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Axie Infinity: Games Where People Earn And Transform Gaming
23.7.2021
Drew Cattanach, Lecturer in Computer Games Development, University of Westminster.
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The ultimate point of playing video games has always been to have fun. Whether it’s Space Invaders or Sonic or Red Dead Redemption, you hit the start button and do your thing until the game is over – and then...
Musk-Triggered 'Average People' Send Proofs Of Bitcoin Node
22.7.2021
Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk shared another opinion on Bitcoin (BTC), and the Cryptoverse had counterarguments and lots of pictures.
This time, Musk was skeptical that an average person can run a Bitcoin node.
He expressed this doubt during the much-anticipated conversation on Bitcoin between...
John McAfee Died Broke After Spending Millions on Mansions - Author
19.7.2021
John McAfee. The late tech tycoon and crypto advocate John McAfee died broke while awaiting extradition to the US on tax evasion charges in a Spanish prison last June, according to Scottish author Mark Eglinton. McAffee had spent his fortune on lavish mansions, says the writer who collaborated with...
Coinbase CEO Rebuffs Dogecoin Co-Founder Statements: ‘Crypto Is an Alternative for People Who Want More Freedom’
19.7.2021
Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, took to Twitter to tell his thoughts about the statements that Jackson Palmer, co-founder of Dogecoin, expressed last week. While Palmer now has a negative vision of the cryptocurrency industry, Armstrong is in the opposite field. To Armstrong, the cryptocurrency...
Malaysia Flattens Seized Bitcoin Mining Rigs With Steamroller — Over 1,000 Machines Demolished
19.7.2021
Over 1,000 bitcoin mining machines have been totally destroyed in Malaysia after they were seized for illegally mining the cryptocurrency using stolen electricity. The mining machines, worth about $1.26 million, were steamrolled in the Malaysian city of Miri and eight people have been arrested...
Busking for Bitcoin: Report Finds Street Performers Depend on Digital Payments
17.7.2021
Street performers, or buskers, are leaning more toward digital platforms these days compared to the old method of accepting loose change. A report recently published by economists at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia has found that in certain areas, buskers get more donations via digital...
China Reveals Digital Yuan White Paper: Smart Contracts, $5.4B Settled, Large Transfers Traced
16.7.2021
The working group involved with the research and development of the digital yuan for the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has published a paper describing the digital currency’s progress. The PBOC initiated a task force dedicated to the creation of a digital yuan in 2014, and the recently...
Some Typography Links
16.7.2021
Glitter text — whO (I learned a name for people who go by a one-word moniker like that: Mononymous) created a builder for fancy SVG-based type. It’s a custom font with <text>, and the fancy comes in with a
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Hong Kong Busts Money Laundering Ring Using Tether to Wash Millions
16.7.2021
Authorities in Hong Kong have arrested four people suspected of money laundering a total of $155 million through cryptocurrency wallets and bank accounts. The city’s customs agency said this was its first case in which virtual money had been used to launder dirty cash. Money Laundering...
Former US Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Says His View on Bitcoin ‘Has Evolved’
16.7.2021
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says his viewpoint on bitcoin “has evolved a little bit.” While he personally does not want to have bitcoin in his portfolio, he says if people want to buy the cryptocurrency, “that’s perfectly fine.” Mnuchin Says...
Spike Lee Directs ‘Old Money Is Out, New Money Is In’ Commercial for Cryptocurrency ATMs
16.7.2021
Award-winning director Spike Lee has teamed up with bitcoin ATM operator Coin Cloud on a multimillion-dollar crypto campaign. “Digital currency is viable for not just people of color, but anybody who has been historically excluded from traditional financial systems,” said the famed...
UK FCA will spend £11M to warn people about investing in crypto
15.7.2021
U.K. financial regulators have announced an 11 million pound digital marketing war chest to warn people about the dangers of crypto investments
Busta Rhymes Talks Cryptocurrencies, Rappers Asks Fans if He Should ‘Buy In’
15.7.2021
Trevor George Smith Jr., professionally as Busta Rhymes asked his 3.8 million followers on Twitter what they think about cryptocurrencies. Rhymes questioned if anyone was into crypto and how people were feeling about digital currencies at the moment. Busta Rhymes Asks If He Should Buy Crypto...
Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor Jörg Molt Arrested for Alleged Crypto Pension Fraud
14.7.2021
In 2019, a man with Fabio-like hair entered the cryptocurrency scene with questionable claims when he told a slew of people he helped co-found the creation of Bitcoin. The self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor named Jörg Molt not only offered a “Satoshi School” but allegedly ran...
Jamstack Community Survey 2021
13.7.2021
The folks over at Netlify have opened up the Jamstack Community Survey for 2021. More than 3,000 front-enders like yourself took last year’s survey, which gauged how familiar people are with the term “Jamstack” and which frameworks they …
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Jamstack Community Survey 2021
13.7.2021
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The folks over at Netlify have opened up the Jamstack Community Survey for 2021. More than 3,000 front-enders like yourself took last year’s survey, which gauged how familiar people are with the …
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China Has Dispersed Over $40 Million of Digital Yuan in Red Envelopes, Report Reveals
11.7.2021
China, which has arguably the most advanced digital currency project among leading nations, has so far handed out more than $40 million in red envelopes with digital yuan. The promotional campaign for the CBDC is currently focused on five major cities, taking into account their regional development...
Get Paid for Excrement: This Eco-Friendly Toilet Pays You in Digital Currency
11.7.2021
An eco-friendly toilet that pays people in digital currency for using it has been installed at a university in South Korea. The toilet is connected to a laboratory that uses excrement to produce biogas, which is used as a source of energy at the university. Get Paid in Digital Currency to Use...
Man Looking for Lost BTC 7,500 in a Rubbish Dump Plans Hi-Tech Search
9.7.2021
An aerial photography taken from a helicopter of a scrap metal recycling business in Newport Wales. A British man who has been trying to convince his local council to let him search a rubbish dump for a hard disk drive containing a bumper bitcoin (BTC) haul since 2014 now wants to use high-tech...
Crypto Wallet Recovery Service KeychainX Can Save Your Bitcoin
8.7.2021
Whenever the prices of digital assets skyrocket, social media gets flooded with stories of people that could be millionaires now but forgot the keys to wallets they opened a few years before. But if this happened to you, don’t lose hope, cryptocurrency wallet recovery service KeychainX...