Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Dune co-founder Charlotte Fang has abandoned an NFT initiative dubbed Milady, following a Twitter trolling firestorm.
In January, a DAO purchased one of the last copies of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Dune,” a documentary made in 2013. T...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Crypto Valley Venture Capital has announced the launch of an early-stage fund for African blockchain startups. Already, the venture capital firm has invested in 12 startups whose use cases go beyond crypto.
Uses Cases Beyond Crypto
The Switzerland-ba...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Do Kwon’s co-founder and CEO of TerraForm Labs recently announced the Terra revival plan and received mixed reactions; many of them have questioned the effectiveness of a hard fork in reviving the fallen price of Terra (LUNA) and TerraUSD (UST)...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
In “Follow The Money,” the What Bitcoin Did team goes deep. The podcast is already a part of the El Salvador story, with its host Peter McCormack being the first to interview President Bukele after the Bitcoin Law’s announcement. In this new document...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The Department of the Interior of Uruguay is taking steps to warn users about the danger they face when investing in certain crypto projects that could be scams. The campaign is called “Fake Coins: Cryptocurrency Scams” and seek...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Magic Johnson unveiled a new NFT line this week. Sport and NFTs continue to challenge the limits of technology, with American franchises at the forefront of the trend into the virtual domain.
The legendary basketball player is the most recent athlete...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust, one of the major banking institutions in Japan, will reportedly enter the cryptocurrency custody business. The company is entering a partnership with Bitbank, a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange, to launch a new company that...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Out of the ruins of the TerraUSD (UST) collapse rises a new stablecoin — USDTea, the first of its kind — that is backed by a can of, well, iced tea.
Whether intended as satire or not, USDTea has joined the plethora of stablecoins in the v...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The ruling party of South Korea is likely to host an urgent meeting on Tuesday with officials from the state’s top five largest crypto exchanges. The officials look forward to holding crypto exchanges accountable for their failure to save trade...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
With the approaching tsunami of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) looming ever closer, it shouldn’t come as a surprise when central banks shill their coins at the expense of sounder assets. Recently, European Central Bank president Chris...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Move over Heard Vs. Depp, Wright Vs. McCormack is here to command the world’s attention. On one corner, the only man who has the gall to claim he’s Satoshi Nakamoto, Dr. Craig Wright. On the other, host and creator of the What Bitcoin Did podcast, Pe...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
On May 18, 2022, at Permissionless Conference organised by Blockworks in Miami, CEO of Project SEED – Liko Subakti gave an insightful panel discussion on “Gaming: The Trojan Horse of the Metaverse”. Also joined by other GameFi and digital asset...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Tectum team has announced the the SoftNote, a fintech product that brings blockchain technology to traditional ‘cash money’. This product is one that transcends the issues currently plaguing mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies, especially when it...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Several crypto firms, including Binance and Circle, have launched a new crypto scam reporting platform. The tool “empowers anyone in the crypto economy to warn others about scams, hacks or other fraudulent activity as they encounter it.&am...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The Sirens NFTs is a female-led project by the famous influencer Alexis Ren that highlights an important fact: “On average, about 5% of NFT sales make up women.” And they want to change that.
Disclaimer: The following op-ed represents the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has warned about investing in the crypto market following the collapse of cryptocurrency terra (LUNA) and stablecoin terrausd (UST). “We have been cautioning against crypto and...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The Fed Reserve has released its annual study on Americans’ financial life, and it shows that they are more likely to utilize cryptocurrency as an investing tool than as a means of payment.
Fed Report Shows Booming Crypto Economy
The report, Ec...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
I have some files (e.g. of 10MB in size, think of it as a paper, an article, a photo, etc), and want to permanently prove that "at 2022.05.24, I already come up with such a file with such content".
So, is it possible to be done via...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Renowned investor Jim Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum Fund with billionaire investor George Soros, says he has “optimism about the future of crypto money.” However, he is skeptical of central bank digital currencies and warne...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The South Korean police have reportedly launched an investigation into possible embezzlement involving an employee of Terraform Labs. To prevent fund transfers, the police have requested crypto exchanges to freeze the Luna Foundation Guard’s a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
FTX Token has now become the largest token holding among the top 100 Ethereum whales, second only to their ETH holdings. These whales have always been bullish on the cryptocurrency but have mainly ramped up their holdings in the past few months. The...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The House Ethics Committee launched a broad federal investigation into Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-North Carolina, on Monday, following allegations that he engaged in insider trading and had a sexual relationship with his aide.
A subcommittee of the Hou...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
South Africa’s national broadcaster has suspended one of its employees that is accused of convincing unsuspecting people, including pensioners, to invest in a cryptocurrency scam. More than 100 people are believed to have fallen victim to prom...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin Stack Exchange - 2 years ago
This is most likely probably tied to the difficulty. If the difficulty level were to be 32, any given hashed block would have a 1/2^32 chance of being a valid block to append to the block chain.
At the time of writing this, the difficulty is 31.25....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
After the LUNA and UST meltdown, many crypto investors have been curious about the project’s rise in popularity and people wonder about the background of Terra’s co-founder Do Kwon. Moreover, it is not commonly known that Terraform Labs...