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Fed’s Outgoing Vice Chair Richard Clarida’s ‘Rebalancing’ Trades Ignite Fed Trading Ethics Scandal
8.1.2022
Members of the U.S. Federal Reserve are getting criticized this week after the central bank published its minutes report from the policy meeting on December 14-15. Following the update, the outgoing vice chair of the Federal Reserve’s trading activities has reignited ethics conversations....
Wharton’s Professor Warns About Inflation, Predicts Many Rate Hikes, Says Bitcoin Has Replaced Gold for Millennials
3.1.2022
A finance professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has warned about inflation and the Fed hiking rates many more times than the market expects. He also said that bitcoin has become the new gold for the millennials. Finance Professor on Bitcoin and Inflation Wharton’s...
Metaverse NYE Parties: Decentraland New Year’s Eve Bash to Recreate One Times Square, Paris Hilton to DJ in Roblox
31.12.2021
There’s a New Year’s Eve fiesta in the metaverse called the Metafest 2022 Global Party hosted by the real estate firm Jamestown and the crypto investment firm Digital Currency Group (DCG) in Decentraland. According to the announcement, the owner of One Times Square, Jamestown will...
Going meta: Paris Hilton, Times Square, and ETFs
31.12.2021
Decentraland and Paris Hilton plan competing virtual New Year's Eve celebrations, while ProShares plans to launch an ETF tracking the performance of metaverse-focused firms
Bitcoin ‘died’ 45 times in 2021 as media still eager to post BTC obituaries
30.12.2021
438 Bitcoin obituaries have been counted since 2010, and the year 2017 still remains to account for most “deaths.”
Decentraland Gets Its Own Times Square and New Year's Eve Ball Drop
30.12.2021
Jamestown, the owner of the Times Square building in New York, partnered with Digital Currency Group (DCG) to recreate this famous place in the Big Apple in the virtual world of Decentraland (MANA) for the New Year’s Eve ball drop....
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Nifty News: Decentraland Times Square NYE party, Mutant Apes go bananas and more…
30.12.2021
Decentraland will unveil a virtual version of the iconic Times Square for its NYE party, Swedish bankers Mecro Bank announced Metaverse plans, and Cipher Punks NFT were canned following strong pushback
Overheated DOGE: 5 times crypto traders were warned before their assets tanked
18.12.2021
Short and sweet — that's how you trade a crypto asset in danger of printing a giant red candle
GTA Online’s New Update Finally Confirms What Happened To Michael After GTA V
17.12.2021
Grand Theft Auto Online’s relationship with GTA V’s timeline and narrative has been weird for years, thanks in large part to continued free expansions that sometimes contradict past updates or events. However, that hasn’t stopped Rockstar from trying to connect GTA Online and GTA V’s narrative...
GTA Online’s Dr. Dre Update Is Good, But The Old Jank Still Irritates
16.12.2021
Grand Theft Auto Online’s latest update, The Contract, is a great reminder of just how much time has passed since GTA V’s 2013 release. Now, over eight years later, Franklin is an older and richer man running a Los Santos company dedicated to helping the rich and famous with their problems. And...
The Ten Biggest Kotaku Posts Of 2021
15.12.2021
A year ago, many of us had never even heard of NFTs, and Alex Trebek was the only Jeopardy! host most of us had ever known. Well, a lot has changed since then. Relive a time before we knew what a disaster the remastered GTA trilogy would be. Reminisce about how we all got that song from the Ankha...
5 times quickfire crypto traders bought the news for double (or triple) digit profits
11.12.2021
Buy the rumor? It depends how fast you pull the trigger when the news breaks. These mind-bending returns rewarded crypto traders who were fastest on the draw... Here's how you can join them
Ethereum Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Publishes ‘Plausible Roadmap’ Addressing Scalability
11.12.2021
In recent times the Ethereum network has received a lot of criticism about the protocol’s data transfer fees and scalability. In a blog post called “Endgame,” published on December 6, the co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin discussed plans to improve scaling, the upcoming...
Blockasset Pushes the Limits of NFTs and Fan Tokens, Empowers Sports
10.12.2021
On the 4th of November, one of Times Square’s Countdown screens lit up with artworks depicting five iconic sports heroes, Alexander Ovechkin and Muhammad Ali among them. The ‘LeGENds’ NFT drop was held by Blockasset: a Solana-based sports platform aimed at providing better...
Steelrising Game Says What If Victorian Times But With Robots?
10.12.2021
Steelrising got a new trailer tonight during The Game Awards 2021, showing off its wild mix of robots and a Victorian-era world. The game is coming out next year to PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PS5.Read more
Streamer Has Said 'Mario' 345,000 Times Over The Last Few Days
7.12.2021
If you have ever wanted to hear a word repeated so many times that it loses all meaning to you (semantic satiation, it’s a real thing), then please enjoy this stream of a man who has committed himself to saying the word “Mario” over half a million times.Read more
2021’s BTC Obituary List Accelerated This Year, 41 Alleged Bitcoin Deaths Recorded
6.12.2021
As bitcoin and a number of crypto assets have dropped in value during the last two weeks, its seems that everyone’s hope for six-digit bitcoin prices has become unattainable. However, year-to-date, bitcoin has risen more than 150% in value and despite the rise, skeptics and critics continue...
Blockchain.com Reveals Non-Fungible Token Marketplace and NFT Explorer
3.12.2021
The crypto firm Blockchain.com is joining the slew of digital currency exchanges that have launched non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces in recent times. On December 2, the company announced it is launching the Blockchain.com NFT marketplace, and select users can sign up for beta access today....
Ocarina Of Time's Source Code Has Been Reverse Engineered
29.11.2021
In 2019, the source code for Super Mario 64 was reverse engineered, leading to all kinds of wonderful mods and even ports to systems like the Dreamcast and PlayStation 2. Now it’s Ocarina of Time’s turn.Read more
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Dips, Mining Difficulty Expected to Decrease for First Time Since July
27.11.2021
Bitcoin’s hashrate has been volatile in recent times following the same patterns as the crypto asset’s price. Three days ago, Bitcoin’s hashrate neared the 180 exahash (EH/s) zone only to plummet to 128 EH/s two days later. The recent shifts have taken place before the upcoming...