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ForkLog 12 12.05.2025

‘Cryptocurrency is about people, not coins’

How did the crypto industry end up dependent on Wall Street capital, can that be changed—and, more importantly, should it? Ray Youssef, founder of the P2P platform NoOnes, shared his view in an interview for the monthly digest FLMonthly. ForkLog: We already had a long conversation last year. Briefly for readers: who is Ray Youssef, […]

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ForkLog 31 01.05.2025

The distributed worker

May 1st is a fitting moment to examine how cryptocurrencies, Web3 and blockchain are reshaping work. Freelancers and salaried employees worldwide are increasingly paid not in roubles or dollars but in USDT or ETH. Some do so to sidestep blocks and banking hassles, some to capitalise on loyalty to an employer, others because there is […]

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ForkLog 9 15.05.2024

Brains in a jar or death? ATH guests on who or what the human of the future will be

How many cybernetic eyes will the human of the future need, and how do you send a robocar to work on your behalf? Leading cryptovisionaries discuss this and more at ForkLog’s All Time Half conference. Will AI rule the human of the future? Vladimir Ponimayushchi (POSTHUMAN, Sputnik Network: We already live in a world where […]

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ForkLog 8 08.05.2024

“Community first, then tools”: ATH guests on the problems and prospects for DAOs

Where to begin when building your own DAO, why oligarchs will be the most useful citizens of network states, and whether there will still be room in these structures for good old crypto-anarchism? Guests of the All Time Half (ATH) conference answer these and other pressing questions about social organisation in the Web3 era. Are […]

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ForkLog 26 18.04.2024

Fakes, deepfakes and chatbots: how to spot AI manipulation online

Lies, deceit and manipulation have been with humanity since antiquity. With the rise of mass media, makers of fakes gained the ability to reach unprecedented audiences. In the era of the rapidly expanding internet, disinformation has taken new forms. Websites, social networks, image boards and even traditional media have become venues for spreading false and […]

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ForkLog 54 15.04.2024

‘The market is a computer’: how Friedrich von Hayek reached that conclusion

The publisher Individuum has released the Russian translation of philosopher of science Matteo Pasquinelli’sMeasure and Impose: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence. ForkLog publishes an excerpt on Friedrich von Hayek’s connectionism and the debates over the role of computing machines in a market economy. Data: Individuum. Neural networks as a model of the mind How […]

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ForkLog 42 29.01.2024

The Invisible Hook: what pirates can teach us about economics

American economist Peter Leeson belongs to the cohort of the Austrian School whose professional formation coincided with the global crisis of 2008. The Great Recession exposed the soft spots of the global market and created demand for radical alternatives. Among them were Austrian ideas, which helped, among other things, to give birth to cryptocurrencies. In […]

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ForkLog 14 08.12.2023

Blockchain, DAOs and Game Theory: The Basis of Dan Larimer’s ‘True Democracy’

A review of More Equal Animals: The Subtle Art of True Democracy, by the creator of the EOS blockchain and the Bitshares exchange.

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ForkLog 27 25.11.2023

On acceleration: what e/acc is and how it could have influenced Sam Altman’s dismissal

How 'effective accelerationism' split the AI research community.

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ForkLog 18 30.10.2023

What is universal basic income—and what do cryptocurrencies have to do with it?

Can universal basic income tackle inequality, and what role does the crypto industry play?

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ForkLog 13 24.03.2021

Vitalik Buterin sees potential for NFTs to become a public good

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are seen as a "celebrity casino," but they could find use in socially meaningful ends such as charity and funding public goods, says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

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Ana Alexandre 1304 24.07.2020

Chess Ex-Champion Garry Kasparov: Bitcoin is Natural Choice in Fight Against Human Rights Violations

Former chess champion and human rights advocate Garry Kasparov has called Bitcoin and blockchain technology “very natural choices” in the struggle against human rights violations, Forbes reported on July 23.

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