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Polygon primed for hard fork aimed at reducing gas fee spikes: New details revealed

15.1.2023
Polygon told Cointelegraph that the hard fork will take effect at block 38,189,056, which will be initiated without the influence of centralized actors

Mt Gox Saga Nears End of the Road — Creditors Required to Register With Exchanges, Bitstamp Selected by Trustee

8.10.2022
Mt Gox creditors have been issued new information concerning their claims and it seems they now have until January 10, 2023 (Japan time) to register for a repayment method. The latest notice says that any creditors that wish to receive payment, must finish the “selection...

Japanese Government Rewards Local Authorities With Non-Transferable NFTs

9.9.2022
According to reports, the Japanese government is one of the first countries to use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as a supplementary award to local authorities that excelled in a digitization competition. The awards were given to local authorities as recognition for their efforts in using digital...

Bitcoin is a 'wild card' set to outperform, says Bloomberg analyst

8.9.2022
The commodity strategist has pegged Bitcoin to rebound strongly from the bear market despite headwinds for high-risk assets

Mt Gox Creditors Updated, Trustee Says Rehabilitation Custodian Is ‘Currently Preparing to Make Repayments’

2.9.2022
On August 31, 2022, the Mt Gox trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi explained in a recent letter that the rehabilitation custodian is “currently preparing to make repayments” to Mt Gox creditors. Trustee Updates Mt Gox Creditors — Repayment Date and Exchange Still Unknown Last week...

COLRv1 and CSS font-palette: Web Typography Gets Colorful

11.5.2022
According to Toshi Omagari, the author of Arcade Game Typography, the world’s first multi-colored digital font was created in 1982 for a never-released video game called Insector. Multi-colored fonts, sometimes called chromatic type, are still relatively rare on the … COLRv1 and...

Coinbase’s Trading Volume Grew 8.5 Times in 2021 — With 89 Million Verified Users

26.2.2022
The Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase says the number of monthly transacting users on its platform rose to 11.4 million at the end of 2021, which was more than four times the previous year. In addition, Coinbase’s trading volume grew more than 8.5 times from the previous year...

Kenya Based Fintech Kwara Raises $4 Million in Seed Round

13.12.2021
A Kenya based fintech, Kwara has raised $4 million in a seed round that was led by Breega VC firm. The funds will be used to create an app that allows members of credit unions to access financial services. The Rising Demand for Financial Services by Credit Union Members Kwara, a Kenyan fintech that...

Something Awful Founder Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka Dies At 45

11.11.2021
Longtime Something Awful forum administrator Fragmaster posted that site founder Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka has reportedly died. “I guess I should preface this by saying this isn’t a joke especially since I’m posting for like the first time in 10 years or something, but I got the bad news today...

Crypto Companies Establish Presence, Hire Talent in Ireland

25.7.2021
With a friendly attitude towards financial innovation, the Republic of Ireland has become a desired destination for fintech businesses that need unimpeded access to the common European market. Cryptocurrency companies have been opening offices in the EU member state with some well-known players...

The ‘All Your Base Are Belong To Us’ Video Is Now 20 Years Old

17.2.2021
The early aughts were a weird time. George H. W. Bush’s loser son somehow became president, god-awful bands like Crazy Town and Staind had songs on the Billboard Hot 100, and we made do with, like, one meme a year. In 2001 that meme was “All Your Base,” a Newgrounds video that ironically celebrated...

The Rise of Layer 2s Spells End for Altcoins

3.1.2021
Bitcoin is no longer limited to a single chain, meaning altcoins like ether are trending towards irrelevancy, says the neuroscientist and DeFi entrepreneur

The Fight for Consumer Adoption Is Just Beginning

29.12.2020
In the next phase, blockchain networks have to find use cases beyond censorship resistance and permissionless access, says TRON's founder

Cere Network Raises $1.5M More to Bring Its ‘Decentralized Salesforce’ to Polkadot

23.12.2020
Binance-backed Cere Network has raised another $1.5 million to become a decentralized version of Salesforce

Ethereum-Enhancers Not Ethereum-Killers

14.10.2020
The new competitive arena in the so-called scaling wars is between Ethereum-enhancers, not Ethereum-killers

Cambridge University’s Third Crypto Study Records 101 Million Cryptocurrency Users Worldwide

25.9.2020
The University of Cambridge and the school’s Centre for Alternative Finance has published the third “Global Cryptocurrency Benchmarking Study.” The 71-page in-depth study examines the current growth of the crypto industry, mining, offchain activity, crypto asset user profiling...