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Report: Covid-19 Caused 50% of Adults Aged Between 35 and 44 to Embrace Cryptocurrencies
16.3.2021
A new study, which was undertaken by the Slovakian internet security company Eset, finds 50% of 35 to 44-year-olds have become involved in cryptocurrencies since the pandemic. The figure, the highest for any age group, underscores the role Covid-19 restrictions had in forcing citizens from...
Fall Guys Season 4 Kicks Off March 22
15.3.2021
Not even time can erode the irrepressible cheer of face-planting beans. The futuristic fourth season of Fall Guys kicks off on March 22, developer Mediatonic announced today.Read more
Fall Guys’ Season Four Is A Reminder Of How Damn Long We’ve Been Doing This
10.3.2021
Today, Mediatonic showed off one of the levels for Fall Guys’ upcoming fourth season. The new stage, “Skyline Stumble,” looks quite fun with its gravity-based hijinks and bean-sized pinball bumpers—but it instilled in me an invasive, immovable thought: Man, we’ve really been doing this for a while...
Mario Is Making Animal Crossing Weird For Me
5.3.2021
Before Animal Crossing: New Horizons added Mario items on March 1, my island was a pleasant place that was not being stalked by a dead-eyed plumber cosplayer with an axe.Read more
Epic Games Buys Fall Guys Studio
2.3.2021
Epic Games has bought Mediatonic, maker of last year’s hit battle royale, Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, the company announced today.Read more
Japanese TV Introduces "Mask Manners"
25.2.2021
Even before the age of covid-19, sickness masks were widely worn in Japan, especially during hay fever season. But now that people wear them every day, throughout the day, it seems as though there’s a notion as to what’s good and bad mask manners. Read more
Fall Guys Coming To Switch This Summer
17.2.2021
This one’s no hill of beans. Fall Guys will come out on Switch at some point in the summer.Read more
What the COVID-19 pandemic has taught crypto community about curbing our emissions
13.2.2021
We should encourage more climate-friendly practices, including less air travel, and the crypto community can be a great example of it
Ubisoft Considering Changing Rainbow Six Quarantine's Name Amid Covid-19 Pandemic
10.2.2021
Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot told investors yesterday that the company is looking into changing the name of Rainbow Six Quarantine due to the negative connotations of the subtitle while the world is still in the middle of the covid-19 pandemic.Read more
COVID-19 Pandemic Accelerated Rollouts Of 'Game-Changing' CBDCs
22.1.2021
Hastened by the pandemic, central bank digital currency (CBDC) initiatives will roll out in the next couple of years, becoming a "game-changer," industry insiders told Cryptonews.com.
It’s the COVID-19 pandemic which we have to thank for “greatly accelerat[ing] the push for digital...
Two New York City Bars up for Sale for a Total 25 Bitcoins
11.1.2021
Two New York City bars are up for sale for a combined 25 bitcoins or 800 ether – over $800k at current prices. Bar owner Patrick Hughes has seen the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown on his operations and decided to sell the two watering holes for crypto. ● “Crypto is...
IMF Cautions Central Banks May Have to Rethink What Constitutes Reserves
18.12.2020
The IMF warns that central banks may have to rethink what constitutes their reserve currency holdings. In a recent study, the global lender points to the changing geopolitical landscape, technological advances and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic as events likely to influence the composition...
How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the crypto space? Experts answer
22.11.2020
Experts in blockchain technology and crypto take on the question: What impact has the COVID-19 outbreak had on the industry?
Report: Pandemic Response Pushed Global Debt to $272 Trillion in Q3, $5T in Borrowing Expected in Q4
20.11.2020
The Institute of International Finance (IIF) says global debt will soar to a record $277 trillion by the end of 2020 as governments and companies continue to spend in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Already, the debt has ballooned by $15 trillion this year to $272 trillion through September....
Grayscale survey connects COVID-19 pandemic to new Bitcoin purchases
17.11.2020
Survey data from Grayscale Investments shows the coronavirus pandemic played a role in new investors decision to buy Bitcoin
Central Banks Dump Gold for the First Time Since 2010, Precious Metal Drops 9% Since August High
30.10.2020
A few central banks have started selling tons of gold for the first time since 2010 in order to ease the financial suffering from the Covid-19 pandemic. At $1,875 per ounce, gold prices are down -9.63% since the commodity’s high of $2,075 on August 6. Even though gold has dropped...
Fed Chairman Claims ‘Now Is Not the Time’ to Worry About the Federal Budget
7.10.2020
According to the Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell, the road to economic recovery is far from over and the Covid-19 pandemic has fueled the tragedy. During his speech at the National Association for Business Economics annual meeting, Powell highlighted that the federal budget was essentially...
What the COVID-19 pandemic means for blockchain and crypto
29.9.2020
Blockchain and cryptocurrency have great potential to help us, especially in these challenging times of the global coronavirus outbreak
Report: Market Valuation of 14 Banking Giants Shed $635 Billion This Year
16.9.2020
The world’s largest banks lost a considerable amount of market valuation amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report that estimates financial incumbents lost $635 billion. Between December 2019 and August 2020, the market caps of 14 major banking institutions lost upwards of 30-50%...
Qatar’s National Solarized Fintech Strategy Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
23.8.2020
The COVID-19 pandemic might help to further Qatar’s national strategy in the fintech and blockchain spaces to reduce the crisis’s impact