In 1992, the concept of the Metaverse existed only in the fertile imagination of American cyberpunk author Neal Stephenson. In his book Snow Crash, Stephenson described the metaverse as a virtual reality-based Internet populated by system daemons and user-controlled avatars.

US consumers have increasingly become targeted for scams by cybercriminals on social media, according to tens of thousands of reports received by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2021. In the FTC’s report released last week, over 95,000 Americans reported combined losses of over $770 million after falling victim to scams on social media platforms. […]

This month we welcomed Greg Bunn to the Blockchain.com team as our new Head of Institutional Client Services.As one of the largest institutional...

The crypto market was in the green over the past 24 hours, as the…

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The District of Columbia and three states are suing Google for allegedly deceiving consumers and invading their privacy by making it nearly impossible for them to stop their location from being tracked.

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FC Barcelona will choose between Polkadot and Spotify for its new official jersey sponsor.

After Bitcoin’s mining difficulty jumped to the highest value ever at 26.64 trillion, the overall hashrate slumped a hair due to the rise in difficulty and lower bitcoin price. This weekend, Bitcoin’s hashrate is coasting along at 189 exahash per second (EH/s), after dropping to a low of 167 EH/s three days ago. The lower […]

Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the fastest-growing economic regions, but its people still experience major financial issues. Microfinancing is an effective tool that is...

Throwing this up for discoverability: I enjoy the Uncommon Core podcast and this is a helpful episode for those looking to get a quick...