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BNB Was the Top Ten’s Best Market Performer in Q2, Bitcoin Takes Second Place — Solana Performed the Worst
23.7.2022
With the first half of the year gone, statistics from the second quarter of 2022 indicate that the crypto economy has tumbled significantly in value, and crypto tokens in the top ten market positions have lost 30% to 60% in USD value during the past three months. Q2 data further shows that binance...
DOJ Seizes $500K in Ransom Payments, Cryptocurrency From State-Sponsored North Korean Hackers
21.7.2022
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has seized $500K in ransom payments and cryptocurrency from a state-sponsored North Korean group. “We are returning the stolen funds to the victims,” Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco said, adding that the seized funds include ransoms paid...
Over Half of This Year’s Financial Pyramids in Russia Involved Crypto, Bank of Russia Finds
17.7.2022
A majority of the financial pyramids identified in 2022 used cryptocurrencies in one way or another, Russia’s central bank announced in a new report. Amid Western sanctions, Russian scams have stepped up their activities, often claiming to be licensed by foreign authorities to offer access...
Crypto VC Investments Drop 26% in First Half of 2022
15.7.2022
Investments totaled $9.3 billion versus the $12.5 billion in last year’s period, but the number of deals increased
Valve lákalo na hry, co nikdy nevzniknou. Half-Life 3 mezi nimi nebyl
11.7.2022
Jako zpestření letních výprodejů v digitálním obchodu s hrami Steam, vzniklo i několik vtipných konceptů her, s jejichž uvedením se ovšem nepočítá. Hráči se ptají, jestli zrovna od společnosti, která je proslulá nedodržováním vlastních slibů, je tento druh humoru adekvátní
Valve's Fake Games Look Great, Actually
9.7.2022
This year’s Steam Summer Sale is over, so say goodbye to all the deals. But say hello to some rad-looking art! With the sale over, an artist at Valve is now free to share all the fake video game key art and covers that she helped create that were hidden inside Steam’s large digital catalog as part...
The Internet Turns Jordan Peterson’s Hateful Transphobic Rant Into Video Game Gold
8.7.2022
Previously named “Canada’s most infamous intellectual” by Vice News and the “custodian of the patriarchy” by The New York Times, blubbering meat puppet Jordan Peterson has now been reduced to making long YouTube videos whining about being kicked off Twitter for doubling down on transphobic...
Euro Drops to 20-Year Low Against the US Dollar, Tapping $1.028 per Unit — Analyst Says Parity Is Imminent
5.7.2022
The euro has had a sluggish start to the second half of 2022 as the fiat currency slid to a 20-year low against the U.S. dollar. The drop adds to the fear that the global economy is in a recession and analysts believe that the risk of “parity is just a matter of time now.” […]
Half of Latin Americans Have Used Cryptocurrencies, Mastercard Survey Shows
1.7.2022
Fifty-one percent of consumers in Latin America made at least one transaction with cryptocurrencies
Mastercard Report: 51% of Survey Respondents Have Completed a Cryptocurrency Transaction in Latam
1.7.2022
A new report issued by Mastercard, the payment processing giant, has found that most consumers in Latam have knowledge of what cryptocurrency is. The report states that more than half of the consumers in Latam have at least made a transaction involving cryptocurrency. Also, a third of the surveyed...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Heads for Record Half-Year Loss of 59%
30.6.2022
BTC slips below $19K in fifth straight daily price decline. Stocks headed for their worst first half since the 1970s as a consumer-spending slowdown stokes fresh recession concerns
Modder Sorta Gets Half-Life 2 Running On Switch (It's Actually Portal)
30.6.2022
So, Portal: The Companion Collection, a bundle of Valve’s 3D puzzle-platformers Portal and Portal 2, just dropped on the Nintendo Switch. But not long after its surprise release during this week’s Direct Mini Partner Showcase, a modder named OatmealDome has already figured out a way to get...
Glassnode Report Says Bitcoin’s 2022 Price Drop Represents a Bear Market of ‘Historic Proportions’
28.6.2022
The crypto economy has slipped under the $1 trillion mark to the $970 billion range, as a large number of digital currencies have lost more than half their USD worth since November 2021. Bitcoin is down 70% from the all-time high last year, and a new report from Glassnode Insights calls the current...
Saddle․Finance Creates New Standards for DeFi Trading
25.6.2022
DeFi is a sub-sector in the crypto industry that has witnessed significant innovation since its inception. However, the narrative has struggled to stay consistent, affecting the domain overall. The current bear market has wiped out more than half of DeFi Total Value Locked (TVL), hampering...
Let’s Use Dall-E Mini To Conjure Up Half-Life 3 And Other Sequels We’ll Never Get
24.6.2022
One of my favorite activities growing up as a video game nerd was randomly typing the names of fictional game, movie, or book sequels into Google just to see what came up. I didn’t care if it was real or fake. I enjoyed the daydreaming that came from imagining “what if?”Read more
Devs Share The Wild, Secret Hacks Your Favorite Games Rely On
23.6.2022
Did you know all the horses in Assassin’s Creed 1 are built using really fucked up human skeletons? Or that Titan Quest used invisible squirrels as in-game timers? All of this is true and is more proof that games are mostly wild collections of code and hope that have more in common with miracles...
Team Fortress 2’s Latest Update Makes It Easier To Kick All Those Bots
22.6.2022
Yesterday, Valve released a new update for Team Fortress 2 that fixes and tweaks a lot of things, but many players are most excited about the changes to how voting and usernames work, hopeful they’ll make it easier to combat all the annoying bots that continue to plague the multiplayer, class-based...
Top Privacy Cryptocurrencies by Market Cap Lost Half Their Value in Less Than 2 Months
21.6.2022
Since the end of April, the top privacy crypto assets by market capitalization went from a combined value of $10.7 billion to today’s valuation of around $5.09 billion. During that time frame, monero lost 48% in value while zcash shed 56% against the U.S. dollar. Privacy Coin Economy Sheds...
Miner Bitfarms Sold Almost Half Its Bitcoin to Reduce Debt
21.6.2022
The miner sold 3,000 BTC in the past week to reduce its Galaxy credit facility. It also closed an NYDIG equipment-financing loan
Bitso Processed $1B in Crypto Remittances Between Mexico and the US in First Half of 2022
16.6.2022
The company hopes to capture 10% of global money transfers to the Latin American country by 2023