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Bravely Default 2 Is Another Fun But Flawed Old-School JRPG
25.2.2021
Bravely Default 2 is a trip, man. I thought I knew exactly what this game was going in, and it turns out I pretty much did, except for all of the tiny moments that occasionally delight, and just as occasionally elicit big, heaving sighs. Every time the familiar old-school JRPG wins me over...
This Is Why Old Models Don't Work With Bitcoin According to Raoul Pal
23.2.2021
Raoul Pal. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Real Vision Finance
The old economic models used to grasp various asset price bubbles from the past are distorting our view of bitcoin (BTC)'s recent price spike, as cryptocurrencies should be considered as exponential trends powered by network...
Researcher Finds an Old Twitter Profile May Have Been Satoshi Nakamoto’s Account
22.2.2021
On February 22, 2021, an author published a post on substack.com about an anonymous Twitter account that may have belonged to the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. The researcher discovered a Twitter account dubbed ‘Goldlover,’ and found some interesting coincidences with the account’s...
The ‘All Your Base Are Belong To Us’ Video Is Now 20 Years Old
17.2.2021
The early aughts were a weird time. George H. W. Bush’s loser son somehow became president, god-awful bands like Crazy Town and Staind had songs on the Billboard Hot 100, and we made do with, like, one meme a year. In 2001 that meme was “All Your Base,” a Newgrounds video that ironically celebrated...
The Room 4: Old Sins Is Out For PC, And Prettier Than Ever
15.2.2021
Long before you kids in your short pants and fashionable haircuts were escaping escape rooms, there was one developer far ahead of that curve. In 2012, Fireproof Games released their first game in their The Room series of puzzle games. Last week they just released The Room 4: Old Sins on PC,...
Youngest HODLer ever? Elon Musk buys DOGE for his 9-month-old son
10.2.2021
"Toddler HODLer" may soon become a new meme in the crypto space
Epic Games Settles Lawsuit Against 14-Year-Old Fortnite Player
10.2.2021
Epic Games has settled a 2017 lawsuit against a 14-year-old Fortnite player who allegedly made YouTube videos of himself using cheating software.Read more
State of Crypto: India and Nigeria’s Crypto Crackdowns Continue Old Trends
9.2.2021
Both nations hope to prevent banks from providing services to crypto companies
The Original Voice of Studio Ghibli's Porco Rosso Has Died At 86 Years Old
9.2.2021
Shuichiro Moriyama, known for his acting and voice work, has passed away after entering a hospital in Saitama, Japan for pneumonia. He was 86.Read more
Fix “no such file or directory, scandir”
8.2.2021
After 15+ years in the web development industry, and seeing the landscape of tooling change, I’ve really lost patience with tooling errors. Like…Old Man Walsh™ just wants yarn install to work so he can get on with his work day. One recent error I ran into was from a dependency...
Crypto Hedge Funds Defraud $100 Million From Investors, Founder Faces 20 Years in Prison
7.2.2021
The founder of two cryptocurrency hedge funds has been charged in U.S. federal court for securities fraud. He has pleaded guilty and is facing up to 20 years in prison. His two funds cumulatively had over $100 million in investments. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that...
Are GameStop-Style Surges In Crypto Any Different From Old Pumps & Dumps?
7.2.2021
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The biggest financial craze of the first month of 2021 was neither bitcoin (BTC) nor any other cryptoasset. It’s GameStop (GME), or rather the anti-short collective buying that has emerged around this stock of a troubled US company and other heavily shorted securities.
In...
Online Sleuths Believe Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin Stash Is a Blockchain Treasure Hunt Meant to Be Found
7.2.2021
Over the last twelve years, the cryptocurrency community has always been intrigued by Bitcoin’s inventor Satoshi Nakamoto. For over a decade, armchair sleuths and journalists have tried to uncover the creator’s identity and information on the whereabouts of all the bitcoins the enigma...
Devs ditching old ‘Ethereum killers’ for DeFi, NFTs and newer chains: Report
4.2.2021
Developers are switching their efforts to DeFi as it takes a larger slice of the crypto market
Pulse DeFi LTD Provides a Full Range of Financial Services, With Decentralization at the Forefront
3.2.2021
Pulse DeFi LTD Is a new London-based platform for digital token farming, staking, lending and borrowing. It provides a full range of services that can replace the old established financial system, but with decentralization at the forefront. Pulse DeFi LTD Wants You to Be Able to Trust the Economy...
Robinhood Can’t Democratize Finance Using Old Tools
1.2.2021
Robinhood saw the ire of traders last week because it promised to be different. It turned out to be fancy app on top of an antiquated system
A Four-Year-Old Muslim Boy Was Reported To Terrorist Watchdog For Talking About Fortnite
1.2.2021
The Guardian reports that the British government’s Prevent system, a community terrorism watchdog brimming with baked-in racism, once received a tip about a four-year-old boy who was overheard talking about Fortnite, which resulted in police turning up at the family’s home.Read more
How Researchers Used GM Car Crash Data And Frozen To Explain A Grisly 62-Year-Old Mystery
30.1.2021
I am a fan of the strange and unusual, so when our Editor-in-Chief Rory Carroll spotted this fascinating story in National Geographic about the Dyatlov Pass incident, he immediately sent it to me. He was right to do so, as this is one of my favorite mysteries and it seems it may have actually...
Trade in Your Old Smartphone and Get up To $900 off a Samsung Galaxy S21 at Best Buy
29.1.2021
Samsung Galaxy S21 | $800 | Best BuySamsung Galaxy S21 Plus | $1,000 | Best BuySamsung Galaxy S21 Ultra | $1,200 | Best BuyRead more
Davos Watch: 'The Old World of Currency Now Has To Catch Up'
28.1.2021
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Experts say that the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the pace of the shift from cash to digital payments, triggering an estimated 8% rise in non-cash payments in the euro area alone last year. But at the same time, a glut of central bank digital currency (CBDC)...