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John McAfee’s Widow Is Still Extremely Skeptical of Her Husband’s Alleged Suicide
22.7.2021
Following a report from John McAfee’s biographer, the former antivirus tycoon’s widow Janice McAfee has taken to social media to disclose a number of findings. During the first week of July, McAfee published a note that said there was “no sense of urgency” toward...
Hashnode: A Blogging Platform for Developers
22.7.2021
Hashnode is a free platform for developer blogging. Say you’ve just finished an ambitious project and want to write about 10 important lessons you’ve learned as a developer during it. You should definitely blog it—I love that kind of blog post, myself. Making a jump into the technical debt...
Activision Blizzard Sued By California Over Widespread Harassment Of Women
22.7.2021
Activision Blizzard, the publishing giant behind everything from Call of Duty to Overwatch, is being sued by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing over a “frat boy” workplace culture that it alleges has led to years of harassment and abuse targeting the women in...
Social NFT platform DeFine raises $5M from Asian investors
20.7.2021
The market for nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, appears to be growing in Asia. Several companies and venture funds have backed DeFine in its quest to bring NFTs to mainstream audiences
After ‘7/20’ social media campaign, Sushi reveals all-in-one AMM ‘Trident’
20.7.2021
The new AMM will feature four customizable pool options and offer significant capital efficiency for depositors
Candidate for Kenyan Elections Body Says Adopting Blockchain Will Reduce Ballot Costs by 300%
19.7.2021
An aspirant to the post of commissioner with the Kenyan Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has urged the elections body to consider adopting blockchain technology. According to Justus Abonyo, a former official with the Social Democratic Party of Kenya, doing this will help Kenya...
Altcoin Roundup: Data shows social metrics surge ahead of DeFi and NFT price rallies
17.7.2021
Analyzing Twitter mentions and Google Trends data is another way traders keep an eye on emerging trends and sector rotations in the cryptocurrency ecosystem
Bingbon Adds Ruble, Hryvnia, and Tenge Support in Bid to Expand Geographical Presence
15.7.2021
A tie-up between payment processor Advcash and Bingbon will help the social cryptocurrency trading exchange extend its services to Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Russia through a newly introduced fiat on and off-ramp. Eastern European Fiat Support Echoes Regional Crypto Adoption Outside of North America...
Discord Buys AI Company To Combat A Big Problem: Harassment
14.7.2021
It wasn’t all that long ago that Discord housed some of the internet’s most noxious groups, including white supremacist communities like The Daily Stormer. Since the Charlottesville rally in 2017, however, the chat platform has worked toward slowly but surely cleaning up the mess. But as Discord...
Social NFT Project Nifty’s Raises $10M, Partners With Entertainment Giant Warner Bros
12.7.2021
The Miami-based Nifty’s, Inc. announced the launch of the project’s website which aims to reveal a non-fungible token (NFT) social platform focused on gathering mainstream attention. The company has also revealed it raised $10 million in a seed round from well-known investors like...
Nifty’s Inc. launches social NFT platform with Warner Bros. partnership
12.7.2021
The Nifty community plans to be an “inviting home base for new and experienced explorers of the NFT universe,” according to CEO and co-founder Jeff Marsilio
Tiktok Bans Users From Promoting Cryptocurrencies
10.7.2021
Tiktok has banned its users from promoting all financial products and services including those related to cryptocurrency. The company also prohibits ads relating to cryptocurrency. Tiktok Prohibits Users From Posting Content Promoting Cryptocurrencies Social media platform Tiktok has banned content...
Crypto ads no longer allowed on TikTok
9.7.2021
These new guidelines probably mean there won't be any more Dogecoin hyping on the platform
After Barclays, Santander Bank Blocks Payments to Binance in UK Citing Customer Protection
9.7.2021
Santander Bank in the U.K. has become the latest high street bank in the country to block fund transfers to cryptocurrency exchange Binance. Recently, Barclays and Natwest banks reportedly made a similar move. A number of Santander Bank customers reported on social media that they have received...
Crypto Wallet Recovery Service KeychainX Can Save Your Bitcoin
8.7.2021
Whenever the prices of digital assets skyrocket, social media gets flooded with stories of people that could be millionaires now but forgot the keys to wallets they opened a few years before. But if this happened to you, don’t lose hope, cryptocurrency wallet recovery service KeychainX...
Musk Trolls Buffett With Fake Quote on Twitter, Then Deletes It
6.7.2021
Elon Musk went after Bitcoin hater Warren Buffett recently, sharing what looked like a bullish crypto quote attributed to the billionaire investor. The tech entrepreneur, whose comments on social media have been moving crypto markets this year, later removed the post with the obviously fake Buffett...
Nigerian Twitter Suspension Has Unintended Effects on Country’s Crypto Community
6.7.2021
On the surface, it looks like Nigeria’s suspension of Twitter operations on June 4 may have been triggered by the microblogging company’s decision to take down a controversial tweet — from President Mohammed Buhari. However, as some observers have noted, the removal of the tweet...
Twitter Permanently Suspends Splinterlands Account for Unspecified Violations
5.7.2021
After tweeting through its account since 2018, Splinterlands, a blockchain-based NFT trading card game, has been banned from the service permanently as social media giant Twitter refuses to respond to appeals. Suspension Coincides With Twitter Unveiling its Own NFTs While non-fungible token (NFT)...
‘We Want You,’ Pro-Bitcoin Senator Cynthia Lummis Invites Crypto Miners to Wyoming
4.7.2021
U.S. lawmaker and bitcoin advocate Cynthia Lummis has indicated that cryptocurrency miners are welcome in Wyoming. In a recent interview, the senator defended bitcoin’s carbon footprint and later invited miners to her home state on social media. Crypto Mining Adapted to Non-Carbon Emitting...
Sonic Smut Is Flooding Trump’s New Social Network
4.7.2021
Nary a month after the dramatic implosion of former president (and current Twitter refugee) Donald Trump’s attempted blogging career, the septuagenarian authoritarian’s “team” of grifting enablers has launched its latest attempt at a social network for folks who are just too darn patriotic...