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Alien Isolation: The I-Can't-Believe-I-Waited-Seven-Years-For-This Review
7.5.2021
For Backlog Month, I wanted to go back and play one game more than any other. One that had been casting the longest shadow over my back catalogue, a game that was both seemingly made specifically for me, but also made to keep me at arm’s length. That game is Alien: Isolation.Read more
US Dollar Share of Global Foreign Exchange Reserves Drops to 25-Year Low
6.5.2021
Serkan Arslanalp is Deputy Division Chief in the Balance of Payments Division of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Statistics Department. Chima Simpson-Bell is an Economist in the same department.
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The share of US dollar reserves held by central banks fell to 59%—its lowest level in...
Last Year Was Nintendo's Most Profitable One Ever
6.5.2021
In 2020, Nintendo saw huge profits with people quarantined at home, playing video games.Read more
Mercado Libre Embraces Bitcoin Pay – Which its CEO Wrote Off Last Year
6.5.2021
Mercado Libre, an Argentinian, Nasdaq-listed e-commerce giant, became the latest firm to embrace crypto pay last week. But its CEO appears to have had a rather dramatic change of heart on the matter – as he was publicly bashing bitcoin (BTC)’s payment credentials less than 12 months ago.
To call...
Climate Change Targets Bitcoin Mining: NY Lawmaker Proposes 3-Year Moratorium on Mining Operations in the State
5.5.2021
U.S. bureaucrats, particularly Democrats, are concerned about climate change and have introduced lots of legislation in order to address these concerns. Now a lawmaker from New York wants to establish a moratorium for bitcoin mining facilities located in the state, which means cryptocurrency miners...
40% of Surveyed Individuals Plan to Use Crypto Within a Year - Mastercard
5.5.2021
Amid a surging interest in cryptocurrencies as a payment method observed across the world, 40% of surveyed individuals said using crypto is in their plans for the next year, according to a recent survey commissioned by payments giant Mastercard.
The survey of some 15,569 people, conducted online...
Hundreds of Banks in US to Allow Customers to Buy, Sell, Hold Bitcoin Through Existing Bank Accounts
5.5.2021
Hundreds of banks in the U.S. will reportedly start offering access to bitcoin to their customers this year, thanks to a partnership between Fidelity National Information Services and the New York Digital Investment Group. Hundreds of banks have enrolled to participate in the program as they...
Nigeria’s Cryptocurrency Traded Volumes on P2P Platform Top $1.5 Billion
5.5.2021
According to Paxful, a peer-to-peer trading platform, Nigeria’s cryptocurrency traded volumes on the platform topped $1.5 billion in the first four months of the year 2021. This figure represents almost a third of Paxful’s global total volume of $5 billion. This latest traded volume...
Mastercard Finds 4 in 10 People Plan to Use Cryptocurrency in the Next Year
5.5.2021
Global payments giant Mastercard has conducted a survey of 15,569 consumers in 18 countries and found that 4 in 10 people plan to use cryptocurrency in the next year. Meanwhile, 93% of people will consider using at least one emerging payment method, such as cryptocurrency. Mastercard’s Crypto...
40% intend to use crypto for payments in the next year: Mastercard survey
5.5.2021
Millennials are big on crypto with 77% wanting to learn more
Four crypto veterans pledge to give at least 1% of their wealth to charity each year
5.5.2021
Ryan Selkis, Dan Matuszewski, Qiao Wang and Haseeb Qureshi join the new crypto donations initiative established by The Giving Block
ECB Deepens Analysis of Digital Euro, Decision Expected by Mid-Year, VP Confirms
4.5.2021
Faced with challenges on many fronts, the European Central Bank is now deepening the analysis of how to digitalize its currency. A decision on whether to issue a digital euro, which has the potential to become a major CBDC, is expected around mid-2021, a high-ranking official of the central bank...
Accenture and Digital Dollar Foundation to trial United States CBDC this year
4.5.2021
Five pilot programs will gather data on a digital dollar in the United States over the next 12 months
Gold Bug vs. Bitcoin Bug: A Look at the Curious Relationship Between Peter and Spencer Schiff
3.5.2021
For years now the well known economist and gold bug Peter Schiff has continuously spoken out against bitcoin, as he claims precious metals are far superior. A great number of people have rebutted Schiff’s statements about bitcoin but during the last year, the gold bug has had a different...
Bitcoin Is Number One Pick — Asset Manager Confident BTC Will Take Him ‘to the Top’ in Stock Draft Competition
3.5.2021
At CNBC’s Stock Draft, an annual stock-picking competition, bitcoin was the number one pick. Tim Seymour, the founder of Seymour Asset Management, believes that the government will come out with regulations that support bitcoin. He is confident that the cryptocurrency will take him “to...
European Investment Bank Distributes $121 Million in Ethereum-based Digital Bonds
29.4.2021
The European Investment Bank (EIB), the investment bank owned by the EU Member States, has announced the issuance of the organization’s first-ever digital bond built on a public blockchain. The bond was issued using Ethereum and the issuance invoked $121 million two-year bonds placed with...
SBI doubled crypto business profits in past fiscal year
28.4.2021
SBI’s total pre-tax profit from its crypto business surged above $174 million in the past fiscal year
Finder’s Bitcoin Prediction Survey Shows Respondents Forecast Six-Digit BTC Prices
27.4.2021
The comparison website that operates in 83 countries, finder.com, has recently published its quarterly bitcoin price prediction report for 2021 and the panellists are very optimistic about bitcoin’s future value. A number of Finder’s panel of 35 fintech specialists believe that bitcoin...
Today marks the 10-year anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto’s final message
26.4.2021
On April 26, 2011, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto allegedly left the nascent cryptocurrency community to work on other projects. Nobody has been able to track them down ever since
OVR Launches Futuristic Virtual Gallery for NFTs and More
26.4.2021
Today, April 26th, 2021, the virtual gallery of OVR.ai was inaugurated to showcase artists working with non-fungible tokens (NFT) and beyond. Considering the hype around the NFT phenomenon this year and also given that the Coronavirus pandemic prevents most artists from exhibiting works in museums...