IBEX Mercado closed a $4 million seed round investment. The seed round places a $20 million valuation on IBEX as they seek to expand in the Americas and Europe. The investor class includes Stillmark, LUM Ventures, Fulgur Ventures and others who share IBEX values in assisting “previously-neglected people” gain access to unprecedented economic opportunity. IBEX Mercado, an infrastructure company that…
Digital artwork in a physical gallery, you say? Surely not! But actually, many physical art galleries have put on NFT exhibits in the past year. And on Monday at the Non Fungible Conference in Lisbon, the NFT artist Justin Aversano announced he will open one in California. Aversano became very popular last year with his photo project Twin Flames, which…
The music industry just got a little more connected thanks to Grammy Award-winning producer Ramon “Illmind” Ibanga Jr., who launched his own NFT collection called “Squad of Knights,” which is focused on mentoring and connecting upcoming musicians. Illmind has produced music for some of the rap and hip-hop world’s biggest names, like Ye, Drake, Beyonce, 50 Cent, and Kendrick Lamar.…
Bitcoin (BTC) has been stuck between $45,400 and $47,500 for the past two days, indicating a tough tussle between the buyers and sellers as both attempt to establish control over the trend. Data from on-chain analytics firm Glassnode showed that 100,000 Bitcoin left exchanges in March. These large quantities of withdrawals have only happened twice in the history of Bitcoin…
The music industry just got a little more connected thanks to Grammy Award-winning producer Ramon “Illmind” Ibanga Jr., who launched his own NFT collection called “Squad of Knights,” which is focused on mentoring and connecting upcoming musicians. Illmind has produced music for some of the rap and hip-hop world’s biggest names, like Ye, Drake, Beyonce, 50 Cent, and Kendrick Lamar.…
Over the past couple of months, cryptoasset prices have grown more stable, consolidating into a narrower price band. As volatility fell, analysis suggested an explosive move was imminent in the medium term. In late March, cryptoassets finally broke through the upper level of this price band, although macroeconomic uncertainty regarding the Ukraine-Russia war in Eastern Europe still troubles the market.…
On Monday, semiconductor manufacturing titan Intel unveiled its new Bitcoin (BTC) mining chip, Blockscale. The application-specific integrated circuit, or ASIC, hardware is designed to operate on proof-of-work blockchains using SHA-256 encryption. As told by Intel, Blockscale will have a hash rate of up to 580 gigahash per second (or 0.58 terahash per second, TH/s), consuming between 4.8 to 22.7 watts…
On April 4, the bitcoin mining operation Northern Data published its financial statements and noted that the company’s mining fleet had grown by approximately 21,000 machines by the end of March 2022. The newly added machines increased the company’s hashrate from 2 exahash per second in February to 3.95 EH/s by the end of March. Northern Data Adds Thousands of…
“Can you review our white paper?” I was at my first altcoin conference, in Los Angeles. It felt strangely appropriate because whitepapers in “crypto” are the equivalent of movie scripts in Hollywood. Everybody has a crappy one that they’re desperate to get people to read. “You do realize I think these things are scams, and I’m not going to spare…
Yet another regulatory attack on self-hosted wallets, a digital dollar with privacy protections, and more of the same for spot BTC ETFs. Source: https://cointelegraph.com:80/news/law-decoded-unhosted-wallets-are-just-wallets-march-28-april-4
