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Nvidia's Latest Flagship Graphics Card Is The $1,200 RXT 3080 Ti
1.6.2021
On sale June 3 for a suggested retail price of $1,199, the RTX 3080 Ti is here to make older Nvidia cards look like hot garbage in comparison. Too pricey? The RTX 3070 Ti goes on sale next week for only $599. Read more
Coin Race: Top Winners/Losers of May; BTC, ETH in Red, Cardano Led Top 10
1.6.2021
March was mega green, April was really green, and May was…well, let’s take a look.
The month was certainly marked by the dramatic selloff, followed by the expected consolidation. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading between USD 31,000 and USD 40,000 in the second half of the month, while ethereum (ETH)...
Boy Sells Pokémon Cards To Pay For Puppy's Vet Bills, Gets Rare Cards As A Present
31.5.2021
Eight-year-old Bryson Kliemann decided to sell his Pokémon cards to help pay for his dog’s medical bills. According to Local 12, the dog contracted a highly contagious virus, and treatment cost almost $700.Read more
Nvidia Makes $155 Million From Crypto Mining Chips in Fiscal Q1
27.5.2021
Graphics cards manufacturer Nvidia has earned $155 million in revenue from chips designed for cryptocurrency mining during the first fiscal quarter. The company admitted that crypto miners have also pushed sales up in the gaming products segment which remains its main market. Leading GPU Maker...
Fold's Bitcoin Cashback Card, Biden's Trillions, Checking & Fixing Coinbase + More News
27.5.2021
Source: A screenshot, Instagram/potus
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Fold, a bitcoin (BTC) rewards app, announced a USD 13m series A round to fuel...
Nvidia Aims to Get Its GPUs Back ‘Into the Hands of Gamers’ by Reducing Mining Capabilities on 3 Graphic Cards
20.5.2021
A major chipmaker keeps making efforts to calm down the gaming community’s anger toward cryptocurrency miners who are taking the lead in buying graphic cards massively, boosting its prices. Nvidia has announced that it will deliberately limit the capabilities for some of its newly graphic...
Target Stores Will Stop Selling Pokémon Cards After Shortages, Fighting
13.5.2021
Thanks to a combination of the pandemic, late-stage capitalism and people being assholes, Target stores across the US are about to halt all physical sales of certain trading cards, with Pokémon on the list.Read more
Card Shop Employee Arrested For Alleged Assault Over Mask Request
12.5.2021
Late last month, 27-year-old Kazuhiro Arita traveled from Osaka to Fukuoka. While there, according to News 24 and ANN, a 55-year-old man warned him about not wearing a mask, provoking Arita to allegedly punch him repeatedly in the head. Read more
Variable Aspect Ratio Card With Conic Gradients Meeting Along the Diagonal
10.5.2021
I recently came across an interesting problem. I had to implement a grid of cards with a variable (user-set) aspect ratio that was stored in a --ratio custom property. Boxes with a certain aspect ratio are a classic problem in …
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China’s Digital Yuan Smart Card to Feature Biometrics and Fingerprint Scanning
9.5.2021
The People’s Bank of China’s upcoming digital yuan card will feature IDEX Biometrics and fingerprint scanning, according to regional reports. China’s “Digital Currency Electronic Payment” or DCEP is getting closer toward launch by the day. Last week, smart card...
Mogo Adds 146 ETH to Firm’s Balance Sheet, Plans to Turn 5% of Its Portfolio Into Crypto Assets
5.5.2021
On Tuesday, the Nasdaq-listed Canadian company Mogo revealed the firm has purchased 146 ether at an average price of $2,780. The move follows the firm’s corporate investment in bitcoin, as well as offering bitcoin rewards for the company’s mortgage and card clients. The company plans...
Fan Proves EVE Online Would Make A Great Card Game
3.5.2021
EVE Online players make a lot of fan art related to their passion: song parodies, propaganda films, online talk shows. Now, one player is combining their passion for EVE with their passion for another kind of game—collectible card games.Read more
Got crypto? Here are 3 debit cards that let you spend your stack
30.4.2021
Crypto debit cards are growing in popularity as holders look for effortless ways to spend their assets
Nvidia again limiting crypto mining on its RTX-3060 gaming graphics card
30.4.2021
After accidentally unlocking its own hash rate limiter in a driver update, Nvidia has announced it will lock new cards again by reducing the mining capacity by 50%
Someone Paid USD 1.7M In Litecoin For Tom Brady Football Card
29.4.2021
Source: Twitter/@GoldinAuctions
In what is called one of the largest "hard asset" transactions to be paid entirely in cryptocurrency, an unknown buyer purchased an autographed Tom Brady football card for about USD 1.68m worth of litecoin (LTC) at an auction hosted by Goldin Auctions.
The...
Mastercard Launching Crypto Rewards Credit Card With Real-Time Bitcoin Rewards
27.4.2021
Mastercard is launching a new cryptocurrency rewards credit card featuring real-time rewards in partnership with crypto exchange Gemini. Cardholders will earn up to 3% back in real-time in bitcoin or a number of supported cryptocurrencies. Payments giant Mastercard is launching a new crypto rewards...
Gemini to launch Bitcoin cashback rewards on Mastercard credit card
27.4.2021
The exchange will offer up to 3% cashback in the form of cryptocurrency for users of its upcoming Mastercard credit card
Signed Pokémon Card Sells For $250,000
27.4.2021
We now live in a world where boxes of Pokémon cards are selling for over $400,000 and individual Blastoise cards for $360,000, so maybe it’s not the biggest surprise that this very rare and very cool card featuring Pokémon Company stalwart Tsunekazu Ishihara has also sold for an astronomical...
Proof-Of-Bitcoin Needed As Critics & Competitors Unite To Play Climate Card
22.4.2021
There's a new Bitcoin (BTC) initiative on the table that would see miners as energy buyers, providing complementary technology for clean energy production and storage, better return to investors, and excess energy, as well as help solve solar and wind intermittency and congestion problems...
Samsung, Shinhan Card Workers ‘Quit Jobs after Making Crypto Fortunes’
22.4.2021
Source: Adobe/S_E
The South Korean mainstream media has found a new subject du jour – crypto. And all of today’s major newspapers carried reports on crypto fever 2.0, a wave of investment that has seen bitcoin (BTC) and altcoin buying go through the roof, eclipsing even the situation in late 2017...