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The wait is over! - it’s time to celebrate the champion startups of the world. Shout out to all of the participants in our ! You did a wonderful job showcasing your incredible startups and powering through another year. 2023 Startups of the Year is a community-driven voting platform brought to you by HackerNoon that recognizes and celebrates tech startups changing technology and the world for the better. The award started on May 8th, 2023, where the internet nominated and voted for 30k startups around the world. The voting period remained open until December 31, 2023, and now we are here with the winner announcement after a comprehensive evaluation by the HackerNoon team. Startups of the Year 2023 To see the top 3 startups in each respective city, visit and pick a city. hackernoon.com/startups You’ll get a little surprise 😉 Here are the Startups of the Year Regional Announcements: North America Europe Asia Africa South America Oceania Misc/Remote From all of us at HackerNoon, thank YOU for your excellent campaign perseverance 🥺 This year has been awesome! Startups of the Year 2023 is concluded with 623k+ total votes, up from 215k+ votes in the inaugural startup competition. We look forward to seeing you again in the next campaign (stay tuned 😉)! Without further ado, let us kick off the announcement by celebrating the cities with top votes per region for 2023 🎉 North America (11,697 votes): Winner: Bloomfilter Cleveland, Ohio (8,835 votes) - Winner: SerpApi Austin, Texas , California (5,564 votes) - Winner: Finch San Francisco (4,258 votes) - Winner: RELAYTO SoMa, California - (3339 votes) Winner: Windscribe Toronto, Canada, North America (3304 votes) - Winner: Vouched Seattle (2716 votes) - Winner: Seccuri Palo Alto, CA, North America (2671 votes) - Winner: Salsa Valley Miami, FL, North America (2,613 votes) - Winner: Majhi Group Manhattan, New York (2423 votes) - Winner: Flieber, Inc. New York City, NY, North America See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, North America, here Europe (45,612 votes) - Winner: Algomo London, UK (2,344votes) - Winner: Data Lake Warsaw, Poland (1,955 votes) - Winner: Hoken Tech Bari, Italy (1716 votes) - Winner: Not8 Amsterdam, Netherlands (1657 votes) - Winner: KYVE Frankfurt Am Main, Germany (1566 votes) - Winner: BazaIT Kyiv, Ukraine (1496 votes) - Winner:  Unity Network Tallinn, Estonia (1,478 votes) - Winner: Volcaino Ghent, Belgium (1,288 votes) - Winner: Owl Me Dublin, Ireland (1198 votes) - Winner: Groover Paris, France See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Europe, here Oceania (3,350 votes) - Winner: Sharepass Melbourne (2,107 votes) - Winner: The Catfisher Project Perth, Australia (220 votes) - Winner: Gemini AI Solutions Auckland, New Zealand, Oceania (213 votes) - Winner: Nexustorage Wellington, New Zealand, Oceania (138 votes) - Winner: Coviu Sydney (124 votes) - Winner: Bopple Brisbane, Australia, Oceania (124 votes) - Winner: Regional CFO New South Wales, Australia, Oceania (106 votes) - Winner: Edit on the Spot Gold Coast, Australia, Oceania (93 votes) - Winner: Knowledge Satnav Canbera, Australia, Oceania , Australia, Oceania (48 votes) - Winner: Peptalk360 North Melbourne, Melbourne See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Oceania, here Asia (16,345 votes) - Winner: Serenity Shield Singapore (13,588 votes) - Winners: QUIXY Telangana, India (10,168 votes) - Winner: HealthySure Mumbai, India (3,865 votes) - Winner: InterviewBuddy Visakhapatnam, India (3,733 votes) - Winner: Omniflo Bengaluru, India (4589 votes) - Winner: MeNow Tel Aviv (3877 votes) - Winner: ForestVPN Dubai (2478 votes) - Winner: TechGraph Powai, Mumbai, India (1004 votes) - Winner: Reelo Ahmedabad, GJ, India (875 votes) - Winner: Debt Hunter Hong Kong, China See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Asia, here Africa (8,179 votes) - Winner: GO PLATFORM Algiers, Algeria (767 votes) - Winner: Tudu Accra, Ghana (415 votes) - Winner: Treford Lagos, Nigeria (265 votes) - Winner: Phalconwise Ogbomosho, Nigeria (157 votes) - Winner: AbuErdan Cairo (151 votes) - Winner: Eazipay Lekki (144 votes) - Winner: KaziConnect Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (101 votes) - Winner: faceATT Gauteng, South Africa (79 votes) - Winner: Dimagi Cape Town (71 votes) - Winner: Sabi Addis Ababa See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, Africa, here South America (376 votes ) - Winner: UpGirl Santiago, Chile (217 votes) - Winner: Klever Sao Paulo, Brazil (191 votes) - Winner: Tributo Simple Buenos Aires, Argentina (127 votes) - Winner: Light-it Montevideo, Uruguay (87 votes) -Winner: Thousand Antioquia, Colombia (108 votes) - Winner: GetLavado Lima (101 votes) - Winner: Cogniflow Medellin (73 votes) - Winner: TPAGA Bogota (73 votes) - Winner: Reliv Quito (47 votes) - WInner: Quantex Cordoba See the complete announcement for the . Startups of the Year, South America, here Misc/Remote: Featured Startups (1500 votes) - Winner: CIC Chain Remote, Earth (1193 votes) - Winner: Reship Colony US Misc (146 Votes) - Winner: Partful UK, Misc (116 votes) - Winner: GoMining British Virgin Islands Misc (283 Votes) - Winner: tomorrowSpace Germany Misc (225 votes) - Winner: Dtravel Cayman Islands See the complete announcement for Misc/Remote startups . here Once again, HUGE CONGRATULATIONS and BIG PROPS to all of the top Startups of each region this year! The whole team at HackerNoon would like to thank you for your perseverance in the campaign, and we look forward to seeing you in the next campaign. About HackerNoon’s Startups Of The Year Startups of The Year is HackerNoon’s Flagship community-driven event celebrating startups that survived and thrived in 2023. 30,000 startups across 4200+ cities and six continents participated this year to be crowned the best startup in their city. Visit our page to learn more. 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restores power equilibrium, taking it from tyrants and giving it to the meek who shall inherit the earth. It is a silent protest creeping in, dissolving the constructs of corrupt politics, money, and rulership over human sovereignty. The unalterable record that is the Bitcoin network will allow wealth to remain in the hands of those that accumulate it properly for centuries. Bitcoin In Bitcoin, the early adopters get rewarded first. As the price increases, the laggers & everyone else pay a delayed ignorance tax. Yet, it shows mercy with periodic dips in price to allow newcomers to redeem themselves. Bitcoin uses encrypted technology to build the decentralized world we want to live in. It is really about liberation. Suppose I could impart wisdom to my children and grandchildren regarding Bitcoin. There may be a time when acquiring Bitcoin will not be like the days of old. Secure it, and hold it over a long period like an enduring Atlas. Continue to educate yourself. Then part with it only to pass it down to the next generation or only after great strain. Whatever you sell it for must have a significant impact on your quality of life or preserve whatever good is left in the world. If not, don’t. Human beings have this innate tendency to be remembered for the things they have accumulated throughout life. In the ancient past, they built monoliths and pyramids in remembrance. In the future, it will be a digitized time chain keeping a record of peer-to-peer transactions and data that man will be remembered upon. Bitcoin will stick around even if the internet shuts down or the threat of nuclear war is imminent. Bitcoin allows your wealth to remain on the blockchain ledger and out of the hands of banks and the bandits that scavenge upon the allure of unsecured riches. Bitcoin is the ultimate sound money in all its linear regression. Many have claimed it to be alien technology or curated by the NSA, even something as far-fetched as being created by a cult. Bitcoin is no cyanide-laced Kool-Aid; it is a monetary network built on network effect game theory. It’s a network with no leader(s). It’s a network that’s entirely inclusive for all. It’s a network that instills trust and love in a community of because it’s a transparent truth machine that allows us to share the same vision. I believe it was created out of the plight of the human condition. It appeared because it was needed to level the playing field after Occupy Wall Street. Bitcoin is a collective checkmate on corruption by multiple software engineers under the mysterious name Satoshi Nakamoto. bitcoiners Unlike the old currencies, Bitcoin cannot be altered or seized by tyrants that become drunk on the power of money printing. Bitcoin enriches your savings over time. Humans went from giving their best years to family and children to corporations and careers and consider it progress. That is not what progress should look like. Suppose you have parents or grandparents that are not financially secure after toiling away at multiple jobs for decades. Bitcoin is for them, and it’s for you. There is a saying I have come up with regarding earning money in its current state. Fiat money is like holding sand between closed fists. Once you open them to spend some, it slips through your fingertips, forcing you to have to work harder to regain some more. The manipulation of the stock market, precious metal market, and real estate market will no longer be trusted but verified thanks to Bitcoin. If they even exist at all in the future, Bitcoin will redirect the mentality of profit, gain, and loss in the corrupted fiat system. When you hand someone a dollar, it can be counterfeit. When you trade gold, it can be fake without proper assaying. When you send Bitcoin to a wallet, it has to be authentic. If it’s not, it just won’t work, and the receiver will know immediately they didn’t get paid in legitimate currency. It’s a purely trustless system, thanks to Proof of work. Bitcoin is not a get-rich-quick scheme, and it is a not get-poor, slowly overtime scheme. There will be many so-called Bitcoin kryptonite solutions in the future. Some will be packaged in Proof of stake protocols or NFTs and even some new snazzy decentralized coin all the teeny boppers are raving about. They are mainly distractions designed to siphon your investment dollars away from Bitcoin. Every year there is a new project claiming to be the next Bitcoin but why are they trying to be second best? Bitcoin will not capitulate. If you can’t beat em join em. . Bitcoin is collectively mined, the rewards are divided among everyone who participates. No changes can be made unless there’s a consensus, the code is open source, the blockchain ledger is entirely transparent, and everyone has an equal vote. This is what separates Bitcoin from the pack, the Alpha. Once any intelligent, open-minded investor looks at what this thing called Bitcoin represents, they will have a hard time not being enamored with all its possibilities. Nations are adopting Bitcoin as legal tender Also published here.

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It’s Snoop Dogg’s metaverse. We’re just living in it. The Doggfather is among a growing number of celebrities claiming their own corner of the metaverse - a connected virtual world where people live through avatars. And Snoop came to play. In 2021, he began building the on . The Sandbox is an Ethereum-based decentralized gaming virtual world where users can create, sell, use, and monetize their own nonfungible tokens ( -- or unique digital assets that can be bought and sold online). On February 22, he took a big step forward with the Snoopverse by unleashing the Doggies, an NFT collection of 10,000 Snoop Dogg avatars. The Doggies are playable in The Sandbox (starting with the launch of Alpha Season 2). Each Doggy costs 150 (the cryptocurrency used throughout The Sandbox ecosystem as the basis for transactions and interactions). Snoopverse The Sandbox NFTs SAND Of course, you didn’t expect an ordinary avatar collection from Snoop Dogg, did you? No, the Doggies are lit. They run the range from alien to zombie, each hand-crafted from more than 150 traits. And the Doggies are just one element of the Snoopverse, which consists of a recreation of Snoop Dogg’s real-life mansion in Diamond Bar, California. In December 2021, Snoop started an initial land sale to allow players to purchase property in his neighborhood. One NFT collector . Premium users (i.e., people willing to fork over the money) get access to goodies such as concerts and private pool parties in the Snoopverse. paid $450,000 to be his neighbor Snoop Dogg is not the only celebrity embracing the metaverse. The likes of are adopting building blocks of the metaverse, notably by minting NFTs. Musicians including Ariana Grande have performed virtual concerts in virtual worlds such as Fortnite. But Snoop Dogg is all-in. Not only did he build the Snoopverse, he also bought Death Row Records and promptly announced that he will . Paris Hilton convert the company into the first NFT record label Why? First off, Snoop Dogg is more than a musician. He’s a brand. And this is true of all celebrities. Celebrities understand the power of their names and their appeal to everyday people. They monetize the value of their names with enterprises such as products, endorsement deals, and personal appearances. Monetizing their presence in the metaverse is a logical extension of what they’re doing already in the analog and digital worlds. In addition, musicians such as Snoop Dogg possess a special place in the hearts of their fans. Snoop Dogg helped define the West Coast rap sound in the 1990s. For , his music defined the sound of the 1990s, period. In the 2000s, he reinvented himself as an all-purpose entertainer, entrepreneur, and pop culture fixture while continuing to crank out music that, if less influential than his breakout work from the 1990s, remained popular. His recent appearance at the Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show underscored his enduring power and relevance to contemporary audiences. Gen X and Millennial generations in particular As a music mogul, Snoop Dogg taps into the emotional bond he has with fans to create economic value. Because he reinvented himself beyond music, he enjoys a broader following with fans who may not necessarily identify with his music but connect to his brand, which overlaps with fashion, cannabis (especially cannabis), investing, and even the world of Martha Stewart. He’s built that brand into a . multi-million dollar empire It's also clear now that the metaverse plays into a vertically integrated strategy for creating music. Two days after announcing the acquisition of Death Row, Snoop Dogg released his 20th studio album, BODR (Bacc on Death Row), his first under the Death Row label under his ownership. One of the Songs, “House I Built,” was a statement of purpose for Snoop Dogg’s future: Walkin' through The Sandbox with flip-flops on This reminds me of a hip-hop song (Right on) No Instagrams, no TikToks on You run up on the Dogg and get bip-bopped on (Bip-bopped on?) Back in the days, yeah, they took my songs But if I get back, then I could live like that (Facts) See, we don’t cry over spilled milk I'm Snoop Dogg, baby, and I'm smooth as silk We keep blowin' trees, all these emergencies A hundred-million-dollar deals with this cryptocurrency Spitter, hitter, did her, get her, man, I got a lotta moves Used to spend a lotta bread on a whole lotta jewels Fools learn fast, so I must be the fastest Took all my classes, learned it He has matched his words with actions . In addition to streaming BODR, he announced that he would be releasing BODR through a partnership with blockchain platform . Through a branded , he released tracks as NFTs. Buying an NFT gave listeners not only music but rewards such as future drops and concert attendance opportunities. , “Owners of all 17 songs will receive massive real-life and digital rewards, including an exclusive concert and pre-party with Snoop, limited edition Death Row bling, and more.” As of this writing, Stash Box sales . with the guidance of his son, Cordell Broadus Gala Games BODR Stash Box Per Gala Games had generated about $44 million in revenue Stash Box and Doggie avatars are not even his first foray into NFTs. He’s been avidly collecting NFTs under the alias , and he’s been making them, too. For instance, on April 20, 2021, he with the digital artist behind the Nyan Cat meme. In November, he that sold for about $750,000. Cozomo de’ Medici released a collaboration minted an NFT Now, imagine what he might accomplish by turning Death Row into an NFT music company? This is a label with nowhere to go but up. Death Row is long past its glory days when the company released Snoop Dogg’s first album, , in 1993. Since declaring bankruptcy in 2006, Death Row has been bought and sold among various owners, including, improbably, the Hasbro toy company. Doggystyle It’s clear that Snoop Dogg’s Stash Box is a template for how Death Row will operate. Death Row’s has an NFT tab, which takes visitors to Gala Games, and the . A number of tantalizing questions remain, such as: website now Gala Games site features Death Row and Snoop Dogg NFTs What will be the relationship between the Snoopverse on The Sandbox and Death Row on Gala Games? What kind of branding synergies might exist? Will the Snoopverse also be a distribution platform for Death Row NFTs even though Gala Games is already doing that? When we begin to see the real operability that the metaverse promises, will Snoop Dogg avatars from the Snoopverse be able to move easily into the Gala Games universe? That’s the promise of the metaverse, anyway. What will the reality look like when intellectual property rights get factored in? Snoop Dogg’s adoption of NFTs also matters for another reason: he’s casting a spotlight on the value of , not just the uber-wealthy. NFTs for all musicians A number of lesser-known, less wealthy musicians have been turning to NFTs to generate income. This is out of necessity. The coronavirus pandemic has denied musicians the ability to earn money from touring, and streaming platforms are not a viable source of income. NFTs give musicians the chance to gain fan loyalty by selling not only music but incentives such as the digital rewards that Snoop Dogg offers through the Stash Box. NFTs and cryptocurrencies are empowering indie artists everywhere, including , , , , and many others. For example, Daniel Allan built a fan following on the Discord server during the pandemic and used NFTs to crowdfund his EP in exchange for 50 percent of the artist share of Overstimulated’s master royalties. Investors in the $OVERSTIM digital currency share in the profits, with top investors getting special access to perks such as private listening parties and headline shows. He also sells songs on an NFT music platform known as Catalog. He Time magazine that building a fan base on Discord is crucial to his success because Discord attracts digital currency enthusiasts. He said, “I don’t think this creates rich artists. What this does is create a musical middle class.” Ibn Inglor Curren$y Mick Jenkins Thoughts Detecting Machines Overstimulated told No wonder, as Venture Beat , NFTs may very well redefine the future of the music industry. noted Snoop Dogg is demonstrating what a wealthy and powerful music mogul can accomplish during the formative years of the metaverse. He may also be pointing the way for the entire industry.

How Snoop Dogg Masters the Metaverse

An NFT or non-fungible token is a unique digital asset that stores image data, audio files, video, or the digital equivalent of a physical asset. Although non-fungible tokens are now widely used to create digital artworks, they have other uses. For example, in the gaming industry, they can confirm ownership of gaming assets. In the sports collectible card industry, they can purchase and confirm ownership of an exclusive object. How is NFT Different from other Cryptocurrencies? A non-interchangeable token is a token that cannot be split and replaced or reproduced from the same currency. Unlike other tokens, which are interchangeable, NFT is a unique digital asset that cannot be divided or replaced. The value of an NFT is determined by its producer or investor. An NFT confirms ownership of a digital asset or file but does not prevent it from being copied. It only secures the owner's rights to the original copy of the digital artifact. How are NFTs Produced? NFTs are produced according to the ERC-721 token standard created by Ethereum developers. The only thing you need to create an NFT is a digital cryptocurrency wallet like . You must specify the NFT parameters that cannot be changed after uploading the file that you want to transfer to NFT via IPFS. Sapien Wallet After defining such characteristics, such as how much NFT will be produced, the price, etc, the NFT will be produced by paying a fee for the blockchain network transaction. Once the transaction is completed, the NFTs are transferred to your wallet and written to the entire blockchain where they are produced. How do you get NFTs? There are marketplaces where NFTs are bid and bought. When the purchase is complete, the NFT will be transferred from the manufacturer's wallet to your wallet. If you want, you can resell the purchased NFTs through e-commerce platforms. Is NFT an investment vehicle? NFTs are different from other cryptocurrencies because of their "construction," and their value is determined by the person who produces them, or the investor, not by someone from the outside. If we're talking about investing in digital art, it's no different than investing in physical art. Similarly, the value of an asset you buy for a collection is determined by parameters such as rarity, age, and appearance. What problems do NFTs solve? If we look at today's uses of NFTs, we can say that they primarily solve the problem of intellectual property. It is now very easy to copy a work in a digital environment. How to be sure of the authenticity of an NFT? In the cryptocurrency ecosystem, people's reputation is very important. Artists who produce NFTs and want to put them up for sale go through a profile check of the NFT marketplace app to confirm the authenticity of the work. If you have information about the wallet address of the artist in question, and it is publicly available for payment, you will have the ability to authenticate the work. In addition, you can be assured of the authenticity of both the artist and their work by tracking NFT movements from the blockchain monitoring app. Where are the files stored in NFTs? NFTs contain data from many file formats: image, sound, short video, and document. Since these files are difficult and expensive to store in blockchain, they are stored in a distributed file storage protocol called IPFS. The uploaded files are encrypted, divided into small chunks, and distributed among the IPFS disks. Proof that the corresponding file has been uploaded to IPFS is stored in the blockchain using NFT. Are there any known NFT sales? The most famous NFT sale was made by American artist Bipple, who sold a collage of his work for $69.4 million at an auction organized by Christie's auction house. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's tweet was bought for $2.9 million, and Elon Musk auctioned off his GIF tweet and music as NFT. What are the future uses of NFT? As we gain experience with NFT, we see new creative business models being created. First, the digitization of physical assets, i.e., tokenization, can be adapted to a wide range of sectors. The digitization of physical assets is forcing us to rearrange many of the processes we are used to. In the future, we can imagine a scenario where states produce their bonds as NFTs and trade them around the world. Possible NFT business models are limited only by our imagination. Conclusion: where to store NFT tokens? It’s possible to store NFT tokens in a non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet. It allows you to send and receive cryptocurrency via chat with a few simple actions. Moreover, each user has their rating, which affects people's trust and therefore minimizes the risk of being scammed.

How the NFT Art Market Works

On 16th March, a piece of real-estate on the platform was purchased for $500,000! Somnium Space On 11th April, another plot of land on the platform was sold for $572,000! Decentraland Impressive, right? You might be wondering: Why would anyone buy non-existent land? In this article, I will explain where this trend originates and what drives investors to make such investments. What are Metaverses? Metaverses are the future of the online world. Metaverse is a shared virtual space based on the digital reproduction of our universe and is infused with a huge number of possibilities as well as the fulfillment of fantasies. The feeling of ‘presence’ in real-time is made possible in this space - social interaction (parties, conversations, walks with friends, virtual festivals, concerts, fashion exhibitions, sporting events, galleries, and more). All of the above contribute to developing a new economy – the NFT economy, which could grow into a real-world economy. To put it simply, a metaverse is known to everybody, i.e., Minecraft but on the blockchain. It’s the perfect ecosystem of the future. In regular games, it is up to developers to develop and bring in new elements. The user takes part in its development by creating games and events, building real-estate, adding their NFT objects, and paying in cryptocurrency. Some virtual worlds have their own cryptocurrencies; for instance, there is MANA on the Decentraland platform. Moreover, in a metaverse, unlike regular games, there is no script. The main purpose is to create social and economic interactions between users. Blockchain technology, which replaces physical and legal laws in the real world, ensures legitimacy and allows you to own your avatar, clothing, a virtual shop, or a piece of land in which such interactions occur. The key concept here is ‘ownership’, not just usage, as in ordinary multiplayer platforms. The economic dimension is now being actively integrated into such worlds. For example, a user can create an architectural object, then tokenize it and put it up for sale in various marketplaces. Later, this object will be bought by another user, after which it will be placed in their virtual space, and if so desired, NFT objects can be added to it. Do you remember Bepple's This NFT was purchased for 69 thousand U.S. dollars by Metakovan (Vignesh Sundaresan, a Singaporean investor). People might wonder why someone would buy an object of art that does not exist physically for such a sum? This is where metaverses come in. “Every day: the first 5,000 days”? Metakovan's ambitious plans include his intention to display his NFT in a virtual space. At the moment, the investor is working with engineers to design special gallery complexes so that everyone can visit the gallery simply by opening a web browser or using VR technologies. Just like Metakovan, you too can purchase a picture in the form of the NFT and hang it in your virtual house. Blockchain and NFT are the technologies that were lacking in Minecraft аs well as Roblox and Second Life. Technologies that are key to making metaverses are ironically realistic-looking. That is to say, they are a clear economic model that offers a sense of belonging for each user - a real property. The Metaverse Projects is the most developed metaverse and is based on smart contracts (LAND Contract, Estates Contract, Wearables, a Content Server) and assets. Its own cryptocurrency, called MANA, allows Decentraland to be an autonomous platform that subsidizes various operations and initiatives throughout the metaverse. Decentraland By the way, reported that during 2020, MANA Decentraland soared by 3500%+. A key feature of the platform is its focus on users' views since it is the community that votes for: policy updates, NFT-implemented contracts that will be globally active, land auctions, etc. On the grounds of this metaverse, users have already created many interesting objects, from castles to space bases. By the way, by the end of March 2021, the overall volume of Decentraland sales topped 50 million U.S. dollars. Coinbase is a virtual world on the Ethereum blockchain. Players can buy land on which they can build shops and art galleries. Editing tools, avatars, and text chat have already been installed. This metaverse is oriented toward art, where everyone can visit a number of different exhibitions. Cryptovoxels 'We create an open, social, virtual world; a world that has its own economy and its own currency.' This is the official motto of , a crowd-funding social world of virtual reality and virtual investments where people can buy land and dispose of it, building whatever they like: schools, cinemas, restaurants - the opportunities are unlimited. Somnium Space Why Buy Virtual Real-estate? So, we have come to the main question, which doesn't let many people sleep calmly at night. Really, why? Let's delve into this topic. As I have mentioned earlier, at the moment, Decentraland, Cryptovoxels, and Somnium Space are the leading platforms. Virtual real-estate prices in these metaverses continue to grow, and the value of some plots of land exceeds half a million U.S. dollars. Currently, each of these platforms has a few thousand landowners already. The rush to buy virtual real-estate can be compared to fighting for domain names when the Internet was just born. According to CEX.io data, the general capitalization of the NFT market in 2021 was $8 billion U.S. dollars, which exceeds the indices of 2019 by 56 times. At the beginning of 2021, the demand for NFT increased, and crypto-asset sales soared. More and more people are coming into the sphere, creating a competitive environment. For this reason, land plots in the central areas of virtual worlds will be in even greater demand and therefore need to be acquired as soon as possible. Virtual spaces are mainly real-estate that capture people's interest, shape the demand, and focus the attention of users. This attention can be monetized in different ways. Statistics show that virtual real-estate is booming now. Consider the metaverse Decentraland: in January, the virtual world had 111 buyers; in February, this figure increased to 184; and in March, there were already 334 buyers on the platform, with monthly land sales exceeding $4 million, having started at $246,000 two months earlier. Returning to the above-mentioned increasing demand and society’s focus on virtual land, I will give the example of an investor, Whale Shark, who collects NFTs. Starting in 2018, this investor bought the real-estate property in sandpits, with the total amount of purchases worth 400 ETH. Since then, the price of each land plot has risen from $60,000 to $400,000. Good investment, isn't it? By the way, some investors have no plans to return to real investments, keeping most of their savings in crypto assets (for example, the Australia-based investor Matin Saudagar, presenter of the NFT blog). The virtual world and NFT take society to the next level. Before long, humanity will be spending most of its time visiting galleries and events, participating in races, and building houses in virtual reality. Digital art, based on smart contracts, will contribute to these spaces' formation, development, and appearance. Land within metaverses will draw more attention from the general public, fuelling a passion for a new way of investing, i.e., buying virtual real estate. This trend is already gaining momentum!

NFTs, Metaverses and the Virtual Real-estate

The subject line “How To Bypass The Filter” frequents the search bars of AI chatbot users far and wide. In fact, countless YouTube videos, TikToks, and Wikihow pages are dedicated exclusively to offering detailed tutorials on how to “disable” filters, when realistically they only delay them, at best. Clearly, there’s a high demand for mainstream, uncensored AI chatbot interaction. That’s where Dopple.ai comes in. Dopple.ai is a free AI chatbot that lets you interact with virtual characters based on real and fictional people. Unlike AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Character.ai, Dopple.ai doesn’t rely on filters and biases to keep its users safe. Instead, it’s equipped with an ETM rating system (“E” for “Everyone,” “T” for “Teen,” and “M” for mature) and a full set of parental controls, operating similarly to comic books and video games. That way, Dopple.ai satisfies the individual interests of all its users. To the avail of millions, Character.ai is less open-minded than its leading competitor. Receiving backlash for its enforcement of NSFW (Not Safe For Work) guidelines and removal at moderators’ discretion, it responded with a subreddit that reads, “We do not encourage discussion of NSFW filters—our stance is final, and requesting them to be removed will result in a ban.” The issue with this stance is that it defeats the entire purpose of custom AI chatbots. Every virtual character has a unique set of personality traits, interests, and interaction styles. You can either customize your own chatbot or chat with AI versions of celebrities, TV/movie characters, and more. By filtering these chats, AI companies crush the very pillar of their undertaking: to have users believe that they’re chatting with real people. Another debate in the AI chatbot community concerns the issue of bias. In a study by U.K. researchers at the University of Anglia, results found that OpenAI’s ChatGPT contains a liberal bias, or “systematic political bias toward the Democrats in the U.S., Lula in Brazil, and the Labour Party in the U.K.,” as they wrote. Because ChatGPT relies on Internet data to generate content, it’s almost impossible to control what assumptions, stereotypes, and beliefs it collects from the Internet. This raises concerns about whether the presence of bias influences users’ views and even political or electoral processes. To mitigate the issue of political bias, Dopple.ai trains its AI chatbots to stay true to the values and beliefs of the characters they represent. As a result, users are exposed to a wide range of political views while also having the ability to choose which they prefer to engage with. Launching AI projects successfully without bias is tough, even for the biggest companies. Google’s rollout of Gemini in late February was halted after an uproar over the model’s image generation functionality. Of course, it’s almost impossible to design an AI tool that’s meant to resemble humans without facing the same issues as humans, such as censorship and bias. However, Dopple.ai is changing the game by allowing free speech laws to permeate the AI space, giving people what they want when they want it. The subject line “How To Bypass The Filter” frequents the search bars of AI chatbot users far and wide. In fact, countless YouTube videos, TikToks, and Wikihow pages are dedicated exclusively to offering detailed tutorials on how to “disable” filters, when realistically they only delay them, at best. Clearly, there’s a high demand for mainstream, uncensored AI chatbot interaction. That’s where Dopple.ai comes in. Dopple.ai is a free AI chatbot that lets you interact with virtual characters based on real and fictional people. Unlike AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Character.ai, Dopple.ai doesn’t rely on filters and biases to keep its users safe. Instead, it’s equipped with an ETM rating system (“E” for “Everyone,” “T” for “Teen,” and “M” for mature) and a full set of parental controls, operating similarly to comic books and video games. That way, Dopple.ai satisfies the individual interests of all its users. Dopple.ai Dopple.ai To the avail of millions, Character.ai is less open-minded than its leading competitor. Receiving backlash for its enforcement of NSFW (Not Safe For Work) guidelines and removal at moderators’ discretion, it responded with a subreddit that reads, “We do not encourage discussion of NSFW filters—our stance is final, and requesting them to be removed will result in a ban.” The issue with this stance is that it defeats the entire purpose of custom AI chatbots. Every virtual character has a unique set of personality traits, interests, and interaction styles. You can either customize your own chatbot or chat with AI versions of celebrities, TV/movie characters, and more. By filtering these chats, AI companies crush the very pillar of their undertaking: to have users believe that they’re chatting with real people. Another debate in the AI chatbot community concerns the issue of bias. In a study by U.K. researchers at the University of Anglia , results found that OpenAI’s ChatGPT contains a liberal bias, or “systematic political bias toward the Democrats in the U.S., Lula in Brazil, and the Labour Party in the U.K.,” as they wrote. Because ChatGPT relies on Internet data to generate content, it’s almost impossible to control what assumptions, stereotypes, and beliefs it collects from the Internet. This raises concerns about whether the presence of bias influences users’ views and even political or electoral processes. University of Anglia University of Anglia To mitigate the issue of political bias, Dopple.ai trains its AI chatbots to stay true to the values and beliefs of the characters they represent. As a result, users are exposed to a wide range of political views while also having the ability to choose which they prefer to engage with. Launching AI projects successfully without bias is tough, even for the biggest companies. Google’s rollout of Gemini in late February was halted after an uproar over the model’s image generation functionality. Of course, it’s almost impossible to design an AI tool that’s meant to resemble humans without facing the same issues as humans, such as censorship and bias. However, Dopple.ai is changing the game by allowing free speech laws to permeate the AI space, giving people what they want when they want it.

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Dopple.ai ফিল্টারহীন, নিরপেক্ষ এআই চ্যাটবটগুলির সাথে মূলধারার প্রতিযোগীদের ছাড়িয়ে গেছে

Dopple.ai überholt Mainstream-Konkurrenten mit ungefilterten, unvoreingenommenen KI-Chatbots

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Dopple.ai ने बिना फ़िल्टर किए, निष्पक्ष AI चैटबॉट के साथ मुख्यधारा के प्रतिस्पर्धियों को पीछे छोड़ दिया

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Dopple.ai는 필터링되지 않고 편견 없는 AI 챗봇으로 주류 경쟁사를 추월했습니다.

Dopple.ai supera os principais concorrentes com chatbots de IA imparciais e não filtrados

Dopple.ai обгоняет основных конкурентов благодаря нефильтрованным и объективным чат-ботам с искусственным интеллектом

Dopple.ai, Filtrelenmemiş, Tarafsız Yapay Zeka Sohbet Robotlarıyla Ana Rakiplerini Geride Bırakıyor

Dopple.ai vượt qua các đối thủ cạnh tranh chính thống bằng các chatbot AI không thiên vị, không được lọc

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In a turn of events that seems straight out of a palace intrigue novel, a source on has released unconfirmed audio of (allegedly) ex-Pharma exec Martin Shkreli making unverified claims that he was the one behind SBF and FTX’s stunning downfall. Twitter For all those curious, here's a link to the tweet with audio. I have archived it as well in case it evaporates: https://twitter.com/JohnBelitsky/status/1590703321438121985?embedable=true Transcript below: “FTX is done and we did what we had to do to them and it's over.  Uhm, Bankman got what he deserved and he shouldn't have talked to us like that, and now you know, you reap what you sow so I don't have any problems with doing, you know, whatever, like, you know, it's his fault, you know at the end of the day, but if we, you know, helped tip him off of the, I guess the precipice off the cliff, then you know he shouldn't have been on the cliff in the first place, so I don't feel guilty, uhm, you know, it is what it is, you know, that's life.  Uh, anyway, I gotta do this podcast or whatever, so, see you later. Alright bro, see you on Friday, alright.” The audio is allegedly from the end of a Twitter space that occurred on November 9th, 2022, according to the source who posted it. I came across this potential Shakespearean intrigue when Shkreli : tweeted I stumbled upon Martin Shkreli's tweet on the evening of November 9th, 2022. At that point, the information contained therein had not yet been confirmed, or as I’m aware, reported by any other sources. Given my interest, I reached out to Shkreli directly via InMail on LinkedIn, asking for an interview to discuss his data in greater detail. Since his tweet made it appear as though this was public information, I assumed that he would be open to discussing it further. Imagine my surprise when, less than 24 hours later, he responded with a simple message: "hey, looks like I was right lol." His reply struck me as interesting, so I doubled back to do more research. That's when I realized that something more appeared to have happened. Searching Twitter, I found a tweet (link at top of article) of the 45-second-long recording of, according to the source, Shkreli's Twitter Space. It was accompanied by the following words from the source: "I think it's crazy that of the ~350 ppl left on this zoom, nobody else even mentioned the part when Shkreli takes a call, claims to have conspired w the caller to push SBF off a cliff, and then his account is immediately suspended. Idk I find this more than mildly intriguing.” I contacted the source and also read through their tweets from the day. I pieced the following together. It appears that on the evening of November 9th, Shkreli conducted a twitter space. The source says that moments after the Space ended, Shkreli’s account was suspended. The Tweeter seemed to believe this was a "hot-mic" moment. It's unclear from the recording if it was. Many questions remain. Was it Shkreli on the recording? If it was, did he actually play a role in the FTX downfall, or was this something else entirely? Viewing the recording, it does appear to be Shkreli. However, without further evidence, we cannot say for certain that he is responsible for the FTX downfall. Shkreli’s account was indeed suspended that night, confirming that part of the source’s account. I myself witnessed this in real time. He appears to have had access to information about FTX's balance sheet, raising questions about his role in the drama. In a follow-up InMail to the former Pharma exec, I asked him if he was the source of Binance's data on FTX's insolvency. As of writing, he has yet to return a comment. His alleged remarks raise more questions than answers, but one thing is clear: it appears he had access to data that only a few people had on Wednesday afternoon. Shkreli was . He appears to have entered the Blockchain space. released from prison earlier this year Shkreli is purportedly working on . a Decentralized drug computing project He was . It's unclear how, and for how long, he had managed to have his ban lifted before being banned again on Wednesday. permanently suspended from Twitter in 2017 If his admission in the Twitter space is true, he may have been, as per CZ's tweet, the "straw that broke the camel's back". If that is true, the question remains: how? I think we may find out. This is a developing story. Featured Image created with AI. Til next time crypto explorers, stay vigilant!

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