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Luxury Auction House Sotheby’s Plans to Auction 104 Cryptopunks Worth an Estimated $20M
9.2.2022
On Tuesday, the British-founded American multinational luxury auction company Sotheby’s, headquartered in New York City, announced the auction house is planning to auction a lot of 104 non-fungible token (NFT) Cryptopunks. The lot of 104 NFTs is predicted to fetch around $20 million to...
Sneaky NY Times Crossword Breaks Star Wars, Star Trek Fans’ Brains
7.2.2022
The debate between Star Trek and Star Wars is older than time—I know it’s older than I am anyway—and it reared its head as recently as the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle, which poses a brain-breaking question.Read more
Major Exchange LBank Wishes Lunar New Year via NASDAQ Billboard on Times Square NYC
6.2.2022
PRESS RELEASE. On 1st Feburary, 2022, LBank Exchange promoted the wishes to the world through Times Square NYC – NASDAQ Billboard, for the celebration of the Chinese lunar New Year. Times Square New York is a major commercial intersection, and NASDAQ MarketSite is the marketing presence...
With Wordle Archive, You Can Play All The Wordles That Came Before Whenever You Want
4.2.2022
The magic behind Wordle is, of course, that there’s only one puzzle a day. Combined with the ease with which players can paste their spoiler-free results to social media and group chats, it’s that the whole world is all playing the same puzzle, the same day, that makes it so alluring. But screw...
Real-Life Spy Agencies Troll Each Other Over Wordle
3.2.2022
Wordle continues its gentle taking over of the world. In the days following the surprise announcement that the New York Times is buying the game for at least a million bucks, the head of the UK secret intelligence service, MI6, tweeted complaining about people’s results from the word game appearing...
NYDIG offering allows participating companies to pay employees in Bitcoin
1.2.2022
Patrick Sells, the NYDIG's chief innovation officer, said the Bitcoin payment plan was aimed at letting companies offer a benefits package to prospective employees
Úspěšnou webovou hru Wordle koupil The New York Times. Časem ji patrně schová za paywall
1.2.2022
Tvůrce hry Wordle Josh Wardle v pondělí 31. ledna na Twitteru oznámil, že ji prodal deníku The New York Times. Vydavatel jednoho z nejčtenějších periodik ji hodlá zařadit do souboru slovních her The New York Times Games.
Ačkoli Josh Wardle píše, že hra „zůstane zdarma (free to play) pro
A Sensational Wordle Clone Without Any Actual Words
1.2.2022
Wordle took an express ride from a breezy daily distraction to a seven-figure payday for its creator. No wonder everyone is copying it. But many—and there are so many—of its variants are similar exercises in wordplay. Far rarer is the Wordle clone that doesn’t feature any words at all.Read more
New York gubernatorial candidate calls for moratorium on proof-of-work mining
1.2.2022
Politicians and activists have often targeted crypto mining operations around Seneca Lake due to the presence of Greenidge Generation's plant
Populární webovou hru Wordle za miliony dolarů koupil deník New York Times
31.1.2022
Tipování slov ve Wordle hrají denně miliony hráčů. Slovní online hra, která odstartovala teprve loni v říjnu, teď mění majitele. Od jejího autora, vývojáře Joshe Wardleho, Wordle koupil vydavatel amerického deníku The New Yorku Times (NYT). Podle tiskové zprávy za ni zaplatil částku v nižších...
Populární webovou hru Worlde za miliony dolarů koupil deník New York Times
31.1.2022
Tipování slov ve Wordle hrají denně miliony hráčů. Slovní online hra, která odstartovala teprve loni v říjnu, teď mění majitele. Od jejího autora, vývojáře Joshe Wardleho, Wordle koupil vydavatel amerického deníku The New Yorku Times (NYT). Podle tiskové zprávy za ni zaplatil částku v nižších...
Wordle Bought By The New York Times For 'Seven-Figure' Sum
31.1.2022
The New York Times just announced that it has bought Wordle, the surprise smash-hit word-guessing game that has taken over people’s browsers (and twitter feeds) for the last month, for a price “in the low seven figures”.Read more
The Surprisingly Messy Culture Wars Within The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
28.1.2022
In the 1970s Will Shortz submitted a crossword to the New York Times with a word so scandalous that the editor rejected it. The word: bellybutton. Fast forward over four decades and Shortz himself is the Times crossword editor who is now the gatekeeper, selecting puzzles from the nearly...
Flushing it: $8B New York commercial bank to offer Bitcoin services
28.1.2022
“As part of our ongoing digital transformation, we recognize the importance of staying current with emerging market trends,” said Flushing Financial Corporation CEO and president John R. Buran
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Defends Receiving Paycheck in Bitcoin as Price Crashes
26.1.2022
The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, converted his first paycheck into bitcoin and ether before the price of the cryptocurrencies plummeted. However, the mayor said, “When you are a long-term investor, you don’t keep your eyes on your portfolio.” He added that the purpose...
World’s Largest Asset Manager Blackrock Files for Blockchain Tech ETF
23.1.2022
The New York-based multinational investment management corporation Blackrock has filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a blockchain tech exchange-traded fund (ETF). The Ishares blockchain tech ETF aims to track the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) index called...
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Converts First Paycheck to Bitcoin and Ether via Coinbase
22.1.2022
The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, has received his first paycheck in bitcoin and ether via Coinbase. “Promise made, promise kept,” the mayor said, referring to his promise to take his first three paychecks in cryptocurrency. Mayor of New York City Takes Paycheck...
MiamiCoin has now raised $24.7 million... but who will benefit?
20.1.2022
CityCoins presented an overview of MiamiCoin technology on the third day of The North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, Florida
John Carpenter Thinks Halo Infinite Is The Best Of The Series
16.1.2022
John Carpenter has played Halo Infinite, the newest game in the long-running Xbox franchise, and he loved it. In fact, the famous director called it the “Best of the Halo series” in a recent tweet. Read more
NYCB and Group of Banks Join to Launch USDF Stablecoin
14.1.2022
A group of U.S.-based banks is launching their own stablecoin, USDF. The stablecoin will be issued by the USDF Consortium, which will allow its members (financial and banking institutions) to issue USDF. The proposed stablecoin will be the first currency of its kind to be minted by FDIC-insured...