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Elon Musk Tweets—and Gives Crypto Markets Growing Pains
Last week, when Elon Musk tweeted that he had spoken with the team of Doge developers about how to make…
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GameStop FOMO Inspires a New Wave of Crypto Pump-and-Dumps
Discord is a perfect vehicle for these pumps, as a semi-public forum that allows users to advertise servers broadly, ping…
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UK Launches Digital Currency Task Force to Explore the Future of Money
A British ten pound sterling and five pound sterling note are arranged in a photograph in London.Photo: Justin Tallis (Getty…
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Coinbase Makes Its Debut—and Bitcoin Arrives on Wall Street
Physicists are constantly rethinking how bubbles burst. It’s one of those nagging problems in physics, deceptively simple, like working out…
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Signal Adds a New Privacy-Focused Signal Payments Feature
Graphic: Signal Most of us might be familiar with Signal as the privacy-preserving messaging app of choice, but the company…
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Japan’s Central Bank Launches One-Year Test of Digital Currency
File photo of a woman passing a quotation board displaying share price closing numbers of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in…
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You Can’t ‘Own’ a Fart, It Belongs to All Who Smelt It
Bob Odenkirk farting.Photo: Kevin Winter (Getty Images) A non-fungible token (NFT) is a supposedly unique digital token generated by the…
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NFTs Are Hot. So Is Their Effect on the Earth’s Climate
For digital artists, the attraction of blockchain is a new model of ownership. Crypto art is no more secure from…
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John McAfee Charged by DOJ for Alleged Cryptocurrency Scheme
Photo: JOHAN ORDONEZ/AFP (Getty Images) John McAfee, founder of the well-known antivirus and cybersecurity firm that bears his name, has…
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NFTs Are a Collective Hallucination—So What?
Plus: The man behind digital money, how to disseminate facts, and a union in the most unlikely of places. Source…
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