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Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Faces New Bribery Charges for Alleged Crypto Payment to Chinese Officials
28.3.2023
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the former CEO of FTX, now faces a 13-count indictment as U.S. officials have added new charges. One of the new charges alleges that SBF leveraged $40 million to influence “one or more Chinese government officials.” Details of the Bribery Charges Against...
Arbitrum Daily Transaction Count Hits Record High Ahead of Token Airdrop
23.3.2023
Arbitrum is decentralizing by launching its governance token ARB
Emojis count as financial advice and have legal consequences, judge rules
24.2.2023
Former SEC branch chief Lisa Braganca warned the public of the legal consequences of using the emojis
Arbitrum’s Daily Transaction Count Surpasses Ethereum for the First Time Ever
23.2.2023
According to statistics recorded this week on Tuesday and Wednesday, the layer two scaling project Arbitrum’s transaction count has surpassed Ethereum’s. On Wednesday, Arbitrum processed 1,090,510 transactions, compared to Ethereum’s 1,080,839 transfer count. L2 Scaling...
MultiVersus’ Daily Player Count Plunges By 99 Percent, But Maybe Pickle Rick Can Save It
15.2.2023
MultiVersus, Warner Bros. popular online fighting game that made the phrase “LeBron James frame data” a real thing you can say, has experienced a significant drop in its daily player count on Steam.Read more
Apex Legends Hits New Peak Player Count Thanks To Team Deathmatch
15.2.2023
Just in time to celebrate its fourth anniversary, Respawn Entertainment’s popular free-to-play hero shooter Apex Legends has hit a new peak concurrent player count on Steam. Read more
Axie Infinity’s Monthly Player Count Drops to Low Not Seen Since November 2020
23.1.2023
After recording $4.26 billion in total non-fungible token (NFT) sales, the play-to-earn game Axie Infinity’s monthly player count has dropped to levels not seen since November 2020, a period of 26 months. Despite the low player count, the project’s native token, AXS, has climbed...
Number of devs increased during crypto winter: Electric Capital report
18.1.2023
Ethereum continues to be the dominant blockchain for developer activity, however, a few other chains continued to make ground
Ethereum Validator Count Surpasses 500,000 Ahead of Upcoming Shanghai Hard Fork
17.1.2023
According to statistics, the number of Ethereum network validators on the Beacon chain exceeded 500,000 as of Jan. 12, 2023. The validator milestone comes as Ethereum core developers prepare for the Shanghai hard fork. Five days ago, Ethereum core developers launched a developer network environment...
Combined Transactions on Arbitrum and Optimism L2 Chains Outpace Ethereum’s Daily Transfer Count
16.1.2023
Since The Merge, Ethereum’s onchain fees have been considerably lower. However, combined transaction volume on layer two (L2) chains Arbitrum and Optimism has outpaced Ethereum’s onchain transaction output. On Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023, Ethereum processed 1.10 million onchain...
Crypto Layoffs: Here's the Grim Count Since April
5.1.2023
As a bear market sweeps the crypto industry, CoinDesk is keeping a running list of industry players that have been forced to cut back on staff
Warzone 2.0’s Getting Stats Soon, But Your Current Kills Don’t Count
9.12.2022
Call of Duty Warzone 2.0 players are about to get what they wanted…sort of. The red-hot online shooter is getting Combat Records with its Season 01 Reloaded midseason update, which will go live December 14. Sounds good. But the catch is, it’s starting fresh: no information from the games...
Will SBF face consequences for mismanaging FTX? Don’t count on it
16.11.2022
Lawmakers, regulators and even the institutional media don’t seem to have much interest in faulting SBF for using customer money to trade under the table
Axie Infinity player count falls back to Jan 2021 levels
12.10.2022
The numbers represent a 74% decrease from peak levels witnessed just ten months ago
Unique Ethereum TX Count Jumps 40% Ahead of Merge; Overtakes Bitcoin
9.9.2022
Unique Ethereum transactions jumped by 40.3% between August 31 and September 4, as Ethereum developers completed the latest Bellatrix upgrade and prepared for next week's Merge. And with yesterday's transaction count residing at 368,463, it has overtaken the corresponding figure for Bitcoin, which...
Lower costs, higher speeds after Ethereum’s Merge? Don’t count on it
25.8.2022
There’s a lot of hype surrounding Ethereum’s Merge. But in reality, most users aren’t going to notice much change
Half-Life Fans Rally And Set New Player Count Record On Steam
16.8.2022
Yesterday, Half-Life fans came together as part of a community-created online event. The goal? To get as many people as possible playing the original 1998 Half-Life on Steam in an effort to set a new record for concurrent players. And not only did they accomplish that, but they also had a fun time...
The Number of Cryptocurrency ATMs Installed Worldwide Surpasses 39,000
8.8.2022
This week the number of cryptocurrency automated teller machines (ATMs) operating worldwide has surpassed the 39,000 mark. Since January 2017 when the count was approaching 1K machines, the number of crypto ATMs has grown by 3,925% since then. Crypto ATM numbers saw exponential growth during...
Billion Dollar Bitcoin Lawsuit Verdict Appealed — Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor Expects a Win
11.4.2022
The law firm representing Ira Kleiman has sent a notice of appeal to the Florida District Court in an attempt to appeal the court’s rejection of a Kleiman v. Wright retrial. The self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor, Craig Wright, was cleared of all charges at the end of the Kleiman v. Wright...
Number of Addresses Holding BTC Taps 40 Million, Non-Zero Bitcoin Address Metric Grew 92% Since 2018
25.3.2022
While bitcoin has risen in value in recent times, jumping 8% during the last seven days, statistics show that the number of addresses holding bitcoin has surpassed 40 million addresses. Metrics from the analytics web portal intotheblock.com show addresses that hold any fraction of bitcoin tapped...