A collection of 8 posts
Molly White: Far-right social network Parler launches an NFT platform where you have to pay with credit cards On March 1, the far-right social network Parler announced their "CryptoTrump" NFTs. Well that’s obnoxious, but what warrants the link? Although Parler's press release contains a lot
Charlie Warzel: Lessons From the Retro-Future of the Internet So far, my experience with Web3 is different. A lot of its projects seem like unnecessarily complex and theoretical financialized tools in search of broader utility; “play-to-earn” blockchain-based games such as Axie Infinity represent, for me, a dystopian vision of leisure,
Musicians are furious at website HitPiece, which listed their music as NFTs without permission Musicians have taken to Twitter today to complain about a website that is ostensibly selling their music as NFTs without permission. HitPiece claims to sell one-of-one NFTs, meaning each one is singular and unique (as opposed
Moxie Marlinspike has written my new favorite piece about the modern crypto bubble. Read the whole thing, but a few choice quotes for me were: It reuses the same connections, TLS session tickets, etc for all the accounts in your wallet, so if you’re managing multiple accounts in your
Ben Thompson in a subscriber update: There was an incident with not totally legit NFTs being sold on OpenSea, and OpenSea blocked their sale. However, since the blockchain is not tied to OpenSea, one could go elsewhere to sell these NFTs. The unique power of crypto, right? This, according to
A not so gentle intro to web3 - Koos Looijesteijn Anybody can ‘mint’ an NFT of any piece of art (whether they made it, own it, or just found a picture online), or sell a token that claims access to a piece of land on the moon. But if you
Another day, another company (or two) getting into crypto and their users being upset about it. A few weeks ago I wrote how web3 projects need more product people to make better experiences, but now I'm starting to wonder if the problem here isn't a lack
Reddit got some headlines over the weekend with their move to crypto, and the reactions have been exactly what you’d expect. * Web3 enthusiasts are like “YASSSS THE FUTURE!” * Crypto critics were like “oh great, not Reddit is wasting more electricity.” * Most people were like “what the fuck is even