Tag: Tech
17 Celebrities Just Got Warning Letters About Shilling NFTs
When a celebrity or influencer buys into an NFT collection and then posts about it on their social media, they may be influencing the value of the entire NFT collection. Even if they paid for the NFT with their own money, they’re essentially pumping the value of their own investment.…
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TikTok Owner ByteDance Used A News App On Millions Of Phones To Push Pro-China Messages, Ex-Employees Say
While TopBuzz never discussed these policies publicly, at least one former ByteDance employee who worked on TopBuzz alluded to them on LinkedIn, saying she was “responsible for managing the content inside the platform according to Chinese government policies.” The former employee declined to speak with BuzzFeed News. In March 2020,…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Little League Baseball Card Is Now An NFT
Today, Meta announced that Instagram is now offering a way to share your NFTs and digital collectibles to your page by connecting your digital wallet. Oh, that sounds boring to you? Well, what if I told you that in order to promote this new feature, Mark Zuckerberg was turning his…
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Crypto Diaries: The Bitcoin Entrepreneur Whose Wife Won’t Let Him Talk Bitcoin
7 p.m. — Soccer night. I drive to the field in Santa Monica. I snap a picture with my Stacks water bottle and tag @nftsonbitcoin on IG. I post two quick memes to my story — the first one comparing fiat currency to bitcoin and the second one quoting Andrew…
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Meet The Mom Who Lost Friends Over Her NFT Obsession
6:45 a.m. — Over coffee, I read about the horror show bloodbath that is the crypto market this morning. Everything is way down. I am a little freaked out, but know this is a long game. It’s time to buy the dip to dollar-cost average. I’m going with bitcoin, ETH,…
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This Is What An NFT Consultant Does All Day
Welcome to Crypto Diaries, a new series on BuzzFeed News that helps us understand what the future of Web3 might look like — by showing what the heck people who are already living there do all day. We’ve asked crypto evangelists, NFT collectors, metaverse mavens, and decentralized diehards to keep…
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