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Oracle Token Chainlink Replaces XRP in Grayscale’s Strategic Large Cap Fund
6.4.2021
The digital currency manager Grayscale Investments announced that the firm has updated its Digital Large Cap Fund (GDLC) in order to add the crypto asset chainlink to the fund. Chainlink is the popular blockchain oracle network and the token will replace XRP after Grayscale removed the digital...
Binance Abruptly Delists South African Rand Trading Pairs After Currency Fails to Meet ‘High Level Standard’
2.4.2021
In an abrupt move, Binance South Africa announced on March 31 that all South African rand (ZAR) trading pairs will be delisted on April 2. The crypto exchange adds in a statement that “all trade orders will be automatically removed after 10.00 UTC on April 1” in each respective trading...
Counter-Strike Was Accidentally Removed From Steam Today
10.3.2021
Earlier today, anyone trying to find or play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive on Steam ran into a weird surprise: the game was missing. Just...gone.Read more
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 Delayed Past 2021, Developers Removed From Project, Preorders Halted
23.2.2021
The troubled development of the sequel to Vampire: the Masquerade just got a lot more troubled, with publishers Paradox announcing tonight that not only will the game not be released in 2021 as originally planned, but that developers Hardsuit Labs have also been removed from the project.Read more
Rising Sun Removed From Street Fighter II In Capcom Arcade Stadium
19.2.2021
E. Honda’s Street Fighter II bathhouse stage is iconic. On the back wall is a mural with Mount Fuji, a kabuki actor, and the Rising Sun design. The mountain and the thespian stay in Capcom Arcade Stadium’s re-release, but the ray design does not.Read more
Kinda-Famous Metal Gear Ad Removed From Building After Seven Years
2.12.2020
In 2013, a huge piece of street art was commissioned in Leeds, England for the launch of Metal Gear Rising. For some reason it has stayed up for seven years, becoming something of a local legend, until last week it was finally covered over by a different ad that has nothing to do with Raiden.Read...
Southeast Asia’s Largest Bank DBS Plans to Launch a Cryptocurrency Exchange
27.10.2020
The Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation DBS published an announcement revealing it was launching a cryptocurrency exchange. The announcement was later removed by the company but crypto proponents have learned about the upcoming support for assets like bitcoin...
Copy the Browser’s Native Focus Styles
28.8.2020
Remy documented this the other day. Firefox supports a Highlight keyword and both Chrome and Safari support a -webkit-focus-ring-color keyword. So if you, for example, have removed focus from something and want to put it back in the same style as the browser default, or want to apply a focus style...
Onecoin Allegedly Tied to Racehorse Firm, Phoenix Thoroughbreds Removed from France Galop Race
21.8.2020
Last week the firm Phoenix Thoroughbreds was reportedly banned from horse racing in France over the founder’s alleged involvement with the crypto Ponzi scheme Onecoin. Last November, Onecoin cofounder Konstantin Ignatov, the Cryptoqueen’s brother, told New York prosecutors Phoenix...
Dispelling the Myth That Bitcoin Proponents Want a Cashless Society
2.8.2020
Bitcoin and a great number of other cryptocurrencies are electronic versions of currency. Many people falsely assume that crypto proponents are for a cashless society and this is certainly not the case. If we removed the central banks’ printing fiasco and the inflationary practices from cash...
Russia Shelves Plans to Criminalize Bitcoin Transactions – For Now
21.7.2020
Russia has dropped plans to criminalize bitcoin transactions – for now, according to local media reports. The Digital Financial Assets Bill (DFA), due to be read for the second time in the Russian parliament – or State Duma – on July 21, has removed references to administrative...
Bitcoin.org Maintainer Calls for the Removal of Cobra, Website Owner Then Fires Him
29.6.2020
The infamous and controversial owner of the website bitcoin.org, Cobra, is under fire recently and a number of community members have asked to see the website removed from his possession. The initial argument was sparked by the website’s maintainer, Will Binns, who told the public that...
Youtube Reinstates Bitcoin.com’s Official Channel After Suspension
15.6.2020
Just recently, the official Bitcoin.com Youtube channel was suspended and removed from the popular video platform. During the last 12 months, Youtube has censored information and banned cryptocurrency video coverage with no remorse. As the censorship continues to wreak havoc on innocent content...
Amid Youtube Censorship, Individuals Flock to Decentralized Video Sharing Apps Like Lbry.tv
31.5.2020
In mid-May, news.Bitcoin.com reported on one of our mining pool videos being censored and banned from the video-sharing platform Youtube. The report had shown how Youtube has been censoring videos for a long time now, and the CEO specifically told the public certain coronavirus films would...
$200M Worth of BTC Removed From Exchanges Post-Halving
13.5.2020
Bitcoin community removes $200M worth of BTC from exchanges the first day after the halving
Decentralized Protocol Removed From EU Contact Tracing Website Without Notice
16.4.2020
EU researchers are concerned after their proposal for a decentralized contact tracing system was rejected without explanation
Google Pulls 49 Cryptocurrency Wallet Browser Extensions Found Stealing Private Keys
15.4.2020
Google has removed 49 cryptocurrency wallet browser extensions after a security researcher discovered they were stealing private keys. These Chrome extensions targeted users of crypto wallets, such as Ledger, Trezor, Jaxx, Electrum, Myetherwallet, Metamask, Exodus, and Keepkey. Also read: Bitcoin...
49 Crypto-Stealing Chrome Extensions Removed from Google's Store
15.4.2020
Google has removed a number of Chrome extensions that were pretending to be crypto wallet apps in order to steal users' cryptoassets.
A total of 49 extensions of Google's popular web browser, Chrome, which is the most popular in the world, have been removed by the tech giant from the Web Store...
Bitcoin Reacts to Fed’s 0% Rate Drop, Reserve Requirements Removed, $700B in Stimulus
16.3.2020
On Sunday, the U.S. Federal Reserve slashed the benchmark short-term rate by 100 basis points bringing it to zero. In addition to the rate cut, the Fed promised $700 billion in bond purchases and eliminated all reserve requirements for smaller financial institutions. However, the Fed’s rate...
BCH Funding Debate: Developers Plan to Launch IFP-Free Version of Bitcoin ABC
20.2.2020
On February 19, a group of well known software developers announced the launch of a new Bitcoin Cash full node with the Infrastructure Funding Plan (IFP) removed from the codebase. The news was announced on the read.cash platform by the developer Freetrader who told the public that strong demand...