By Wayne Jones TapTools has abandoned a community NFT sale intended to help bring its Cardano analytics platform back online after users reacted angrily to its return, with every participant refunded in full. The backlash quickly reached Charles Hoskinson, who responded by sharing a South Park parody of BP’s repeated “we’re sorry” apology. TapTools Pulls […]
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By Wayne Jones Machi Big Brother proposed a $1 million buyout of Friends.Tech on August 27, offering to acquire the stalled project from Racer and Paradigm and relaunch its FRIEND token. The proposal sent FRIEND sharply higher, but the move also revived questions about Machi’s own heavy losses on the token and whether his plan […]
By Wayne Jones David Schwartz, Ripple’s CTO emeritus, has warned that government rules around AI safety and copyright could give authorities unprecedented control over political and social speech. His argument centers on who gets to decide what AI systems can create, know, and discuss. Two Legal Fights, One Argument Schwartz laid out the case in […]