Qatar Airways announced Tuesday that it had launched its first metaverse experience, QVerse. This virtual reality platform allows interested parties can virtually visit and navigate the Premium Check-in area at the International Airport of Hamad (HIA). According to the company’s statements to Cointelegraph however, QVerse is merely the company’s first foray into the metaverse. The company said that it intends to…
This is an opinion editorial by Aleks Svetski, author of “The UnCommunist Manifesto,” founder of The Bitcoin Times and Host of the “Wake Up Podcast with Svetski.” Bitcoin is superior to all moneys, movements or models that came before it, because it does not need to “tell” you anything. It’s very reality shows you everything you need to know, through…
Positive price movements during bear markets are noteworthy primarily because they can help identify projects that have a good chance of surviving until the next bull cycle . Generally, price action in June has been stagnant for a majority of the crypto market because traders are nervous about Bitcoin’s (BTC) oscillation around the $30,000 support level, but there have been…
Blockware Solutions released a report detailing the likely adoption curve of Bitcoin.The report compares Bitcoin to other disruptive technologies and calculates adoption rates as it relates to the global population.The company estimates Bitcoin will not surpass 10% of global adoption until 2030. Blockware Solutions, an infrastructure provider for blockchain technologies, just published Bitcoin User Adoption, a conceptual perspective towards adoption…
The founder of financial tech company Block Inc., Jack Dorsey announced he is collaborating with the rapper Jay-Z by launching a Bitcoin Academy in Brooklyn. The Bitcoin Academy’s mission aims to empower and provide education to the region. The project’s website further details that residents of Marcy House, located in Brooklyn, New York will be eligible for free courses and…
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday rejected Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon’s dispute of a subpoena by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The federal agency was seeking documents and testimony in connection with its investigation of whether Terra used the Mirror Protocol to sell unregistered securities. Kwon was served with the subpoena in…
Terra’s UST stablecoin could become the subject of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation. An unnamed source told Bloomberg that the regulator’s enforcement attorneys have been looking into whether the way Terraform Labs marketed UST, its algorithmic stablecoin, violated federal investor protection rules. By definition, Terra’s UST should have maintained its U.S. dollar peg and always been redeemable for…
BitcoinActuary is an actuary based in the U.K. exploring Bitcoin. This is an article for your nocoiner friends, seeking to view bitcoin from a slightly different angle. Bitcoin is still around $30,000 and you have no idea why. All you can still see is a melee of “crypto” Ponzi schemes that will crash to zero any day now. Bitcoin is…
Ether (ETH) is down 25% in just a month and even the recent upgrade to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus on the Ropsten testnet failed to move the altcoin’s price. The merge is meant to address energy-use issues and open a path for higher transaction output, but the actual full transition for the Ethereum network is not expected until later in…
Optimism’s mysterious hacker is at it again. Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Optimism revealed yesterday that a hacker made away with 20 million Optimism (OP) tokens after token launch partner Wintermute accidentally transferred the tokens to the wrong account. Now, the hacker has made their next move, sending one million of the stolen OP tokens to Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s wallet. …
