What Can Second Life Teach Us About the Metaverse

15 years ago, Philip Rosendale, the founder of Second life, made a bold prediction. He told the Guardian, “The 3D web will rapidly be the dominant thing, and everyone will have an avatar. ” Seeing how his creation had a million active users at the time, the idea didn’t seem that improbable.

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Will Second Life Get A Second Life? Five Virtual Lands on the Blockchain

When Second Life went live in 2003, it became a pioneer of virtual property. Players could buy their own land, customize it, and explore the world. Since then, Second Life has gone the way of MySpace—but now, several blockchain-based games are trying to breathe new life into the virtual world genre.

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Cinemadrom ICO

Cinemadrom this is a combination of many people and areas of activity in one ecosystem. For filmmakers this is Hollywood online. For investors, these are new tools. For the crypto community, this is a new blockchain technology, a new coin for mining, trading, transfers.

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Baltimore Ransomware Siege Enters Second Week of Bitcoin Extortion Attack

By CCN: Most of the Baltimore City’s government systems have been locked down since May 7th as a result of the “Robbinhood” ransomware attack. The successful crypto locking has forced the city to go “manual” in most aspects of its daily business and has affected several areas of life.

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Is Bitcoin Mining Finally Profitable for Miners in 2019?

The recent bitcoin rally has driven bitcoin mining profits. Profits earned from bitcoin mining have seen a clear rise since the start of April 2019 and hit a near half-a-year high on April 15, 2019.

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Baseball stat heads tracked 4M pitches to prove that umpires really are blind

It’s been less than a month since Opening Day. The 2019 Major League Baseball (MLB), like more than a century of professional baseball seasons before it, has already seen its share of controversial calls by the game’s most hated employees: umpires.

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On Collusion

Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.

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Life After Trading: Cryptocurrencies In Everyday Life

Part 3 of 3 in the Digital Gold on the Blockchain series From the CMC editorial desk: Continuing where we left off in the second post, we explore the potential of cryptocurrencies in day-to-day life.

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5 things you should know about STOs

Last weekend Hard Fork flew Seattle to attend NEO’s second ever developer conference. Besides getting to see and hear from NEO itself, we got to meet a host of developers that are trying to use the NEO platform to bring their dapps to life.

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NeuralTrade Network ICO

Most people are desperately seeking financial freedom in their life. Sadly financial freedom remains a dream to them or an elusive theory that forever escapes them. The biggest problem around financial freedom is some magic formula or some secret success model that they believe exists, they spend an endless amount of time, effort and even resources in obtaining this magic formula or the secret success model.

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QuadrigaCX CEO Widow Sells Estate Assets, Reportedly Places Others in Trust

Jennifer Robertson, the widow of the late QuadrigaCX exchange CEO, appears to be liquidating and shuffling some estate assets. When QuadrigaCX founder and CEO Gerald Cotten passed away suddenly in December of 2018 in India, he was allegedly the only person with the knowledge of the exchange’s cold storage keys.

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Judge Delays Decision to Appoint Legal Counsel for QuadrigaCX Creditors

A group of lawyers from some of Canada’s top law firms convened in a court in Halifax, Nova Scotia, today to secure the right to represent creditors in the ongoing QuadrigaCX litigation.

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Reflecting on my failure to build a billion-dollar company

This article was originally published on Medium by Sahil Lavingia, the Founder and CEO of Gumroad. In 2011 I left my job as the second employee at Pinterest–before I vested any of my stock–to work on what I thought would be my life’s work.

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Seven New Year's Resolutions for Bitcoiners

In the time-honored tradition of goal setting for the new year, Bitcoin Magazine has compiled a short list of seven possible New Year’s Resolutions for Bitcoiners as we head into 2019.

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Bitcoin History Part 7: The First Major Hack

Hacks and heists have been a threat for as long as bitcoin has been worth stealing. By 2011, as Bitcoin was easing into its second year of life and its first bubble, early cryptocurrency exchanges were bringing liquidity and price discovery to the nascent ecosystem.

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Tezos Gets New Life In A Rare Second Chance

Tezos is one of those projects that appears destined to survive. Rising from the ashes after the inferno between the Swiss foundation and project leaders, the platform seems stronger than ever, with the focus back where it should be — on the technology and the talent that co-founder Arthur Breitman has to offer.

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What Is Decentraland?  Introduction to LAND and MANA Token

What Is Decentraland? Decentraland is a blockchain-based virtual reality platform built on the Ethereum blockchain. Like Minecraft or Second Life, there’s no real objective in Decentraland. Instead, users traverse a virtual world, buying non-fungible plots of digital LAND on which to monetize through tokenized, decentralized games, apps, etc.

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Ether Price Analysis: Historic Support Tested Amid Signs of Distribution

It’s been weeks since ether has seen a new high or a new low and the market has found itself range-bound. At the moment, we are seeing signs of distribution as large rounds of selling have remained present during key support tests:Figure 1: ETHUSD, 4 Hour Candles, Trading RangeSo far, for the last few weeks, ether has seen a trend of higher lows and low highs (the converging red trendlines).

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Litecoin Will Fly If It Makes The Most Of Social Media

The pursuit for cryptocurrency adoption seems to focus on three major cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin. Indeed, this isn’t to disregard the likes of XRP and Stellar, both of which also provide a solid use in mainstream society, however in terms of worldwide societal adoption, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin tend to be the go-to currencies.

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Review: This $20 no-touch thermometer won’t wake up your sick baby

Thermometers aren’t the go-to gadget for Plugged reviewers to sink their teeth into, but this $20 offering from iHealth is a device I’d recommend to my colleagues and readers alike: Especially the ones who have kids.

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Paxful CEO Ray Youssef Shows How Bitcoin Can Be Used for Social Good

Can bitcoin be used for social good? If anyone thinks so, it’s Ray Youssef, the CEO of peer-to-peer bitcoin platform Paxful. A successful entrepreneur in the crypto and blockchain space, Youssef comes from humble beginnings and understands the importance of maintaining control over one’s finances.

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St. Petersburg is ready to host the second international forum – Blockchain Life 2018 -on November 7-8

Following the event’s groundbreaking success in 2017, Blockchain Life 2018 is all set to make a comeback to Russian and Eastern Europe’s leading venue Expoforum in St. Petersburg. Scheduled to be held on November 7-8, this year’s forum is expected to bring together over 5000 participants from more than 70 countries across the globe.

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St. Petersburg is ready to host the second international forum – Blockchain Life 2018 -on November 7-8

Following the event’s groundbreaking success in 2017, Blockchain Life 2018 is all set to make a comeback to Russian and Eastern Europe’s leading venue Expoforum in St. Petersburg. Scheduled to be held on November 7-8, this year’s forum is expected to bring together over 5000 participants from more than 70 countries across the globe. One […]

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Blockchain Life 2018

St. Petersburg is ready to host the second international forum - Blockchain Life 2018 -on November 7-8.

The post Blockchain Life 2018 appeared first on CoinSpeaker.

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AxiomLevel Targets Institutional Investors With Investor Onboarding Platform

The slow trickle of traditional investment into the crypto market may turn into a flood if a new platform launched by blockchain services provider AxiomLevel Technologies makes its desired impact.

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Virtual Rehab ICO (VRH Token): AI & VR Therapy Treatment Platform?

In life, every person seeks for a second chance. People like inmate and addicts are of no exception as they need help, support, and development to become reformed citizens when they are out of jails or rehabilitation centers.

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[promoted] Fueling Decentralized Crypto Investments With Aenigma

For many, the complex nature of crypto investing is an unsolvable enigma. Despite the potential for great returns, many are hesitant to jump in and navigate the complexities and uncertainties inherent in this space.

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STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds

Special thanks to Eli ben Sasson for his kind assistance, as usual. Special thanks to Chih-Cheng Liang and Justin Drake for review. Trigger warning: math and lots of python div. foo { color: white; } div.

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Achieving Truly Useful Proof of Work: Toby Simpson of Fetch.ai

What’s the best that can happen? That’s the focus of Fetch. ai in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI). Episode 025 of the What Bitcoin Did podcast featured a wide-ranging conversation between host Peter McCormack and Fetch co-founder/CTO Toby Simpson about both best-case and worst-case outcomes for AI.

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EU’s Report on Cryptocurrencies: Says Officials “Should Not Ignore” Them

The EU’s Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies released a report entitled “Virtual currencies and central banks monetary policy: challenges ahead.

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Op Ed: From East to West: The Fiat Pairing Trend Grows in the United States

The recent announcement that Bittrex will allow investors to buy digital coins with the U. S. dollar is the latest in a string of crypto trading trends to move West from Asia.

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