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Ex-Real Madrid Football Player Joins a Spanish Lower Division Club in Deal Financed With Crypto
19.1.2021
In a possible first for Spanish football, DUX Internacional de Madrid, a lower division side says it has used crypto buy a new player. The player, David Barral moved to his new club after Criptan, the new club sponsor facilitated the acquisition. Criptan is a cryptocurrency trading company that...
Spanish Football Club Says it Has Made World-first Crypto Pro Transfer
18.1.2021
David Barral. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/barraldb
A Spanish football club said that it has made a veteran footballer and La Liga veteran the first professional player to complete a transfer conducted entirely in crypto.
Per the Spanish football newspaper Sport, David Barral – a former Real...
Liquidators of South African Bitcoin Trading Club Request Greater Probe Powers
15.1.2021
Placed under provisional liquidation last month, Mirror Trading had claimed to be able to offer returns of 10% a month using bots to trade client's bitcoin
Ukrainian football club Dynamo Kyiv to launch blockchain-based fan tokens
6.1.2021
Dynamo Kyiv wants to tap into an additional revenue source as stadiums remain empty
Monday's Best Deals: PlayStation Plus, Hydrow Connected Rower, Disney Store Sale, Stasher Reusable Food Bags, Kingdom Hearts Games, Charter Club Sheets, and More
4.1.2021
PlayStation Plus and the Hydrow Connected Rower lead Monday’s best deals.Read more
Getting our hopes up: The A.V. Club’s 14 most anticipated releases of 2021
4.1.2021
After the year we’ve all had, it feels like courting disaster to pin any hopes on a wide release that wasn’t manufactured by Pfizer or Moderna. Looking back at what The A.V. Club published when we were still looking forward to 2020, we could’ve just republished some of it wholesale. But credit...
clipPath vs. mask
27.12.2020
These things are so similar, I find it hard to keep them straight. This is a nice little explanation from viewBox (what a cool name and URL, I hope they keep it up).
The big thing is that clipPath (the element in SVG, as well as clip-path in CSS) is vector and when it is applied, whatever you...
The Best Games Of 2020 That You’ve Never Heard Of
23.12.2020
There are so many games. The Nintendo Switch sees 30 releases a week. More than 50 PC games come out a day on Steam. Fifty. A day. And yes, most of them are shovelware or just plain drivel, but that only makes things worse for the little gems that are hidden within. In such a crazed market, it’s...
Sierra Club leads lawsuit against NY town to prevent expanding Bitcoin mining operations
21.12.2020
The lawsuit alleges Greenidge circumvented state laws by seeking regulatory approval "through two separate but interdependent approval applications."
The A.V. Club’s 15 favorite books of 2020
16.12.2020
A certain amount of escapism through books would have been more than understandable in 2020. (And by “a certain amount” we mean “a lot.”) You’d be forgiven for favoring the comfort food of a reread or a beach read. Or for not reading at all. Because for every person who was able to forget...
Coinbase's Strategy Helped MicroStrategy, Bitcoiner Eyes Soccer Club + More News
1.12.2020
A Wigan Athletic player. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/laticsofficial
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Major crypto exchange Coinbase revealed that it was selected...
Mastermind of Bitcoin Mining Ponzi Scheme Extradited to the US: $20 Million in Victims’ Funds Laundered
1.12.2020
The US government says it has extradited Gutemberg Dos Santos, the co-founder of the Airbit Club Ponzi scheme from Panama and he now awaits his trial in a Manhattan court. Dos Santos is facing charges relating to his role in perpetuating a “cryptocurrency” scam which defrauded victims...
Bitcoin Entrepreneur May Bail Out Ailing UK Soccer Club
1.12.2020
Jonathan Rowland, founder of bitcoin finance app Mode, may make a bid for struggling British soccer club Wigan Athletic
İstanbul Başakşehir is the latest soccer club to launch a fan token
11.11.2020
The appetite for blockchain-based fan tokens appears to be limitless amongst big-league soccer clubs across the globe
Binance.US Joins SEN, Silvergate’s 24/7 Crypto Trading Club
9.11.2020
Binance.US has joined the Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN), a 24/7 instant settlement network operated by Silvergate Bank
Crypto trading platform Bybit partners with soccer club Borussia Dortmund
5.11.2020
For now at least, the partnership appears focused on mutual brand outreach and marketing
Grammy-nominated record producer joins the Bitcoin club
8.10.2020
Multi-platinum record producer buys Bitcoin, is welcomed into the club by Pomp
Italian soccer club SS Lazio goes crypto with StormGain exchange
16.9.2020
There is a way for crypto exchanges and soccer clubs to work together
CFTC Alleges 4 Individuals Defrauded Customers in $1M Bitcoin Trading Scheme
14.9.2020
The CFTC alleged four individuals stole close to $1 million from customers by promising returns from a bitcoin trading scheme
Polkadot Token Faces Decisive Moment As It Settles In The Top 10 Club
8.9.2020
Polkadot (DOT), a shared protocol focused on “true [blockchain] interoperability” and one of the top 10 ICOs of 2017, trimmed its losses from last week over the weekend, with technical analysis suggesting the sell-off may be over for now.
As of press time on Tuesday (10:22 UTC), DOT was still down...