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Another Unnamed Investor Offers to Bail Out Collapsed South Africa Crypto Firm
8.12.2021
A new unnamed investor has offered to bail out Africrypt, the collapsed South Africa-based crypto investment company, with $5 million. The offer, which does not require criminal charges against Africrypt directors to be dropped, must be accepted within seven days. A Better Offer A new mystery...
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon Believes Blockchain Is More Important Than Bitcoin
8.12.2021
David Solomon, CEO of Goldman Sachs, one of the leading banking institutions in the world, has stated his opinion on the bitcoin vs blockchain dilemma. To Solomon, bitcoin is not as important as the advancements in technology that implementing blockchain and other new ledger-based tools can bring...
Sony Pictures and AMC Theatres Choose WAX Blockchain for Spider-Man: No Way Home NFT Promotion
7.12.2021
Eco-friendliness and mass market accessibility cited as major factors in choosing WAX. WAX Blockchain has been chosen by Sony Pictures and AMC Theatres (NYSE:AMC) for Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man: No Way Home NFT Promotion, the first ever NFT promotion between a studio and a major theatrical...
Binance Smart Chain Partners With Animoca Brands in $200 Million Crypto Gaming Incubation Fund
7.12.2021
Binance Smart Chain, one of the leading smart contract platforms in the blockchain market, has partnered with Animoca Brands, operator and investor of several NFT based games, to launch a joint $200 million gamefi (financialization of gaming) incubation program. The two institutions will invest...
Bitmart Loses $200 Million in Hack Performed by Unknown Attackers
6.12.2021
Bitmart, a cryptocurrency exchange, suffered an attack yesterday that exploited some security vulnerabilities in order to gain access to the funds of the exchange. The attack targeted the hot wallets of the platform, specifically the Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain-based wallets. The hackers...
Phemex Is Bringing Its Community’s Dreams to Life Celebrating Its Second Anniversary
6.12.2021
Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange Phemex is celebrating its 2nd anniversary this November. It’s been an eventful couple of years for the derivatives platform, and with its Choose Your Reality event, this anniversary is going to be a memorable one. Phemex’s dedication to...
Starting My Journey Into the Metaverse by Throwing Tomatoes at Zuckerberg’s Face
5.12.2021
Editor’s Note: The following story was written by Neomi, an author from China with experience covering art, music, culture, tech, and travel. Bitcoin.com News sent her into the field of blockchain-based metaverse experiences to capture the feeling of a pioneer entering this new reality....
Tau-Chain Founder Ohad Asor and Prof. Franconi Explain Logical AI and How to Trade Knowledge
5.12.2021
Tau, in development, is the world’s first fully user-controlled blockchain, capable of understanding and implementing users’ consensus in real-time. It allows you to understand and be understood by billions of people, on a platform so advanced that it changes and updates itself based...
Virtual Land Adjacent to Snoop Dogg’s Sandbox Estate Sells for $450K in Ethereum
4.12.2021
The popular American rapper Snoop Dogg revealed at the end of September that he acquired land in the blockchain-based virtual metaverse The Sandbox and had plans to recreate his mansion. On December 2, The Sandbox held a “Snoopverse Land Sale,” which allowed participants to purchase...
Saxo Bank's 'Outrageous Prediction' on NFT-Based Platforms Disrupting Spotify
3.12.2021
Denmark’s Saxo Bank has released a set of 10 “outrageous predictions” for next year, among others forecasting that digital rights platforms based on non fungible tokens (NFTs) have the potential to disrupt Spotify’s robust position in the global music distribution industry.
The bank explains...
Marathon Expands Miner Deployment Deal With Compute North, Aims to Power 100K+ Miners With Renewables
3.12.2021
Marathon Digital Holdings, a Nasdaq-listed bitcoin mining-based company, has announced a new deal with Compute North, a data center service provider, to host more than 100,000 mining machines in its data centers. The deal is an expansion of an earlier deal that secured positioning for 73,000 mining...
Korean Incubator Hashed Raises $200 Million for Web 3.0 Investments
3.12.2021
Hashed, a Korean blockchain VC firm, has announced the launch of Hashed Venture Fund II, a new fund that will focus on investing in Web 3.0-based startups. The fund raised $200 million for these investments, and while the company did not disclose those who participated, it did announce it will...
Gaimin․io Developed a PC-Based Platform to Create a Global, Decentralized Data Processing Network
2.12.2021
UK and Swiss based gaming and blockchain company, GAIMIN.IO Ltd has developed a PC-based platform to create a global, decentralised data processing network with “supercomputer” level performance. The GAIMIN platform utilises underused processing power available from high performance...
P2E Fantasy Sports Game TradeStars Launches Staking of Native Token TSX
2.12.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Blockchain based P2E Fantasy Sports Game TradeStars has announced the launch of staking of their native token TSX. Users will now be able to stake their TSX tokens and earn more TSX tokens as rewards. TradeStars and TSX TradeStars is a P2E Fantasy Sports game built on Ethereum, where...
Pandemic Drove Adoption but Information Dissemination Just as Important: Kenya-Based Blockchain Advocate
2.12.2021
The adoption of blockchain technology and the use of cryptocurrencies by people in Africa surged to unprecedented levels in 2020. While many have attributed this to Covid-19, blockchain advocates believe their work is partly the reason many are turning to digital currencies. Importance of Education...
Blockchain.com Acquires Latin American Crypto Investment Platform Sesocio
2.12.2021
On November 30, the crypto firm Blockchain.com announced it acquired the Argentina-based investment platform Sesocio. According to the firm, the acquisition will give the company’s global workforce an aggregate headcount of 400 Blockchain.com employees worldwide. Blockchain.com’s...
Blockchain-Based Identity Systems Are Our Only Chance Against Online Fraud
1.12.2021
The entire social media landscape has sprung up around the idea that we just love to engage with people online. On Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or TikTok, we form groups and communities based on mutual likes or dislikes and find ourselves chatting to complete strangers, sometimes on the other side...
2TM, Mercado Bitcoin’s Holding Company, Raises $50.3 Million in Second Closing of Series B Funding Round
1.12.2021
2TM, a Brazilian fintech unicorn that is the holding company of Mercado Bitcoin, one of the leading crypto exchanges on the continent, has closed its Series B funding round again, raising an additional $50 million. The funding round was led by U.S.-based 10T and Tribe Capital, with...
The New Turn-Based League of Legends Game Is One Of The Best RPGs Of The Year
30.11.2021
The Ruined King: A League of Legends Story is, like many of Riot’s recent projects, an effort in translation. League of Legends remains one of the biggest games in the world, despite its rampant community toxicity and the tremendous time investment required from most players—but things like...
RChain and Hoo: The Arrow Has Already Been on the String
30.11.2021
On November 27th, 2021, RChain‘s founder Greg Meredith and blockchain scientist Atticbee were invited as guests to an AMA hosted by the Hoo Exchange. Hoo is a Dubai based innovation driven crypto exchange and has their in-house developed public chain, HSC, built for the global cryptocurrency...