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Genshin Impact Fans Say They’ll Quit Spending Money Over Underwhelming Character
23.3.2023
Genshin Impact released their most broken character earlier this month. She’s no longer available in the seasonal rotation, but fans are still upset at her lackluster abilities. While some players have been submitting reports and airing their grievances on Twitter, others have gone a step further....
Jack Dorsey's Block Tumbles 17% After Short Seller Hindenburg's Report
23.3.2023
Notable short seller Hindenburg Research accuses Block of "wildly" overstating user counts, while understating customer acquisition costs
German Government Invests $1.2 Million in Metaverse Startup Flying Sheep Studios
23.3.2023
The German government has allocated $1.2 million in funding for a metaverse game being developed by Flying Sheep Studios. The company, based in Cologne, will use the funds for the development of a game called Star Life, which will also include blockchain elements in the form of non-fungible tokens...
Tron Network’s TRX Drops 13% Following SEC Charges Against Justin Sun
22.3.2023
Other Sun-related tokens such as SUN, JUST and HT also took hits amid the SEC allegations
US Central Bank’s Fednow Payment Service to Launch in July, Economist Calls Timing ‘Suspicious’
22.3.2023
According to the U.S. Federal Reserve, the central bank’s Fednow payment service will start operating in July, and participants will be certified in April to leverage the Fednow Pilot Program. Ken Montgomery, the Fednow program executive, is urging American financial institutions to make...
Biden Administration’s Economic Report Deems Crypto Assets ‘Mostly Speculative Investment Vehicles’
22.3.2023
On Monday, U.S. president Joe Biden published the administration’s economic report and addressed the subject of cryptocurrencies. The section titled “The Perceived Appeal of Crypto Assets” describes the currencies as “mostly speculative investment vehicles” that...
ARK Invest Sells $13.5M Coinbase Shares After Steady Buying Streak
22.3.2023
Before this sale, ARK Invest owned 9.9 million shares of the crypto exchange worth $575 million
Yellen Says US Could Back All Deposits at Smaller Banks if Needed to Prevent Contagion
22.3.2023
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the federal government could guarantee all deposits of smaller banks if they “suffer deposit runs that pose the risk of contagion.” The government recently protected all deposits of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank after they failed. U.S....
Crystal Blockchain Study Reveals $16.7 Billion in Crypto Assets Stolen Since 2011
21.3.2023
Crystal Blockchain, a company that provides blockchain data and analytics, published a study covering security breaches, fraud, and scams related to cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (defi). According to the study, approximately $16.7 billion in crypto assets have been stolen since 2011....
FYI: Get Away From The Overwatch 2 Push Bot If You’re Winning
21.3.2023
When Overwatch 2 launched in October of last year, it was only natural that players stumbled into its new Push mode like ignorant babies in the dark. But y’all, we’ve had five months of pushing barricades across Toronto and Rome, and I need the rest of the Overwatch community to get off the goddamn...
Twitch Bans Popular Streamer’s Cute Emote For ‘Inciting Abuse’
21.3.2023
Fortnite Twitch streamer and hugely popular gaming TikToker Chica seemed to get some surprising news yesterday—Twitch removed one of her emotes, a cartoon chick with big, wet eyes and its tongue sticking out, for “inciting abuse.”Read more
Bitcoin Network Preps for Another Difficulty Spike as Hashrate Remains Strong and Miners Profit Amid Price Surge
21.3.2023
Following the last two difficulty increases on the Bitcoin network, another rise in difficulty is expected to take place on March 24, 2023. Statistics show that Bitcoin’s hashrate has remained high despite the last two adjustments, and block times have been faster than the ten-minute...
10 Badass Action Games That Will Make You Feel Like John Wick
21.3.2023
As John Wick 4 hits screens this week—likely before kicking screens, then shooting them seven times, before sticking a sword in the screen’s face—it seems an excellent time to consider which games can evoke a similar feeling of glorious mass slaughter.*Read more
Harvest Keeper AI Crypto Scam Siphons $1 Million from Unsuspecting Investors – Here's What Happened
21.3.2023
In an audacious cyber heist, $1m worth of cryptocurrency was brazenly stolen from the AI-powered trading dApp Harvest Keeper.
The theft took place at 4 pm (UTC) on March 17, as cyber thieves took advantage of a privileged 'getamount' function to loot $709k in user-deposited USDT.
Bearing all...
Ethereum-Based Carbon Tracker Carbonable Raises $1.2M to Tackle Greenwashing
21.3.2023
Carbonable was launched on Ethereum layer 2 scaling system StarkNet, whose parent company Starkware is also an investor
US exploring ways to guarantee the country's 18T of bank deposits: Report
21.3.2023
The current deposit insurance cap under the FDIC is $250,000, but recent banking collapses have seen calls to increase that amount
Crypto Trading Firm Auros Secures $17M Investment as It Recovers From FTX Woes
21.3.2023
Auros Global, the trading firm that reportedly lost $20 million on FTX’s implosion, was released from provisional liquidation of British Virgin Island court after major debt restructuring and a fresh $17 million investment led by TradFi trading firm Vivienne Court and bitcoin miner Bit Digital
FL Gov. DeSantis Proposes Ban on Central Bank Digital Currency Use as Money
21.3.2023
Governor Ron DeSantis of the U.S. state of Florida has proposed legislation to prohibit the use of central bank digital currency (CBDC) as money in his state. “The Biden administration’s efforts to inject a centralized bank digital currency is about surveillance and control,”...
Flagstar Bank Acquires Signature Bank’s Assets and Branches, Excluding Cryptocurrency Operations
20.3.2023
On Monday, about a week after the collapse of Signature Bank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced that Flagstar Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp, acquired 40 former branches of Signature and its assets. Flagstar assumed nearly all...
Let's Talk About Diablo IV's Most Controversial Change
20.3.2023
The first thing I did in the Diablo IV beta was try to roll. After playing games for 30 years I’ve internalized two important things: Always check behind the waterfall, and rolling is always faster than walking. So I rolled. And it was faster. And then I tried to roll again and I couldn’t…not...