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Little Green Mining Hood or the Big Bad Wolf: Musk’s Sustainability Play
27.5.2021
Recent announcements and actions by Elon Musk surrounding bitcoin mining sustainability raise questions about the reasoning and motivations of Tesla’s Technoking. Is it possible that Musk is playing a calculated marketing game to introduce a Tesla mining solution? The World of Bitcoin Mining...
Servery Little Big Planet jsou dočasně vypnuté kvůli sexistickým nadávkám
24.5.2021
Autoři roztomilé dětské plošinovky Little Big Planet museli kompletně shodit online část hry včetně kooperativního multiplayeru. Nedokázali totiž zabránit tomu, aby se uživatelům zobrazoval urážlivý obsah
Paradox's Next Big Strategy Game Is Victoria 3
24.5.2021
Paradox, a company that has hit the big time in recent years with series like Crusader Kings, is going back into the vaults and will for its next major release be revisiting the Victoria series, which hasn’t seen a new game in over a decade.Read more
Greenpeace Has Stopped Accepting Bitcoin Donations Due to Network’s Environmental Impact
23.5.2021
Greenpeace, the ecological NGO, has stopped accepting bitcoin donations due to the big impact the cryptocurrency network has on the environment. The organization, which was one of the first NGOs to add bitcoin to its donations arsenal, has now backpedaled due to the growing energy consumption...
Data Suggests Fed’s MBS Operations and Wall Street Investors Behind Inflated US Real Estate Market
22.5.2021
The Federal Reserve and America’s big banks have significantly inflated home prices across the U.S. according to a number of statistics. In many towns across the nation, home sales are facing bidding wars and certain regions are seeing property shortages. One report notes that homebuyers...
Defi Economy Lost $20 Billion This Week, Decentralized Exchange Volumes Still Sky High
20.5.2021
While crypto markets, in general, have been dropping significantly in value, the decentralized finance (defi) economy has shaved more than $21 billion during the last week. Statistics show that the total-value locked (TVL) in defi touched $87 billion on May 11, and since then the aggregate total...
A Big Lady Needs A Big Hat
19.5.2021
Apart from her height, Resident Evil Village villain Lady Dimitrescu’s most striking feature has got to be the fashionable hat she wears while chasing you down. But what if it was (pardon me while I attempt my best Jeff Gerstmann impression) bigger?Read more
The Big Tesla Short, Copper Raises USD 50M, Gemini's Waitlist + More News
18.5.2021
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
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Michael Burry, the American hedge manager who famously made some USD 100m for himself by speculating on the 2008 economic...
Big Time Studios Aims to Bring NFTs to the Masses, Set to Raise $21 Million in Funding
14.5.2021
The Los Angeles-based company Big Time Studios has announced the company is set to raise $21 million in two funding rounds backed by a number of investors. The company’s founder Ari Meilich was the CEO and co-creator of the Ethereum metaverse Decentraland. Big Time Studios aims to bring...
Facebook’s New Stablecoin Aims a ‘Big Comedown’ from Grand Libra Plans
13.5.2021
Once heralded as the future of global finance, it appears that the Facebook-led Diem project (formerly Libra) is now set to launch in the United States as a USD-pegged stablecoin.
In a press release, Facebook and its Diem partners announced that it would be teaming up with the American crypto...
My Singing Monsters Comes To Consoles With A Bunch Of Non-Singing Minigames
12.5.2021
Mobile hit My Singing Monsters is a game about collecting and breeding musical monsters whose unique noises join together to create beautiful music. Coming to consoles this November, My Singing Monsters Playground is a party game featuring more than 20 different minigames. Hopefully one of those...
Palantir to Accept Bitcoin for Services, Considers Keeping BTC on Its Balance Sheet
11.5.2021
Palantir Technologies, the Peter Thiel-backed, American software company specializing in big data analytics, announced Tuesday that company plans to accept bitcoin for services. Further, like a variety of corporate entities that are accepting and holding bitcoin, Palantir is considering keeping...
iExec RLC rallies 400% after big-name collaborations and Coinbase listing
10.5.2021
Major exchange listings and real-world collaborations with Google and IBM sparked a 400% rally in the price of RLC
Ether dazzles, Dogecoin fears, Elon Musk’s big night, Bitcoin boosts Square: Hodler’s Digest, May 2–8
8.5.2021
Latam Based Exchange Bitso Gets Unicorn Status After $250 Million Funding Round
7.5.2021
Bitso, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in Latam, has reached unicorn status after a funding round that managed to raise $250 million with the participation of some big names in the cryptocurrency world. The company announced it would use these resources to expand its operations and keep...
Digital Yuan Launch Draws Near: JD.com Employees Paid in e-CNY, Tencent, Ant, Mastercard Engage With PBoC
4.5.2021
China, the world’s most populous country, has jumped leaps and bounds in comparison to a great number of other countries when it comes to the creation of a central bank digital currency. As each day passes, China’s digital yuan is seemingly getting closer to large-scale adoption,...
South Korean Banking Regulations a Threat to ‘Big 4’ Crypto Exchanges
4.5.2021
South Korea’s newly imposed anti-money laundering (AML) and banking regulations are causing tensions that have reportedly left even the big four domestic crypto exchanges to fear for their futures.
The new regulations, which force crypto exchanges to ensure all of their customers use real name-...
Twitch Isn't Overwhelmed With Far-Right Extremists, But It Does Have A Big Misinformation Problem
3.5.2021
Twitch’s relationship with misinformation is complicated. In 2020, platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter grappled with their outsized roles in the creation and cultivation of conspiracy movements like QAnon. Misinformation troubled Twitch in a different way, but the platform emerged...
FATF Makes Small Crypto Platforms Easy Prey For Big Players
2.5.2021
As the cryptoasset industry grows, it’s only inevitable that it attracts more regulatory attention. The truth of this assumption was highlighted in March, when the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) published an update for its guidance relating to the money laundering risks posed...
Visa Diving Into Cryptocurrency ‘in a Very, Very Big Way’ — CEO Outlines 5 Crypto Priorities
2.5.2021
Visa CEO Al Kelly says that the payments giant is leaning into the cryptocurrency space “in a very, very big way.” He outlines five key areas of crypto opportunities that Visa is focusing on, stating that his company is “extremely well-positioned.” Visa Is Focusing on...