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Kotaku Readers Share Their Favorite Holiday Gaming Gifts
28.12.2023
Earlier this week, I shared a story about my favorite Christmas gift. It was an Xbox 360 I had begged my late grandma for, which she bought alongside a copy of Gears of War and a second controller for my bestie and I. This gift would set the course for my life’s current trajectory, one neither...
Kyberswap Exploit Fallout: Platform’s Workforce Cut by 50%
28.12.2023
The CEO of Kyberswap, the decentralized finance aggregator, revealed on Christmas Day that the platform recently laid off 50% of its workforce. The CEO added his organization is in the process of creating a voluntary database that is expected to help these workers secure new jobs in the Web3 space....
Taproot Wizards Contributor Launches Script To Remove Bitcoin Ordinals Inscriptions
27.12.2023
Source: Pixabay A contributor to Taproot Wizards has launched a script to reject Ordinals inscriptions. In an X post published on Tuesday, Rijndael, Taproot Wizards’ chief technology officer, announced that he had published a script to “rid your node of inscriptions.” “Merry Christmas,...
Steam Users Gave Starfield A Lump Of Coal For Christmas
26.12.2023
Hope you had a nice holiday, because a certain open-world space RPG certainly did not. As of right around December 25, 2023, Starfield had received enough thumbs-downs on Steam to push its user rating status into “Mostly Negative” territory. It’s an upsetting fall for such a hyped title from one...
Fake Crypto Websites on Google Ads Drain $3 Million in Christmas Phishing Scam
26.12.2023
Scammers drained $3 million in crypto from victims this Christmas using fake websites promoted on Google ads. Image by Fareed Mindalano, DALL-E 3. A new report reveals that scammers stole over $3 million in cryptocurrency from victims this holiday season using fake crypto websites promoted through...
Bitcoin Hashrate Hits New All-Time High, Exacerbating Profitability Challenges for Miners
26.12.2023
Source: AdobeStock / Photocreo Bednarek The hashrate of the Bitcoin (BTC) network has reached a new all-time high, putting additional pressure on miners who are already grappling with a slump in profitability. According to data from Blockchain.com and Bitinfocharts, Bitcoin’s hashrate soared...
Bitcoin Breaks Records: Christmas Eve Sees Lifetime Surge in Daily Transactions and Hashrate
25.12.2023
On Dec. 24, 2023, Bitcoin shattered yet another daily transaction milestone, with miners confirming 723,459 transfers in a single day. The transaction rate on Christmas Eve exceeded the former peak of 710,579 verifications on Nov. 19, 2023. Bitcoin’s Festive Feat — Record Transactions...
Best Crypto to Buy Today December 25, 2023 – Qaunt, Sei, The Sandbox
25.12.2023
This Christmas day brings some crypto specials for investors to consider. On today’s crypto market menu, we have Quant (QNT), Sei (SEI), and The Sandbox (SAND). Quant is up 17.5% over the last 24 hours, currently trading at nearly $135. Meanwhile, Sei appreciated nearly 12% to $0.39 and SAND...
Bitcoin Price Prediction on Christmas Day: Unwrapping BTC’s Market Trends and Future Outlook
25.12.2023
On this serene Christmas Day, the cryptocurrency market, particularly Bitcoin (BTC/USD), reflects the season’s quiet but does not escape the inherent volatility of its nature. The current price of Bitcoin hovers around $43,125, marking a 1.70% decline in the last 24 hours. Despite this...
TaxWraps: Unwrap the Financial Gift of Tokenization this Christmas
20.12.2023
As tokenization takes hold, we propose a way to defer tax liabilities, bringing the tax efficiencies of ETFs to a wide market
Bitcoin Struggles for Direction in Run-Up to Christmas + More News
19.12.2023
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of crypto and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news. In this edition: Bitcoin Struggles for Direction in Run-Up to Christmas Hong Kong’s AIA Carnival to Accept Cryptocurrency Payments in Partnership with...
Is Bonk Going to Zero? BONK Price Declines 10% as Novel Mining Protocol Reaches $5.5 Million Milestone
19.12.2023
Solana-based meme coin Bonk has plummeted -10%, fuelling FOMO amongst retail traders left asking – is BONK going to zero? This comes on the tail-end of a huge pump, fuelled by a highly anticipated Coinbase BONK listing – which fuelled a dramatic +80% pump. Introducing The 12 Days of BONKmas...
Biggest Crypto Gainers Today on Uniswap – METIS, INJ, OX
18.12.2023
Uniswap logo Blue-chip cryptocurrencies continue to pull lower from multi-month/year highs hit earlier in the month amid profit-taking ahead of what is expected to be a somewhat calmer and lower volume run in to the end of the year, as major market participants take time off for the Christmas...
It Sucks To Buy Anything In 2023
15.12.2023
Recently, my wife and I went out to do some Christmas shopping. We also grabbed some lunch while we were out, brought dinner home, rented a movie, and bought a game to play the next day. It should have been a chill weekend, but it wasn’t. In 2023, thanks to greedy billionaires and giant, shitty...
Steam Trolls Players With Bans Wrapped Up Like Christmas Presents
15.12.2023
Video game companies have gotten very creative when it comes to punishing cheaters, from cutting their parachutes’ strings in Call of Duty to blowing them up in Grand Theft Auto Online. But Valve just set a new benchmark for trolling players: sending them permabans wrapped up like Christmas...
What to Buy Before Christmas: Shiba Inu or Retik Finance?
15.12.2023
Shiba Inu (SHIB) and Retik Finance (RETIK) both have unique qualities to the table, each with its own set of advantages and considerations. Let’s delve into the factors that might influence your decision on whether to buy Shiba Inu or Retik Finance before Christmas. Shiba Inu (SHIB) Shiba...
Xbox Series X Just Got A Massive Price Drop
13.12.2023
In case you still needed to do some last-minute Christmas shopping for the gamers in your life (or for yourself), Microsoft has temporarily slashed the price of its most powerful gaming console, knocking the cost down by $100.Read more
PS Plus’ December Lineup Wants You To Cozy Up For Christmas
29.11.2023
Thanksgiving is over, which means Christmas will be here soon. To get you ready for the snowy season, Sony’s December update offers a selection of lowkey games via PlayStation Plus.Read more
Kids Want Digital Currency And Subscriptions More Than New Games This Xmas
27.11.2023
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has revealed new data showing kids want video game-related gifts more than anything else this holiday season. But if you dig into the data a little bit more, you’ll discover that most kids don’t want a new physical game. Instead, what they’re really...
New Xmas-Themed Horror Game Is 'Too Crazy' For Xbox Or Switch, But Not PS5
7.11.2023
Christmas Massacre, an upcoming low-poly horror game, was initially planned to launch on Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation later this month. However, a few weeks before launch, the developer behind the spooky game revealed that Xbox and Nintendo won’t let the game release on their respective platforms...