicking the remote, escalating a long-running race among manufacturer
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Solana vs. Polygon: A Developer’s Perspective

3 years 9 months ago
I’ve been working on consumer products for about a decade, having contributed to teams that have built and scaled apps to hundreds of millions of users. For the last six years I’ve been 100% focused on crypto. A large part of that has been working on scaling solutions
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Anyone Who Took Money From FTX Ought to Repay It

3 years 9 months ago
In his testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, current FTX CEO Jay J. Ray III laid out the most convincing case that fraud was committed while former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried held the reins at the bankrupt crypto exchange. Evidence strongly suggests FTX user fun
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Can Little-Known NFTs Cost Millions?

3 years 9 months ago
While at first glance it may seem that the NFT bubble has burst, the reality is different. The fact is that NFTs have much in common with art objects that are not traded on a daily basis, and the profit from their sale exceeds that of stock, bond and precious metals trading.

Why Did Sam Bankman-Fried Plead Not Guilty?

3 years 9 months ago
News broke on Tuesday that Sam Bankman-Fried, mastermind of the multibillion-dollar FTX-Alameda Research fraud, would plead not guilty to charges including conspiracy and wire fraud. Some, drawing on conspiratorial theories, have taken this as a sign that Bankman-Fried will pull
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2023 Predictions: The Year of Web3 Pets

3 years 9 months ago
Crouched at the ocean’s edge, her skeletal figure was a rude juxtaposition against the idyllic scenery of Seven Commandos Beach, a tiny island skirting the west Philippine archipelago. Once a tourist hotspot with hundreds of visitors dropping delicious pizza crusts and burg
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The Genesis Block: The First Bitcoin Block

3 years 9 months ago
The Genesis Block was simply the first block of bitcoin (BTC) to be mined. You might see it called Block 0 or Block 1.It’s still there today and will remain there as long as any computer runs the Bitcoin software. Every node in the Bitcoin network can go and look at it, eve
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