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Selling Social Media Posts for $1.5 Million? Blockchain-Certified Tweet Sales Spark NFT Controversy
6.3.2021
The cryptocurrency community is in a tizzy this weekend after the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, tweeted about a new application that allows people to purchase tweets with ethereum. The application is called Valuables and it allows individuals to purchase a digital certificate of the tweet, which...
Troubled NZ Crypto Exchange Cryptopia Suffers Another Hack in the Midst of Liquidation Process
20.2.2021
Controversy still surrounds a liquidated New Zealand cryptocurrency exchange, which allegedly got hacked again. Adding to the $30 million stolen in 2019, Cryptopia reports that it was the target of a another theft incident on February 1, 2021. Hackers Accessed a Dormant Wallet Which Holds...
A Hat Generates Big Controversy In Latest Sky: Children Of Light Update
5.2.2021
The latest update to thatgamecompany’s Sky: Children of Light introduced a new hat that has stirred up controversy among the game’s Chinese and Korean fans, with both sides claiming cultural significance related to the cosmetic item and refusing to give an inch on social media.Read more
Silver Squeeze Goes Viral, Ounce of Ag Jumps Above $30, Wallstreetbets Fans Question Trend’s Legitimacy
2.2.2021
This past week, another social media trend started on the Reddit forum r/wallstreetbets, which aims to initiate a large silver short squeeze in order to push the price of the precious metal to $1,000 per ounce. However, the silver squeeze trend comes with controversy, as numerous wallstreetbets...
Bitcoin subreddit hits 2M subscribers following GameStop controversy
1.2.2021
More than 200,000 Redditors joined the page last week
NYT Study: Coinbase Underpaid Female and Black Employees at Much Larger Rates Than Those in the Technology Industry
1.1.2021
An analysis performed by the New York Times of internal pay data at cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase unveiled disparities in salaries, showing their women and Black employees were underpaid. Coinbase Underpaid Women and Black Employees, Claims NYT Study According to the report, women employees were...
Filecoin Offering: Community Alleges Token Dumping, Tron’s Justin Sun Wants the US SEC to Investigate
17.10.2020
The recent Filecoin (FIL) token offering is creating controversy as some crypto community members are alleging that an unknown account has received 1.5 million tokens when only 500,000 were due for unlocking. According to reports, 800,000 tokens out of the 1.5 million of such tokens have been...
Coinbase Controversy Gets Violent Twist As Twitter CEOs Chime In
1.10.2020
Source: A screenshot, Instagram, Coinbase
American crypto exchange Coinbase’s bid to separate work from politics has been met with a tidal wave of criticism, with Twitter’s CEO and former chief having their say on what has become a furious online controversy that just got some virtual taste...
Tether’s Stablecoin Dominance Drops Below 80% as Audit Controversy Lingers On
27.9.2020
The total volume of stablecoins in circulation is closing in on the $20 billion mark, while the market-leading coin, USDT’s share of the total circulating supply continues to shrink, data from Coinmetrics shows. According to the data, USDT now accounts for an estimated at 80% of total supply...
A new enterprise blockchain features private real-life identities, but not without controversy
8.9.2020
Combining privacy and auditability requires unconventional solutions
Grayscale Distances Itself from Fox News Shooting Controversy
28.8.2020
After its three-week-old ad aired during a controversial TV segment, Grayscale, a major crypto asset management firm owned by Digital Currency Group (DCG), has distanced itself from the FOX News program in question.
Grayscale made their decision known via a tweet after their ad was aired on...
Media controversy over RMIT blockchain unit's links to right-wing think-tank
28.8.2020
An Australian university blockchain hub has been linked to a right-wing think-tank, causing controversy among uni staff members
Grayscale pulls ads from Fox News after US shooting controversy
28.8.2020
The world’s largest digital asset management firm has pulled advertising from a Fox News prime-time show following controversial comments about a recent U.S. shooting
The Filecoin Controversy: A Detailed Analysis
15.7.2020
Working as a leading decentralized storage network, Filecoin is garnering attention from the crypto world for its one-of-a-kind mining pedagogies. The platform is getting a mixed response from the market with big capital groups giving a green signal to the project while others are addressing it...
New York Fed’s ‘Bitcoin Is Just Another Fiat’ Claim Sparks Controversy
19.6.2020
Economists at the New York Federal Reserve think Bitcoin is a fiat currency. Nic Carter thinks the New York Fed is "insane."
Brave Browser’s Affiliate Link Controversy, Explained
8.6.2020
Privacy browser Brave was called out this weekend when users noticed that typing "Binance" resulted in an auto-complete ending in a referral link
Former Bakkt CEO Hands Documents to DoJ Amid Insider Trading Controversy
16.5.2020
Former Bakkt CEO Kelly Loeffler sent documentation concerning her stock trades to the Justice Department amid insider trading accusations
After Steem Voting Controversy and Hardfork, Binance Lists HIVE
27.4.2020
After purportedly being misled into supporting Justin Sun’s attempted takeover of Steem, Binance has launched support for HIVE, the product of that hardfork
Steem Doubled in Price After Justin Sun Controversy
19.3.2020
Steem (STEEM), the social media-like blockchain platform launched in 2016, has seen a massive surge over the past two days, after it decided to evade a hostile takeover by Justin Sun and the Tron Foundation by moving the entire platform over to a new blockchain called Hive. The new blockchain...
AsicBoost Dominates Bitcoin Mining, Solving Bitmain’s 2017 Controversy
12.3.2020
The 2017 AsicBoost controversy has now become irrelevant as it gains adoption