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Today in Crypto: ‘Fundamental Clash Between Regulations and Crypto’, Ethereum Devs Patch Testnet Bug, Bank of Japan Set to Launch CBDC Pilot in April
17.2.2023
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.__________...
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Unstoppable Domains and Crypto Browser Opera Widen Scope to Offer Accessible Web3 Identity System
17.2.2023
Opera, the Web3 browser, and Unstoppable Domains, the non-fungible token (NFT) domain provider, have announced that users can now access all domain endings, including .x, .crypto, and .nft, across Opera’s browsers. Additionally, Opera and Unstoppable are offering a free .nft domain that...
Cudos partners Fetch.ai to boost AI services
17.2.2023
The wordplay of “Cudos” and “Kudos” has started on Twitter since an announcement by Cudos. Its community is leaving no opportunity to appreciate the move in which it has partnered with Fetch.ai to enable its machine learning and artificial intelligence services. Under...
Increase in Number of LATAM Workers Choosing to Get Paid in Crypto
17.2.2023
More Latin American (LATAM) workers than ever are choosing to get paid in crypto, a new report has found – with suggestions that crypto winter has done little to dampen adoption in the region.
Bloomberg Linea reported that, per the Deel Lab for Global Employment’s Global Recruitment Report...
Bitcoin NFTs Challenge the Blockchain’s Largest Use Case: Money
17.2.2023
The Bitcoin community has been abuzz with conversations around how Ordinal Inscriptions could signal a technical improvement to NFTs. But the increased fees and transaction speeds associated with them could stifle Bitcoin’s primary use case as a medium of exchange
The state of the energy sector in 2023 & beyond – An interview with Decarbonice
17.2.2023
2022 was one of the toughest years for the energy markets worldwide in our recent history. The year was marked by geopolitical conflicts that caused rapid price increases of multiple energy sources, causing higher inflation levels across the board. At the same time, we have rising energy demands...
Cleanspark Boosts Bitcoin Mining Capacity With Acquisition of 20,000 Bitmain Rigs
17.2.2023
Bitcoin mining operation Cleanspark has acquired 20,000 brand-new Bitmain mining rigs for $43.6 million, the company reported. Once installed, Cleanspark expects to increase its capacity by 37% by adding roughly 2.44 exahash per second (EH/s) to the firm’s fleet. Cleanspark CEO Says...
Chinese Tech Giant Tencent Announces 'Personnel Reshuffle' at Metaverse Unit, Dismisses Layoff Rumors – What's Going On?
17.2.2023
The dawn of 2023 has seen crypto assets break free of suppresive year-long price action. But with many in tech betting big on the Metaverse at the start of 2022, things are getting ugly.
In an exclusive report from Chinese news outlet 36 Krypton. It has been revealed that the world's largest video...
Square Enix to Use Polygon’s Network in Symbiogenesis, Its Upcoming Web3 Experience
17.2.2023
Japanese gaming company Square Enix has announced that it will be using Polygon, an Ethereum sidechain, as a base for Symbiogenesis, its upcoming Web3 experience. Naoyuki Tamate, producer of the game, cited the high transaction speeds and low transaction gas costs as the reasons for making this...
Report: FTX Promised High Earnings to African Students That Successfully Recruited Fellow Learners
17.2.2023
The collapsed crypto exchange FTX reportedly used the lure of high earnings to convince African university students to become its ambassadors. In addition to encouraging new FTX investors to use the platform, student ambassadors were also required to teach them about crypto and the blockchain. Some...
Router Protocol successfully develops a Layer-1 Blockchain Interoperability
17.2.2023
Router Protocol happens to have been successful in the development of a Layer-1 blockchain. This was made possible with the effective utilization of the Cosmos’ Tendermint Consensus. This was carried out with the aim and intention of being able to correctly address issues related to extant problems...
Binance and Huobi Freeze $1.4 Million in Crypto Linked to North Korea
17.2.2023
Crypto exchanges Binance and Huobi have frozen cryptocurrencies worth approximately $1.4 million linked to North Korea, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. The firm noted that the stolen funds, which were dormant until recently, originated from the June 2022 hack of Harmony’s...
Takeaways from Davos: Blockchain is changing the way we fight for sustainability
16.2.2023
Evercity's Alexey Shadrin shares his insights from last month's World Economic Forum in Davos
Total Value Locked in Defi Surpasses $50 Billion Mark for First Time Since FTX Collapse
16.2.2023
Crypto prices have surged in value over the past few days, and the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has surpassed the $50 billion mark for the first time since the collapse of FTX. As of Feb. 16, 2023, the TVL in defi is $51.1 billion, with the liquid staking protocol Lido...
Crypto Industry Body GBBC Joins Securities Regulator Group IOSCO as Affiliate Member
16.2.2023
GBBC Digital Finance's goal is to engage regulators to inform how policy will be developed by the world's major regulatory bodies
How to evaluate any crypto project using fundamental analysis
16.2.2023
Different from traditional markets, the crypto market has its own set of key questions to consider when analyzing a project and its assets
Artificial intelligence, robots and blockchain deliver next-generation healthcare, today
16.2.2023
Emerging technologies are revolutionizing medicine - person by person and pill by pill
Crypto Under Scrutiny: SEC's New Custody Rules Take Aim at Digital Assets – Regulation Incoming?
16.2.2023
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has unveiled a set of new rules designed to enhance the protection of investors’ assets in response to the string of collapses of major crypto businesses last year, raising concern amid industry players that more crypto-focused regulation could be in...
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Two Bond Guarantors Have Finally Been Unveiled – Court Documents Revealed Here
16.2.2023
The two mysterious co-signers on FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s bond managed to keep their identities hidden for a long time, but new court documents have finally revealed who they are.
The two previously unidentified individuals are Andreas Paepcke and Larry Kramer. Paepcke is a senior research...
Japanese Securities Giant SBI Completes Takeover of Crypto Exchange Bitpoint
16.2.2023
The Japanese securities giant SBI has completed a takeover of the rival crypto exchange Bitpoint. The move consolidates the firm’s increasingly tight grip on the domestic crypto market – and marks the second time it has taken over a domestic rival....
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