A ‘Dogecoin Metaverse’ Launches Tomorrow—And It’s Giving Away 1 Million DOGE

Imagine Dogecoin raining out of the sky and dancing Shiba Inu dogs landing in your living room.  That’s what you can experience tomorrow, if you want to be swept up in the “party metaverse” based on the crypto industry’s biggest meme coin.  On Saturday, the “Million Doge Disco” event starts. Running in partnership with blockchain …

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China’s Ban Sparks Fears of Dirty Bitcoin Mining Practices

China’s crackdown on Bitcoin mining has sent the hash rate plummeting and has further served to highlight the detrimental environmental aspects of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. But the consequences have not been adequately addressed, according to a senior British academic.  Pete Howson, a senior lecturer in international development at Northumbria University in the UK, …

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Hong Kong’s Apple Daily Newspaper Immortalized on the Blockchain

Apple Daily, the pro-democracy news outlet recently shut down by the Hong Kong government, has turned to blockchain technology to preserve its content.  Activists supporting the newspaper are backing up old articles onto blockchain platforms where censorship is near impossible to achieve.  “I’m not doing this because I love Apple Daily, it’s what needs to …

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Brave Takes on Google With Launch of Private Search Engine

Privacy-focused browser developer Brave has launched its own search engine, the imaginatively named Brave Search. The beta version of the search engine is now available to all Brave users as a search option on desktop, Android, and iOS, and is available for other browsers at search.brave.com. First announced in March 2021, Brave Search is based …

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