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Senator Ted Cruz Now Accepts Campaign Donations in Bitcoin
7.11.2023
Image Source: Pixabay Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has revealed his decision to accept Bitcoin ( BTC) as part of his campaign fundraising efforts. “I am bullish on bitcoin, and I’m proud to accept bitcoin campaign donations,” he said in a recent interview with Forbes. Cruz’s...
Report: Bungie Blames 100 Layoffs On Players Leaving Destiny 2
31.10.2023
Bungie employees knew the Destiny 2 studio was struggling, but might not have expected a recent mass layoff of roughly 100 staff. That’s according to a new report by Bloomberg which details a meeting earlier this month in which studio leadership blamed poor player retention following 2023's...
Starfield’s Fast Travel Cheapens Space’s Impact
13.9.2023
Starfield is a massive game. With hundreds of planets and solar systems to probe, Bethesda’s spacefaring RPG tasks you with traveling from galaxy to galaxy. Unfortunately, for all the space exploration the game has you doing, doing this by fast traveling amounts to a series of loading screens that...
‘I’m Bullish on Bitcoin’ — Ted Cruz Champions Bitcoin’s Boon for Texas and Power Grid Boosts
9.9.2023
Ted Cruz, the U.S. Republican senator from Texas, expressed his optimism on Friday, stating he’s “bullish on bitcoin,” after a recent interview with Forbes released on September 8. During the conversation, Cruz highlighted emerging reports indicating that bitcoin mining...
DEA Duped: How a Crafty Crypto Scammer Outwitted the Agency and Made Off With $55K
26.8.2023
In a revealing report published on August 24, 2023, a significant oversight by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was brought to light. In their endeavor to manage assets confiscated from a nefarious enterprise, the DEA mistakenly funneled funds to an unrelated scammer, falling prey to a notorious...
Stanford School Newspaper Highlights the Irony of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Scheduled Stanford Talk on Ethics Amidst Legal Chaos
15.8.2023
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), a once towering figure in the crypto world and former FTX CEO, was curiously slated to share his insights on tech ethics with Stanford students this winter. In a thorough examination penned by Theo Baker for the Stanford Daily, the details of SBF’s multifaceted...
Hit Steam Game Includes Secret Designed Only For Dataminers To Discover
31.7.2023
Remnant II, a new Souls-like shooter developed by Gunfire Games, contains a lot of secrets, including a whole, completely hidden player class. But, twist: The devs hid it so well that only dataminers would ever find it. And they just did.Read more
Diablo IV’s OP Druid Build Does 2 Billion Damage
12.7.2023
Diablo IV is a game about keeping evil locked behind the gates of hell and making the numbers go up. Kill enemies, get stronger, kill more enemies, get even stronger. This is the endless cycle at the center of Blizzard’s hit action-RPG, but recently players have managed to take that logic to...
Diablo IV’s Post-Campaign Seasons Sound A Lot Like Destiny 2
11.5.2023
Diablo IV’s campaign promises dozens of hours of button-mashing chill time across multiple character classes, but the real longevity of the action-RPG looter will be based around its seasonal content updates. Blizzard shared a bit more about how those will work in a new blog post, and the whole...
Sotheby’s to Auction 3AC’s NFT Collection, Including Larva Labs’ Zombie Punk and Dmitri Cherniak’s ‘Golden Goose’
20.4.2023
On Wednesday, Sotheby’s, one of the world’s largest brokers of fine and decorative art, announced its plans to auction a number of non-fungible token (NFT) assets that were previously owned by the now-defunct crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC). The auction, called...
Destiny 2 Streamer Accused Of Major Leak: 'Only God Can Judge Me'
18.4.2023
Big changes are coming to Destiny 2 this year and some of them leaked earlier in the month. Bungie now thinks it knows who is responsible and has taken action, banning popular Twitch streamer Ekuegan Teko-Agbo from the game he plays to make a living. The content creator says he’s innocent, however...
Forbes 2023 billionaires list highlights crypto influencers, TMS Network outranks Fantom & Conflux
14.4.2023
Forbes released their list of the world’s billionaires for 2023, with Binance’s Changpeng Zhao leading the crypto billionaires list. Not all crypto billionaires are captains of industry; the Winklevoss twins made a list through Bitcoin’s appreciation. Fantom (FTM) and Conflux...
Former FTX CEO Seeks $10M Insurance Fund for Legal Defense, Request Opposed by FTX Debtors and Unsecured Creditors
30.3.2023
Court filings reveal that the FTX co-founder is seeking access to a $10 million insurance plan to cover his attorney fees. FTX debtors and unsecured creditors have opposed Sam Bankman-Fried’s request, arguing that every dollar spent on his defense is “one less dollar” available to cover...
FTX’s Bankman-Fried Is Allegedly Using Alameda Funds to Pay for Legal Defense
30.3.2023
According to two sources close to FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced co-founder, gave his father, Stanford Law professor Joseph Bankman, millions of dollars. The funds are reportedly being used to pay for legal costs. The sources said that Bankman-Fried allegedly gave “at least...
Bungie Quietly Patches Destiny 2's Vagina Armband
24.3.2023
Destiny 2 has gotten a bunch of hotfixes since the Lightfall expansion launched several weeks ago, but none like yesterday’s update. A fix not mentioned in the patch notes secretly changed the game’s newest Warlock armband armor to make it look less like a vagina.Read more
Revisiting The Last Of Us Game's Haunting Ending Before The Show's Finale
11.3.2023
10 years ago, The Last of Us’ unexpected and morally divisive ending made history. Choosing to land in a place of uncertainty, the conclusion bucked what many other games chose to do, and often still do: present a straightforward, neat, conventionally satisfying end where the good guys are the good...
Steve Forbes Says the Fed Is ‘Inflicting Unnecessary Pain’ With Interest Rate Hikes
10.3.2023
Media mogul Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Media, has warned that the Federal Reserve is “inflicting unnecessary pain” on the U.S. economy with its interest rate hikes after Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the Fed is prepared to raise interest rates at a faster pace. He also pointed...
Binance CEO responds to mainstream FUD: 'They don’t know how an exchange works'
28.2.2023
The CEO and co-founder of Binance CZ took to Twitter in response to a FUD-filled article published by Forbes about the exchange and its recent “shuffling” of funds
Binance Moved $1.8B in Stablecoin Collateral to Hedge Funds Last Year: Forbes
27.2.2023
This meant that over $1 billion worth of tokens called B-peg USDC – digital replicas of dollar-pegged stablecoin USDC – were uncollateralized despite Binance's claim that they were 100% backed
Protocol Labs, Chainalysis and Bittrex add to crypto layoff season
4.2.2023
Crypto execs suggested that the "extremely challenging" times forced them to cut jobs in order to “weather this extended" crypto winter