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World Bank Accused Of Ignorance & Hypocrisy As It Refuses to Help El Salvador
17.6.2021
Commentators have accused the World Bank of hypocrisy and ignorance after it stated that it would not assist El Salvador and its President Nayib Bukele’s plan to create a bitcoin (BTC)-powered economy – claiming that bitcoin has displayed “environmental” and “transparency” “shortcomings.”
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Bitdao Collects $230 Million in Private Capital From Investors
17.6.2021
As the decentralized finance movement proves its staying power and resilience, one of the world’s largest decentralized autonomous organizations, Bitdao, has concluded a private fundraising round to promote mass adoption of open finance. DAO to Allocate Capital Towards Improving Defi...
World Bank refuses El Salvador's request for help on BTC transition
17.6.2021
The World Bank has refused to support El Salvador’s request for help in the transition to use Bitcoin as legal tender
Solving the Climate Change Problem Using Blockchain Technology – Start of the FOSTER Project
16.6.2021
The Swiss company TRES Group GmbH is launching an exciting and innovative program aiming at adding a solution to the Climate Change challenge. For several months, the FOSTER project has been under development, which aims to mass plant trees around the world for the benefit of increasing carbon...
Fortnite, Worth Billions, Offering Paltry Prize Money For Design Contest
16.6.2021
Yesterday, Fortnite announced a “Concept Royale” competition. Players can submit skin ideas, and two winners “will have their concepts turned into in-game Outfits in Fortnite, and will also each receive a $2,500 cash prize.” At first glance it doesn’t look like a bad deal, but $2.5k for a design...
Bank of England Boss Pledges ‘Tough Love’ in Cryptocurrency Regulation
16.6.2021
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey says there will be an element of “tough love” in regulating cryptocurrency. “What we cannot have is a world where innovation gets a free pass to ignore the public interest. The odds of such an approach not ending well are too high,”...
Why Was Nintendo's 'Switch Pro' Missing From E3?
16.6.2021
There was a bunch of cool stuff to get excited about during today’s E3 2021-adjacent Nintendo Direct presentation. Metroid Dread is real, Advance Wars is back, and Tekken’s Kazuya Mishima dropped the entire Super Smash Bros. Ultimate cast into a volcano. But one major announcement was notably...
Sotheby's will auction World Wide Web source code as NFT
15.6.2021
Describing NFTs as the "most appropriate means of ownership that exists," a 65-year-old computer scientist will release a tokenized version of the world wide web code next week
What To Expect From Nintendo At E3 2021
15.6.2021
Got your crystal ball handy? Hope so, because Nintendo won’t be holding its traditional press event, Nintendo Direct, until Tuesday, June 15. Though that’s the final day of E3, this is probably going to be a last-but-not-least sort of scenario, because Nintendo’s widely expected to bring out some...
VPNs And geo-blocking in The Cryptocurrency World
15.6.2021
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Insights Into the World-Changing Potential of On-Chain Gaming
15.6.2021
Blockchain technology and the decentralization movement are set to disrupt many industries, but perhaps none more than gambling. By bringing transparency to a once-opaque industry, on-chain gaming promises to shine a light onto a sector characterized by intransparency and a lack of fairness. What...
CoinJoy Use Technology to Provide Comfortable Crypto World Immerse
15.6.2021
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CoinJoy — is a contemporary and convenient crypto news aggregator that collects all the relevant information about cryptocurrencies and blockchain from hand-picked trusted sources and presents it to the users...
E3 Twitch Chat Has Been Miserable
14.6.2021
For what feels like eons now, the E3 Pangea has threatened to break apart and scatter gaming landmasses to all corners of the Earth. Now that’s finally happening, with this year’s E3 functioning as a loose umbrella for a plethora of publisher-specific shows. This has given companies a massive stage...
TIME Tokens and TimeWarp Staking Launch on Binance Smart Chain
14.6.2021
PRESS RELEASE. The new initiative extends the Ethereum-based TimeWarp staking programme, which currently offers a yield of 224% APY. TimeWarp, a new DeFi farming opportunity backed by multiple real-world revenue streams, has just launched on Binance Smart Chain after a successful earlier launch...
A Look at How Second Life’s Linden Dollars Helped Kickstart Bitcoin’s Value
14.6.2021
When people think about bitcoin’s past they sometimes refer to subjects like Mt Gox, the Silk Road, or the famous pizza transaction. Although, people often forget that the online virtual world Second Life played an important role during the Bitcoin network’s early years. In fact, some...
TADS Awards—World’s First Annual International Award for the TADS
14.6.2021
TADS Awards is the world’s first annual international award for the Tokenized Assets and Digitized Securities (“TADS”) sectors. Gathering individuals and businesses from around the world to share the energy that tokenization brings to financial markets, TADS Awards celebrates...
Just Cause Studio's Next Title Is An Open-World Co-Op Game
13.6.2021
Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios’ next game was revealed during today Xbox broadcast at E3 2021. Contraband is a joint venture between Avalanche and Xbox Game Studio, making it exclusive to Xbox systems and available on Game Pass at launch.Read more
'Shop Contest: Pot Goblin
13.6.2021
E3 is here! Which means a lot of busy days for me. But it also means new video games and trailers! Exciting stuff. And one of the biggest moments so far has to be the Elden Ring gameplay trailer. Folks freaked out. A horse double jumped. It was wicked. But buried in that trailer was this year’s...
DAOs, DeFi and Dollars: the Bold New World of Decentralized Entities
11.6.2021
In this week’s episode, we explore how developers and investors are working through the complex process of bridging the human and legal needs of the outside world with these complex, decentralized systems run by blockchains, automated smart contracts, “multisig” tokenized collateral agreements
Miami stakes the claim to become the world’s Bitcoin and crypto capital
11.6.2021
Miami has a dynamic mayor, lots of VC money and is coming off the largest ever crypto extravaganza, but is that enough without legal clarity?