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It Is 2023, Please Stop Blowing Into Nintendo Consoles
7.7.2023
Yeah, it’s cute, it’s folklore, people used to blow into the cartridge slots of their Nintendo games in the olden days if they were having hardware issues. The thing is, it was all bullshit. It didn’t fix them, if anything it made things worse. Yet so strong has the urban legend become that, in...
Lightning Labs Unveils Bitcoin Tools for AI
6.7.2023
“We are in the realm of enabling use cases that weren't previously possible,” Lightning Labs CEO Elizabeth Stark told CoinDesk
What is the ZK industry up to? Rollups, multichain bridges and VCs
6.7.2023
As an emerging technology, how can zero-knowledge proofs remedy many issues across the crypto space?
Former FTX US CEO’s New Venture Is Seeking to Harness AI for Crypto Trading
5.7.2023
Brett Harrison’s new firm, Architect, aims to be an one-stop platform for institutional-grade crypto trading
Axiom’s Zero-Knowledge Proofs Might One Day Help Detect Deepfakes
5.7.2023
The startup is working to build ZK technology that can be used en masse for AI applications
Starknet Plans ‘Quantum Leap’ Upgrade Next Week After Testnet Version Deployed
5.7.2023
The upgrade will increase the number of transactions per second the blockchain can handle as well as reduce the time-to-inclusion
Chainlink ‘Proof of Reserve’ Proves Little Beyond Data Going In, Coming Out
5.7.2023
Projects like TrueUSD and Paxos are turning to Chainlink to give users transparency into their reserves, but their numbers remain difficult to verify
Blockchain Project Interlay Wants its New Platform to Become a ‘One-Stop-Shop for Bitcoin DeFi’
5.7.2023
“We've only seen the tip of the iceberg with bitcoin DeFi today,” said Interlay CEO and Co-founder Alexei Zamyatin in an exclusive interview with CoinDesk
Grand Theft Auto V Is Back On Xbox Game Pass
5.7.2023
Grand Theft Auto V is one again crashing the party on Xbox Game Pass just in time for the summer vacation. It headlines the subscription service’s slate of new games for July 2023, alongside some smaller indie releases and Capcom’s new dino-shooter, Exoprimal. Read more
Ethereum-Based Yield Powerhouse Pendle Finance Expands to BNB Chain
5.7.2023
Value locked on the liquid staking derivatives platform has grown nearly tenfold this year
How blockchain technology and DeFi could help solve the housing crisis
5.7.2023
Home Construction Collective’s co-founders spoke with The Agenda podcast to explain why homes are so expensive and how decentralized finance might provide an answer
Anonymous Bitcoin ATMs: Disruptive ‘Shitcoins․club’ Sets the Fee to 0% and KYC to €99999999
5.7.2023
PRESS RELEASE. In a world stifled by bureaucracy and conformity, anonymous Bitcoin ATM operator Shitcoins.club stands as a beacon of rebellion and disruptive technology. Their CEO, a visionary with a penchant for challenging norms, declared, “We’re here to break the mould and disrupt...
New BRC69 Token Standard Promises 90% Savings for Bitcoin’s Ordinal Inscriptions
5.7.2023
While Ordinal inscriptions continue to rise, nearing the 15 million range, a new token standard was revealed on July 3 called BRC69. According to the creators of the concept, it can reduce the costs of inscriptions for Ordinal collections by over 90%. The launchpad Luminex, which announced...
Did Microsoft Just Announce A PlayStation 5 Slim And Pro?
4.7.2023
It’d be fairly weird if Sony didn’t announce a PlayStation 5 Slim in the coming months. The console will be three years old by then, and that’s generally the pattern. But it’d definitely very weird if instead Microsoft were the company to reveal it. Which might be what just happened.Read more
MrBeast’s Face Is Haunting Every YouTube Video With This One Weird Tool
3.7.2023
They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should:Someone’s gone and made a Google Chrome extension that turns every image on YouTube into the Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson thumbnail version. It’s called “YouTube MrBeastify” and it’s too cursed...
BlackRock Bitcoin ETF Application Refiled, Naming Coinbase as ‘Surveillance-Sharing’ Partner
3.7.2023
The refiled application by Nasdaq to list a BlackRock bitcoin ETF follows a report last week that the SEC deemed earlier proposals "inadequate" since they didn't specify the name of the underlying market in so-called surveillance-sharing agreements
40% of South Africans Familiar With the ‘Concept of Web3’ — Study
2.7.2023
Some 40% of South African survey participants are familiar with the concept of Web3 and a further 80% believe the technology backing cryptocurrencies can “transform or fully rebuild the financial system,” according to the findings of a Consensys survey. However, as much as 59% believe...
PolyNetwork Attacker Issues “Worthless” Billions in SHIB, BNB, BUSD in Latest Crypto Hack
2.7.2023
An estimated $4 billion worth of malicious token issuances on PolyNetwork will not bear much money for attackers due to low liquidity and security precautions
Bitcoin’s Sats Names Ecosystem Flourishes: 370,000 SNS Names Inscribed
1.7.2023
On June 26, 2023, the number of Bitcoin-based Ordinal inscriptions surpassed 14 million, just six days after exceeding 13 million. Inscription activity has continued to rise since then. In addition to text, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), and fungible BRC20 tokens, Ordinal inscription technology...
Craigslist Ad Begs Someone To Buy Video Game Store For $1 Million
30.6.2023
Hey, do want to own a retro video game store in California? And (this is important) are you not Elon Musk? Well, good news, someone is selling a game store, its entire stock, and even its 15-foot-tall Mario effigy on Craigslist right now, all for a cool $1,000,000. Why? Because the current owner...