web3
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Can You Truly Own Anything in the Metaverse? A Law Professor Breaks It Down
In 2021, an investment firm bought 2,000 acres of real estate for about US$4 million. Normally this would not make headlines, but in this case the land was virtual. It existed only in a metaverse platform called The Sandbox. By buying 792 non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, the firm then owned the equivalent of…
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What Is Web3 and Why Should You Care?
For Web3 evangelists, it’s a revolution; for sceptics, it’s an overhyped house of cards that doesn’t stand up to much scrutiny.
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Instagram Is Getting NFTs But What the Hell Does That Mean?
Instagram has plans to allow users to display their NFTs and even mint new NFTs within the app, according to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. But what does that even mean? There are quite a few possibilities, and none of them make a whole lot of sense.
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Meta Held a Super Bowl Afterparty — If You Could Manage to Get In
I tried out another event in the metaverse, this time the Super Bowl afterparty concert held by Meta, featuring the Foo Fighters. It broke.