What the History of Headphones Says About the Internet’s Future

20Mission is a large co-working and co-living space in the center of San Francisco. For those that are not familiar with the space, it can be summed up as follows: a place where engineers, graphic designers, coders and individuals from a host of all walks of life meet, live, work and play. It plays host to tech entrepreneurs galore, and is a melting pot where many ideas and top start-ups are born - Purse.io, the bitcoin gift card company being just one example in the digital currency space. It has hit the headlines today for another venture into the bitcoin world - namely Nakamoto's.....

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson used an October 13 livestream to sketch an expansive, two-track future for the web, arguing that accelerating AI automation will force a structural split between a bot-dominated “slop land” and an invitation-only “human internet” whose trust rails run on decentralized identity, NFTs and on-chain incentive systems. In that architecture, he said, […]

Some online businesses have already begun to embrace Bitcoin, in an attempt to get ahead of the curve. This could be a wise move. The internet’s number one e-currency is already making waves in financial markets, but as yet there is still a high percentage of businesses that are unaware of Bitcoin’s potential. The time is ripe for a sole internet currency, and with virtual reality around the corner it could be the perfect opportunity for Bitcoin to rise to the next level. Here are a few reasons why. The internet has opened up the world so that countries are no longer confined to....

In an age when data leads to economic domination, shifting control is a really impactful way to empower individuals.

If you’ve ever needed an incentive to get fit, a new app launched in Britain could give you the boost you need. The new fitness app for Apple devices, Sweatcoin, rewards steps people have taken with digital currency, which can be used to buy goods and services. The British-made app by co-founders Oleg Fomenko, Anton Derlyatka, Danil Perushev and Egor Khmelev, is the latest initiative in a growing fitness economy that features monitoring devices and apps, which reward peoples’ fitness activity with vouchers and discounts. Their aim is to fix an evolutionary bug called “Present Bias,” which....