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InsideEVs
1 day ago
Cars

Comparing Public Electric Car Charging Networks

EV charging infrastructure expansion is rapid but decentralized, with various providers complicating access and payment for users. [ more ]
#bitcoin
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
1 day ago
Cryptocurrency

Nostriches Flock To NYC-Based Bitcoin Bar PubKey For Nostr Village

Nostr Village, a conference at New York City's Bitcoin bar, aimed to educate and expand Nostr's adoption like early Bitcoin days. [ more ]
ReadWrite
3 weeks ago
Cryptocurrency

Twitter's Jack Dorsey predicts Bitcoin could hit $1 million in six years

Jack Dorsey predicts Bitcoin could exceed $1 million by 2030. [ more ]
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
1 month ago
Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Decentralization and Where to Find It

Bitcoin's decentralization is crucial and measured using the Nakamoto coefficient based on the minimum number of participants needed to control the system. [ more ]
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
1 month ago
Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin is Borderless: How Decentralization and Permissionlessness Grant Autonomy Across Political Jursidictions

Bitcoin's superpower lies in its decentralized and globally accessible nature, allowing individuals to carry their wealth across borders with ease. [ more ]
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
1 month ago
Cryptocurrency

Beyond Tribalism: The Synergistic Future of Bitcoin and Ethereum

Bitcoin and Ethereum rivalry reflects historical tribalism but can transition to collaboration for a better decentralized future. [ more ]
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
1 month ago
Cryptocurrency

Fully Noded: The Basics and Benefits of Running a Bitcoin Node

Bitcoin is a decentralized and finite digital currency verified globally.
Owning a wallet does not make you a full participant in the Bitcoin network. [ more ]
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designboom | architecture & design magazine
5 days ago
Music

wu-tang clan's legendary one-copy album loaned to MONA museum for first public debut

A historic Wu-Tang Clan album to be played publicly in Tasmania after being sold and resold as unique art. [ more ]
Coindesk
1 week ago
Cryptocurrency

Crypto Governance Advisory MetaLeX Raises $2.75M

MetaLeX is creating new governance standards for crypto groups to use when decentralizing. [ more ]
#bitcoin-ecosystem
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
1 week ago
Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Policy Institute Launches Fund to Defend Non-Custodial Tools from Regulatory Threats

The Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) launched the Peer-to-Peer Rights Fund to protect decentralized, peer-to-peer integrity of Bitcoin ecosystem. [ more ]
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
3 weeks ago
Cryptocurrency

Jack Dorsey Predicts Over $1 million Bitcoin Price by 2030

Block CEO Jack Dorsey predicts Bitcoin at least $1 million by 2030. [ more ]
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Coindesk
1 week ago
Marketing

How Web3 Marketing Changes the Game

The promise of 'Web3 marketing' offers a transformative solution to the current internet advertising issues. [ more ]
time.com
2 weeks ago
Marketing

Billionaire Frank McCourt Wants to Buy TikTok. Here's Why He Thinks He Could Save It

Billionaire Frank McCourt aims to buy TikTok to decentralize user data and reduce internet toxicity, misinformation, and extractive nature. [ more ]
The Verge
2 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Hugging Face is sharing $10 million worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies

Hugging Face is investing $10 million in free GPUs to support small developers combating AI centralization. [ more ]
Forbes
3 weeks ago
Artificial intelligence

Web3 Meets AI: Blockchain Technology Revolutionizes The AI Landscape

Blockchain technology is being used to democratize access to AI resources and reshape the AI space towards a more equitable future. [ more ]
#blockchain
Coindesk
3 weeks ago
Cryptocurrency

The Protocol: From 'Node Sales' to 'Address Poisoning,' the Money's in Crypto

Node sales are a new fundraising method in the blockchain industry, involving selling blockchain nodes directly to investors for quick cash and the perception of decentralization. [ more ]
Coindesk
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

MyShell, Blockchain Platform For Building 'AI Girlfriends' and Productivity Apps, Raises $11M

MyShell raised $11 million in funding for its AI app-building ecosystem.
MyShell focuses on decentralization, utilizing blockchain tools for model training and creator royalties. [ more ]
TechCrunch
2 months ago
Artificial intelligence

A new web3 network is being built right now that wants to end Big Tech's control of your data | TechCrunch

Web3 aims to decentralize internet and empower users.
The Graph is a decentralized network indexing blockchain data. [ more ]
Coindesk
2 months ago
Business intelligence

Open Data: The Unfulfilled Promise of Blockchain

Public blockchains aim for openness but data remains inaccessible to average users
Existing analytics platforms offer valuable insights but are not readily accessible to all users. [ more ]
TechCrunch
3 months ago
Artificial intelligence

AI and blockchains might need one another to evolve, according to new report | TechCrunch

The AI sector needs more secure data sharing and decentralization marketplaces for its models.
Blockchain technology can benefit from AI models and agents in real time to improve moderating for vulnerabilities. [ more ]
Entrepreneur
4 months ago
Web design

How Web 3.0 Is Shaping the Next Digital Frontier | Entrepreneur

Web 3.0 concepts include decentralization, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and the Metaverse.
Major challenges for Web 3.0 include scalability, interoperability, and centralization. [ more ]
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#bitcoin-mining
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
1 month ago
Cryptocurrency

DEMAND Pool's CEO Says The Time To Decentralize Bitcoin Mining Is Now

Alejandro De La Torre founded DEMAND to decentralize Bitcoin mining, with concerns over centralization in the industry. [ more ]
Coindesk
1 month ago
Cryptocurrency

Jack Dorsey's Block Is Building a Bitcoin Mining System

The firm completed a three-nanometer mining chip design and plans to develop a full bitcoin mining system to support mining decentralization. [ more ]
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
1 month ago
Cryptocurrency

Jack Dorsey And Block Are Developing A Full Bitcoin Mining System

Block has achieved a significant milestone in developing a three-nanometer bitcoin mining chip, advancing towards decentralizing bitcoin mining hardware. [ more ]
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Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
1 month ago
Cryptocurrency

The Bitcoin Halving: From A Macro Event To Quasi-Holiday

Satoshi Nakamoto meticulously designed Bitcoin to have a fixed supply schedule, including the quadrennial Bitcoin halving event, to maintain scarcity and value long-term. [ more ]
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
1 month ago
Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Payment Processor BTCPay Server To Debut Origin Story Documentary In Poland

BTCPay Server documentary explores Bitcoin's history and BTCPay's founding.
Emphasizes decentralization, autonomy, and independence from intermediaries. [ more ]
Coindesk
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

Crypto VC Firm Polychain Tops Up AI Platform Ritual's $25M Funding Round With 'Multimillion Dollar' Investment

Polychain Capital made a multimillion-dollar investment in AI platform Ritual.
Ritual had previously raised $25 million to address the centralized nature of AI systems. [ more ]
#bitcoin-etfs
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
2 months ago
Cryptocurrency

Stabilizing Forces: How Bitcoin ETF Inflows Counter Price Volatility

Approval of Bitcoin ETFs by SEC removed institutional investing barrier
Bitcoin ETFs stabilized trading volume and price volatility [ more ]
Coindesk
3 months ago
Cryptocurrency

A Bitcoin ETF Will Never Be Your Bitcoin

Bitcoin ETFs provide exposure to the price of Bitcoin but do not allow investors to truly own the asset.
Bitcoin ETFs reintroduce counterparty risks and rely on outdated financial systems. [ more ]
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Coindesk
2 months ago
Business intelligence

The Graph Expands Subgraph to More Than 40 Blockchains Including Arbitrum, Base

The Graph Network expanded data accessibilities to over 40 blockchains including Arbitrum, Avalanche, and Celo.
Developers can now utilize Graph Network for lower costs and faster syncing times on supported chains. [ more ]
Medium
6 months ago
Web design

Is Web3 here to stay? What have we learned so far?

Crypto prices can be volatile, but the underlying technology has disruptive potential.
Web 3.0 aims to decentralize the internet and give more control to users.
Understanding the history of the web can help us anticipate the future of technology. [ more ]
London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
6 months ago
Cryptocurrency

The unique landscape of Bitcoin Prairie: A comprehensive guide

Bitcoin Prairie refers to rural areas becoming hubs for Bitcoin mining and cryptocurrency activities.
Bitcoin Prairie challenges conventional notions of where and how cryptocurrency thrives.
It highlights the decentralized nature of technology and offers a unique perspective on the intersection of technology, rural economies, and the environment. [ more ]
news.bitcoin.com
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

Thai SEC Launches 'Crypto Academy' to Help Digital Asset Investors Regulation Bitcoin News

The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched a crypto academy where investors can learn about digital assets free of charge before investing.The more you know your investments, the less risk you will have, the Thai regulator emphasized.Thai SEC's Crypto Academy Launched The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Wednesday that it has launched Crypto Academy to provide free online resources and courses on digital assets.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

Key Bitcoin developer calls on FBI to recover $3.6M in digital coin

One of the prominent developers behind the Bitcoin blockchain said he has asked the FBI to assist him in recovering $3.6 million worth of the digital coin that was stolen from his storage wallets on New Year's Eve.Luke Dashjr is a developer of the Bitcoin Core, an app that runs 97 percent of the nodes making up the Bitcoin blockchain.
Speckyboy Design Magazine
2 years ago
Graphic design

Should Freelance Web Designers Care about Web 3.0?

The web design industry adores buzzwords.We use them to describe everything from design fads (hello, Claymorphism) to build technologies (nice to know you, headless).
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Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
2 months ago
Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin Asset Protocol BRC-20 Appoints New Maintainers

Non-profit Layer 1 Foundation (L1F) dedicated to governing BRC-20 protocol with Ordinals companies.
Unisat and Best In Slot appointed as co-lead maintainers for BRC-20 protocol, focusing on decentralization. [ more ]
Coindesk
2 months ago
Women in technology

Women Are Usually Savers Instead of Investors (Can Bitcoin Change That?)

Bitcoin can empower women by providing financial independence and autonomy.
Bitcoin's decentralized nature bridges the gender gap in financial literacy and investment. [ more ]
Truthout
3 months ago
Left-wing politics

Unremitting Turkish Attacks Leave Rojava in Peril - and in Need of Solidarity

Rojava, in northeast Syria, is building a stateless, post-capitalist, post-domination society.
Rojava poses a threat to existing governments by demonstrating a viable model of peaceful multiethnic coexistence. [ more ]
#ethereum
Coindesk
3 months ago
Cryptocurrency

'Absolute Essentials of Ethereum' by Paul Dylan-Ennis: An Excerpt

Blockchain governance refers to the coordination mechanisms that allow blockchain stakeholders to make legitimate decisions.
Ethereum's culture is based on values such as decentralization, permissionlessness, censorship resistance, and credible neutrality. [ more ]
Coindesk
5 months ago
Cryptocurrency

What We Know About the Massive Ledger Hack

Several Ethereum-based applications were compromised due to a Ledger security breach.
The breach has affected the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, with reports suggesting losses of over $150,000 in crypto. [ more ]
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Engadget
3 months ago
Digital life

The Morning After: Twitter alternative Bluesky is no longer invitation-only

Bluesky, the open-source Twitter alternative, is now open to anyone.
Bluesky began as an internal project at Twitter but ended its association with the company after Elon Musk's takeover. [ more ]
Harvard Business Review
4 months ago
Business intelligence

Azeem's 2024 Trends: AI, Energy, and Decentralization

Leaders face uncertainty and difficult decisions in 2024.
Azeem Azhar provides analysis on 12 core themes that will shape the year ahead. [ more ]
Electronic Frontier Foundation
4 months ago
Privacy professionals

EFF's 2024 In/Out List

Affordable and future-proof internet access for all
Privacy first agenda to prevent mass collection of personal information
Decentralized social media platforms to ensure full user control over what we see online [ more ]
Coindesk
5 months ago
Cryptocurrency

Lido DAO Democratized ETH Staking, Then Dominated It

Lido is a liquid staking provider on Ethereum that has expanded access to Ethereum staking.
Lido has received criticism for potentially centralizing power on the Ethereum network. [ more ]
#Bitcoin mining
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
6 months ago
Cryptocurrency

OCEAN Unveiled: Block CEO Jack Dorsey Leads $6.2 Million Investment Round In Decentralized Bitcoin Mining Pool

Mummolin, Inc has raised $6.2 million in seed funding led by Jack Dorsey for their initiative OCEAN.
OCEAN aims to decentralize Bitcoin mining and eliminate the risk associated with traditional mining pools.
The OCEAN pool is the first transparent and non-custodial platform for miners to receive block rewards directly. [ more ]
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
6 months ago
Cryptocurrency

Livestream: Bitcoin Mining Changes Forever

The centralization of mining pools presents risks to the Bitcoin network.
Large pools have the power to withhold payments and censor transactions.
Ocean mining pool aims to address these issues and promote decentralization. [ more ]
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
6 months ago
Cryptocurrency

DEMAND Launches World's First Stratum V2 Bitcoin Mining Pool

Bitcoin mining company DEMAND has launched the world's first Stratum V2 mining pool, aiming to improve security, flexibility, and performance in mining.
Stratum V2 allows individual miners to construct their own block templates, increasing decentralization and resistance to censorship.
The pool is designed to make home mining more attractive and help decentralize the Bitcoin mining ecosystem. [ more ]
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Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
6 months ago
Cryptocurrency

State Adoption: A Trojan Horse Challenging Core Tenet's Of Personal Liberty

Bitcoin's potential ban by the government is a frequently cited reason by skeptics, but writers have debunked this idea.
Instead of outright banning Bitcoin, the government could employ subtle strategies to manipulate or co-opt it.
Bitcoin's attributes of decentralization and censorship resistance challenge the State's control over individual liberty. [ more ]
Patently-O
11 months ago
Intellectual property law

Proposing Locations for Southeast Regional Office

The USPTO began establishing satellite offices a decade ago to expand beyond the traditional Alexandria (Washington DC) headquarters.We now have offices in Detroit, Dallas, Denver, and San Jose.Last year, Congress voted to further expand the decentralization by at least one more.The Unleashing American Innovators Act of 2022 (UAIA) mandates creation of a Southeast Regional Office (SERO).
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

Core Developer Amiti Uttarwar Will Be Reinforcing Decentralization At Bitcoin 2023

"One of the many ways that Bitcoin is an experiment is in its decentralized development model," explained Amiti Uttarwar."Whether a non-profit or a private company, the vast majority of software projects have a centralized structure for directing funding, prioritizing projects and coordinating efforts.
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Kushal Das
1 year ago
Python

SamNet Vinterkonferensen 2023

This Tuesday I attended SamNet Vinterkonferensen, jointly organized by ISOC-SE, SNUS, DFRI and Dataskydd.net,focusing on technology, the internet, privacy, and decentralization.The organizers gave me caution before hand as the whole conference was in Swedish :)
The venue was Internetstiftelsen, which is already one of my favorite small conference venues in Stockholm (as we have done many open spaces there in the last 1 year).
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Gadgets

Mastodon-and the pros and cons of moving beyond Big Tech gatekeepers

As Elon Musk's Category 5 tweetstorm continues, the once-obscure Mastodon social network has been gaining over 1,000 new refugees per hour, every hour, bringing its user count to about eight million.Joining as a user is pretty easy.More than enough ex-Twitterers are happy finding a Mastodon instance via joinmastodon.org,
Futurism
1 year ago
Web design

The Guy Who Invented the World Wide Web Thinks We Should "Ignore" Web3

Web of Lies
The man who literally invented the form of the internet we all use believes the future of it lies in decentralization.That man is Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist who' s widely credited with inventing the World Wide Web back in 1989.However, Berners-Lee thinks we should "ignore" proposals to achieve a vaguely defined form of decentralized internet broadly known as "Web3."
www.infoq.com
1 year ago
DevOps

Google Cloud Introduces Blockchain Node Engine for Web3 Development

Google Cloud recently announced the private preview of Blockchain Node Engine, a managed node-hosting option for Web3 development.Ethereum will be the first blockchain supported.Designed to help Web3 developers build and deploy on blockchain-based platforms, the new managed service monitors the nodes and restarts them during outages.
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Observer
1 year ago
Social media marketing

Meta is Reportedly the Latest Social Media Company to Embrace ActivityPub Technology

Meta is in the early stages of developing a text-based social media app that could rival Twitter, MoneyControl reported yesterday (March 9).Unlike its other social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram-and unlike Twitter-the app will reportedly be decentralized.Meta didn't clarify what this would mean, but other decentralized apps like Mastodon, a Twitter rival, support independent servers where users create their own rules about content moderation.
Digiday
1 year ago
Marketing

Here are the trends likely to have the biggest impact on social media channels in 2023

| By Antoinette Siu



Decentralized platforms, death of the cookie and predictive analytics are just a few of the major trends to dominate 2023 - and the social channels that are powered by them.Consumer intelligence firm Talkwalker and customer engagement platform Khoros recently released a report predicting the top 10 social media trends for 2023, with a particular focus on how consumers are driving these changes.
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Amazic
1 year ago
DevOps

The Rise of Platform Engineering - Amazic

Platform engineering has emerged as a term that at its core describes a shift toward more centralization of DevOps processes and workflows.The adoption of DevOps workflows in most organizations has tended to flow from the bottom up.As a result, it's fairly common for multiple application development teams within an organization to have adopted multiple DevOps platforms to manage workflows.
Cointelegraph
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

What is wrapped Ethereum (wETH) and how does it work?

Traders who use the Ethereum network are familiar with the ERC-20 technical standard and have most likely traded and invested in tokens that utilize it.
Medium
2 years ago
Tech industry

The Right White Knight

The first article I ever wrote professionally was about Twitter.¹ It was the service's first year of existence and, as silly as it seemed at the time, I was certain it was on to something.
Acm
1 year ago
Digital life

How One Paper Blew Up Bitcoin's Claim to Anonymity

It has been a totem of the cryptocurrency community that the numeric addresses of Bitcoin and other wallets will protect the identity of those using them to buy and sell.
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Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

How Erlay Helps Preserve Bitcoin's Decentralization

This is an opinion editorial by Kudzai Kutukwa, a passionate financial inclusion advocate who was recognized by Fast Company magazine as one of South Africa's top-20 young entrepreneurs under 30.Satoshi Nakamoto brilliantly laid out in a few short sentences the major problem with the current financial system; it's dependency on trust.
Funcheap
1 year ago
San Francisco

Ending Homelessness in San Francisco (The Presidio)

An evening dedicated to understanding the causes of homelessness in San Francisco and discussing solutions to an issue that touches us all.You're invited to join us for the opening of our speaker series at House of Web3, focused on solving San Francisco's most pressing problems.Our first event is focused on the issue of ending homelessness in San Franciso.
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

Why Bitcoin's Most Important Quality Is Decentralization

Bitcoin's most important quality is decentralization.In the Bitcoin white paper, there are more than a dozen references to removing trust in central entities.Decentralizing away from financial institutions was Satoshi Nakamoto 's front-page motivation for creating Bitcoin: "allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party."
news.bitcoin.com
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

Finder's Specialists Predict Ethereum Will Slip to $963 This Year, but End 2022 at $1,377 per Unit Markets and Prices Bitcoin News

Markets and Prices by Jamie Redman 46% of around 55 fintech and cryptocurrency specialists believe ethereum is undervalued following The Merge, according to a recent survey published by the comparison website Finder.com.
Bitcoin Magazine - Bitcoin News, Articles and Expert Insights
1 year ago
Cryptocurrency

You Can Believe The Maximalists: Bitcoin Is Separate From Crypto

Financial Times Columnist Jemima Kelly published an article titled " Don't Believe The 'Maximalists: Bitcoin Can't Be Separated From Crypto " earlier today and I'd like to share some reactions from a Bitcoiner perspective.
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