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Bets as CollectablesBetting is more than just money, it’s an emotional experience that sparks conversations with mates in the pub or causes heated debates on social media. Betting slips could act as a snapshot to celebrate or commiserate these stories but currently, it’s not a reality. Betting slips tell stories of players losing out on thousands... See more

The global rise of NFTs has been massive, but in Africa, the ascent has been meteoric, especially in countries with burgeoning art ecosystems. Like much of the broader art world, NFTs penetrated Africa in early 2021, after Beeple’s $69.3 million sale at Christie’s in New York. In response, artists working in African cities, from established... See more

It’s hard to have a conversation with anyone in tech without the word “scale” entering the conversation; “Internet scale” is a particularly popular variation of the term. Scale is a concept that is at the root of most venture investing: because software has zero marginal cost – one copy costs just as much as 100, or one million – there are massive... See more

A changing world — new generations care more about what decentralisation can bringDecentralisation means today’s younger crowd and their next-generation may no longer have to worry about privacy and trust issues when they are online. Using blockchain and smart contracts behind everyday sites could be the norm and owning your data could be a right... See more

According to research from McKinsey & Company, more than half of survey participants prefer theiremployers to adopt a hybrid virtual-working model post-COVID-19. The Metaverse will enable new virtualoffice environments in which employees around the world will collaborate as if they were present in-person.

In Part Two, I will be exploring his continued work on public key cryptography and his research on the need for anonymous communications, payments and decentralised services. His ideas would go on to seed the movement of cypherpunks, the movement that would go on to create TOR, Bit Torrent, Wikileaks and of course: Bitcoin.What is decentralized?... See more

Adobe, meanwhile, has already been partnering with a multitude of companies, including media orgs, on the Content Authenticity Initiative; this is a way to ascertain what images are originals, and which have been altered — you can check the veracity of an image on a dedicated website. All of this is built using cryptography and open source tools.... See more