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Pokémon's Creepy Lavender Town Myth, Explained
29.10.2021
Pokémon may be famously cheery, but the series has its share of dark, spooky myths. The most famous of those have got to be the ones about Lavender Town.Read more
Your game's on sale too often? Players say that's unlikely!
28.9.2021
Dispelling a myth I'm interested in poking at
Chystaná čínská hra o Opičím králi vám nádhernou grafikou vezme dech
23.8.2021
Přesně po roce od prvotního oznámení představili vývojáři z čínského studia Game Science další záběry z chystané hry Black Myth: Wukong. A i když se to zdálo nemožné, vypadají ještě lépe než ty minulé
That Time Konami Made A Game About Fat-Shaming A Penguin
5.8.2021
On its surface, Yume Penguin Monogatari seems like a standard, early ‘90s NES platformer. It features a lovable hero, colorful environments, and a catchy, chiptune soundtrack from the old masters at Konami. But beneath all that, this classic side-scroller is also so bluntly, nakedly fatphobic that...
Myth: Gods of Asgard Sure Looks Like Hades
21.6.2021
We’ve all done it. Usually, “it” means lifting test answers off the kid in front of you, or pretending you’re the one who actually came up with that really funny joke. Less often, “it” means copy-pasting a widely lauded and enormously successful game down to the pixel. Well, allow me to introduce...
As Gaza Burns, Twitch Charity Streams For Palestine Remain Few And Far Between
18.5.2021
The situation in Gaza is dire. Israeli raids have killed over 200 Palestinians in the past week, at least 42 of them on Sunday alone. They’ve also destroyed more than 500 homes, leaving tens of thousands of Palestinians homeless—a stunningly bleak continuation of decades of apartheid...
Data shows the ‘Bitcoin price drops ahead of CME expiries’ claim is a myth
15.5.2021
Many traders believe the narrative that Bitcoin price drops ahead of CME BTC futures expiries, but data shows the trend is all bark and no bite
2% Inflation Is a Myth- 2021 Statistics Show Prices of Goods and Services Have Surged
5.4.2021
Members of the U.S. Federal Reserve and fellow bureaucrats have said that they are not worried about inflation levels and some officials have even encouraged a general increase in prices for goods and services. Despite the alleged statistics that say U.S. inflation is only 2% to 2.24%, reports show...
Early Investors Hodl Post-Tesla-Bitcoin Buy As Analysts Debate Hedge 'Myth'
29.3.2021
Source: Adobe/Сергей Шиманович
Over the past several days, prominent analysts have argued that more early investors are choosing to hodl bitcoin (BTC) at the moment, and that BTC is a measure of wealth, and while some say that it is a hedge against inflation, others call that narrative a myth....
Crypto myth busted: Users haven't mined Ether using a PlayStation 5 yet
1.3.2021
The original report from GizChina said that a software developer had modified the CPU and graphics cards on the new gaming console to mine crypto
The Rise and Fall of Joss Whedon, and the Myth of the Hollywood Feminist Hero
25.2.2021
“I hate ‘feminist.’ Is this a good time to bring that up?” Joss Whedon asked. He paused knowingly, waiting for the laughs he knew would come at the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer making such a statement. It was 2013, and Whedon was onstage at a fundraiser for Equality Now, an organization...
Bitcoin Miners Aren’t Responsible for Recent Price Dips, Data Shows
14.1.2021
Analysts and mining pools say selling pressure from mining wallets hasn't contributed to recent corrections in bitcoin's price
Bitcoin Is ‘a Myth’ Says French Central Bank Policymaker
18.8.2020
A leading French academic and central bank policymaker has called bitcoin (BTC) a “myth” and a “pseudo-currency,” and dismissed the token’s chances of becoming money in the future, claiming that it fails to meet criteria currently fulfilled by fiat.
The claims were made in a paper released by...
Dispelling the Myth That Bitcoin Proponents Want a Cashless Society
2.8.2020
Bitcoin and a great number of other cryptocurrencies are electronic versions of currency. Many people falsely assume that crypto proponents are for a cashless society and this is certainly not the case. If we removed the central banks’ printing fiasco and the inflationary practices from cash...
Data Shows the ‘Cheaper Altcoins Make Higher Returns’ Myth Is Flawed
13.7.2020
Many investors believe that buying the cheapest altcoins produces greater returns during rallies but is this true?
Tim Draper on the Myth of Volatility: One Bitcoin Is Only Ever One Bitcoin
31.5.2020
“Crypto Titans” is a series of personal interviews conducted by CoinMarketCap with prominent and forward-thinking minds tinkering on and behindContinue Reading
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FATF’s Deadline for Travel Rule Is a Bit of a Myth, Says Siân Jones
12.5.2020
As FATF’s purported deadline for the travel rule is just a few weeks away, crypto regulation expert Siân Jones argues that its adoption could take years
Wendy McElroy: Crypto is Banking for Anarchists and Average People
10.2.2020
“What I love about Bitcoin is that instead of some rich old guy on Wall Street, young poor people are the ones getting rich” —Eric Finman No Longer Is Economic Sovereignty Just for Politicians and Bankers “Cryptocurrency is for the rich”; this pernicious myth causes...
Debunking the Myth: Accessibility and React
15.1.2020
I find it notable when the blog of a major accessibility-focused company like Deque publishes an article called Debunking the Myth: Accessibility and React. Mark Steadman is essentially saying if a site has bad accessibility, it ain't React... it's you. The tools are there to achieve good...
Researcher’s Scathing Lightning Network Analysis Finds Flaws
9.1.2020
On January 7, digital preservation researcher David Rosenthal published an overview of BTC’s Lightning Network (LN) which claims LN infrastructure isn’t decentralized and privacy-preservation is a myth. Rosenthal’s analysis found significant flaws with the LN fee system and...