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According to a proposed breakdown of costs, Trail of Bits would receive $800,000 for an engineer to review proposals for 32 weeks over the course of a year. Gauntlet, meanwhile, requested $327,000 for "15 quantitative researcher weeks," and Blockworks requested $780,000 "for a minimum 13 analyst weeks per quarter." Source
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Harvard legal scholar and Yeshiva University law professor Christine Kim recently published a research paper detailing arguments for not only taxing the metaverse but treating it as “a laboratory for experimenting with cutting-edge policy.”In the paper, dubbed simply “Taxing the Metaverse,” Kim argues that the metaverse allows participants to create
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Introduction. When we discuss the future of the digital economy and real life in the next generation of the Internet, we are inevitably talking about Web 3.0. The future is unknown, but we have seen some tech companies already exploring and deepening on their tracks, such as Alchemy Pay, mentioned
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On July 27, the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) announced it will be supporting an initiative with Harvard University’s Library Innovation Lab (LIL) called the “Democratizing Open Knowledge” program. With FFDW’s support, LIL plans to explore decentralized technologies that can preserve digital information. Democratizing Open Knowledge While there’s a lot
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Quick take: A Harvard lecturer, a former Microsoft Engineer, and a principal engineer at Google Cloud have signed a letter delivered to US lawmakers urging a crack down on crypto and blockchain. A total of twenty-six leading computer scientists and academics signed the letter. The document urges the US lawmakers to resist the
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On Thursday, BitDAO, one of the world's largest decentralized autonomous organizations with over $2.5 billion assets under management and its partner Mirana Ventures, announced the creation of EduDAO with eight of the world's top universities including the University of California Berkeley, MIT, Harvard and Oxford University.EduDAO is financed by the
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Some of the largest university endowment funds in the U.S. have been quietly buying cryptocurrency for the past year or so through accounts held at Coinbase and other exchanges, CryptoX has learned.According to two sources familiar with the situation, Harvard, Yale, Brown and the University of Michigan as well as
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Jared Kushner shared his unsolicited opinion about the NBA strike with the world. In his comment, Kushner snidely derided the NBA players for being ‘rich.’ That prompted Professor Chanda Prescod-Weinstein to give him a verbal beatdown — one he’d been begging for since 2016. Jared Kushner still hasn’t learned that it costs nothing
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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has revealed why the University of Wyoming presented a more attractive choice than Harvard, MIT or Cornell for Input Output’s (IOHK’s) lab.IOHK, the company charged with the development of Cardano, donated $500,000 in ADA to the blockchain lab at the university earlier this year. The State
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A recent academic study says Tezos is threatened by "selfish mining," providing a valid threat model for other live and up-and-coming proof-of-stake (PoS) cryptocurrencies.That’s the finding from Selfish Behavior in the Tezos Proof-of-Stake Protocol, published last November by then-Harvard researcher and current Google engineering intern Michael Neuder.The paper from Neuder
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