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Ubisoft's Never-ending Skull And Bones Delays: The Complete, Decade-Long Saga
13.1.2023
Skull And Bones started life as a multiplayer-focused expansion for 2013’s excellent Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag. Then it expanded into a bigger, MMO-like pirate game of its own. A decade later, and following its 2017 reveal and multiple delays, Ubisoft’s online pirate sim is still missing....
Ancient Bitcoin Block Rewards See Decrease in Spending After Record Activity in 2020 and 2021
2.1.2023
In 2021, a number of 2010 block rewards were spent after the bitcoins sat idle for more than a decade. Furthermore, in 2020 and 2021, an early miner from 2010 spent strings of 20 ancient block rewards. In 2022, however, only 17 block rewards from 2010 were spent. Alongside this, on March 10, 2022...
John Carmack Quits Meta, Says 'This Is The End Of My Decade In VR'
20.12.2022
John Carmack, legendary game designer, rocket guy and VR enthusiast, has announced that he is leaving both Meta/Facebook, and the virtual reality business itself, behind after a decade as one of its most prominent champions.Read more
Data Lake’s Consent-to-Earn: A Revolutionary Model for Data Monetization?
19.11.2022
During the last decade or so, data has become a hot topic and often a controversial one. As a result of Big Tech abuses and government-led collection schemes, people’s data is mined continuously and in ever-increasing amounts. Almost all of this is done without the consent of the individual...
Bitcoin metric warns of $21K profit-taking as decade-old BTC wakes up
29.10.2022
Bitcoin is getting livelier at current six-week highs, data shows, as profit-taking comes back into the spotlight
Google Admits Crypto Winter Is Hurting Ad Business
27.10.2022
The digital asset market downturn that started the current crypto winter is negatively affecting search spending, Google has acknowledged. Ad growth in the third quarter fell to a low seen only once in almost a decade, the tech company revealed this week. With Fewer Crypto Ads, Google Registers...
Report: US Central Bank Loses Billions From Rate Hikes, ‘Losses Pile up Into an IOU’
25.10.2022
While the U.S. Federal Reserve ramped up the benchmark bank rate with a barrage of rate hikes, U.S. Treasury markets and global bond markets, in general, have seen one of the worst selloffs in over a decade. The Fed’s actions has fueled criticism toward the U.S. central bank as some strategists...
‘Sleeping Bitcoin’ Spends Slow Down Considerably in 2022, as 92 Decade-Old BTC Worth $1.79 Million Wake Up
25.10.2022
While the price of bitcoin has remained range bound and coasting along just above the $19K zone, over 60% of the bitcoin in circulation has not moved in a year or more. Moreover, there’s been very few transfers from bitcoins stemming from 2010, and it’s been more than two months since...
Ripple's lead engineer to exit after nearly a decade with the firm
24.10.2022
Nik Bougalis primarily worked on open-source code projects for the payments-focused XRP Ledger, with the recent push to introduce NFTs being a key implementation of note
The Size of Bitcoin’s Distributed Ledger Nears a Half Terabyte
15.10.2022
Well over a decade ago, on January 3, 2009, the size of the Bitcoin blockchain was 0.285 kilobytes (kB) or around 285 bytes. Today, however, the blockchain’s ledger is nearly half a terabyte, or roughly 432 gigabytes. Bitcoin’s Blockchain Nears 500 Gigabytes in Size On October...
Sleuth Discovers Satoshi’s Long-Lost Bitcoin Version 0.1 Codebase, Raw Code Contains Bitcoin Inventor’s Never-Before-Seen Personal Notations
7.10.2022
On October 7, 2022, a bitcoin supporter named Jim Blasko explained that he discovered the oldest upload of Bitcoin’s version 0.1 codebase. The original code was thought to have been lost for more than a decade and with a “little browser hacking” Blasko was able to find the lost...
‘Trading Like a Lehman Moment’ — Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank Suffer From Distressed Valuations as the Banks’ Credit Default Insurance Nears 2008 Levels
2.10.2022
It’s been more than a decade since the financial crisis in 2007-2008 when Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest investment bank in the U.S., collapsed and filed bankruptcy. Close to 14 years later, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, two of the world’s largest banks, are suffering from...
‘Investors Are Running out of Havens’ — Erratic Behavior in US Bond Markets Points to Deep Recession, Elevated Sovereign Risk
22.9.2022
Yields on long-dated U.S. Treasuries have been erratic this year and this week, the 10-year Treasury yield crossed 3.5% for the first time in a decade. Following the Fed’s 75bps (basis points) rate hike, 10-year notes reached 3.642% and two-year Treasury notes jumped to a 15-year high...
V Brně se řešila budoucnost Open Source v digitální politice
21.9.2022
V pátek 16. 9. 2022 se na Fakultě informatiky Masarykovy univerzity v Brně konala mezinárodní konference Open Source driving the European Digital Decade, kam se sjeli odborníci ze Spojených států, Švédska, Francie a…
Silver Supply Crunch Predictions, FDIC Issues Cease and Desist Order to FTX US, and More — Bitcoin.com News Week in Review
28.8.2022
Morgan Report founder David Morgan foresees a supply crunch for silver, and says that in ten years’ time, it will be one of the best investments of the decade. One analyst, however, says if the precious metal falls below $18, it’s “very possible that we could see silver...
Dead Island 2 Is Finally Coming After A Decade Of Development Hell
23.8.2022
Eight years later, Dead Island 2 has made its triumphant return to Gamescom. The beleaguered zombie RPG showcased a fancy new CGI trailer and a sizzle reel of characters smashing zombies like Gallagher going to town on a pallet of rotting watermelons. It comes out on February 3, 2023, almost...
Decentralizing the Internet: How Wayru is Bringing People Together with Blockchain
10.8.2022
In 2011 the UN released a report declaring the internet a Human Right, but over a decade later millions of people in developing countries still lack the necessary means for a simple WiFi connection, many of which reside in Latin America. This is due to industry control by a few large Internet...
Bitcoin Price Outlook for August: BTC Faces Some Important Tests in the Coming Weeks
6.8.2022
Exactly one month ago today, bitcoin was trading below $20,000 per unit as crypto markets continued to react to growing levels of inflation and central bank policy. However, a month later, the world’s leading crypto token has moved above $23,000, despite consumer prices rising...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: BTC, ETH Marginally Higher Ahead of Today’s Interest Rate Decision
27.7.2022
Bitcoin was trading marginally higher on Wednesday, as traders were preparing for today’s interest rate decision. The Federal Reserve is expected to hike rates by 75 basis points for the second month running, as inflation in the United States continues to rise to multi-decade highs. Ethereum...
GTA Online’s New Update Is Just What The Nearly Decade-Old Game Needed
27.7.2022
Today, Rockstar Games released what might be one of the biggest, best updates Grand Theft Auto Online has seen in years. While it might not add something as big and flashy as a casino or superyacht, the new “Criminal Enterprises” update expands a huge list of old content, adds new quality-of-life...