information analyst

Take a moment and think of everything wrong with the online world, from data breaches to violations of privacy to the overweening power of big tech.

Then imagine them disappearing. Gone. Just like that.

Sounds appealing? Well, you've just heard the first line of a sales pitch-cum-revolutionary manifesto that's gaining traction in San Francisco and Washington DC. It goes by the name of web3.

The gist is familiar from revolutionary statements throughout history. Wrest power from the establishment, return it to the people, make everyone happier and richer along the way.

The tools we're told can achieve this are as modern as it gets. The heart of the plan is to rebuild the foundations of the web using the blockchain technology that underpins cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.

According to Web3's backers, it is possible to take anything - or, indeed, everything - that is online and put it on the blockchain, the energy-intensive ledger which enables data to be stored collectively without the need for a central record-keeper.

 

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https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Blockchain

 

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Via Gust MEES

Ari Meilich was an early pioneer in the metaverse by building Decentraland, along with Esteban Ordano and their team, the first decentralized virtual reality space in 2017. Through a $24 million initial coin offering, the proceeds went toward creating a unique virtual reality experience. The project enabled users to build a wide array of interactive experiences, ranging from playing video games to building cities and attending live events. 

Meilich could have been a Mark Zuckerberg and owned Decentraland. Instead, he took a brave and innovative approach. The ownership was more akin to a Kibbutz or commune, in which the collective society can own a piece. 

 

People may purchase empty land parcels within the Decentraland environment using MANA, the accepted cryptocurrency used for payments. Instead of going into the pockets of the owner of the site, the money is placed into the community’s account. As it's grown and people acquire land, there are peer-to-peer transactions, such as the recent purchase of space on Decentraland by Andrew Kiguel, CEO of Tokens.com for $2.5 million. As of January 2022, MANA is valued at around $2.96 with a market cap of over $5 billion.

 

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https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Coinbase

 

https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=NFT

 

Via Gust MEES

The platform which sold an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet for $2.9 million has halted most transactions because people were selling tokens of content that did not belong to them, its founder said, calling this a "fundamental problem" in the fast-growing digital assets market.

Sales of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, soared to around $25 billion in 2021, leaving many baffled as to why so much money is being spent on items that do not physically exist and which anyone can view online for free.
NFTs are crypto assets that record the ownership of a digital file such as an image, video or text. Anyone can create, or "mint," an NFT, and ownership of the token does not usually confer ownership of the underlying item.
Reports of scams, counterfeits and "wash trading" have become commonplace.

 

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Via Gust MEES