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China State Media Make Rare Reports Calling Crypto 2020's Best Performing Asset

Several Chinese state-owned media companies have made unusual coordinated reports describing cryptocurrencies as the year's top performing investment.

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Tecnologie

A New Era of Media Begins With Tokenization

Substack alone won't save publishing: The future of online content is where "money legos," communities and media meet.

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Mercati

Maria Bustillos on Tokenizing Journalism, the Death of Civil and Rise of Brick House

An early supporter of the now defunct blockchain-based Civil is taking another swing at a writer-owned media collective. She hasn't lost faith in blockchain.

Maria Bustillos (Brick House)

Finanza

The New York Times Proves Why Civil's Vision Is Still Vital

News media incentivized to tell the truth in a non-sensational manner is essential for beating racism and other injustice, says our columnist.

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Tecnologie

Unstoppable Domains Launches Censorship-Resistant Blogging Platform

Decentralized blogging is coming to a .crypto URL near you thanks to a partnership between Unstoppable Domains and Protocol Labs.

Unstoppable Domains CEO Matthew Gould (left) and CTO Braden Pezeshki (Credit: Unstoppable Domains)

Finanza

Crypto News Outlet BlockTV Shuts Down, Citing Impact of COVID-19

Cryptocurrency-focused media startup BlockTV has shut down operations due to the economic strains of the COVID-19 crisis, according to two former employees.

Credit: BlockTV

Mercati

Why War Reporting Is the Right Mental Model for Today's Media, Feat. Jake Hanrahan

The founder of Popular Front joins NLW for a discussion about protests, media and how the people being covered tend to not reflect divisive politics.

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Mercati

Media Startup Civil Shuts Down, Team Absorbed Into Decentralized ID Efforts at ConsenSys

Blockchain media startup Civil is shutting down after three years, with its team pivoting to building decentralized identity tools at parent firm ConsenSys.

Civil is shutting down after three years. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Finanza

Italy's Leading Wire Service Is Using Ethereum to Thwart Copycats

Italy's ANSA newswire is trialing an ethereum-based system to track every article it publishes in an effort to prevent impersonators from publishing fake news under its banner.

ANSA’s blockchain system rolled out earlier this year, but still only accounts for about 80 percent of articles published to its own site. Ultimately, its backers hope it can be used across the internet. (Credit: praszkiewicz / Shutterstock)

Mercati

The Litecoin Foundation Helped Produce a Horror Movie – Here's the Trailer

In surprising twist to its normal day-to-day duties advancing the litecoin cryptocurrency, the Litecoin Foundation has acted as executive producer for a new horror flick.

"We Summon the Darkness" image via Common Enemy

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