Nike, the American multinational footwear and sports apparel giant, is getting ready to step into the metaverse and the world of non-fungible token (NFT) technology. Reports show Nike has a few employees “thinking about the metaverse” and a 2019 patent for “cryptokicks” indicates Nike has been preparing to use NFTs for quite some time. Nike’s Well-Known Trademarks and ‘Downloadable Virtual…
After rising above $66,000 today and reaching a market capitalization of more than $1.2 trillion, Bitcoin has surpassed the total market cap of both car manufacturer Tesla and social media giant Facebook. According to data from AssetDash, Bitcoin (BTC) is now the 6th most valuable asset by market capitalization among major companies, behind Microsoft, Apple, Google’s parent company Alphabet, Saudi…
In brief CityCoins, a crypto project that lets people invest in their city by mining and buying tokens, is coming to New York City. NYCCoin mining will launch Wednesday. New York will soon have its very own cryptocurrencythanks to the city’s Bitcoin-loving mayor elect. Eric Adams last week said he wanted the city that he will soon run to have…
Cryptocurrency lending firm BlockFi has filed paperwork with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, to launch a physically-backed Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, kicking off what’s expected to be a big week for the crypto markets The Form S-1 filing for BlockFi NB Bitcoin ETF was submitted to the SEC on Nov. 8, according to official documents. The filing…
In brief Chatex is a P2P crypto exchange. The Treasury Department says it’s been facilitating ransomware payments. Remember when President Joe Biden vowed to go after ransomware actors? Not only is it happening, but it’s bleeding over into the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC), the U.S. Treasury Department’s enforcement agency for economic sanctions, today placed global…
Watch This Episode On YouTube Listen To This Episode: Interview Description: In this episode of The Center Cannot Hold, host Alex McShane is joined by the baseball player and racecar driver and team owner CJ Wilson about Bitcoin. The discussion focuses mainly on self-improvement, and how Bitcoin can allow everyone to achieve their full potential and be the person they…
Momentum in the cryptocurrency market is back on the rise on Nov. 8 after a solid rally from Bitcoin (BTC) placed the price back above $66,000 and Ether hit a new all-time high at $4,793. The gains from the largest two cryptocurrencies helped to kickstart a market-wide rally that lifted the total cryptocurrency market cap above $3 trillion for the…
Argentinian bitcoin exchange Lemon Cash launched a Visa card that offers a 2% cashback in BTC for each purchase. Users can use the international card to buy everyday consumer items at any merchant that accepts Visa. Lemon automatically converts the necessary amount of cryptocurrency from the user’s account into Argentinian pesos to make the payment. Argentina-based bitcoin exchange Lemon Cash…
Balaji Srinivasan, former CTO of crypto exchange Coinbase, spoke virtually at this year’s Solana Breakpoint conference in Lisbon, Portugal. He used his platform to advocate for a unified ideology that fights for the future of crypto. Learn to code laws faster than they learn to outlaw code, Srinivasan said, addressing what he perceives as a conflict between crypto and the…
Privacy-centric crypto browser Brave today announced an integration with Solana, the cryptocurrency network behind the market’s fourth-most valuable coin. Brendan Eich, the CEO of Brave, said, With more and more users and creators requiring tools for fast and affordable access to the decentralized Web, this integration will seamlessly pave the way for the next billion crypto users to harness applications…
