#Virtual World Innovations

Exploration of innovations in virtual worlds, including Play-to-Earn, GameFi, metaverses, simulation theory, VR, and AR, and their impact on financial and social processes.

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ForkLog 64 04.12.2025

How World War Could Trigger Bitcoin’s “1984” Hard Fork

Anatoly Kaplan on how entire states could already execute their own hard forks of Bitcoin.

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ForkLog 40 18.11.2025

Defending Consciousness in an Age of Spiritual Commerce

Anatoly Kaplan on how technological mindfulness counters state and corporate propaganda.

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ForkLog 67 11.11.2025

The Evolution of Copyright: From Progressive Idea to Control Mechanism

How copyright evolved from a progressive idea to a tool of control.

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The corporate Antichrist and his lesser demons

ForkLog 64 05.11.2025

The Corporate Antichrist: Reclaiming the Internet’s Lost Humanist Soul

An essay by Anatoly Kaplan on why human liberation is impossible without freeing code and technology.

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ForkLog 72 24.10.2025

In Search of a New World Consensus for the 21st Century

Anatoly Kaplan on why a network state is quite possible — but it is not Liberland.

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ForkLog 105 23.09.2025

‘When someone dies, people become richer’

“Party of the Dead” deputy Maxim Evstropov on the economics of death and the possibilities of a Proof-of-Death algorithm.

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ForkLog 33 06.08.2025

The chat sovereign

The very phrase “sovereign AI” evokes authoritarian regimes few would choose to inhabit. Yet “global artificial intelligence” conjures its own spectres: digital colonialism and other delights of a brave new world. Why, in AI development, both notions are largely meaningless and serve chiefly as tools of manipulation is the subject of this ForkLog essay by […]

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ForkLog 62 22.07.2025

Insert coin to continue

GameFi is one of the blockchain industry’s most contentious arenas. From loud promises of passive income in games to widespread disappointment and the collapse of some flagship projects, the journey has been rough. By 2025 the segment has entered a new phase: shedding speculative hype, raising the quality of platforms and gameplay, and adapting to […]

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ForkLog 90 14.07.2025

Silicon Tanks: Evgeny Morozov, prophet of digital scepticism

While Silicon Valley promised peace, fellowship and democracy via apps, the Belarusian scholar Evgeny Morozov warned that technology is not magic but a tool of power. A decade ago he was branded an alarmist; today his books are read as manuals for the digital world. Why Morozov’s critique of “solutionism” and “internet-centrism” feels timelier than […]

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ForkLog 173 03.07.2025

Silicon Tanks: Nancy Fraser’s feminist view of digital capitalism

“Silicon Tanks” is a ForkLog series profiling the intellectuals, scholars and visionaries who, in our view, have shaped the internet and digital finance—or, conversely, have subjected them to critique. The subject of today’s piece is the philosopher Nancy Fraser, who coined the concept of “cannibal capitalism” to describe the link between technological progress, Big Tech, […]

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ForkLog 112 02.07.2025

The Srinivasan–Buterin Democratic Republic

In 2022 entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan unveiled the Network State, a concept that fuses an alternative vision of statehood with blockchain technology. In just three years, the idea has moved off the page and into the physical world. In this ForkLog piece, we explore the historical roots of the Network State, the launch of the Network […]

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ForkLog 38 19.06.2025

Innokenty’s Game

Is digital immortality attainable—and if so, to what end? What role does blockchain play in a posthumanist utopia? Must artificial intelligence know both joy and suffering? Peter Bell, CEO of DAO Builders, and ForkLog’s commercial director, Aleksandr Aremefe—the unwitting protagonists of the second instalment of Innokenty’s Dream—set out to answer these seemingly simple, yet in […]

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