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Warner Bros to Launch Matrix NFT Avatars With Blue Pill and Red Pill Options
5.11.2021
Warner Bros., the American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate has announced the launch of non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles for the upcoming film “The Matrix Resurrections” after dropping official Space Jam NFT collectibles. The Matrix NFT program will start...
Celebrating the Seminal Bitcoin White Paper Satoshi Nakamoto Published 13 Years Ago Today
31.10.2021
All around the world cryptocurrency supporters and proponents of blockchain technology are celebrating the 13th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper. The summary of the inventor’s creation was published on metzdowd.com’s Cryptography Mailing List on Halloween 2008, as it gave birth...
24 Years After Release, GoldenEye N64 Is No Longer Banned In Germany
30.10.2021
GoldenEye 007 for the N64 was released in 1997 in most of the world. However, in Germany, it was banned and designated as “Media Harmful To Young Persons.” But now someone has stepped in to help unban the classic shooter.Read more
LGND Curates Major NFT Art Gallery at ComplexCon
30.10.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Austin, Texas – LGND Art Inc. announces its foremost curatorial effort to date, a major NFT art show in the form of a gallery to appear exclusively at ComplexCon 2021. Sponsored by Coinbase, the exhibition will include global artists in a unique group that includes Mad...
Flipnote Studio Creations Find New Life On Crank-y Playdate Handheld
23.10.2021
Although it won’t officially be in our hands until later this year (if you got in on the first wave of pre-orders, that is), Panic’s unique Playdate handheld is already being poked and prodded by folks lucky enough to score a dev unit. One such developer recently shared a neat little project that...
Proshares Bitcoin Strategy ETF Debut Captures Close to $1 Billion in Volume
20.10.2021
The first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) launched in the United States and smashed records on Tuesday, capturing close to $1 billion in total volume. Eric Balchunas, the senior ETF analyst for Bloomberg said that the Proshares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) definitely “defied...
NY Attorney General Targets 5 Crypto Companies: 2 Lending Platforms Ordered to Shut Down
19.10.2021
New York Attorney General Letitia James has ordered two cryptocurrency lending platforms to shut down and requested three other platforms to answer questions regarding their activities immediately. The letters to the companies published on the attorney general’s website indicate that the...
New SEC Filings Give the Impression US Regulators Approved a Bitcoin Futures ETF
16.10.2021
The price of bitcoin jumped over 8% during the last 24 hours after a number of documents stemming from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) web portal indicated that the Proshares Trust exchange-traded fund (ETF) could be listed as soon as next week. Proshares filed...
CFTC Fines Stablecoin Issuer Tether and Crypto Exchange Bitfinex $42.5 Million
15.10.2021
On Friday, October 15, 2021, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it had ordered the company Tether Holdings Limited and Ifinex Inc., the parent company of Bitfinex, to pay fines totaling $42.5 million. The CFTC accuses Tether of “making untrue or misleading...
Studio 54 Reveals Never-Before-Seen Photograph and Pixel Art NFTs of the Famed Disco Club
14.10.2021
Superrare Labs has revealed the first-ever non-fungible token (NFT) drop crafted by the renowned photographer Bill Bernstein and the legendary Studio 54. The NFT drop features the nightlife photographs taken by Bernstein from the iconic Studio 54 and Paradise Garage. Additionally, Superrare...
St. Louis Fed’s James Bullard Would ‘Support Starting the Taper in November’ to React to Inflation
14.10.2021
St. Louis Federal Reserve president James Bullard told the press on Tuesday that he thinks the U.S. central bank needs to wind down the buying of $80 billion worth of monthly bond purchases. Bullard says he would support tapering starting as early as November, in order to “react to possible...
Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechain Criticized Over Long Outage — Block Signing Issue Related to Upgrade
6.10.2021
On Tuesday, cryptocurrency supporters on social media and forums discussed Blockstream’s Liquid sidechain product as block signing had been down for over 20 hours. While Blockstream had noted the sidechain was undergoing a hard fork upgrade planned for October 5, a number of crypto...
Smash Players Think Patrick Kinda Sucks In The Nickelodeon Fighting Game
5.10.2021
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl just came out yesterday, but that hasn’t stopped Super Smash Bros. players from tearing the game apart for any juicy morsel that may give them an edge in the platform fighter.Read more
Last Call Is An Intimate Game About Healing From An Abusive Relationship
2.10.2021
Oftentimes the gameplay loop in point-and-click adventures involves uninspired scavenger hunts for trinkets, with no time taken to fully appreciate the history of those objects. The new game Last Call tackles this shortcoming directly, making the backstory of seemingly ordinary items a core part...
SEC Delays 4 Bitcoin ETF Deadlines — Regulator ‘Finds It Appropriate to Designate a Longer Period of Time’
1.10.2021
On Friday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed four bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETF) deadlines for another 45 days. The regulator notes that the entity needs more time to decide on the ETF applications. Global X, Kryptoin, Valkyrie, Wisdomtree Bitcoin ETF Deadlines...
Outriders, Six Months Later: Meh
29.9.2021
Everyone loves a redemption story. Outriders, a third-person loot-shooter released earlier this year, seemed poised for a good one. Like many online-only games, it launched with a raft of problems, obscuring the fact that under all the disconnects and server failures was a pretty solid game. Many...
Pan-African Exchange Yellow Card Raises $15 Million in Latest Funding Round
29.9.2021
Yellow Card, an Africa-focused crypto exchange platform, recently announced a capital raise of $15 million from its Series A funding round. The capital raise, which is Yellow Card’s largest, was led by Valar Ventures, Third Prime, and Castle Island Ventures. Square, Coinbase Ventures,...
The Internet's Hateboner For Chris Pratt As Mario In Nintendo's Movie, Explained
24.9.2021
Nintendo lobbed a grenade the size of a King Bob-omb at the social fabric of America yesterday when it announced that Hollywood leading man and charming village idiot Chris Pratt would be Mario. That’s right, the Italian plumber is finally re-appearing on the big screen after a nearly 30-year...
Deathloop: The Kotaku Review
22.9.2021
Video games are inescapably intertwined with iteration and do-overs. It’s written into the technology that builds them, the development practices that craft them, and often the very rules governing how they work: win-lose, trial and error. Some games have tried to mask this artifice in the service...
The 15 Best Games on PC
17.9.2021
PC gamers have got a pretty great thing going. Interesting, experimental indie games? Yup. Complex strategy simulations? Totally. The shiniest, prettiest versions of big-budget console games? They get a lot of those, too. Let’s say you’ve recently joined the ranks of the PC elite. Which games...