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GameStop Gets Into Holiday Spirit With More Layoffs
5.12.2022
In the spirit of Christmas and the ruthless pursuit of meme stock shareholder value, GameStop carried out its latest round of layoffs on Monday ahead of its new earnings report, which is due out later this week. The cuts reportedly hit staff working on the company’s crypto push, as well as a number...
This Week’s NFT Sales Slid 5% Lower Than Last Week, Ethereum NFT Sales Accounted for 76.8% of the Volume
5.12.2022
On Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, market data shows that non-fungible token (NFT) sales dropped 5.23% lower than last week’s sales despite a 15.16% increase in NFT buyers. Out of the $112.70 million in NFT sales volume over the last week, Ethereum-based NFTs accounted for $86.59 million or 76.8% of the $112...
Waves Blockchain Founder Explores New DAO Model to Improve Crypto Governance
5.12.2022
The model is designed to add accountability by introducing performance measures, rewards and penalties
Spanish Soccer League Laliga Will Certify Goal Scoring Balls Using Blockchain Tech
5.12.2022
Laliga, the premier Spanish soccer league, has announced the implementation of a new system that will use blockchain for tracking soccer balls that were used to score a goal. The system, which will be provided by Gol-Ball, a third-party company, will certify these balls to allow users to purchase...
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Publicly Refuses to Testify in US House Committee – Here’s What Happened
5.12.2022
Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO and founder of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, has publicly suggested that he might not appear in the upcoming U.S. House committee’s hearing to testify on the collapse of his crypto empire.
In a tweet to the Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters and...
Swingby Partners With Chainlink To Secure Bitcoin Bridge
5.12.2022
PRESS RELEASE. Swingby has recently announced a newly established partnership with Chainlink for Proof of Reserve. The recently publicized partnership is aimed to help secure the Swingby Skybridge which connects the Bitcoin blockchain, enabling the introduction of BTC into the Ethereum network....
Polygon merges with Flipkart to develop blockchain ecommerce excellence
5.12.2022
Flipkart, which happens to be the absolute top-of-the-line online commerce site, has duly kept up with its earlier commitment to blockchain technology and forged a lucrative merger deal with Polygon. Incidentally, Flipkart is one of the most well-known online sites based out of India and is highly...
79 Committee Proposal goes live, TRON shares details
5.12.2022
The No. 79 Committee Proposal brings two changes to the table for the developers and users of the TRON Network. To start with, it is already live with no possible issues. The No. 79 Committee Proposal relates to No.11 and No. 47 network parameters. The unit price of energy has been increased by...
$15 Billion Palantir Firm Co-Founder Says ‘Most’ Crypto Companies Will Crash – Here’s Why
5.12.2022
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale has warned that the crypto meltdown could worsen in the future, saying that "most" crypto companies will go to zero.
In an interview with Fox News, Lonsdale said more crypto companies are going to crash as many crypto tokens were Ponzi schemes. However,...
GEC incorporates Chainlink Data to support Meta Oracles with IoT
5.12.2022
Geometric Energy Corporation (GEC) has been able to successfully incorporate the weather-based data and pricing of cryptocurrency of Chainlink Data Feeds, with the aim and intention of being able to stand by the features of Metaoracles, with that of the sensor data networks of Internet of Things...
Blackrock CEO on FTX Collapse: Most Crypto Companies Aren’t Going to Be Around
5.12.2022
The CEO of Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, says that most crypto companies will not be around following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX. However, the executive is still optimistic about blockchain technology. Blackrock’s CEO on FTX’s Collapse and Future of Crypto...
Addresses That Sat Idle for Years Transferred 1,221 Bitcoins Worth $20M Over the Last 4 Days
4.12.2022
During the last seven days, bitcoin’s price has remained above the $16K region following the aftermath of FTX’s collapse. Since then, a number of ‘sleeping bitcoins’ that sat idle for five to nine years have been moving during the last four days. Bitcoins that were worth...
Gemini Exchange Seeks to Retrieve $900 Million from Crypto Lender Genesis
4.12.2022
Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini is trying to recover the $900 million it had paid in loan to crypto broker Genesis and its parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG).
According to a Financial Times report, the Winklevoss twins' crypto exchange is seeking to retrieve the funds after Genesis...
Nobel Prize Laureate Paul Krugman Warns of an Eternal Winter for Blockchain
4.12.2022
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has warned about the possibility of a perennial winter for blockchain projects, including crypto. In a recent article published in the New York Times (NYT), the economist criticizes blockchain as a tech and its uses citing several signs that he believes...
Elon Musk Suggests Sam Bankman-Fried Donated More Than $1 Billion to Democrats – This is What Happened
4.12.2022
Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter CEO Elon Musk has suggested that Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of FTX, could have donated as much as $1 billion to Democrats.
In a Saturday tweet responding to Will Manidis, cofounder and the CEO of ScienceIO, who claimed Bankman-Fried did "one of the highest...
Report: AAX Users Storm Crypto Exchange’s Nigerian Offices, Attack Employees
4.12.2022
Nigeria users of the crypto exchange AAX, which suspended withdrawals on Nov. 12, reportedly stormed its offices in Lagos and began assaulting employees. Reports that disgruntled AAX users have harassed the crypto exchange’s workers came just days after the Nigerian crypto and blockchain...
Russia’s Sber Bank Aims for Blockchain Integration With Ethereum and Metamask
3.12.2022
Banking giant Sber wants to integrate its blockchain platform with the Ethereum blockchain and the Metamask wallet. The Russian bank believes the integration will give developers more options and create new opportunities for users when in operations with tokens and smart contracts. Sber Bank...
US Senator John Boozman Says Bitcoin is a Commodity, No Doubt About It – Here’s Why
3.12.2022
U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) has revealed that federal courts and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman view Bitcoin as a commodity.
In his opening remarks at the hearing entitled “Why Congress Needs to Act: Lessons Learned from the FTX Collapse” on Thursday...
Economist Paul Krugman: Crypto in an ‘Endless Winter’, Never to Recover - Find Out Why
3.12.2022
Prominent economist Paul Krugman claimed the entire crypto market has entered an "endless winter" and will never recover again in an opinion published by the New York Times. He then doubled down on his theory citing the fact that his article attracted very little crypto bro outrage. ...
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Never mind FTX — Fine arts institutions should still onboard to blockchain
2.12.2022
The strategic adoption of blockchain technology still makes sense, regardless of the distraction FTX created for cryptocurrency