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The Punk Fighting for an Open Metaverse

On today’s show we look at how an NFT collector is attempting to avoid a metaverse hellscape owned by Meta, courtesy of CoinDesk’s features reporter and assistant opinion editor, Daniel Kuhn.

By Adam B. Levine Adrian Blust

Dec 29, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. UTC

Dec 29, 2022

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What Are Solarpunk and Lunarpunk Anyway?

Two environmentally focused fictional microgenres have become cornerstones of the Web3 aesthetic. Here’s how that happened.

By Dr. Paul J. Dylan-Ennis

Sep 20, 2022 at 8:59 p.m. UTC

Sep 20, 2022

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The huge outflow from the Purpose Bitcoin ETF drained half of the assets and mounted $500 million in selling pressure on BTC's price before the weekend crash. (Unsplash)

Investment Firm Cypherpunk Holdings Sells All of Its Bitcoin and Ether

The publicly listed firm has transitioned its treasury to cash amid increased market volatility, but it hasn’t ruled out reinvesting in cryptocurrencies when the market settles down.

By Elizabeth Napolitano

Jun 28, 2022 at 8:27 p.m. UTC

Jun 28, 2022

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Lunarpunks, Privacy and the New Encryption Guerillas

A growing group of cryptography experts are using tools to carve "dark" spaces out of the surveilled web. This article is a preview of Rachel-Rose O'Leary's talk on the 'Big Ideas' stage at Consensus.

By Rachel-Rose O'Leary

Jun 8, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. UTC

Jun 8, 2022

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Tax Week

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The Case for Taxing Proof-of-Work

Most bitcoin owners aren't cypherpunks and don't require an energy-intensive consensus mechanism. A tax would shift them on to sensible alternatives. This post is part of CoinDesk's Tax Week.

By JP Koning

Feb 24, 2022 at 3:34 p.m. UTC

Feb 24, 2022