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The question is one. Will these developers be interested in regulation and will it also not be as an act of contradiction to their words?

Oddly enough, my message was also deleted.

Moscow Promised Sensitive Response to Sanctions

Russia has already proved that, despite all restrictions, it is able to minimize the damage from them, diplomats noted. The restrictive instruments are "ineffective and counterproductive from the point of view of American interests.

Russia will give a strong response to the U.S. sanctions, according to the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The response will not necessarily be symmetrical, but "calibrated and sensitive for the American side," the ministry explained.

"The package of sanctions announced by the U.S. administration (already the 101st in a row) affecting the financial sector with the expansion of the list of persons against whom personal restrictions are imposed goes in line with Washington's ongoing attempts to change Russia's course," the statement said.

At the same time, Moscow has already proven that, despite all restrictions, it is able to minimize the damage. "And especially the sanctions pressure is not capable of affecting our determination to firmly defend our interests," the Foreign Ministry stressed.

The restrictive instruments are "ineffective and counterproductive from the standpoint of American interests," the diplomats are convinced.

The U.S. imposed sanctions against Russia for recognizing the DNR and LNR. What is important to know
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On February 21, Putin announced the decision to recognize the independence and sovereignty of the DNR and LNR, explaining such measures by Kiev's unwillingness to comply with the Minsk agreements. Ukraine, the European Union, and the United States condemned Moscow's actions and threatened sanctions.

On the eve of the day, US President Joe Biden announced restrictions against Russia. They affect Russia's sovereign debt, Promsvyazbank and VEB and more than 40 of their subsidiaries, as well as some Russians. Among them are Denis Bortnikov, son of the FSB director and VTB deputy president and chairman of the board, Petr Fradkov, son of the former SVR director and Promsvyazbank chairman, and Vladimir Kirienko, son of the first deputy head of the presidential administration and VK general director.

The European Union also prepared its own list of sanctions. The restrictive measures concern 351 State Duma deputies who voted for the recognition of the DNR and LNR, 27 individuals and legal entities, Russia's access to the financial and capital markets of the EU.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced sanctions against five Russian banks and three businessmen: Gennady Timchenko, Boris and Igor Rotenberg.

Original article in Russian: https://www.rbc.ru/politics/23/02/2022/ … 186bf19271

No way. Everyone should have known where they were going.)

I would also like to know how to make them work to make this airdrop work.

I'll answer here. The user even above decided to make his project to create 3D assets to promote them for sale and at the expense of them he decided so it seems to make you an income.

Why support the exchange if it is you who will be the victim.

The way I see it, you pay more for your anonymity now than you would without anonymity.

You just have this whole year until they implement it, which is very nice.

How unfunny that would be. Or perhaps it would have been.

Is it time to invest in meta-universes and what to pay attention to here.

The meta-Universe is rapidly becoming a hot investment topic. Whether it's worth investing in this nascent phenomenon and what companies to watch out for, we tell you in this article
About the expert: Anton Alikov, general partner of Arctic Ventures.

Almost all big technological companies one after another declare that they are beginning to develop their meta-villages, software or hardware for them. Investors are analyzing what is worth investing in now, and which areas still have to wait. And even the latest major mergers and acquisitions have not avoided this topic: the beginning of 2022 was marked by the purchase of Microsoft company Activision Blizzard - one of the largest and oldest developers of computer games.

A key moment in the history of the meta-universe as a full-fledged investment and business idea can be considered Mark Zuckerberg's loud renaming of his company Facebook into Meta Platforms, which took place in October 2021. It was then that the general public was introduced to the term "metaworld. Now Meta's online virtual reality game Horizon Worlds is already available to users in the U.S. and Canada.

Industry 4.0.
What is a meta-universe and why is everyone talking about it?
Why do we need a meta-universe?
The fascination with the meta-universe can be explained by a number of reasons:

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a tremendous public demand for cyber interaction among large masses of people.
Because of the incessant negative returns on many traditional tools, record amounts of free capital have been pouring into venture capital markets in recent years to finance the most fantastic projects.
Traditional social networks have begun to face serious criticism and are being forced to change.
Gamification technologies have evolved to such heights that they have begun to provide other functions, such as hosting concerts in an online format.
The meta universe, blockchain, and economic models of the future
To understand the investment opportunities offered by the meta-universe, we must first define it. This is not easy yet, because this phenomenon is just emerging and actively changing, and it does not have a clear official definition yet.

The Grayscale Investments formulation may be a good option for a definition, as it covers all the important aspects.

A free translation sounds like this: "a metavirtual universe is a set of interconnected 3D virtual worlds where people who are physically anywhere can communicate in real time and form an Internet economy spanning the digital and physical worlds. The New York Times defines the term as a fusion of two ideas - virtual reality and a digital second life. The term "meta-universe" itself was coined by science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel Avalanche. In it, he described a cyberspace world in which people interact with each other using digital avatars.

The Internet as a digital world that connects people has evolved through three paradigms:

Web 1.0 gave us the ability to passively browse texts and images through Internet browsers;
Web 2.0 added interactivity to reading (e.g., creating and sharing your own content, social networking);
Web 3.0 will add elements of a decentralized blockchain economy to all this.
Three-dimensional visualization will help fully reveal the economic potential of Web 3.0, because 3D-objects are much more familiar to us, and it will be easier to pay for such an object. Thus, we can say that meta universes are a visual representation of Web 3.0.

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But the most important part of the meta-universe will not be three-dimensional visualization, but an element of a decentralized economy powered by blockchain technology. These are the technologies that Goldman Sachs analysts believe will be the foundation of Web 3.0. They enable users to securely fix property rights in the virtual and then physical worlds, as well as automatically make transactions through smart contracts. Blockchain technologies, in addition, are the basis for cryptocurrencies and crypto-assets, so all these digital entities will also be important components of meta-universes.

Apart from the economic aspect, experts also highlight such properties of a meta-universe as infinite existence (once launched, it never resets or suspends) and limitlessness of the audience (there are no limits on the number of users, any person can always connect and function in the meta-universe). At first there will be many cyber universes, they are already being created by major technology players, but over time they will be combined into a single digital 3D-continuum.

Gamification as a model for the development of meta-universes
The avant-garde application of elements of the meta-universe has been and remains the gaming industry. Virtual reality helmets began to be used for gameplay back in the early 1990s. And even then the games were implemented multiplayer mode, such as in Doom II.

Gaming, like the Internet, went through a three-stage evolution from the "pay-to-play" concept (monetization of games through their sale) to the "free-to-play" concept (games themselves are almost free, but are monetized through the creation of an in-game digital asset economy) and then to the current "play-to-earn" concept. This is an entirely new paradigm, in which players dynamically participate in the digital economy, can transfer artifacts and avatars between games, collect virtual collectibles, create their own games, control their experience, and more. Being active in games allows you to earn, and a lot of it. And it's very much like a meta-universe.

Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the development of meta-universes is likely to rely on current gaming technologies. These technologies will be adapted and systematically scaled to all human activities that can be digitized. Social networking and video conferencing are likely to be the first to go into the metaworlds.

Investing in the meta-universes
Simon Powell, head of case studies at Jefferies Investment Bank, believes that investors should now view the meta-universe as an early Internet of the late 1980s. It will require specific hardware and software bundled together to function.

Hardware vendors
First and foremost, investors should focus on hardware suppliers for the meta-universe and infrastructure operators. It can be assumed that the hardware will be largely based on powerful GPUs and will require very reliable and fast data transmission, because the volume of generated and transmitted traffic will be gigantic.

For example, Intel Senior Vice President Raja Koduri believes that sustainable and immersive computing, scalable and accessible to billions of people in real time, will require a 1,000-fold increase in computing efficiency over the current state of the art.

Also, participants in meta-universes will need headsets for their eyes and gloves with haptic feedback, which will soon be available. Next, a full tactile suit will be required.

Software for meta-universes.
Investors should also focus on the developers of the underlying software. Together, these components will create a full functioning platform. And finally, it will then be possible to fund a multitude of developers who will work within this platform and solve various specific problems.

For now, the development of such platforms is in its initial phases. A thousandfold increase in the computing power of computer systems is a matter of 5-10 years. For example, Baidu stated that it would take six years to create its own full-fledged meta-universe. We will probably have to wait for the full deployment of sixth-generation mobile communications as well.

Public companies
Already now, exposure to the meta-universe can be formed from publicly traded securities.

In addition to Meta (formerly Facebook), analysts recommend looking at Microsoft, Unity Software, Roblox, Amazon.com, Autodesk, Matterport, NVIDIA, AMD, Alibaba and Baidu. The Horizons Global Metaverse Index ETF (MTAV) is already trading in Canada. U.S. investment firm ProShares also recently applied for registration of an exchange-traded fund also focused on the meta universe - the fund will be called ProShares Metaverse Theme ETF. Both funds will track the Solactive Global Metaverse Index (SOMETAV), which includes many of the public names mentioned above.

Startups
Of course, the best investment opportunities are still hidden in the bowels of small private companies (like Render Network or Graphcore) and are not available to the retail investor.

The Risks of Investing in Metaworlds
Investing in metaworlds also carries risks, many of them hard to configure. Huge amounts of calculations required for functioning of such platforms, will require a corresponding amount of energy, preferably "green". Otherwise there will be a wave of criticism for the lack of carbon neutrality of meta-villages. If this issue remains unresolved, large investors could lose interest, for example because of reputational or political risks.

It is also unclear whether society will be able to build a truly decentralized cyberspace in the manner of Decentraland, or whether it will be dominated by a number of large players, as is now the case, for example, with social networks, where large companies openly pursue their agenda, de facto censor content and regulate user access to the network. Suffice it to recall what the operators of major social networks did to Donald Trump. It is for their failure to become neutral and inclusive that social networks are increasingly criticized.

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Privacy and cybersecurity issues will become particularly important in meta-world projects, because a significant part of people's lives will go there - the economy, culture, education, social life, and maybe even sports will migrate there. The risks of hackers gaining control over such a continuum may be unacceptable.

The painful issue of government regulation is still over the horizon, but it will definitely appear on investors' radar if metacommunities become as popular as cryptocurrencies or social networks. Governments will not be able to ignore such important objects, because their impact on public life will be enormous, and this is already a matter of national security. Some even believe that the next world war could take place in cyberspace.

In conclusion, we can try to look even further into the future. If the Web 3.0 paradigm becomes widespread and meta-universes do become an integral part of human life, then the next stage of the Internet development (Web 4.0) may become a full-fledged matrix, like in a famous movie franchise. Futurologists believe that this could happen in 40-50 years, when it will be possible to create cyber-biological systems, that is, the Internet will receive elements of biology. But given the exponential nature of technological development, this can happen even earlier.

Original article:https://trends.rbc.ru/trends/industry/6 … 567672dfc9