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E3 2021's Live Show Has Been Cancelled According To LA Tourism Documents
27.2.2021
Shocking nobody, it seems there won’t be a big, physical live E3 event this year in Los Angeles. Read more
Diem Stablecoin Prepares for Liftoff With Fireblocks Custody Partnership
16.2.2021
The rebranded Libra network aims to come out with an initial product around the end of this quarter, with help from Fireblocks and First Digital Assets
Lindsay Lohan Tweets ‘Bitcoin to the Moon’- Celebrities Are Flocking to Crypto in Great Number
10.2.2021
Ever since bitcoin and a number of other digital assets started seeing price gains 11 months ago, a great number of celebrities started jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon. More recently famous people like Kiss frontman Gene Simmons, the retired American rapper Logic, hit record producer Murda...
Amid hiring spree, Blockchain Association adds Token Taxonomy Act guru to team
9.2.2021
The former aide to Representative Davidson will join crypto's leading trade association
Report: E3 2021 Being Planned As An All-Digital Event
8.2.2021
Last year the Entertainment Software Association cancelled E3, the biggest trade show in gaming, due to covid-19 concerns. According to pitch documents obtained by Video Games Chronicle, this year’s E3 might be as a strictly online affair, with three-days of streaming content running from June...
Corporate Treasuries Are Figuring Out Bitcoin on the Balance Sheet
5.2.2021
MicroStrategy’s approach has got the Association of Corporate Treasurers and IKEA thinking
Here are the nominees for the 2021 Golden Globe Awards
3.2.2021
We have to admit that it’s just a touch disorienting to only now begin discussing the nominees for the 2021 Golden Globes, which is usually an early January staple. There really isn’t much that COVID-19 hasn’t shuffled around at the point. What does remain consistent, thankfully, is the steady...
Iran Finds Scapegoat In ‘Easy Victim’ Bitcoin as Officials Shut Down 1,600 Mining Farms
27.1.2021
As Iran experiences rolling electricity blackouts, the country’s authorities have responded to the crisis by targeting bitcoin mining farms. The sanctions-hit country’s campaign against miners has seen a total of 1,600 mining centers being shut down. This Iranian blitz on cryptocurrency...
Bitcoin Policy in Biden’s Washington, With Kristin Smith and Amy Davine Kim
22.1.2021
As the Biden Administration gets underway, what can we expect for cryptocurrency technologies alongside an ascendent bitcoin?
1994's NBA Jam Has Been Updated With 2021 Rosters
21.1.2021
I love NBA Jam, and I love 90s basketball, but look, I don’t always want to play as Tom Gugliotta or Kendall Gill. Sometimes, I want to play NBA Jam and play as Alex Caruso or Bam Adebayo, and now I can.Read more
ESA Halts Political Donations After U.S. Capitol Storming
13.1.2021
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) plans to stop political donations in the wake of the storming of the United States’ capitol building by a right-wing, insurrectionist mob hellbent on keeping Donald Trump in power, GamesIndustry.biz reports.Read more
‘Decentralized Court’ Aragon Association Hit With Flurry of Resignations
7.1.2021
Twelve staffers of the Aragon Association (AA) announced their resignations Thursday due to an apparent lack of financial transparency
Italian Banking Association launches experimental digital euro project
6.1.2021
The Italian Banking Association, ABI, is conducting digital euro tests as the European Central Bank is yet to make a clear decision on a central bank digital currency
Venezuela’s Asonacrip: Bitcoin Bull Run Could Help Boost Usability of Cryptos Such as Petro
22.12.2020
The president of the National Association of Cryptocurrencies of Venezuela (Asonacrip) praised the recent bull run seen in bitcoin’s prices across the board, which “favors the usability of a very novel crypto asset,” such as the petro (PTR). Petro Is Gathering Strength Due to...
From Libra to Diem: Association's New Clothes for 'Appropriate Autonomy'
1.12.2020
The Facebook-backed Libra Association has announced the change of its name to the Diem Association - a move which, along with new hires, the association claims will grant the project more "autonomy."
In an emailed press release, the organization wrote,
"The Libra Association...
Libra Association Taps Saumya Bhavsar as General Counsel for Payments Subsidiary
25.11.2020
Bhavsar joins the Libra Association after 25 years in public and private sector banking regulation roles
Bison Trails launches QT protocol to help developers build on Libra
25.11.2020
Libra Association founding member, Bison Trails, has released a QT protocol allowing developers to read and write data to Libra’s pre-mainnet using off-chain systems
Kevin Hart Learns Bitcoin Is a Legit Investment, Not ‘Voodoo Money’ in an All-Star Telethon
26.10.2020
Popular actor Kevin Hart gave bitcoin a boost this weekend during an all-star telethon to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). Hart told viewers that cryptocurrency is a legitimate investment right after he called it “voodoo money.” Kevin Hart Shouts Out About Bitcoin...
Can Github Remove the Bitcoin Codebase? Recent Repository Takedown Has Proponents Worried
26.10.2020
On October 23, the Microsoft-owned Github leveraged an ostensible DMCA takedown in order to remove 18 projects from the code-hosting portal. According to sources, the takedown stemmed from a request filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Github’s recent move has made...
Libra Hires HSBC Veteran Ian Jenkins as CFO, Risk Chief of Digital Payments Unit
15.10.2020
Ian Jenkins joins fellow HSBC alum James Emmet, now the stablecoin group's CEO