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Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood Doubles Down on $500K Bitcoin Prediction, Discusses Crypto Regulation
15.9.2021
Ark Investment Management CEO Cathie Wood expects the price of bitcoin to be more than $500,000 in five years’ time, which is over 10 times what it is today. She also shared her view on cryptocurrency regulation and Coinbase’s trouble with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
European, Asian Investors Drive Bitcoin, Ethereum Investments - Survey
14.9.2021
the 2020 market conditions increased their likelihood of investing in digital assets, crypto markets are likely to continue their rapid expansion in the coming years, they said.Conducted between December 2020 and April 2021, the survey is based on 1,100 blind online and phone interviews of pr
The Nintendo GameCube Is Now Twenty Years Old
14.9.2021
On September 14, 2001, the GameCube first went on sale for the first time in Japan. Two months later, on November 18, the console was released in North America. Can you believe it’s been twenty years? Facing off against the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox, the GameCube was the first Nintendo console...
Shark Tank Star Kevin O’Leary Expects a ‘Trillion Dollars’ Flowing Into Bitcoin
14.9.2021
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, expects a “trillion dollars” more to flow into bitcoin in the next couple of years. He also sees cryptocurrencies becoming an institutional asset class. “We don’t know when but it is definitely going to come....
Thirty-Six Years Ago Super Mario Bros. Went On Sale In Japan
13.9.2021
On September 13, 1985 in Japan, Nintendo released one of its most iconic games ever, Super Mario Bros. Designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, it was a smash at home and became the Nintendo Entertainment System’s killer app a year later. The world was never the same. As Famitsu points...
Today’s Cryptocurrency Data Aggregators Offer a Plethora of Onchain and Market Insights
13.9.2021
In the early days, there were only a few web portals with cryptocurrency statistics and data tied to these ever-changing digital asset markets and blockchain metrics. More than ten years later, however, data and analytics tethered to the world’s most popular and most used digital currencies...
Steam Turns 18 Years Old Today
12.9.2021
Steam, the digital PC storefront, officially launched to the public 18 years ago today, on September 12, 2003. I didn’t realize just how old Steam was and by extension how old I’ve gotten. I guess time flies when your buying, downloading, and installing a bunch of games that you’ll end up never...
BIS Asks Central Banks to Urgently Develop CBDCs to Compete With Crypto Assets
12.9.2021
The head of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) Innovation Hub, Benoît Cœuré, has urged central banks to act now on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) to compete with initiatives in the private sector, including cryptocurrencies. “CBDCs will take years to...
US SEC Issues Warning on Crypto Investment Scams Citing ‘Some Investors May Have FOMO’
12.9.2021
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a warning about fraudulent investment schemes involving cryptocurrencies. The regulator notes that some investors may have fear of missing out (FOMO) given the rise in prices of some crypto assets in recent years. SEC Warns Investors...
$30 Million Crypto Scheme’s Leader Pleads Guilty, Facing up to 20 Years in Prison
11.9.2021
The leader of a cryptocurrency scheme that swindled over $30 million from investors has pleaded guilty to fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said. He now faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Leader of $30M Crypto Scheme Pleads Guilty to Fraud The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)...
New York IT Supervisor Faces up to 15 Years in Jail for Mining Bitcoin in the Office
11.9.2021
A New York IT supervisor is facing a possible sentence of up to 15 years in jail for mining bitcoin in the office. The man, identified as Christopher Naples, allegedly had hidden 46 mining rigs in the offices of the Suffolk County Center in Riverhead, New York. According to the investigation, 10...
PS4 Finally Gets A Working Emulator Eight Years Later
10.9.2021
Spine is the first, and only, stable PlayStation 4 emulator available, and its game library was updated on September 1. Hundreds of new games are now playable on this emulator, and the developer promised additional titles in the future.Read more
CBDC Race, Blockdaemon Unicorn, Harmony & Algorand Pour Millions + More News
10.9.2021
lity. "The time has passed for central banks to get going. We should roll up our sleeves and accelerate our work on the nitty-gritty of CBDC design. CBDCs will take years to be rolled out, while stablecoins and cryptoassets are already here. This makes it even more urgent to start," Benoît Cœu
In Just Two Years, Nintendo Fan Completes Game Boy Collection
10.9.2021
Twitter user Shouta is now the proud owner of all 1,244 Game Boy titles. Congrats! Finishing the collection took less time than he thought it would thanks to Twitter’s help. In the US, there were 1,046 games released for the Game Boy, but in Japan, there were 1,244 titles released in retail shops...
Crypto Entrepreneurs On Debanking, 'Bullying' By Banks, Govt Agencies
8.9.2021
c said that being debanked had a major impact on her life.“I’ve been very grateful for my seven years in the crypto community and all that I’ve learned, and the people that I’ve met. But at the end of the day, the irreversible damage to my livelihood has been done,” the entrepreneur said, as
ECB Officially Starts to Investigate Digital Euro — Development Could Begin in 2 Years
7.9.2021
The European Central Bank (ECB) says it is “starting to investigate” a digital euro by launching a two-year investigation. ECB President Christine Lagarde believes the ECB should be ready to respond to people’s demands for digital currencies and come up with a European-based...
Ethereum Fraudster Sentenced to 2.5 Years Behind Bars
6.9.2021
://www.ksilbo.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=912076">and the Kyoungsang Ilbo, a court in the South Eastern port city of Ulsan heard that the fraudster, named by the media as “A” for legal reasons, collected payments of ETH 15 (worth around USD 59,000 today) and over USD 10,000 worth of fiat f
After 15 Years, Bemani Composer TAG Says He's Leaving Konami
6.9.2021
For the past fifteen years, one constant for Konami’s Bemani music game series has been the musical stylings of composter Yasuhiro “TAG” Taguchi. Today, he announced his is leaving the Tokyo-based game company.“I’ve now decided to go freelance as a composer after being employed at my company...
Zangief Is Now 65 Years Old
6.9.2021
You, me, everyone, we’re all getting older by the day. And so are the cast of Street Fighter II, who we’d like to imagine are still battling away in their early 90s prime, but who are in reality old enough now to be most people’s grandparents.Read more
Ambitious GTA Underground Mod Shutdown After Six Years Due To 'Increasing Hostility' From Take-Two
4.9.2021
After months of Take-Two Interactive attacking and fighting GTA modders, the folks behind the long-in-development San Andreas mod, GTA Underground, have killed the project and removed it from the web over “increasing hostility” from Take-Two and fears of further legal problems.Read more