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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

These companies are involved in activities like planting spyware on web sites to collect users’ personal data. Cryptocurrency and Blockchains. The Australian Stock Exchanged canceled its 6-year-old blockchain experiment , which would have put most of its work onto a Blockchain-like shared distributed ledger.

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Daily Crunch: India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, February 15, 2022! We have a busy slate for you today, including news sure to annoy the blockchain faithful, new funds, Facebook’s latest rebrand and more. The pace at which huge rounds – and especially those in the nine-figure range – are put together continues to impress in 2022.

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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Thursday, March 3, 2022. Lido wants to help stake Ethereum : I won’t get into the proof of work versus proof of stake argument here, so suffice it to say that more eth needs to get staked for the blockchain to evolve. PST, subscribe here.

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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

TechCrunch

Bankrolling the Blockchain with a16z Crypto. It’s a pitch that has landed thousands of members and, most recently, a billion-dollar valuation as of May 2022. Launched in 2020, Solana gained worldwide renown for being one of the fastest blockchains with a rapidly growing developer ecosystem. The State of VC in 2022.