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Into the Metaverse
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How The FTX Implosion Sets Back the Bahamas Tech Scene
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How Signature Bank's Failure Hurts Crypto
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How Logan Paul's Crypto Empire Fell Apart
Logan Paul has convinced his fans to invest millions in several crypto projects, including CryptoZoo and Liquid Marketplace. Many have lost money.
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MLK in 3D: Exploring the “Dream” Speech in VR
Two VR experiences for the Meta Quest attempt to bring Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech into the metaverse for a new generation.
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The Biggest Crypto Lessons for 2023
The hyper-financialization of the crypto space, and extreme emphasis on “number go up” only hurt the space in 2022. Next year, it’s time to try a different approach.
By Andrew R. Chow
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Where Did FTX's Money Go?
Blockchain analytics firm Nansen and regulatory filings suggest that the seeds of FTX's disaster were sown when TerraUSD collapsed months earlier.
By Andrew R. Chow
December 21, 2022
No Crypto Crackdown in Sight
Sam Bankman-Fried is in handcuffs, but the SEC stopped short of declaring broader regulation on the chaotic cryptocurrency industry.
By Andrew R. Chow
December 13, 2022
How Investigators Are Tracing Crypto Criminals
"The problem isn’t stealing it: that’s all too easy. It’s getting away with it," says Andy Greenberg, the author of a new book on crypto crime
By Andrew R. Chow
December 8, 2022
This App Could Change How Kids Learn About Historical Heroes
The augmented reality app Kinfolk has designed monuments to Black and brown heroes that users can then place in the real world.
By Andrew R. Chow
November 21, 2022
Ethereum Faces a Test of Its Ideals After the Merge
More than half of the network’s activity is now subject to new U.S. government sanctions.
By Andrew R. Chow
October 20, 2022
What to Know About Meta's $1500 Quest Pro Headset
Will Meta be the company that brings the average person into the metaverse? The company hopes its new headset will open VR beyond gaming.
By Andrew R. Chow
October 13, 2022
Ethereum's Merge Has Finally Been Completed
The merge significantly reduces the amount of energy used by the network and sets the stage for Ethereum to reduce its fees
By Andrew R. Chow
September 15, 2022
An Ethereum Developer on the Merge's Risks and Rewards
Justin Drake, one of Ethereum's lead developers, discusses inevitable bugs and the network becoming "World War III-grade resistant."
By Andrew R. Chow
September 12, 2022
Why the Ethereum Merge Matters
The "merge" will be one of the most significant shifts in crypto’s history, and could have a slew of far-reaching effects.
By Andrew R. Chow
September 7, 2022
Mark Zuckerberg's Plans for the Metaverse
Meta's CEO dreams of hologram poker nights and virtual reality "eating TV." But privacy concerns linger.
By Andrew R. Chow
September 1, 2022
A New U.S. Crackdown Has Crypto Users Worried About Their Privacy
Tornado Cash’s service has let hackers flourish, regulators say. But privacy experts worry the ban goes too far.
By Andrew R. Chow
August 10, 2022
A Crypto Game Promised to Lift Filipinos Out of Poverty. Here's What Happened Instead
Thousands of Filipino players entered the crypto game Axie Infinity last year, only for predatory structures to arise. Then the game's economy crashed
By Andrew R. Chow and Chad de Guzman / Manila
July 25, 2022
'It Started From Nothing.' Black NFT Artists on Inheriting the Legacy of Hip-Hop and Jazz
Every year, people from around the world pilgrimage to a leafy Harlem brownstone on E. 126th Street in hopes of conjuring history. It was there in 1958 that 57 jazz icons, from Thelonious Monk to...
By Andrew R. Chow
July 13, 2022
Crypto's Layoffs Are Just Beginning, Experts Warn
Many companies weren't expecting the crypto downturn to happen this rapidly. Now, insiders are bracing for more than a year of doldrums.
By Andrew R. Chow
June 15, 2022
A New Congressional Bill Aims To Spur Crypto's Growth
A bipartisan bill from Kirsten Gillibrand and Cynthia Lummis aims to take a “take a light regulatory touch" toward crypto.
By Andrew R. Chow
June 7, 2022
Bitcoin Is Coming to Your 401(k), If Your Employer Allows It
Fidelity opened the door for a future of crypto retirement savings. But the decision has been met with pushback, including from the U.S. Department of Labor
By Andrew R. Chow
May 4, 2022
Influencers Are Scamming Their Fans Through Crypto. Here’s How Their Tactics Have Evolved.
As crypto technology has evolved, so too have the methods by influencers to extract money out of their fanbases
By Andrew R. Chow
April 28, 2022
Coachella Enters the Metaverse With Giant Parrots
If you were watching the Coachella YouTube livestream on Saturday night, you might have done a double take as giant leafy trees and a Godzilla-sized parrot slowly rose above the stage of the electronic artist Flume.
By Andrew R. Chow
April 21, 2022
How to File Taxes If You Used Cryptocurrency in 2021
A guide to navigating tax season for crypto investors, especially as the IRS ramps up its enforcement in this area
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April 12, 2022
Inside the Release of Unreal Engine 5
TIME got exclusive access to developers and artists who have already started using Unreal Engine 5. Here’s what’s under the hood
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April 5, 2022
How Fiction Writers Are Tackling the Metaverse
These works express anxiety about their corporate control and probe into the implications of AI omniscience. They range from hopeful to downright dystopian
By Andrew R. Chow
March 31, 2022
What It's Like Working at a DAO
A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of the Internet. You can find past issues of the newsletter here. In January,...
By Andrew R. Chow
March 24, 2022
I Spent 80 Minutes Inside Vitalik Buterin's Brain. Here's What I Learned
Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, talked to TIME about reducing fees, World of Warcraft and gender equality
By Andrew R. Chow
March 21, 2022
Why Most Crypto Backers Are Excited That the Biden Administration Is Wading Into Digital Currency
“I am pretty darn optimistic about it,” says Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit who is now a major investor in crypto technology
By Megan McCluskey and Andrew R. Chow
March 10, 2022
Exclusive: How Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova Is Using Crypto to Fight for Equality
A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of the Internet. You can find past issues of the newsletter here. Nadya Tolokonnikova...
By Raisa Bruner
March 3, 2022
Behind the Scenes at ETHDenver 2022
A dispatch from a dizzying week at one of North America's largest cryptocurrency conferences, featuring Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and Andrew Yang.
By Andrew R. Chow
February 23, 2022
A New Book Traces The Dizzying Rise of Ethereum
In "The Cryptopians," a new book about Ethereum by author Laura Shin, egos clash, decadence flows and small dreams spiral out of control
By Andrew R. Chow
February 17, 2022
The Chess Match Behind a $3.6B Bitcoin Seizure
The anatomy of the DOJ operation to seize $3.6 billion Bitcoin stolen in the Bitfinex hack is a cautionary tale in an era of rapid blockchain ascendancy
By Andrew R. Chow
February 10, 2022
Debating 'The Problem With NFTs'
While “The Problem With NFTs” has been viewed more than 4 million times, and met with an approving roar from other crypto detractors, it was largely ignored on Web 3 Twitter
By Andrew R. Chow
February 3, 2022
How Blockchain Could Solve Digital Identity
When Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, has been asked lately about his favorite projects being built on the blockchain, he often names Proof of Humanity.
By Andrew R. Chow
January 27, 2022
Why Investors Are Buying Virtual Real Estate
A blank square of pixels in a virtual metaverse world like The Sandbox can cost as much as a home in the real world. But investors are buying in
By Raisa Bruner
January 20, 2022
The Best and Weirdest Metaverse Products at CES
The Consumer Electronics Show was dominated by metaverse talk. Here are the products that were debuted, from bodysuits to NFT TVs.
By Andrew R. Chow
January 13, 2022
How the Metaverse Could Avoid the Ills of Social Media
The OASIS Consortium, a think tank that brings together execs of metaverse platforms, published some of the first comprehensive safety standards for Web 3.
By Andrew R. Chow
January 6, 2022
How Digital Twins Are Transforming the World
Digital twins—exact digital re-creations of objects or environments—are being used to replicate factory floors, car prototypes and internal organs
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December 30, 2021
The Best and Worst of NFTs in 2021
Here are the biggest developments, best NFT art projects and most worrying trends, according to artist and blockchain coder Rhea Myers.
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December 23, 2021
Frances Haugen Is 'Super Scared' About the Metaverse
Documents show Facebook knew far more about the harms of its products than it ever let on. Will it take safety in the metaverse seriously?
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December 16, 2021
Behind the Scenes at Art Basel Miami
NFTs took over Art Basel Miami this year. Here's what TIME saw there, from body mapping to property speculation to pure hedonism.
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December 9, 2021
Can NFTs Challenge the Music Industry?
Independent musicians like Daniel Allan are turning to NFTs in the hopes of carving out a living outside of the record label system
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December 2, 2021
What Can Metaverse Builders Learn From Second Life?
So there’s plenty that the current builders of the metaverse can learn from Second Life, both for better and worse.
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November 26, 2021
Why TIME Is Launching a New Newsletter on the Metaverse
I’d like to define the metaverse, for the purposes of this newsletter, as the ways in which our physical and digital selves are becoming increasingly blurred
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