Crypto is a currency created by wasting huge amounts of resources.
It seems fitting a crypto company operates the same way.

Only the owner of a copyright can sue for copyright infringement. According to the license, the owner of the NFT is the owner of the copyright.

Apparently he took out a "Flash Loan" and borrowed the tokens. Once he executed his trades to grab the money he bought up enough tokens to repay the loan and all was fine.

It seems it is totally normal for 18-year-olds to take out multi-million dollar loans with no collateral to back them in the crypto world? I feel like this points to a whole lot of other potential problems in the crypto/DeFi world.

In the very simplistic model where, during the time you were not running, you would be dead?

Why not disable collision detection entirely? Worst they can do is try to walk through you.
Also, the original article mentioned the gang taking photos... of what? Some fully dressed avatar?

This whole metaverse crap basically looks like an early alpha for Second Life that accidentally got leaked.
Somebody added 3D goggle support but forgot to remove all the stuff that didn't pass the Second Life alpha testing phase because any idiot could plainly see it was a stupid idea in the first place.

You only need a something over 50% of the mining power -- as long as they can add new blocks with no Assange transactions at a faster pace than than the rest of the mining pool they can keep the longest chain Assange donation free. A 51% attack isn't just for double spending, and simply blocking particular transactions is the kind of thing you might be able to get tacit agreement for; and it does only have to be tacit if you are fine with a few transactions getting through every now and then (which also helps hide any collusion).

Hell, he is polling at less than half of Rick Lynn Perry, who is not the former Governor Rick Perry but a "senior desktop technician" currently contracted out by a staffing agency to work for Lockheed-Martin.

It swaps in some different powers that be. If Wikileaks published something that embarrassed people behind a bunch of the major miner consortiums and they decided to just not include any bitcoin transfers to Assange or Wikileaks in blocks they mined that could severely limit or completely stop such transfers, depending on how big a proportion of the mining pool they pissed off. And let's be clear, there are a very small number of mining consortiums that control a very large fraction of the total hashing power; this is a lot more possible than it may appear at first blush.

Hell, even the old school powers that be could put a severe crimp in things if they were sufficiently motivated. If such a power decided to lean on the mining consortiums they could likely get the result they want with either enough bribes or a big enough stick (and they would have both).

However, they DID easily recover from it.
They recovered from it by reinstalling an OS with a browser.
They could have just as easily recovered by reinstalling Windows.
The fact that they choose a different OS is irrelevant to the recovery itself.

I thought this as well, but apparently Google has silently acquired Neverware at the end of 2020, whose core product CloudReady makes it possible to run ChromeOS on old PC's.
So yeah; Google IS officially supporting ChromeOS on existing PC's now.
Nordic Choice's move to ChromeOS seems perfectly sane now.

If I read the article correctly, they're just running ChromeOS on the same old hardware.
Making the relatively save assumption that all their software runs on the web, the switch should be relatively easy.

So NFT's still allow everybody to own a copy of the image, right?
It's just that somebody can pay extra to "own" own it (whatever that means)?

Calling it "Web3" does not, in any way, alleviate my concerns that all this cryptocurrency is just a huge scam.

Next news release; "Researches find they themselves deserve to be on the pedestal".