Earlier this week, Elon Musk likened Twitter to a modern-day public town square. But, rather than a place for the free exchange of ideas, Musk slammed the platform for failing to uphold free speech resulting in a subversion of democracy. He followed up by asking his Twitter followers what should be done about this problem. …
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This week I caught up with Guy from Coin Bureau to talk about his upcoming live event, the Coin Bureau Conference in London. We ended up chatting about crypto politics, his YouTube career, how he comes up with his rhymes, his biggest crypto wish, and loads more. Honestly, he’s such a guy (pun intended) you …
MacroStrategy LLC, a subsidiary of business intelligence company MicroStrategy, has taken out a $205 million loan to buy Bitcoin (BTC). MicroStrategy announced this news earlier today, noting that San Diego-based Silvergate Bank serviced this loan through the Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN), which is famous for offering collateralized loans on crypto. According to the announcement, MacroStrategy …
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2022 is the year crypto got serious. Indeed, meme coins like Shiba Inu seem to have fallen by the wayside recently. While the current market-wide pump has brought renewed optimism across the board, including with SHIB, which is among the top gainers over the last week, its price is still 68% below the $0.00008616 all-time …
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Ronin Network, an Ethereum-based sidechain created by Axie Infinity developer Sky Mavis to support its popular non-fungible token-based game, was exploited by an unknown hacker (or a group) and lost roughly $615 million worth of crypto today. “The Ronin bridge has been exploited for 173,600 Ethereum and 25.5M USDC. The Ronin bridge and Katana Dex …
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Ethereum Layer-2 scaling solutions are seeing more and more protocols building on them as the technology becomes increasingly mature. A month ago Yearn Finance launched its first layer-2 powered service on optimistic rollup protocol Arbitrum, and three weeks ago StarkWare themselves raised $100 million at a $6 billion valuation. The latest protocol to jump on …
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As inflation continues to wreak havoc on American wallets, the U.S. dollar’s lack of purchasing power has been affecting nearly every U.S. resident’s spending decisions. On Monday, U.S. president Biden and his administration predicted lower inflation forecasts as officials announced Biden’s proposed budget for the 2023 fiscal year. According to marketwatch.com author Victor Reklaitis, the …
The media and entertainment company World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., otherwise known as WWE, has inked a long-term partnership with the global digital sports platform Fanatics. According to the deal, Fanatics will work with WWE across various ventures such as officially licensed merchandise, trading cards, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). WWE Partners With Fanatics, Wrestling Entertainment Firm …
According to Sky Mavis, the creators of the blockchain NFT game Axie Infinity, the Ronin network has been attacked, and a hacker has managed to siphon 173,600 in ethereum and 25.5 million usd coin (USDC). The attacker has obtained roughly $620 million worth of crypto assets, and the Ronin bridge and Katana Dex have been …
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WAVES was undoubtedly Tuesday’s biggest gainer, climbing by as much as 50% during the session. Gains in WAVES came as well, as LUNA once again overtook SOL as the world’s eighth-largest cryptocurrency. RUNE was also a big mover today. WAVES WAVES was easily the biggest gainer during Tuesday’s trading session, as it rose to a …
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Crypto analytics firm Santiment is digging into the charts to see what caused Bitcoin (BTC) to surge dramatically in recent days. The market insights agency says that the lessening concerns about macroeconomic data and geopolitical events are helping Bitcoin investors achieve gains of more than 10% when calculating market value to realized value (MVRV). “Bitcoin …
Independent campaigning group Greenpeace is joining forces with billionaire and Ripple co-founder Brad Larsen to change Bitcoin’s (BTC) code for the sake of the environment. The new “Change the Code, Not the Climate” campaign aims to benefit the climate by reducing the amount of power used in Bitcoin transactions. Former Sierra Club executive Michael Brune, who heads the new …
March 29, 2022 – London, United Kingdom Flare Network, the coming layer one that is built to safely connect to all blockchains, has announced the launch of its ‘state connector’ on its canary network, Songbird. This new core web 3.0 protocol makes it possible for the state of any on- or off-chain open system to …
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This week Gnosis (GNO) price notched a swift 50%+ rally after the project took another step forward in its transition to the Coincidence of Wants Procotol, or CoW, an interface that offers traders protection from miner extracted value (MEV). Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that the price of GNO has gained 86% …
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According to local news outlet Arabian Business, Citizens School, located in Dubai, will accept tuition payments denominated in Bitcoin (BTC) or Ethereum (ETH). Payments using digital assets are facilitated via an unnamed processing platform and are automatically converted into United Arab Emirates Dirhams (AED). Dr Adil Alzarooni, the founder of Citizens School, commented: “We look …
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