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HONG KONG, May 4 (Reuters) – Shanghai residents are turning to blockchain to preserve memories of the city’s month-long lockdown due to COVID-19, minting videos, photos and artwork depicting their plight as irreplaceable tokens to ensure they can be shared. and avoid deletion. Unable to leave their homes for weeks at a time, many of the city’s 25 million residents unleashed their frustration online, venting stringent lockdown restrictions and difficulties getting food, and sharing stories of suffering, such as patients unable to get medical treatment. This has intensified a cat-and-mouse game with Chinese censors, which has vowed to ramp up...
