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Assassin's Creed Valhalla's New DLC Adds Cavalry Units That Keep Kicking My Ass
14.8.2021
I really enjoyed the new Assassin’s Creed Valhalla DLC, Siege of Paris. Exploring the new map was great and the storyline was perfectly paced. Good stuff! But there is one part of the DLC that sucks shit: The cavalry soldiers. They are annoying and because of how Valhalla works these assholes...
Man Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for Stealing Nearly $7 Million of Crypto in Israel
11.8.2021
Afek Zard, a resident of Israel, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for embezzling a large sum of cryptocurrency that belonged to a friend of his. The man, who refused to cooperate with the investigation, will have to pay a hefty fine as well. Israeli Resident Sentenced for Cryptocurrency...
"Old" Bitcoin Outperforms Upgraded Ethereum
6.8.2021
Bitcoin price gained traction above the USD 39,000 and USD 40,000 resistance levels. BTC is back in a positive zone and it seems like the bulls might aim for a test of USD 42,500. It is currently (12:24 UTC) trading above USD 40,000 and dips might remain limited.
BTC is the second-best (+8%)...
One Old Presentation by Buterin Brings an Unresolved Ethereum Issue Again
4.8.2021
Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum. Source: a video screenshot, edited by Cryptonews.com
An old speech by Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has resurfaced at a time when the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chief Gary Gensler is issuing warnings about initial coin offerings...
Monero Developer Arrested in US on Fraud Charges at Request of South African Government
4.8.2021
Former lead maintainer of Monero Riccardo Spagni, aka Fluffypony, has been arrested in the U.S. and is now waiting for his extradition to South Africa where he will stand trial for fraud. Spagni described the case as “an old matter, which I have continuously been trying to resolve since...
Viking Silver Found on Isle of Man Represents 1,000-Year-Old Analog Version of Bitcoin
21.7.2021
Off the coast of the Irish Sea, humans have lived on the Isle of Man since before 6500 B.C. The island has a robust history of Viking Age treasures. According to a recent announcement from Manx National Heritage, a heritage agency located there, an amateur treasure hunter recently discovered...
Testing interest in NFTs vs. physical collectibles with Apple founder’s 50-year-old job application
21.7.2021
The NFT features writing from a teenage Steve Jobs years before he helped found Apple Computers
Georgian Government Embraces Blockchain to Promote Its Wines Globally
21.7.2021
As Georgia seeks to bring its millennia-old wine industry into the 21st century, it is collaborating with blockchain platform Wiv to put the nation’s winemakers in front of a global audience of wine collectors, producers, and merchants. Move Brings Wines and Accompanying Provenance...
South China Morning Post to tokenize 118-year-old archive with NFTs
19.7.2021
Hong Kong landmarks like the Kowloon Walled City will be tokenized and showcased in The Sandbox Ethereum-based metaverse
Take-Two Is Removing Old GTA Mods Using DMCA Notices
18.7.2021
Rockstar Games’ parent company, Take-Two Interactive, has spent the past week or so using DMCA takedown requests to remove old Grand Theft Auto mods. The publisher hasn’t explained why it has started this sudden removal of old mods.Read more
Busking for Bitcoin: Report Finds Street Performers Depend on Digital Payments
17.7.2021
Street performers, or buskers, are leaning more toward digital platforms these days compared to the old method of accepting loose change. A report recently published by economists at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia has found that in certain areas, buskers get more donations via digital...
Spike Lee Directs ‘Old Money Is Out, New Money Is In’ Commercial for Cryptocurrency ATMs
16.7.2021
Award-winning director Spike Lee has teamed up with bitcoin ATM operator Coin Cloud on a multimillion-dollar crypto campaign. “Digital currency is viable for not just people of color, but anybody who has been historically excluded from traditional financial systems,” said the famed...
New York Giants’ Saquon Barkley Plans to Convert Endorsement Revenue to Bitcoin
15.7.2021
Another pro athlete in the National Football League (NFL) is planning to convert some of his earnings into bitcoin. The 24-year-old running back for the New York Giants, Saquon Barkley, discussed converting his endorsement revenue into bitcoin during a recent interview with the Morgan Creek Digital...
SEC Coinschedule Settlement Opens up Old Crypto Securities Wounds
15.7.2021
America’s top financial regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it has settled charges against the British firm Blotics, the company behind the Coinschedule initial coin offerings (ICOs) profiling site. But some key voices within the SEC are not happy with what...
Call of Duty Dev: Visiting Europe To Shoot Old Guns Was Hard Work, Y'know
15.7.2021
A profile in the latest issue of Edge magazine saw Sledgehammer Games co-founder Glen Schofield tell the venerable UK publication that fans don’t fully appreciate what it takes for a studio to get a Call of Duty game out the door.Read more
Whale From 2012 Transfers 740 Bitcoin Worth $26M After BTC Sat Idle for 9 Years
13.7.2021
On July 12, an old whale from 2012 spent 740 bitcoin worth roughly $26 million at the time of transfer after nine years of choosing not to move the coins. The whale acquired the bitcoin on May 31, 2012, when the stash of crypto was only worth $3,700. Old School Whale Moves 740 ‘Sleeping...
A Nearly 20-Year-Old Half-Life Easter Egg Was Just Found
10.7.2021
At the very end of Half-Life: Decay there’s a tiny Easter egg to be found, but only if you change your perspective and pay close attention to a destroyed computer. Read more
123-Year-Old Hydroelectric Plant Sees New Life Mining Bitcoin — Revenue 3x Higher Than Selling to the Grid
9.7.2021
On Thursday local reports from Mechanicville, the city located in Saratoga County, New York, say that an old hydroelectric plant constructed back in 1897 was almost dismantled, but today the plant is mining bitcoins. The Mechanicville facility is considered one of the oldest renewable energy plants...
Charles Hoskinson Faces Twitter Backlash as His Cardano Predictions Fall Short of Reality
7.7.2021
Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, has recently found himself the target of Twitter critics as year-old tweets that highlighted projections for the network’s adoption are failing to match community expectations. Slower Rollouts and Sluggish Adoption Spotlighted by Critics Cardano,...
Janice McAfee Does Not Accept Her Husband’s ‘Suicide’ Story — Widow Blasts Mainstream Media
7.7.2021
The eccentric 75-year-old cybersecurity tycoon John McAfee’s death has spurred a lot of controversy and speculation since he passed. Now McAfee’s widow Janice McAfee is speaking out and she doesn’t believe the mainstream media’s reports of her husband’s suicide....