Decentralization


Markets

Blockchain Bites: Why Buy an NFT?

Investors may be realizing the same deflationary market mechanisms that apply to bitcoin’s scarcity creates similar opportunities in NFTs.

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Videos

Twitter’s Dorsey Elaborates on New Decentralized Social Media Platform

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey expanded on BlueSky, his vision to develop an open and decentralized network for social media. Benjamin Powers and “The Hash” team discuss.

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Videos

Reddit's Super Bowl Ad and China Bans Clubhouse

What does Reddit's new five second Super Bowl ad celebrating WallStreetBets have to do with China banning audio chat app Clubhouse? The Hash team connects the dots and discusses the future of decentralization of social media.

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Tech

Bitcoin Core Lead Maintainer Steps Back, Encourages Decentralization

"One thing is clear: This is a serious project now, and we need to start taking decentralization seriously," said Wladimir van der Laan.

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Tech

Sci-Hub Leaves Handshake Blockchain After 2 Days, Citing Centralization Concerns

Sci-Hub, a pirate library of academic papers censored by Twitter, PayPal and domain systems, left the distributed domain platform Handshake after two days, unsatisfied by the level of decentralization.

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Tech

Google Down: The Perils of Centralization

It was a jarring reminder of the hidden costs of the easy-to-use, centralized systems that permeate the web, and just how taxing or debilitating they can be.

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Finance

Protocol Hosting Google reCAPTCHA Competitor Expands to Polkadot

Human Protocol, home of the anti-bot hCaptcha system, announced it is expanding beyond Ethereum to a future Polkadot parachain, Moonbeam.

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Finance

Token Projects Are Not Happy With KuCoin's Handling of $280M Hack

Some token projects say they're left holding the bag following a hack that drained the KuCoin crypto exchange of $280 million.

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Finance

‘Permanent Dropbox’ App Launches on Arweave

ArDrive lets users pay a fee once, depending on the price of Arweave tokens, and have their files live forever on the web.

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Tech

New York Lawyers Propose Toolkit for Keeping 'Decentralized' Blockchains Honest

Ketsal's "Open Standards" rubric is the latest push to demystify network decentralization in the blockchain space.

Figuring out whether a blockchain network is sufficiently decentralized could have broad ramifications.