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Tencent Buys Sumo Group For $1.3 Billion
19.7.2021
British company Sumo Group, whose various studios have worked on everything from Hitman to Forza to Disney Infinity, has been bought by Chinese giant Tencent for a whopping $1.3 billion, Reuters report.Read more
Fed and Yale researchers lay out 2 regulatory frameworks for stablecoins
19.7.2021
Yale Professor Gary B. Gorton and Jeffery Zhang of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System have co-authored a 49-page paper called, “Taming Wildcat Stablecoins.”
Bithumb Terminates Trademark Agreements With 2 Foreign-Based Exchanges
18.7.2021
Leading Korean crypto exchange Bithumb is terminating its trademark agreements with two coin trading platforms operating abroad under its brand name. The move comes as digital asset exchanges in South Korea prepare to comply with the country’s stricter regulations for the industry that will...
IMF, World Bank, BIS Recommend Countries Work Together on CBDCs to Enhance Cross-Border Payments
18.7.2021
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the Bank of International Settlement (BIS) have conducted an extensive study of using central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) for cross-border payments. Their report to the G20 states that enhanced cross-border payments “can...
Take-Two Is Removing Old GTA Mods Using DMCA Notices
18.7.2021
Rockstar Games’ parent company, Take-Two Interactive, has spent the past week or so using DMCA takedown requests to remove old Grand Theft Auto mods. The publisher hasn’t explained why it has started this sudden removal of old mods.Read more
Sunday Comics: That's Nice
18.7.2021
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more
These Are the Crypto Economy’s 5 Most Expensive Assets per Unit
18.7.2021
On July 18, the most valuable cryptocurrency in terms of dollars per unit, is bitcoin which is currently trading for $31,693. Besides all the wrapped bitcoins and synthetic bitcoin pegs, the second-highest valued crypto-asset per unit is yearn finance and maker follows behind. Removing the market...
Warframe's Next Big Update Will Release Simultaneously On All Platforms Later This Year
18.7.2021
Digital Extremes revealed the first real look at Warframe’s next major expansion, The New War during TennoCon 2021. This new free expansion will force Tenno (aka space ninjas) across the Origin System to unite to defeat an evil force known as the Sentients. And for the first time, this update will...
Warframe Will Get Cross-Play And Cross-Save Support Later This Year
17.7.2021
Today, Digital Extremes announced during TennoCon 2021 that its popular online shooter Warframe will get full cross-play and cross-save support later this year, letting space ninjas take their characters across PC, Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One seamlessly. Read more
Busking for Bitcoin: Report Finds Street Performers Depend on Digital Payments
17.7.2021
Street performers, or buskers, are leaning more toward digital platforms these days compared to the old method of accepting loose change. A report recently published by economists at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia has found that in certain areas, buskers get more donations via digital...
SEC delays another ETF decision, Binance news, and more sideways BTC price action: Hodler’s Digest, July 11–17
17.7.2021
US Treasury Secretary Yellen Outlines Plans to Regulate Stablecoins in Collaboration With the Fed, SEC, CFTC
17.7.2021
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will convene a meeting with the Biden administration’s working group on financial markets to discuss stablecoin regulation. “In light of the rapid growth in digital assets, it is important for the agencies to collaborate on the regulation of this...
German Bank Comdirect Now Offers 11 Cryptocurrency ETPs in Savings Plan
17.7.2021
German bank Comdirect, with about three million customers, is now offering 11 cryptocurrency exchange-traded products (ETPs). “Comdirect has succeeded in significantly bridging crypto investments to retirement plans, something that our clients have longed for a while,” the bank said....
China Reveals Digital Yuan White Paper: Smart Contracts, $5.4B Settled, Large Transfers Traced
16.7.2021
The working group involved with the research and development of the digital yuan for the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has published a paper describing the digital currency’s progress. The PBOC initiated a task force dedicated to the creation of a digital yuan in 2014, and the recently...
Of Course We Can Make a CSS-Only Clock That Tells the Current Time!
16.7.2021
Let’s build a fully functioning and settable “analog” clock with CSS custom properties and the calc() function. Then we’ll convert it into a “digital” clock as well. All this with no JavaScript!
Here’s a quick look at the clocks …
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Brazil Approves First Latam Based Ethereum ETF
16.7.2021
Regulators from the CVM, the securities watchdog of Brazil, have approved the first Ethereum-based ETF in Latin America (Latam). The product, presented by blockchain investment company QR Asset, aims to simplify the task of getting Ether exposure for retail and institutional investors. It will...
China's central bank says crypto gave impetus to the creation of its CBDC
16.7.2021
A working paper released in English by the People's Bank of China cites cryptocurrencies as an important context for the digital yuan's development and reveals that the digital currency will use smart contracts to allow for programmability
Shapeshift to Dissolve Corporate Model, Platform Airdrops FOX Tokens to Community of Users
16.7.2021
Founded on July 1, 2014, Shapeshift has been offering global trading of a variety of digital assets for seven years. Following the company’s recent anniversary, it announced Shapeshift is evolving into a community-owned decentralized platform. Shapeshift founder Erik Voorhees explained in...
Elgato Picked A Very Bad Day To Announce A New "Stream Deck"
16.7.2021
Awww, guys. Oh no.Read more
Spike Lee Directs ‘Old Money Is Out, New Money Is In’ Commercial for Cryptocurrency ATMs
16.7.2021
Award-winning director Spike Lee has teamed up with bitcoin ATM operator Coin Cloud on a multimillion-dollar crypto campaign. “Digital currency is viable for not just people of color, but anybody who has been historically excluded from traditional financial systems,” said the famed...