Tag: Tech
Ukraine Has Asked For Donations In Crypto To Help Fight Russia
Yarema Dukh, a communications strategist who helped set up the official Ukraine Twitter account in 2016, confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the tweet and wallet were a legitimate government plan. He said he believed the crypto funds would go to “exterminate as many Russian occupants as possible,” but was not…
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For Small Towns Betting On Bitcoin, Mining Companies Are A Flight Risk
Tyler Comrie for BuzzFeed News When the Chinese government banned all crypto mining in summer last year, the crypto mining company BitFuFu packed its 80,000 high-powered computers into containers and trucked them across the border to Kazakhstan, where electricity was cheap and regulations lax. Then, months later, when persistent electricity…
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The NFTs They Bought From The Crypto Rapper Disappeared. Now They Want A Refund.
Twitter user Ethmuppet said they scored “a piece of crypto history” when they purchased two NFTs from Heather Morgan, the eccentric entrepreneur arrested alongside her husband on Tuesday for attempting to launder $4.5 billion in looted cryptocurrency. But hours later, the NFTs were gone. They had suddenly disappeared from OpenSea,…
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Meta Wouldn’t Tell Us How It Enforces Its Rules In VR, So We Ran A Test To Find Out
BuzzFeed News; Sven Hoppe / picture alliance via Getty Images Facebook said it would be different this time. Announcing the company’s rebranding to Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised that the virtual worlds it believes to be the future of the internet would be protected from the malignancies that have plagued…
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Lyra Health Provides Therapy To Google And Facebook Employees, But Former Therapists Are Warning Of Ethical Conflicts
Ariel Davis for BuzzFeed News Feeling stressed and overwhelmed last January, Daniel Rojas decided to take advantage of a benefit Starbucks often touts for its employees around the country: free therapy through Lyra Health, a mental health startup that provides counseling services for some of the biggest companies in the…
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The NFT Accounts Of The Couple Who Allegedly Tried To Launder $4.5 Billion In Stolen Crypto Have Disappeared
A spokesperson for OpenSea did not respond to three emails from BuzzFeed News requesting comment on the accounts and Wednesday’s takedowns. Morgan and Lichtenstein did not respond to a request for comment via Twitter DM. When attempting to view NFTs minted by Morgan, a popup states: “The item you tried…
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