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Tech

Web3 Domain Name Service Could Lose Its Web Address Because Programmer Who Can Renew It Sits in Jail

Eth.link expired on July 26 and will be up for grabs on Sept. 5, according to GoDaddy.

GoDaddy pulled the plug on eth.link on July 26 (qimono/Pixabay)

Finance

Andreessen Horowitz Says Crypto Can Shift Power Away From Big Internet Companies: Report

Months after it established a $4.5 billion crypto fund, the venture capital firm also said it sees the crypto market slump as an investment opportunity.

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Who You Really Are: A Conversation About Pseudonymity With Default Friend at Consensus

The internet phenomenon and historian explains why true anonymity is hard within internet culture.

Katherine Dee, aka, Default Friend speaks at Consensus 2022 (CoinDesk)

Opinion

The New Ways of Making Money in the Metaverse

Examining how to make advertising more “tasteful,” online shopping more social and when to deploy a DAO.

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Videos

‘Web 3 Is Going Just Great’ Founder on Wikipedia Cutting Off Crypto Donations

Wikipedia Editor and “Web 3 Is Going Just Great” Founder Molly White discusses the Wikimedia Foundation’s recent decision to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations, citing concerns over the environmental impact of blockchain technology. Plus, a conversation about the similarities between Web 2 and Web 3 and issues with a tokenized future of the internet.

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Finance

Gate Ventures on Track to Close $200M Crypto Fund by Q3

The VC arm of Gate.io will invest in layer 1 and layer 2 protocols that can help build an open internet.

Money (Mufid Majnun/Unsplash)

Policy

US, EU Members Among 60 Nations Calling for Open, Global Internet

The "Declaration for the Future of the Internet" calls for the network to return to its decentralized roots, and warns against Russia peeling off to form its own network.

The U.S. and EU members are among the 60 nations calling for an open internet. (E4C/Getty Images)

Videos

How Bitcoin Is Being Adopted Faster Than the Internet in the 2000s

In today’s Chart of the Day segment, Christine Lee pays homage to Bitcoin on-chain analyst Will Woo by presenting a chart he published last year illustrating bitcoin's adoption rate outpacing that of the internet in the early 2000s. Plus, a look into BTC’s short-term trading range amid negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. 

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