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Best YouTube Alternatives: The Future Decentralized Video Platforms

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Video hosting or sharing platforms represent services that facilitate the upload, viewing, sharing, and streaming of video-based content on the Internet. At this point in time, Google’s YouTube represents the world’s largest video sharing platform, with over 1.9 billion monthly logged users, one billion hours-worth of video watched daily, and 500+ hours of content uploaded every minute of the day. Despite these impressive numbers, YouTube isn’t without flaws. In fact, the video-sharing platform has many disadvantages and has been involved in numerous controversies that spawn from its very nature – centralization. These issues include, but are not limited to strict video monetisation policies, unfair video promotion algorithms, lack of a personalized support service, vague terms & conditions, data collection controversies, and privacy concerns. Because of these pressing challenges, numerous YouTube viewers and content creators are actively considering the idea of migrating to a...

Gonear: Decentralized Fundraising & Initial NFT Offering Platform Launches on Near Protocol

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The surge in the popularity of NFTs in arts, entertainment, and sports is birthing several opportunities for platforms to create innovative solutions that will drive the growth of the ecosystem. INO or Initial NFT Offering is one of such innovations that has sprouted from the sector. It is a new cryptocurrency crowdfunding based on the concept of Initial Coin Offering that empowers participating investors to gain from the inherent supply rarity of the (NFTs). Gonear, a fundraising launchpad based on the INO concept, has been launched on the Near blockchain in a bid to bootstrap potential NFT projects through a decentralized fundraising and offer NFT minting. Gonear is the emerging fundraising and INO platform co-founded by Zac Minh and Silvia Koh about to disrupt the NFT sector, shifting the paradigm of funding and vetting NFT projects. It aims to incentivize and reward participating investors and communities with limited-edition NFTs. Gonear Aims to Change the NFT & IDO Fundrai...

WonderHero: An Anime-Styled Play to Earn Mobile RPG Launches on Polygon

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WonderHero is a blockchain NFT (non-fungible token) play to earn mobile game. The game is a turn-based RPG mobile game for iOS and Android where players collect Heroes, enter RPG combat and play to earn tokens in a fantasy world. You can play this game on just about any kind of mobile hardware! Built on Polygon, WonderHero offers players a smooth gaming experience with low gas fees and fast transactions. With a great platform like Polygon behind it, the system works well. Forget about slow times and expensive transaction fees. WonderHero Makes Earning Fun Set in a post-nuclear apocalyptic world, players lead a team of heroes to battle against monsters. Time to fight to survive – and earn while you play. You can earn valuable tokens, and play the whole time. After human civilization has been forced to live in space, the first group of students from Hero Academy returns to the uninhabitable planet Earth, where danger and adventure await. You will be able to play as one of numerous...

Survey Finds Game Devs Not Keen on Supporting NFTs & Metaverse

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NFTs have taken over the Internet, but game developers aren’t exactly on board. Yes, they hate NFTs. Previously, the Game Developers Conference conducted a survey of 2,700 game developers. The key objective of the research is to get insights into the interest level of participants in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrencies. The results were revealed on January 21, titled “ State of the Game Industry 2022 .” Surprisingly, while interest in NFTs is growing, the vast majority of game developers and their studios have no interest in developing or working with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) or cryptocurrency payments, according to the results. Game Devs Don’t Like NFTs The global gaming industry was shaken in 2021 as a result of the phenomenal success of Axie Infinity, the well-known Play-to-Earn game that paved the way for GameFi. Big brands are proud to predict that NFT will be the industry’s future. 2021 was a turning point, and at the start of 2022, a slew of popular game co...

Shiba Inu Hints at NFT Partnership, More to Come?

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SHIB is attempting to distance itself from the memecoin nickname by focusing on the development of a robust crypto ecosystem through new apps and initiatives. Following Shiba Inu developer Shytoshi BEANsama’s latest tweet, the crypto community has speculated that a major NFT partnership will be announced soon. According to media speculation, the big guy this time is Lamborghini. Shiba Inu Looks for Transcendence At press time, the developer has yet to reveal any additional information. In the meantime, there has been no official response from Lamborghini. Whether Shiba Inu and Lamborghini are working on something big or not is unknown. Shytoshi wrote last week that he had just passed a major idea to the Shiba Inu Core Team, which, if approved, could have a significant impact on the cryptocurrency space. He had yet to reveal the specifics of the “big idea” at the time of publication. In October 2021, the decentralized cryptocurrency announced that it had joined the NFT bandwagon ...

Is Twitter Paying Attention to NFT Scammers?

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NFT-integrated features could provide a number of benefits to social network users on Twitter, but are they as good as they sound? The Metaverse ambitions of Meta (formerly Facebook) have clearly had a significant impact on the business scenarios of other corporations and companies . The next thing we’ve seen is that Meta’s major competitors and tech behemoths aren’t afraid to take the first steps toward creating their own virtual spaces. Elon Musk Criticized Twitter Twitter, Meta’s second-largest competitor, announced today that it has integrated the NFT-feature into the platform. With this move, Twitter became the first major social network to allow users to set NFT assets as their profile picture. The new feature is still in its early stages, and only a few accounts have access to it. Subscribers to Twitter Blue, in particular, can test out the feature. Twitter Blue, which debuted last year, is the company’s paid service, which costs $2.99 per month. When users subscribe to ...

Morphware: Making Machine Learning Work for Blockchain

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Today, as machine learning techniques are widely applied to a range of applications, machine learning has become important to online services. Morphware is a decentralized machine learning system that rewards owners of accelerators by auctioning off their idle computing power and then facilitates the associated sub-routines, which can be on behalf of the data scientists to train and test the machine learning models in a decentralized capacity. Types of machine learning models include supervised semi- or unsupervised learning algorithms. The training of a supervised learning algorithm can be seen as a search for the optimal combination of weights to apply to a set of inputs or to predict a desirable output. The impetus of this work is the computational complexity. Hardware that is used to render video games can also accelerate the training of supervised learning algorithms. What Is Morphware? One of the key problems in machine learning models is the computational resources requi...