Fighting Back: How a Community or Company Can Take Back a Project
Learn how communities can band together to “fight back” against NFT Rug Pulls
Learn how communities can band together to “fight back” against NFT Rug Pulls
In 1999, the world’s first commercially available color video and camera phone arrived in the form of the Kyocera VP-210 in Japan. A year after its release, worries over the rapid rise in “up-skirt” voyeurism the phones enabled spread quickly throughout the country, prompting wireless carriers to institute a policy guaranteeing the phones they offered…
The debate surrounding creator royalties in the NFT space has yet to find a conclusion. Considering the fast-paced nature of the market, it comes as no surprise that key players in Web3 are changing their position on royalties and other hot topics, and breaking news that creates normalizing waves throughout the ecosystem. One such key…
If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds. When Alexa responds in this way, it’s obvious that it is putting its…
On March 3, 2022, NFT marketplace giant OpenSea initiated a large-scale ban and removal of accounts associated with an Iranian IP address in an attempt to comply with U.S. sanctions law. OpenSea had no choice but to obey the federal requirement, though many critiqued the platform for having communicated and executed the move poorly. Several…
Today, well-known NFT trader and crypto figure Jeffrey Huang, who goes by the Web3 pseudonym Machi Big Brother, announced the filing of a lawsuit against on-chain internet sleuth ZachXBT. Huang accused the latter of “publishing and maliciously promoting an article that falsely presented [Huang] as a criminal that had embezzled millions of dollars of cryptocurrency…
Let’s face it. Web3 is noisy. Regardless of the state of the market, there will always be hundreds of new projects released daily, accompanied by millions of pieces of content vying for our attention. As a consumer, this can be overwhelming. As a builder, this can be detrimental both to the health of a project…