Welcome to the Tech Main Right Home for Thursday, March 3rd, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today, the story of the young Ukrainian minister who has bet the conscience of Western tech companies while also

coordinating the reach out to crypto is regulation coming for

NFTs. Epic Games, acquires Bandcamp, Amazon pulls back from its

IRL retail experiments and a big update on the return to the

Office Watch.

Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech.

According to an elliptic report, Ukraine has thus far received over $50 million in

crypto donations across more than 89,000 assets since February 26th.

Blockchain data shows around $10 million in BTC and $16 million in Eath donations have rolled

in.

However, Ukraine's Michaelo Federov abruptly canceled a planned crypto air drop saying that Ukraine

will sell NFTs to raise funds instead, quotingamers had earlier appeared to target Ukraine's fundraising attempts by issuing a fake

token designed to look official.

News sites reported that this token was official and it gathered significant

trading volume on decentralized exchanges. Yet there were multiple red flags that

showed it was likely fake including the way the token was made to look like it was

issued from Ukraine's public Ethereum address when it was instead

issued by a third party.

While the Airdrop is no longer happening, it was a successful marketing tool in gaining further

donations after the Airdrop was announced donations to Ukraine

ramped up in anticipation of a future token with millions of dollars flowing into its coffers.

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