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Marina Abramović will live forever
Abramović now sells “longevity drops” and NFTs of her art – promising a performance that will never end
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Trump’s crypto empire is a brazen hustle
It won’t be the president emptying his bank account to buy meme coins.
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Why Trump’s Bitcoin boom is a fake
I have no idea what will happen to cryptocurrencies – and neither does anyone else.
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The West will pay a steep price if it ignores Brics countries
If the global bloc can successfully ween itself off the US dollar, we will enter a new global order.
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Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion
Will the idealist philosophy survive the conviction of its crypto king?
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Caroline Ellison: victim or crypto queen?
Sam Bankman-Fried’s former girlfriend and Alameda CEO emerged as the star witness for the prosecution in the trader’s trial for…
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How Michael Lewis fell for Sam Bankman-Fried
In Going Infinite, the author fails to see the limits of his subject’s intelligence.
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Why Sam Bankman-Fried’s deluded world-view matters
His utilitarianism reflects the culture of Silicon Valley, which wields great power over how we relate to one another.
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“The biggest Ponzi of all time”: why Ben McKenzie became a crypto critic
In a new book the actor describes how celebrities have used cryptocurrencies and NFTs to monetise their fans.
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Beware the midwit trap
Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best explanation.
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Despite the high risk, crypto offers a vision of a more open, creative and free internet
The industry is preoccupied with money-making, but the potential of shared computing could go far beyond finance.
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Britcoin is a weird and dangerous idea
The government seems not to fully understand the implications of a “digital pound”.
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Coinbase’s USD stablecoin – what is it and why should you use it?
USD Coin offers a safer way to invest in and hold cryptocurrency.
Allegations of corruption, from Qatar to FTX
A fresh Qatar corruption scandal emerges, while the founder of the cryptocurrency company FTX faces criminal charges.
The amateur sleuths who helped to bring down Sam Bankman-Fried
For years, unpaid investigators have been tracking and exposing the activities of cryptocurrency’s biggest players.
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Sam Bankman-Fried exposes the moral conceit of effective altruism
For tech CEOs, the suckers of the present come second to people of the technocratic future.
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Bitcoin’s most basic principle has become crypto’s biggest problem
Cryptocurrency was invented to solve the problem of trust; instead it has created a market of mutual suspicion.
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The crash of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX may yet strengthen the crypto industry
The 30-year-old’s crypto exchange has filed for bankruptcy, but the potential for decentralised finance remains great.
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Will the crypto crash bring down Bitcoin?
In a market that is volatile by design, there’s a strong risk of contagion.
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