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Instagram Disabled Artist's @Metaverse Handle Days After Facebook Rebranded to Meta
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Instagram Disabled Artist’s @Metaverse Handle Days After Facebook Rebranded to Meta
Days after Facebook announced its corporate name would become Meta, an artist’s Instagram account with the username “@metaverse” was blocked and later reinstated. “The Hash” s...
Instagram Disabled Artist's @Metaverse Handle Days After Facebook Rebranded to Meta
By CoinDesk Staff
Dec 14, 2021 at 8:46 p.m. UTC
Dec 14, 2021
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Ethereum Blockchain Software Company ConsenSys Plans for Massive Expansion After Raising $200M
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Ethereum
Ethereum Blockchain Software Company ConsenSys Plans for Massive Expansion After Raising $200M
ConsenSys has raised $200 million in the latest round that valued the Ethereum backer at $3.2 billion. ConsenSys Global Fintech Co-Head Lex Sokolin shares insights into the fi...
Ethereum Blockchain Software Company ConsenSys Plans for Massive Expansion After Raising $200M
By CoinDesk Staff
Nov 19, 2021 at 4:59 p.m. UTC
Nov 19, 2021
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FTX, Lightspeed, Solana Ventures to Invest $100M in Web 3 Gaming
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FTX, Lightspeed, Solana Ventures to Invest $100M in Web 3 Gaming
FTX, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Solana Ventures are investing $100 million in Web 3 gaming development. The funding will go towards gaming studios and technology integra...
FTX, Lightspeed, Solana Ventures to Invest $100M in Web 3 Gaming
By CoinDesk Staff
Nov 5, 2021 at 7:15 p.m. UTC
Nov 5, 2021
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a16z Exec Explains Firm's Vision on Web 3 as Facebook Renames Itself 'Meta'
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a16z Exec Explains Firm’s Vision on Web 3 as Facebook Renames Itself ‘Meta’
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)’s Tomicah Tillemann shares insights into the firm’s Web 3 policy framework titled “We Deserve a Better Internet” and the challenges of getting U.S....
a16z Exec Explains Firm's Vision on Web 3 as Facebook Renames Itself 'Meta'
By CoinDesk Staff
Oct 29, 2021 at 4:17 p.m. UTC
Oct 29, 2021
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So-called Web 3.0 tokens are hot right now in cryptocurrency markets.
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Bitcoin
Why Web 3.0 Tokens Might Be the Next Hot Trade in Cryptocurrencies
Digital assets like livepeer, helium and bittorent have soared in value this year despite the recent slump in cryptocurrencies.
So-called Web 3.0 tokens are hot right now in cryptocurrency markets.
By Omkar Godbole
Aug 4, 2021 at 9:41 p.m. UTC
Aug 4, 2021
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Author Cory Doctorow
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Web 3
Cory Doctorow's Web3 Rallying Cry: 'Seize the Means of Computation'
The sci-fi author exhorted Consensus 2021 attendees to take back power for internet users from a tech cartel whose leaders “can fit around one table.”
Author Cory Doctorow
By Cyrus Rothwell-Ferraris
May 27, 2021 at 2:46 a.m. UTC
May 27, 2021
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Today's deplatforming activists are the heirs to Terri Rakolta, who pressured sponsors to pull their ads from Fox Broadcasting's 1990s sitcom "Married ... with Children."
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Internet Deplatforming as Class Warfare
Protecting democracy from misinformation and hate speech? More like preventing everyday people from communicating with each other.
Today's deplatforming activists are the heirs to Terri Rakolta, who pressured sponsors to pull their ads from Fox Broadcasting's 1990s sitcom "Married ... with Children."
By Marc Hochstein
Mar 3, 2021 at 8:07 p.m. UTC
Mar 3, 2021
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Unstoppable Domains CEO Matthew Gould (left) and Chief Technical Offier Braden Pezeshki
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Google
Unstoppable Domains Chrome Extension Lets Users Browse Ethereum-Based Sites
Unstoppable Domains, the censorship-resistant web developer, has released a Google Chrome extension in its bid to open up web 3.0.
Unstoppable Domains CEO Matthew Gould (left) and Chief Technical Offier Braden Pezeshki
By Danny Nelson
Mar 5, 2020 at 6:51 p.m. UTC
Mar 5, 2020
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