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Coinbase backer parlays ‘fantasy’ bet into billions Jackie Davalos Save Share Before his bet on cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global became a multi-billion-dollar exit, Union Square Ventures co-founder Fred Wilson compared bitcoin to science fiction. “We may be completely wrong, it may be a fantasy,” he said at a marketing conference in May 2013. That was shortly after he had invested $US2.5 million ($3.2 million) in Coinbase, the US’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange...

Reuters When Big Tech deletes websites, humanity loses valuable knowledge and collective memory. We need to preserve our collective digital memory for future generations. Raphael Tsavkko Garcia is a Brazilian journalist and holds a PhD in Human Rights from the University of Deusto. This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.  Starting today, April 20, users can no longer post questions or answers to Yahoo Answers. On May 4, the site ...

strong-growth,-no-inflation dept Tue, Apr 11th 2006 11:10am — Joseph Weisenthal Theres been much made of the fact that winning products have the ability to spawn other industries, like every Adsense-driven web startup, all the peripherals for the iPod, and the various businesses of the eBay economy. Not surprisingly, the same is now happening with MySpace, as smaller companies look to profit from the popular site. Some are selling tools that help users improve their pages visual design. Other...

Fri, Apr 16th 2021 3:38pm — Copia Institute Summary: While the social media/social networking space today is dominated by Facebook, it’s interesting to look at how Facebook’s predecessors dealt with content moderation challenges as well. One of the earliest social networks to reach mainstream recognition was Friendster, founded by Jonathan Abrams in 2002 and launched in early 2003, gaining millions of users who signed up to connect with friends. Originally built as a dating site, it expan...

Facebook’s growing role in the ever-expanding surveillance and “pre-crime” apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the company’s origins and its products as they relate to a former, controversial DARPA-run surveillance program that was essentially analogous to what is currently the world’s largest social network. In mid-February, Daniel Baker, a US veteran described by the media as “anti-Trump, anti-government, anti-white supremacists, and anti-police,” wa...

April 09, 2021 published at 10:52 AMAsiaOne Viral Video Stars is a biweekly series where we hunt down viral icons. Whats it like to be famous? What have they been up to? We catch up with them to find out all about life after viral fame. In the 17 years since he first appeared on Singapore Idol, hes been told hes "legendary" and has received droves of fan art. But he didnt make it very far at all. In fact, Skyy Sia didnt even make it past the auditions. Then only 17, he showed up to the audition...

Open share drawer Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today we revisit the influential debut from the SoCal band, a pop-punk spark that spread like wildfire in the Tumblr era. Joyce Manor emerged from the beer-soaked ecosystem of basements and bowling alleys that has sustained SoCal pop-punk for nearly a half-century. But Barry Johnson knows who was truly responsible for the legend of Joyce Manor, t...

Share Welcome to What If , a new feature from imaginative illustrator Abimelec Arellano and Hagerty. We’ll be taking you back in time—and possibly forward into the future—to meet alternative-universe automobiles. Even better, our time machine is working well enough to bring “short take” reviews along with the photographs and advertisements. Buckle up and enjoy the ride! — Jack Baruth (Originally published in McKeel’s Magazine, September 2020 issue) As we enter the 2021 mode...

Binance Coin (BNB) Bull Run: Analyst Makes Bold Case for $500 Binance Coin should do to Ethereum what Bitcoin is doing to gold: eating a good portion of its market capitalization by acting as a better alternative. That was pretty much what Changpeng Zhao, the founder/CEO of Binance cryptocurrency exchange, dictated in his series of tweets on February 28 as he pitted their Binance Smart Chain against Vitalik Buterin’s open-source blockchain Ethereum. Mr. Zhao compared the second-largest public...

Season 13 has some big shoes to fill when it comes to the Rusical. Season 12’s “Madonna: The Unauthorized Rusical” paid tribute to a legend and did so in style and if that weren’t enough, the top four queens crushed their final challenge, performing numbers from RuPaul’s Drag Race Live. The season 13 queens are very talented, delivering strong performances in the improv challenge, but they’ll need more than charisma for their Rusical to stand out among the show’s recent offerings...