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Venmo Reportedly Halting Some Payments Referring to Palestine

Paypal’s Venmo is halting transactions for some payments that refer to Palestine, according to Rest of World. A number of Venmo users say their payments to the “Emergency Palestinian Relief Fund” are stalled.

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Terra’s 25-Fold Price Jump This Year Shows Growing Bet on Algorithmic Stablecoins

The South Korean-based stablecoin platform Terra has seen its market capitalization overtake better-known decentralized rival Maker's.

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Brave Integrates .Crypto Blockchain Domains, Expanding Access to Web 3.0

Brave users can access 30,000 decentralized sites and 700,000 blockchain domain names.

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Decentralized Domain Names Could Replace Long Wallet Addresses

Long wallet addresses may soon be a thing of the past if Unstoppable Domains has its way. The company will integrate with the Opera browser to offer decentralized domain names minted as NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. Unstoppable’s Brad Kam joins “First Mover” to discuss decentralized domains and how the crypto ecosystem can integrate them.

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Here's Why Coinbase Ditched Its San Francisco HQ

In another sign of the increasing decentralization of work, Coinbase has announced that it is giving up its former headquarters in San Francisco and will remain full remote. "The Hash" panel discusses the impact of Coinbase going virtual on the idea of "internet money, internet workforce."

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Decision on Donald Trump’s Facebook Ban: Why it Matters

The Facebook Oversight Board will soon release its decision on whether Trump’s Facebook account, which has been banned since January, will be reinstated. “The Hash” panel digs into the underlying issues of centralization and censorship and the main takeaways we can expect from Facebook’s high-profile decision.

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Uniswap’s 'Token' Issue

A battle between a decentralized exchange and a token project raises questions over what level of control creators can exercise in crypto.

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The Graph to Host Protocol Governance on Decentralized GitHub Alternative Radicle

Radicle enables collaborative permissionless code in a decentralized way.

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'Keanu' Explained: What It Means to Merge Two Ethereum Projects

Keep and NuCypher, ICO-era survivors with $500M in combined assets, may soon forge a new model of cooperation among decentralized protocols.

Actor Keanu Reeves walks on stage to speak about "Cyberpunk 2077" from developer CD Projekt Red during the Xbox E3 2019 Briefing at The Microsoft Theater on June 09, 2019, in Los Angeles.

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Dapps Don't Care About Your Feelings

By testing the limits of what's permissible on Binance Smart Chain, anonymous developers are testing whether it's really a blockchain.

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are a sensitive topic in China today