The Web3 Movement’s Quest to Build a ‘Can’t Be Evil’ Internet
Owocki was something of a rock star at the conference. He is credited with coining the term BUIDL in 2017. Admirers approached him nonstop to talk, express their support, or…
Inside the Takedown that Shredded the Myth of Crypto’s Anonymity
At the bottom of several pages of the site was a copyright date: March 13, 2015. Welcome to Video had already been online for more than two years. Even at…
How Bitcoin Tracers Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse Site
As responses from exchanges with those users’ identity information began to pour in, the team started the process of assembling more complete profiles of their targets. They began to collect…
How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook
Since January 6, 2021, meanwhile, the app’s position among the Trump movement has continued to consolidate. Channels owned by far-right figures are mushrooming: Trump lawyer turned election conspiracy theorist Lin…
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Is Ready to Blow Your Mind
WIRED: What’s your first memory of the original Matrix? Yahya Abdul-Mateen II: I might have been 14. I remember trying to lean back, trying to do that move where I’m…
‘2034,’ Part I: Peril in the South China Sea
The third update was most puzzling of all. The controls of the F-35, the one whose flight had brought Chowdhury into the Situation Room early that snowy Monday morning, had…