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Accenture Sees Strong Demand for Digital Assets Among Asian Investors, but Hesitancy Among Advisory Firms
7.6.2022
There is a strong demand for digital assets among investors in Asia, but wealth management firms remain hesitant to support them, according to a new report from consulting giant Accenture.
The report, titled The Future of Asia Wealth Management, stated that, although a large number of Asian...
2 Tokenized Gold Crypto Projects Saw Massive Growth Over the Last 15 Months
6.6.2022
15 months ago the price of one ounce of fine gold was $1,790 per ounce and since then, it has increased in value 3.51% to today’s $1,853 per ounce exchange rate. While gold has risen in value, the top two tokenized gold coins have grown significantly since then. Pax gold (PAXG),...
Fed governor explains who needs crypto regulation and why demand for it is growing
3.6.2022
Experienced investors know how to survive, Christopher Waller reasons, but there can be wide repercussions when small investors are hit with losses
Fidelity Plans Hiring Spree to Expand Crypto Services to Include Ethereum Trading and Custody
2.6.2022
Fidelity is planning a hiring spree to add ether trading and custody services to its cryptocurrency business. “As the demand for digital assets continues to steadily grow and the marketplace evolves, we will continue to expand our hiring efforts,” a Fidelity executive explained....
FTX’s Harrison Says Stablecoin Demand Will Survive Terra's Collapse
1.6.2022
CoinDesk interviewed FTX's Brett Harrison at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting 2022 last week
Optimism airdrop overwhelmed by all-time high demand: ‘Scaling is hard’
1.6.2022
“Wow, what a day. OP Drop #1 had a turbulent launch which we finally stabilized after more than five hours of non-stop work,” Optimism stated
World Of Warcraft Streamer Allegedly Harassed Off Of Twitch By Ex-Cop
26.5.2022
A 29-year-old former airport cop, Evan Baltierra, was arrested this week and charged in federal court with allegedly harassing a World of Warcraft streamer off of Twitch. The two met in person at BlizzCon 2019, according to an accompanying affidavit, but when the streamer declined to be...
Twitch Pledges To Make Ban Notifications More Transparent, Streamers Are Skeptical
26.5.2022
In a recent Washington Post article, Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch said it is working on making ban notification emails, an ongoing issue for content creators, more transparent and concise. One option under consideration is the inclusion of clips in enforcement emails, though the concept...
Activision Blizzard Devs Demand Breastfeeding Protections And Other Reforms
25.5.2022
10 months after a California lawsuit alleged widespread sexual harassment and discrimination at Call of Duty publisher Activision Blizzard, employees at the company don’t feel like it’s made the necessary changes and have created a worker committee to demand further reforms. Chief among them...
Mass Shooting Apparently Planned On Discord, Streamed On Twitch, Investigated As Hate Crime
15.5.2022
Tragedy struck New York on May 14 as an 18-year-old white male shot and killed at least 10 people in Buffalo, New York, police said. The shooter, whose online username is reportedly “jimboboiii”, has been taken into custody after live streaming the whole thing on gaming platform Twitch, the company...
40K Developers Criticised Over Dumb Twitch Drops
9.5.2022
Complex Games, the developers of the new Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters, have issued a statement apologising to players after running a campaign where certain in-game items were only available to those who sat through some Twitch streams.Read more
Google Forms Web3 Team — Sees Tremendous Potential, Demand for Crypto Tech Support
8.5.2022
Google is establishing a Web3 team within its cloud unit, noting that “it is a market that is already demonstrating tremendous potential.” A Google executive explained: “We’re providing technologies for companies to use and take advantage of the distributed nature...
‘Consistently Strong’ Institutional Crypto Demand Stayed Despite Price Slump – WisdomTree
6.5.2022
Demand for WisdomTree's crypto-backed funds has stayed “consistently strong” through the price slump this year, with professional money managers in Europe among the key players allocating to the space, this asset management firm and exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider has said.
Will Peck, Head...
Twitch Streamer xQc Claims He Lost Over $1.8 Million Gambling Last Month
5.5.2022
Popular Twitch streamer xQc recently admitted that he lost $1.8 million to gambling over the last month. After news of his losses spread online, his dad called him during a stream to ask if he was okay and to express how worried he was about the streamer’s gambling problems. Read more
Avalanche rebounds 25% in five days as AVAX price tests key level — big rally ahead?
5.5.2022
Crypto market correlation and Valkyrie's Avalanche fund launch also helped push AVAX to a weekly high
4-digit ENS domains spike in demand this week and continue soaring
30.4.2022
Ethereum users rushing to purchase rare three- and four-digit names have been driving NFT market sales activity
Streamers Aren't Liking Twitch's Potential Moneymaking Idea
28.4.2022
Twitch is reportedly considering major changes to the monetization practices that streamers are upset about because the potentially lopsided percentages work out to pad Twitch’s bottom line.Read more
Report: Afghans Use Crypto to Curb Taliban’s Influence on Their Financial Well-Being
26.4.2022
Afghan residents are reportedly acquiring digital assets that they use to preserve their savings and to diminish the ruling Taliban’s ability to affect their financial well-being. Since the militant group seized control, the value of crypto transactions per week has in some cases doubled,...
Bitcoin funding rates show demand to short BTC as $40K becomes resistance
23.4.2022
The majority of traders expect fresh Bitcoin price losses after a difficult end to the week, data suggests
Ethereum's Merge Could Lower Demand for Bitcoin but Regulatory & Technical Challenges Persist
22.4.2022
Ethereum’s (ETH) transition to proof-of-stake (PoS), known as The Merge, will likely lead some current bitcoin (BTC) holders to move part of their capital to ETH, one industry insider argues. Others, meanwhile, say that despite a yield on ETH being attractive, regulatory scrutiny means more...