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Bitcoin Lightning-Based Payments App Strike Raises $80 Million in Funding Round
28.9.2022
Digital payment provider built on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Strike announced that it has raised an $80 million funding round led by Ten31.
Strike is an application that allows users to make Lightning payments with either their bank account or debit card, without needing anything else.
The round...
Jack Mallers’ Crypto Payment Firm Strike Raises $80M
27.9.2022
Strike, the Lightning Network-based Bitcoin payment provider, has raised $80 million in a Series B funding round led by Ten31, according to a press release
Madden Streamers Are Going On 'Strike' Over In-Game Gambling Odds
23.9.2022
Some of the biggest streamers in the Madden community have announced they’re going on “pack strike”, creating a hashtag and refusing to spend any money on Madden 23's Ultimate Team mode until publisher Electronic Arts make some changes.Read more
Twitch Bans Major Gambling Sites After Streamers Threaten Strike
21.9.2022
It’s been a rough 24 hours for people broadcasting in purple. After a scandal broke that a Twitch streamer had been scamming viewers and peers alike out of an alleged $200,000 to fund a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive addiction, top personalities started exerting pressure on the live-streaming...
Top Twitch Streamers Like Pokimane, Mizkif Threaten Strike After $200,000 Gambling Scam
19.9.2022
On Saturday, a Twitch streamer named Abraham Mohammed, better known to viewers as Sliker, admitted that he had scammed fans and other content creators out of at least $200,000 to fund his Counter-Strike: Global Offensive gambling addiction. In response, big-name streamers such as Imane “Pokimane”...
Solitaire, Counter-Strike, Snake: How casual gaming could be a ‘huge’ Bitcoin on-ramp
19.9.2022
Gaming companies Zebedee and Thndr are taking advantage of the Lighting Network, atop Bitcoin, to entertain and onboard gamers into Bitcoin
LaLiga and StadioPlus Strike a Global Licencing Agreement
14.9.2022
On September 13th, Vegas City Ltd announced the completion of a strategic licensing deal on a collaborative initiative in the Decentraland metaverse. Decentraland, the first decentralized metaverse, was introduced in 2020 and is an online environment supported by the ETH blockchain. Participants...
Tvůrce původního GTA zuří. Rockstar ho donutil stáhnout videa prototypů
23.8.2022
Ačkoliv první díl městské akce Grand Theft Auto vyšel v roce 1997, vlastník práv si přísně hlídá, jaké materiály se objeví na internetu. Tvůrce původní hry rozzuřilo, když musel stáhnout video ukázky prototypů
Rockstar Forced Takedown Of GTA Prototype Footage, Original Dev Says
22.8.2022
For a video game series all about irreverent satire, Rockstar takes its legal control over Grand Theft Auto extremely seriously. The studio and its parent company, Take-Two, are notorious for crackdowns on mods and fan projects, but now it appears they’ve gone after one of the original creators...
Want to Strike Terror in Crypto Markets in 2022? Just Say You’re Suspending Withdrawals
3.8.2022
Voyager and Celsius’s bankruptcies were preceded by announcements that they were barring customers from getting their money
Blizzard Screws Up Overwatch Comp Rules, Teams 'Strike' In Protest
29.7.2022
During a recent Overwatch Contenders tournament, Blizzard told two teams that they’d be playing a best-of-seven showdown. Then, halfway through, said it would be a best-of-five and pulled the pin on what was looking like an incredible comeback. That, understandably, did not go down well.Read more
NXTT’s New Roadmap Looks Set to Strike Through the Bear Market
11.6.2022
Next Earth, the virtual replica of Earth and now the third-largest metaverse, has remained resilient amidst a brutal bear market that has seen the value of almost everything drop precipitiously. Now, Next Earth is putting even more focus on its NXTT token to support a rally against the bear market....
IS Prime Fails To Strike Out Counterclaims of ThinkMarkets
13.5.2022
IS Prime’s attempts to get the counterclaims presented by ThinkMarkets have been rejected by the British Court. According to the documents made available to the press, a vast majority of the counterclaims will not be struck out to further look into for the final judgment. The legal battle...
New Service Allows You to Get Tipped in Bitcoin to Read Email
4.5.2022
As some estimates indicate that more than 333bn emails are sent every day, a new service, Reacher, aims to allow its users to get paid in bitcoin (BTC) to be reached, and potentially filter out a major share of their spam.
The project presents its functionality in five steps:
Reacher is...
An Old-School Batman Voice Clip Is Hiding In A Bunch Of Your Favorite Games
25.4.2022
Did you know that the “let’s go” voice clip in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike was pulled from the 1960s Batman television series? I sure didn’t, and being confronted with this apparently well-known fact over the weekend sent me tumbling down a rabbit hole of video game sample usage.Read more
Elon Musk in Talks with Twitter Board to Strike Deal - Report
25.4.2022
Twitter and Tesla chief and billionaire Elon Musk are reportedly in talks to strike a deal, after Musk earlier this month laid out an offer to buy 100% of the shares in Twitter for USD 45bn and take the company private. Shares of Tesla rose modestly on the news in pre-market trading...
Bitcoin Lags Behind Ethereum & Altcoins Despite Strike, Robinhood, and Legal Tender News
8.4.2022
The bitcoin (BTC) price lagged behind ethereum (ETH) and other major altcoins today, despite a series of bullish news announcements coming from the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami, USA.
At 09:50 UTC on Friday, BTC stood at USD 43,644, up just 0.6% for the past 24 hours and down 4% for the past...
Lightning to strike Shopify merchants with addition of BTC payments
8.4.2022
Jack Mallers announced the new integration today at the Bitcoin 2022 conference and hopes to give more people access to what he sees as a better monetary system
Jack Mallers’ Strike Announces Shopify Integration for Bitcoin Lightning Payments
7.4.2022
The bitcoiner instrumental to El Salvador’s announcement at last year’s conference waxed philosophical on Bitcoin’s role as a payments network
Bitpay Adds Lightning Network, Youth Fashion Brand Pacsun to Accept Payments via Lightning
7.4.2022
On April 6, one of the largest cryptocurrency payment platforms in the world, Bitpay, announced the Atlanta-based company has integrated bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network. According to the announcement on Wednesday, the youth-focused American retail clothing brand Pacific Sunwear (Pacsun)...