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Skyrim Is As Old As Morrowind Was When Skyrim Came Out
25.5.2021
Wanna feel old? I sure don’t but I do now anyway, all thanks to one astute yet extremely mean tweet that popped into my timeline and instilled in me a sudden urge to burn my savings on a premium Botox job: As amateur video game historian Chris Chapman pointed out, Skyrim is officially as old...
Old Overwatch Bug Let Ashe's Robot Vote On How Well You Played
25.5.2021
In Overwatch, B.O.B., Ashe’s robot companion and ultimate ability, doesn’t do much beyond shoot where Ashe tells him to. But yesterday, an AMA revealed that the Big Omnic Butler initially had a lot of thoughts on how players performed in Overwatch matches.Read more
Mystery Bitcoin Whale from 2010 Disappears, Dormant Address from 2013 Sees Strange Activity
23.5.2021
Toward the latter half of 2020 and during the first quarter of 2021, a mystery miner spent 200 block rewards from 2010 by transferring 10,000 bitcoin during the year. Since the whale’s last 1,000 bitcoin spend on March 23, the patterns of 20 decade-old strings of coinbase rewards...
Blazing Strike Is A New, Old-School 2D Fighter
20.5.2021
Because there’s no such thing as too many anime-inspired 2D fighting games, Aksys and RareBreed Makes Games just announced Blazing Strike, an homage to classic pixel-art fighters with modern game mechanics that’ll hopefully make it play as good as it looks.Read more
Cobie Livestream Raises $800,000 in Crypto to Pay Child’s Cancer Treatment
16.5.2021
Cobie, the host of the Uponly podcast and a popular crypto Twitter personality, bolstered a fundraising session for John Oliver, a six-year-old kid that is currently battling leukemia. The initiative was quite successful, getting the attention of the likes of FTX executive Sam Bankman Fried,...
93-Year-Old YouTuber Loves Racing Games
14.5.2021
This grandpa loves cars. During the 1960s, he was a taxi driver in Tokyo, and drove dump trucks from the 1970s through the 1990s. He’s driven loads of classic Japanese domestic models like the Mazda Savanna RX7. The man loves cars. And now, at the age of 93, he’s playing racing games.Read more
South Korea: Interest in Crypto Equal Between Younger and Older Age Groups
14.5.2021
The authors of a detailed report on the profile of crypto investors in South Korea have concluded that Crypto Fever 2.0 has been marked by a spike in interest among older age groups – with those in their 40s and 50s expressing a similar amount of interest in tokens as the ever-crypto-keen 20-39...
CSS Pie Timer Re-Revisited
12.5.2021
Kitty reflected on an ancient blog post here on CSS-Tricks on how to make an animated pie timer. The old technique is still clever. The new technique is equally clever and much easier. I particularly like the steps() animation function…
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The Room: Old Sins Dollhouse Is An Excellent Lego Idea
10.5.2021
In The Room: Old Sins, players navigate a mysterious, puzzle-filled dollhouse, hoping to solve the mystery of a prominent engineer gone mad. Players find pieces of the dollhouse as they play, adding them to the build to unlock new areas. Sounds like the perfect project for the Lego Ideas program....
Nigeria Stopping the Rejection of Old or Torn USD Notes Underlines Why Crypto Is a Better Reserve Currency
3.5.2021
In early April 2021, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) issued a circular warning Nigerian institutions to stop the practice of rejecting old or lower denomination USD notes. The CBN issued the warning after it became “inundated with complaints from members of the public on the rejection...
Interoperability May Be The Single Biggest Threat to Ethereum’s Dominance
30.4.2021
While it may still be the primary network hub for defi activities, smart contracts, and NFTs, bridges built using competing networks like Tezos could pose a serious challenge to Ethereum’s market share in these areas. New Solutions to Old Problems Could Undermine Network’s Potency...
Sending Large Files
29.4.2021
I’ve got a podcast that will be 10 years old this coming January! Most of those episodes have one or more guests (plus me and Dave). Despite fancy modern options for recording podcasts with guests, like Riverside.fm or Zencastr…
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Dogecoin Investor Becomes Millionaire in 2 Months, Inspired by Elon Musk
25.4.2021
A dogecoin investor has shared his story of how he became a crypto millionaire in a little over two months after learning about the meme cryptocurrency and pouring all his savings into it. He said he was inspired by Elon Musk’s tweets about dogecoin. A Doge Millionaire Shares His Story...
Whales Move Over $4 Billion in BTC During Sunday’s Market Carnage, 150 Bitcoin from 2010 Spent
19.4.2021
After bitcoin and a myriad of other crypto-assets tumbled in value on Sunday a number of significant whale movements took place. During the morning trading sessions on Sunday (EST), an old school miner transferred three decade-old coinbase rewards with 150 bitcoin worth more than $8.5 million....
200-Year-Old American Wine Shop Now Accepts Cryptocurrencies
15.4.2021
Nearly every day now a new company is announcing the acceptance of cryptocurrencies in some form or another. Now one of the world’s largest fine wine auction houses and America’s oldest wine shop Acker has revealed digital currency acceptance to pay for auction payments and retail wine...
At 79 Years Old, Gundam Creator Yoshiyuki Tomino Is Still Competitive
15.4.2021
Yoshiyuki Tomino is an anime legend. At his age, you might think he’s checked out, retired, and is taking it easy. You’d be wrong.Read more
Toddler hodler: 3-year-old Bitcoin educator interviews Michael Saylor
14.4.2021
Three-year-old Lily Knight interviewed Michael Saylor on April 13 about his thoughts on Bitcoin and his plans for the future
I'm Finally Happy I Bought An "Old" Graphics Card
13.4.2021
Let me tell you about an emotional rollercoaster I’ve been on for the past eight months. It’s a cautionary tale, about the perils of obsessing over PC hardware, but also one of celebration, a triumph against the odds.Read more
Piper Sandler Survey Shows 9% of American Teens Have Traded Cryptocurrency
9.4.2021
The American independent investment bank and financial services company, Piper Sandler has published its latest “Taking Stock With Teens” survey which notes that 9% of U.S. teenagers have traded cryptocurrencies. 7,000 teenagers were polled and roughly 81% of those who have traded...
Xbox Is Supporting Old Games, While Sony And Nintendo Are Leaving Them Behind
1.4.2021
Yesterday, Microsoft made it possible to instantly stream a bunch of older Xbox 360 and original Xbox games to any device compatible with Game Pass. It’s another piece of evidence that Microsoft is taking backward compatibility very seriously this time around, and that Sony and Nintendo have fallen...