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ForkLog 36 24.06.2025

A splintered web

The internet delivers inventions such as AI straight to your device and, for some, opens access to vital services. It is also the “blood of the blockchain”: a cohesive web keeps open source alive and accelerates the development of an alternative financial system. In this new ForkLog piece, we examine regulators’ latest moves to curb […]

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ForkLog 110 12.06.2025

Killer decentralisation

In September 2023 the OFAC officially acknowledged the Sinaloa cartel’s use of cryptocurrencies. That same year, China’s largest underground labs producing drug precursors received more than $26 million in digital assets. In the first four months of 2024, the volume doubled. This ForkLog feature explores how crypto is being adopted across the black economy, the […]

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ForkLog 741 10.06.2025

Silicon Tanks: Nick Land, the right face of accelerationism

The British philosopher Nick Land began his career as a careful reader and bold interpreter of 20th-century leftist thinkers, anarchically breaking the usual bounds of academic tradition. He is now a supporter of “neoreaction,” an apologist for technocracy and surveillance capitalism, who regards Peter Thiel as the greatest thinker of the present day. How that […]

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ForkLog 15 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 40 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 33 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 57 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 47 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 16 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 30 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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