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Into the Metaverse
Crypto's Layoffs Are Just Beginning, Experts Warn
By Andrew R. Chow
A New Congressional Bill Aims To Spur Crypto's Growth
By Andrew R. Chow
Bitcoin Is Coming to Your 401(k), If Your Employer Allows It
By Andrew R. Chow
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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.
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
By Andrew R. Chow
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.
By Andrew R. Chow
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?
By Billy Perrigo
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.
By Andrew R. Chow and Raisa Bruner
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.
By Andrew R. Chow
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
By Andrew R. Chow
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