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Mike Novogratz-backed firm announces $100M crypto investment fund
3.6.2021
Cryptology Asset Group wants to invest $100 million into new crypto and blockchain-focused venture funds
MLB Steps Into the NFT World by Entering a Long-Term Partnership With Candy Digital
2.6.2021
On June 1, Major League Baseball (MLB) reporter David Adler announced the MLB organization established a long-term deal with the digital collectible company Candy Digital. The oldest American professional baseball organization is stepping into the non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles world...
Sunday Comics: Meanwhile...
30.5.2021
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more
Mass Effect Is Back, But It Seems Like Morality Meters Are Gone For Good
28.5.2021
Will you save the orphans or eat them? Will you blow up the planet or give it renewable energy and free healthcare? Will you hug Leonardo Da Vinci or let his outstretched arms wither? For a minute there, it felt like games were characterized by binary choices like these—even if their prevalence...
Mike Novogratz Doubts Dogecoin’s Future — ‘No Institution Is Buying DOGE, Retail Will Lose Interest’
26.5.2021
Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz doubts the future of dogecoin. The billionaire investor said that “It likely doesn’t have long-term legs because no institution is buying it and at some point, retail will lose interest.” Novogratz Says Dogecoin ‘Doesn’t Have Long-Term...
Sunday Comics: That's Interesting
23.5.2021
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more
Bitcoin Bull Mike Novogratz Insists ‘Crypto Revolution Has Happened’ Despite Falling Prices, liquidation
22.5.2021
Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz says that despite massive sell-offs across a broad range of cryptocurrencies, the story of crypto has not changed and “the crypto revolution has happened.” While viewing the current market as a “liquidation event” and a setback, Novogratz...
Half-Life: Alyx Almost Had Enemies Who Reacted When You Flipped Them Off
21.5.2021
Hands. You wouldn’t have human civilization without them, meaning you wouldn’t have video games, either. Or, like, houses. But even though hands are front and center in many games, we don’t talk about them all that often. On this week’s episode of Splitscreen, we stop keeping hands at arm’s length....
Foundry’s Mike Colyer on US-China Mining Rivalry and Why Clean Bitcoin ‘Makes No Sense’
18.5.2021
The New York miner says, "We're seeing a lot of hashrate start to come to the U.S." and many states have friendlier regulations these days
Biggest Layoffs in US Banking History: Analyst Predicts Banks to Cut 200,000 Jobs
18.5.2021
A Wells Fargo analyst has predicted the largest “reduction in U.S. bank headcount in history.” Banks are expected to cut 200,000 jobs as they strive to improve productivity and efficiency amid rising competition from fintech and non-bank financial institutions. US Banking Sector...
Banking system consumes two times more energy than Bitcoin: research
17.5.2021
According to Galaxy’s estimates, the annual energy usage of Bitcoin stands at 114 TWh, while the banking industry consumes over 260 TWh each year
Banking System Uses Significantly More Energy Than Bitcoin, Research Shows
17.5.2021
A new report shows that the banking system consumes more than twice the amount of energy that bitcoin does. The authors analyzed bitcoin’s energy usage and compared it to the banking and gold industries. Banking System Consumes Much More Energy Than Bitcoin Galaxy Digital published a report...
Sunday Comics: Predators?
16.5.2021
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more
F*ck, Marry, Kill: Mass Effect Party Member Edition
14.5.2021
It certainly says something about the video game industry that the most anticipated release of the year so far is a remaster of a sci-fi RPG trilogy from a decade ago. Mass Effect has some memorable characters—and a lot of less memorable ones, a fact that many people have fittingly forgotten....
Does Mike Novogratz hold more than $5B in crypto?
13.5.2021
In a recent interview, the Galaxy Digital founder said his crypto investments amounted to 85% of his net worth
Sex Game Can't Get On Steam, Even After $20,000 Worth Of Attempts
12.5.2021
The developers of Holodexxx are at a loss. After spending months attempting to get their VR sex game onto Steam, they’ve hit a wall that no amount of self-censorship or mechanical refinement has been able to drill through: Valve’s nebulous definition of “pornography.”Read more
‘Bullish’ Cryptocurrency Exchange to Launch With Backing of Billionaire Investors, Investment Bank Nomura
12.5.2021
A new cryptocurrency exchange called “Bullish” will be launched this year by Bullish Global, a subsidiary of Block.one. It is backed by a number of prominent investors, including Peter Thiel, Alan Howard, Louis Bacon, Richard Li, Mike Novogratz, Christian Angermayer, and investment bank...
Bitcoin’s Smallest Unit: Billionaire Mike Novogratz Wants Crypto Exchanges to Quote Satoshis
10.5.2021
Mike Novogratz, the CEO of Galaxy Digital, wants exchanges to start listing in the smallest unit of bitcoin otherwise known as “satoshis”. On May 8, Novogratz tweeted out to a number of crypto exchange executives and asked “which exchange will be first to quote in SATS?”...
Sunday Comics: HONK HONK!
9.5.2021
Hello! It’s time for Kotaku’s Sunday Comics, your weekly roundup of the best webcomics. The images enlarge if you click on the magnifying glass icon.Read more
Resident Evil Village's Lady Dimitrescu Was Worth The Wait
7.5.2021
After the internet spent months pining and meme-ing, she’s finally here: Lady Dimitrescu—and also Resident Evil Village, I guess. But was she (and, I suppose, the game) worth all the hype and marketing-driven hoopla? On this week’s village- (and Village-) themed episode of Splitscreen, we find...