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Witcher 3 Player Finds Game's 'Last Secret,' Breaks Game Spectacularly
21.3.2022
Nearly seven years after The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt released, players still weren’t sure they’d discovered everything there was to see in the sprawling fantasy game. Recently, a developer at CD Projekt Red teased a “last secret” in the game, driving one player to break the game with time travel...
The ‘Polish Elon Musk’ and a 3D portal to the Metaverse
24.2.2022
I Can't Stop Ogling Horizon Forbidden West's Wind
17.2.2022
How do you fill up a giant open world so that it doesn’t feel dead and empty? You can litter the map with points of interest, unleash a swarm of prehistoric robots to roam its peaks and valleys, and make sure every other vista is exploding with lens flair. Or, in Horizon Forbidden West’s case,...
Polish Miner Commercializes Tech Using Solar Panels To Mine Bitcoin, Heat Houses
9.2.2022
Determined to reduce the carbon footprint of his Bitcoin (BTC) mining operations and cut his electricity bill, Polish miner Paweł Wojciechowski started using photovoltaic (PV) modules to mine the crypto, allocating the excess heat to warm the water in his household. Amid surging demand for...
Confused Halo Infinite Fans Buy Nail Polish For Skins, Get Forza Stuff Instead
4.2.2022
An unrewarding battle pass. Big Team Battle. The freakin’ mangler. Halo Infinite’s most hardcore fans have long had minor gripes with the shooter, but here’s a new one: Cross-promotional tie-ins. Some players say they recently bought beauty products solely for the purpose of scoring cosmetics...
Halo Infinite’s Shimmery Nail Polish: The Kotaku Fashion Review
19.1.2022
Everyone’s talking about Microsoft this week, with the massive megacorp’s big moves in the gaming space setting everyone’s tongues wagging. But everything you heard is true: Yes, Microsoft just debuted a very weird collaboration with cosmetics manufacturer OPI consisting of 12 Xbox-branded nail...
Polish Banks Mull CBDC, Cryptoasset Projects
5.1.2022
Poland’s central bank (Narodowy Bank Polski, NBP) and the country’s largest retail bank seem to be accelerating their respective works on developing digital assets - with the former potentially working on a central bank digital currency (CBDC), and the latter possibly moving to launch its...
Ex-Head of Crypto Exchange Wex Released in Poland
1.1.2022
Former chief executive of the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Wex, Dmitry Vasiliev, has been released from arrest in Warsaw earlier this month. The ex-head of the now-defunct coin trading platform has since returned to Russia while court proceedings against him in Poland are still ongoing. Polish...
Polish Competition Watchdog Targets Scamcoin, Not All Crypto Ads
30.11.2021
Polish competition watchdog says it has been increasingly monitoring alternative investment ads by Polish social media influencers, recently charging a few persons with promoting Ponzi schemes - but is apparently not investigating crypto-related ads, with a few exceptions. ...
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Animal Crossing Players Do Great And Terrible Things With The New Polish Tool
15.11.2021
The item polishing mechanic introduced in the excellent Happy Home Paradise DLC for Animal Crossing: New Horizons starts off harmlessly enough, giving players a way to add a bit of sparkle to their home furnishings. But when all of the new features’ options are unlocked, including the ability...
Poland’s Central Bank Says It Will Add 100 Tons of Gold to Existing Holdings in 2022
11.10.2021
The Polish central bank, the National Bank of Poland (NBP), is reportedly planning to raise its gold reserves by 100 tons in 2022. According to bank governor Adam Glapinski, the objective of this decision is to prepare Poland for “the most unfavourable circumstances.” Gold’s...
Poland Confirms Arrest of Former Wex Exchange Executive in Warsaw
21.9.2021
Reports of the detention of Dmitry Vasiliev, ex-head of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange Wex, have been confirmed by authorities in Poland. The former executive of the platform, allegedly involved in the theft of funds worth millions of dollars, faces possible extradition to Kazakhstan....
Ex-Head оf Wex Crypto Exchange Reportedly Arrested in Poland, Faces Extradition to Kazakhstan
20.9.2021
Dmitry Vasiliev, former chief executive of Russian cryptocurrency exchange Wex, has been detained in Warsaw, the Polish press reported. Vasiliev is wanted in Kazakhstan where he is accused of fraud related to the now defunct trading platform, successor of the infamous BTC-e exchange. Former...
Small Indie Outfit CD Projekt Red Asks Fans To Crowdfund Witcher Comic
7.9.2021
The Witcher: Ronin is a manga that sees monster-slayer Geralt of Rivia’s adventures recast in the world of Japanese folklore, and little-known RPG-maker CD Projekt Red wants your help to make it happen. The company launched a Kickstarter campaign for the project today aiming to raise just over...
Polish Lawmakers Press Finance Ministry on Crypto Firms' Bank Accounts
3.8.2021
In the light of Poland’s looming crypto exchange regulations, a group of lawmakers has filed a request for information to the country’s Ministry of Finance, asking whether the ministry plans to facilitate making bank deposits for Polish crypto companies, and if it aims to develop regulations...
IT Specialist Caught Mining Cryptocurrency at Police Headquarters in Poland
1.8.2021
Polish police have uncovered a secret crypto mining operation at their headquarters in Warsaw, local media reported. An IT specialist accused of minting digital coins on police computers has been dismissed and the case has been handed over to the Prosecutor’s Office. Polish Police Force Fires...
Investors Are Still Free To Use Binance, Says Polish Regulator
16.7.2021
Source: a screenshot, Instagram/binance
After warning local investors about Binance last week, Poland’s Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) reminds that they are still free to decide whether to use this platform. As it does not supervise crypto exchanges in Poland, the authority only reacts...
Highest Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Drop Incoming While Miners Polish Their Image
2.7.2021
If current estimates come true, bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty is about to see its largest drop in the history of the network, falling to the level not seen in more than a year and improving profit margins of BTC miners at the time when Chinese miners are leaving the industry (or the country)...
How do you make a layout with pictures down one side of a page matched up with paragraphs on the other side?
30.6.2021
I got this exact question in an email the other day, and I thought it would make a nice blog post because of how wonderfully satisfying this is to do in CSS these days. Plus we can sprinkle in polish …
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Polish Miner Uses Solar Panels to Mine Bitcoin, Heat His House
30.6.2021
Seeking to reduce the carbon footprint of his Bitcoin (BTC) mining operations, as well as cut his electricity bill, Paweł Wojciechowski has reached for photovoltaic (PV) modules to mine the cryptocurrency, using the excess heat to warm the water in his household.
Wojciechowski, who runs an...