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

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We also have notes today on the latest and greatest in VR fitness products. 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. You can follow her on Twitter here.

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Radar Trends to Watch: December 2022

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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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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

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Bankrolling the Blockchain with a16z Crypto. Alongside a16z founder Marc Andreessen, general partner Chris Dixon has been integral to the firm’s rise as a giant in the crypto VC world — he was an early investor in startups such as Coinbase, Uniswap and Oculus VR. The Great Expectations of Crypto and Blockchain.