Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Since StepN launched in December 2021, the move-to-earn app has become a crowd-puller in GameFi or the play-to-earn blockchain space.
According to Jerry Huang, StepN co-founder, around 2 to 3 million users worldwide are actively using the app.
While...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Hollywood actor Seth Green canât catch a break. He fell for a phishing attack and someone stole four valuable NFTs from him. A Bored Ape Yacht Club, two Mutant Apes, and a Doodle, to be exact. As if that wasnât bad enough, Green was developing an an...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The crypto market has been in a sorry state for several months now. Meme tokens like Shiba Inu (SHIB) took the worst blow following the crypto crash.
Despite that, Ethereum (ETH) whales have played on this crypto plunge, and it appears that Shiba In...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which began on May 22 and closes on May 26, has dominated the news this week. Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, spoke at the event about the current state of the economy, t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The China ban on Bitcoin mining back in 2021 had one of the greatest impacts on the space. On the back of this, the price of the digital asset had gone on a massive downtrend as the hashrate out of the mining capital of the world had dropped to nearl...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Cardano has been on the rise recently to the surprise of many in the space. Not only has the value of the digital asset gone up but the total value locked (TVL) on the network has also been surging. This comes off the back of a disappointing downtren...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
According to a press release, the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) will join forces with major exchange platform Mercado Bitcoin. The partners will work on the nine cases of the Central Bank of Brazil (Bacen) LIFT Challenge.
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
According to reports, South Korean police have asked exchanges to ‘freeze’ the assets of the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), a non-profit organization that supports the Terra (LUNA) cryptocurrency.
Luna’s Non-Profit Under Scrutiny
The...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Weld Money is getting a boost in its efforts to build a bridge between the world of crypto and fiat with the backing of ZenX Labs, the incubator program of the popular CeDeFi exchange Unizen.
ZenX Labs will provide the expertise Weld Money needs to e...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
The uncertainty around stablecoins had begun with the UST crash and inevitably spilled unto others such as USDT. This uncertainty has continued to linger weeks after the crash leading to investors moving out of stablecoins. The aftermath of the UST c...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Martin Shkreli, the so-called “Pharma Bro” who gained notoriety for jacking up the price of the life-saving medicine Daraprim by more than 5,000 percent, is very optimistic about DeFi.
The former hedge fund manager and convicted felon dis...
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 / 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 âFollow The Money,â 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 Lawâs announcement. In this new document...
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 / 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 / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Move over Heard Vs. Depp, Wright Vs. McCormack is here to command the worldâs attention. On one corner, the only man who has the gall to claim heâs 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 âGaming: The Trojan Horse of the Metaverseâ. 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 âcash moneyâ. This product is one that transcends the issues currently plaguing mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies, especially when it...
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 / 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 / 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 / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
Gaming retailer GameStop has revealed a new Ethereum crypto and NFT wallet that users can download a beta of starting today.
GameStop Launches Beta Version Of A New Wallet For Storing Ethereum Tokens And NFTs
As announced by the company in a tweet, t...