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If Web3 is so forward-thinking, why is it so male dominated?

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Tatiana Cirisano
Strike up a five-minute conversation with someone in the Web3 space, and any combination of the words “forward-thinking”, “revolutionary”, and “equitable” is bound to come up. Many proponents of NFTs, DAOs, the metaverse, and other Web3 concepts seek to use decentralisation to dismantle old systems and bring power to the people — and their intentions are, for the most part, good.
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Libra: A Reckoning for Crypto… or for Facebook?

Hanna Kahlert
Last week Facebook and its network of partners, including Spotify, MasterCard and Uber, announced the development of a new cryptocurrency, Libra , planned to go live next year. As the first tech major backed and (ideally) stable cryptocurrency, the implications are as numerous as they are extensive – should, of course, the latest in a long line of SomethingCoins manage to be meaningfully adopted at all.
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