Evening Medusa

What is NFT and how it works. Why the police did not come to Kemerovo after receiving seven calls about the murder of a girl. Several countries immediately suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine

Good evening,

This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the most important news of the day. We begin the letter with one of the honorary heroes of the Big Top column - the "bridge of stupidity" in St. Petersburg. It seems that the authorities have come up with a solution thanks to which the Gazelles will stop crashing into the bridge. On the evening of March 13, the passage will be closed for two months, the beams of the bridge will be restored and the street under it will be deepened. To celebrate this news this morning, two trucks crashed into the bridge at once .

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Pulse

The main thing for the day - as short as possible

Alexei Navalny was taken from the Kolchugino pre-trial detention center to a colony. Telegram, at the request of the RKN, blocked the largest bot for searching databases - but it was restarted an hour later. Experts have discovered six thousand surveillance cameras in Russia, to which anyone can connect. Municipal deputy Yulia Galyamina said that VKontakte gave the UK the phone numbers of people who viewed her page. Roszdravnadzor recognized as a violation the visit of a policeman to the hospital to a woman whom he hit at a rally on January 23. Died one of the founders of the company - the publisher of video games "Buka" Alexander Mikhailov.

Texts of the day

We tell how the NFT technology works, which everyone is talking about (and someone earns millions on it)

The technology of non-fungible tokens (as NFT stands for) appeared back in 2017. It runs on the blockchain and allows a person to secure ownership of any digital art object and then sell it. NFTs are used to trade music albums, paintings, and even tweets. According to the NonFungible project, the size of the NFT market in 2020 amounted to $250 million, which is 299% higher than in 2019. And at the beginning of this year, the demand and did become a rush. Meduza’s IT editor Maria Kolomychenko explains in detail how it all works, what tokens are (and how fungible ones differ from non-fungible ones), and why skeptics consider the NFT hype to be a “speculative bubble.”

On the night of the murder of Vera Pekhteleva, the Kemerovo police had no one to send to calls

23-year-old student Vera Pekhteleva was killed by her ex-boyfriend a year ago. On the night of her death, the neighbors called the police seven times, but no one came . Police officers called by neighbors were accused of negligence. The NGS.Kemerovo publication published the conversations of one of the accused , Major Mikhail Balashov. It follows from them that Balashov complained several times that he did not have enough employees to send calls, and asked for help with people - but in the duty department he was told that there was no one.

The coronavirus

Several countries immediately suspended the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine

Denmark, Norway and Iceland did so after reports of several cases of blood clots in vaccinated people. One of the cases ended in death. decided to suspend vaccination with the drug from AstraZeneca Later, Romania and Bulgaria .

Other news about coronavirus:

• The Slovak Minister of Health resigned due to disagreements in the government over Sputnik V. Slovakia approved the vaccine before EU approval. Two of the four parties in the ruling coalition did not like it.
• Life expectancy in Russia has fallen for the first time since 2003 due to excess mortality during the pandemic.
• Azerbaijan approved Sputnik V.

Podcast "What Happened"

10 years ago, one of the largest nuclear disasters in the world occurred - the accident at Fukushima-1. What did she change?

On March 11, 2011, it all started with an earthquake that triggered a tsunami. And a 15-meter wave that hit the shore flooded a nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture and damaged cooling systems. As a result, there was an explosion and the release of radioactive substances into the atmosphere. After the accident, some countries decided to replace nuclear power plants (including "dirty" coal plants) - but not Russia. In the new issue, we are trying to find out who is right, and we are asking nuclear physicist Dmitry Gorchakov.

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Deal of the day

JPG file of artist Beeple sold for $69 million. Of course, like NFT

The work is called "Everydays: The First 5000 Days", and the auction house Christieʼs sold it the day before. The work is a collage of all the images that the artist has published daily on the Internet for five thousand days since 2007. The auction ran for two weeks and started at $100. As a result, the work was sold for 69.3 million dollars. This is a record price for NFTs.

So this is how we sell this letter as NFT, your Meduza