In brief OpenSea hired a new chief financial officer, Brian Roberts, who said he is working on the company’s upcoming IPO. Some NFT collectors are upset over the news, believing that OpenSea should launch a token instead. Amid OpenSea’s surge in NFT trading volume over recent months, one question has circulated among its heaviest users: will they eventually be rewarded…
In brief Arrow Glacier gives developers a few more months to work on Ethereum 2.0 without distractions. Ethereum’s last update, Altair, was in October. Just a few months ago, Ethereum developers were asking users to update their nodes—the devices that run the network software and (typically) store the immutable ledger of transactions. They’re at it again, this time to delay…
Residents of Colombia will soon be able to buy cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin directly from their bank accounts. It’s part of Colombia’s new regulatory sandbox, which is slowly beginning to bear fruit as more banking institutions begin to offer cryptocurrency services to their clients through arrangements with leading crypto firms. Starting December 14, Colombians will be able to buy cryptocurrencies…
Bitcoin.com is set to put players in the mood to celebrate Christmas with one of the biggest giveaways of the year! 💰$10,000 in Cash Prizes Up For Grabs🎁 Christmas festivities start early this year at our very own crypto casino, Bitcoin.com Games, as we’ve launched a brand new raffle that culminates into a draw announced on Christmas day. Lucky players…
This holiday season, fintech provider Unbanked will be enabling crypto donations for Toys for Tots, a program run by the United States Marine Corps that collects toys to distribute to disadvantaged children. In a Dec. 2 announcement, Unbanked said it would be allowing users to donate cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) as part of a fundraising effort for…
In brief Noted NFT artist Pak sold nearly $92 million worth of “mass” tokens for his experimental Merge NFT project on Nifty Gateway. The tokens will be combined to form dynamic NFT collectibles that vary in part based on how many tokens were merged. Pak was one of the early stars of the NFT space, as the first artist to…
Jack Dorsey’s Spiral has published a short film on its Lightning Dev Kit project.LDK is a library that abstracts low-level logic of the Lightning Network away, enabling developers to build a node more easily.The project had already borne fruit before this announcement. Spiral, a Square subsidiary focused on Bitcoin development, has formally presented its Lightning Development Kit (LDK) in a…
Looking at the winners and losers of the past week clearly shows that traders endured some serious heat as the total crypto market capitalization dropped by 12.7% when Bitcoin fell to $41,000. This sharp downside move knocked the figure from $2.37 trillion to $1.92 trillion on Dec. 3 and a total of $2 billion long future contracts were liquidated. Top…
press release PRESS RELEASE. Crypto Perx will be listed, starting today, November 22nd on FMFW.io cryptocurrency exchange. It is a new utility token (ERC20) based on the Ethereum Blockchain. CRPX was developed by the Crypto Banking Alliance (CBA), also known as Auriga Alliance AG, and the first project having it on board was ABRA Perx by ABRA – a world-class…
Watch This Episode On YouTube Listen To This Episode: I can’t help but take pride in the Bitcoin community’s relentless optimism. In many other industries, whether it be through the direct decline of the industry, or a sense of general nihilism that so often accompanies our fiat-based world, optimism is not nearly as present. But Bitcoiners wake up each day…
