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Bookmark Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Is Worried About Crypto's Future | Time
In a few minutes, electronic music will start pulsing, stuffed animals will be flung through the air, women will emerge spinning Technicolor hula hoops, and a mechanical bull will rev into…

March 21 2022, 4:51am | Comments
Bookmark Geraldine Juárez on NFTs & Ghosts
I remember reading about Geraldine Juárez’s 2014 bitcoin-burning experiment at the time and getting immensely impressed by its boldness. Back then, crypto seemed like a fringe phenomenon – worthy of radical…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
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November 26 2021, 2:06am | Comments
Bookmark Who Goes Crypto? – Mother Jones
On May 4, “Ethereum Classic” popped onto the trending section of my Twitter page. I narrowed my eyes and I laughed.

November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark Crypto-Colonialists Use the Most Vulnerable People in the World as Guinea Pigs
Vanuatu is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, with an estimated population of just over 300,000.

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark NFTs might not solve the digital art authenticity problem.
When Christie’s auctioned for $69 million a “nonfungible token,” or NFT, linked to the digital collage Everydays: The First 5000 Days, many people asked WTF was an NFT? And why was a…

May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Beeple thinks NFTs are a bubble, cashed out ETH earnings straightaway -…
In an interview with The New Yorker, Beeple said that as soon as he received his stash in ETH, he became concerned regarding Ethereum’s volatility, hence the immediate move to convert…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark Jonathan Beller: NFT Does Not Stand for Non-Fascist Token, but It Should…
The same fascistic tendencies Walter Benjamin saw in the rise of mass media are at play in the NFT "revolution," too.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark How much electricity is consumed by Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Litecoin, and…
I recently created a thread that on Twitter regarding the lower-bound estimates for how much electricity the Bitcoin blockchain consumed using publicly available numbers. The first part of this post is…

August 28 2018, 5:33am | Comments
Bookmark 187 Things the Blockchain Is Supposed to Fix | WIRED
When businesses latch onto a buzzword, it quickly becomes the solution to everything. Not long ago, in the era of “big data,” companies scrambled to add chief data scientists to their…

June 11 2018, 5:02am | Comments
Bookmark The Ridiculous Amount of Energy It Takes to Run Bitcoin - IEEE…
Bitcoin “miners” are electromagnetic alchemists, effectively turning megawatt-hours of electricity into the world’s fastest-growing currency.

November 26 2017, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark The Block is the Successor to The Book: A Publishing Proposal
In this text, we introduce Txtblock, a decentralized tool for publishing and distribution of digital text in a format called the block—a squarely defined, eternally immutable unit of information. The block…

November 21 2015, 8:45am | Comments

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