Features

• Categorized in Humans and technology

  Money is about to enter a new era of competition

  Digital technology is poised to change our relationship with money and, for some countries, the ability to manage their economies.
• Categorized in Climate change

  How Bitcoin mining devastated this New York town

  Between rising electricity rates and soaring climate costs, cryptomining is taking its toll on communities.
• Categorized in Blockchain

  It’s okay to opt out of the crypto revolution

  The crypto industry is investing heavily in getting more people to buy in. That doesn't mean you have to.
• Categorized in Blockchain

  Crypto millionaires are pouring money into Central America to build their own cities

  A new class of crypto investors have bold plans to rebuild society from scratch. But their pet projects risk repeating the region’s long history of corporate colonialism.
• Categorized in Humans and technology

  How mobile money supercharged Kenya’s sports betting addiction

  In Kenya, and elsewhere in Africa, the rapid spread of smartphones and mobile money has come with a stubbornly persistent vice: online gambling.
• Categorized in Humans and technology

  Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited its first half a million test users

  The startup promises a fairly-distributed, cryptocurrency-based universal basic income. So far all it's done is build a biometric database from the bodies of the poor.
• Categorized in Humans and technology

  House-flipping algorithms are coming to your neighborhood

  Despite millions of dollars in losses, iBuying’s failure doesn’t signal the end of tech-led disruption, just a fumbled beginning.