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As Virtual Real Estate Gets Pricey Terrazero Technologies Provides Metaverse Mortgages
19.2.2022
While the metaverse has become very popular, virtual land sales have seen significant demand in recent times. Virtual real estate has become expensive, in comparison to the prices 12 months ago, and virtual parcels stemming from a couple of blockchain metaverse projects have sold for seven figures....
Beetlejuice Gets 1-of-1 NFT: Exclusive One-and-Only NFT of Pop Culture Icon Is Now Being Auctioned on Goldin
17.2.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Lester Green, known to millions of fans as Beetlejuice, has been a pop-culture icon through four decades. Having initially conquered radio, television, and movies, Beetlejuice has continuously evolved and is now also a social media superstar with over 2 million Instagram followers...
Subsetting Font Awesome to Improve Performance
17.2.2022
Font Awesome is an incredibly popular icon library. Unfortunately, it’s somewhat easy to use in a way that results in less-than-ideal performance. By subsetting Font Awesome, we can remove any unused glyphs from the font files it provides. This will …
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Bitcoin ETFs Remain Popular Among Investors Despite Price Slump
15.2.2022
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) backed by bitcoin (BTC) futures contracts traded in the US largely retained their trading volumes last week, despite a slump in the bitcoin price over the course of January.
According to exchange data, the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) – the first bitcoin...
Popular Trading App Robinhood’s Global Expansion Will Be ‘Crypto First’
14.2.2022
Popular trading app Robinhood has revealed that its international expansion will be “crypto first.” The company said from the regulatory standpoint, crypto is “probably the easiest way to go global.” The trading platform is also looking for compliant ways to list more...
The Four-Day Workweek Is Getting Popular Among Devs, And It Sure Sounds Nice
11.2.2022
Ah, Friday. The fifth day of the typical workweek. The end of said workweek, for many. But how nice would it be if [sentiment redacted by bosses]? Just ask folks from Blackbird Interactive, the developer behind Homeworld 3 and Hardspace: Shipbreaker and the latest studio to switch to a four-day...
PUBG Developer Parent Company Krafton to Work On NFT and Metaverse Related Projects
11.2.2022
Krafton, the parent company of Bluehole, developers of PUBG, a popular battle royale game that has earned more than $300 million in 2021, announced it will redirect some of its activities toward developing NFT and metaverse-related projects. The company says it has acquired equity in two companies...
3 Metamask Alternatives with Features Ethereum’s Most Popular Wallet Doesn’t Have
11.2.2022
MetaMask is one of the most popular Ethereum wallets around. First released in 2016, the wallet first took the form of a browser extension that allows users to access the blockchain from directly within Chrome while exploring the Web. When it launched, MetaMask was one of numerous competing...
Rolling Stone Partners With Coinbase, First Collaboration Is a Limited Edition NFT Collection
6.2.2022
Following a two-year hiatus, the American magazine that’s dedicated to music, politics, and popular culture, Rolling Stone, announced the return of Rolling Stone Live. According to the publication, the Rolling Stone Live event marks the company’s first collaboration with Coinbase...
Report: Andreessen Horowitz Seeks an Investment in Bored Ape Yacht Club
6.2.2022
Two reports claim that the creators of the popular non-fungible token (NFT) project Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) are in talks of raising funds from investors such as the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. The alleged funding round is expected to be around $200 million, but sources further...
Racist Xbox Commenters Duped By Popular Impersonator Just In Time For Black History Month
4.2.2022
It would be so satisfying if corporations and brands more often called out racism and other ills in their comments sections on social media. In the responses to a recent Xbox post on Facebook, it appeared at first glance that the console-maker had done exactly that. And while it’s not quite what...
The Making of Atomic CSS: An Interview With Thierry Koblentz
3.2.2022
I interviewed Thierry Koblentz, creator of Atomic CSS, to understand the history and background that led to making of the popular CSS framework. Thierry, now retired, has vast experience writing CSS at large scale and has previously worked …
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Battle for authenticity heats up in world's most popular NFT collection
2.2.2022
It's a dilemma: Delegitimize CryptoPunks V1 and face severe pushback from V1 owners, or legitimize CryptoPunks V1 and cause brand dilution, which may lead to a drop in the value of CryptoPunks V2
Panther Protocol’s $ZKP Token Launches, Sets to Revolutionize Private Finance
1.2.2022
In the growing DeFi panorama, both institutional traders and retail investors are starting to notice the inherent privacy issues with the most popular Layer-1 blockchains. The extreme transparency of L1s such as Ethereum, Solana, and Avalanche, to name a few, leaves investors vulnerable to attacks...
The Relevance of TypeScript in 2022
31.1.2022
It’s 2022. And the current relevance of TypeScript is undisputed. TypeScript has dominated the front-end developer experience by many, many accounts. By now you likely already know that TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, building on JavaScript by adding …
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Robinhood to Launch Crypto Trading Internationally — Sees ‘Immense Potential’ in Crypto Economy
30.1.2022
Robinhood has “set aggressive goals to start opening its crypto platform up to customers internationally in 2022,” the popular trading platform revealed during its Q4 earnings call. “The company believes in the immense potential of the crypto economy and sees a big opportunity...
I Traveled To Facebook's Soulless (But Popular) Metaverse So You Don't Have To
27.1.2022
The metaverse is supposed to be the future, so it’s got the world buzzing with excitement. Hilariously, though, the prominence of the “futuristic” buzzword has caused old footage of digital worlds to explode on social media, largely driven by the fact that nobody really understands what the hell...
The New Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game Is Taking Over The Steam Charts
26.1.2022
Trading card game Yu-Gi-Oh! has been around since 1999 and Konami has been putting out video games versions of the TCG for just as long. So why is the free-to-play Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, released with little fanfare last week, hitting so hard there are a couple hundred thousand people playing it...
Samsung Provides a Glimpse Into the South Korean Metaverse and NFT Craze
26.1.2022
At the very beginning of 2022, South Korean tech giant Samsung announced its foray into the metaverse and a new “NFT Aggregation Platform” designed for its smart TVs. In addition to the NFT TVs, Samsung also launched a virtual experience inside of Decentraland, one of the most popular...
Scan your dog and go walkies in the Metaverse: Virtual NFT pets get popular
21.1.2022
If you ever owned a Tamagotchi or loved playing Nintendogs, the odds are that you are going to love this story