Twitter is a platform for community members to discuss various perspectives on issues within the crypto space. However, productive discussions are often hindered by bots that spam “why is no one talking about this?” often paired with a link to shady projects or scam landing pages. Because of this, the community expressed their ire in various ways, with some employing…
Sorare, a French fantasy game startup, reached an agreement with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to build a non-fungible token (NFT) game under its license, allowing the company to use team names and player likenesses from the league. The company, which had already signed similar agreements with North America’s Major League Baseball (MLB) and some European soccer leagues, including the…
Pure proof-of-stake (PPoS) blockchain Algorand has introduced cross-chain communication and transaction speed improvements with the latest upgrade to its protocol. The layer-1 blockchain network announced the implementation of State Proofs to its mainnet, which introduces trustless communication between different blockchain protocols. The upgrade also increased Algorand’s processing speed from 1,200 to 6,000 transactions per second. The upgrade also includes the…
Tens of thousands of crypto fans tuned in to watch someone live stream an old interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook, according to a report from The Verge. Promising phoniness from the get-go, the first and most obvious giveaway was the rather flat title: “Apple Event Live. Ceo of Apple Tim Cook: Apple & Metaverse in 2022.” The Bitcoin and…
press release PRESS RELEASE. White Label cTrader, a new offering from B2Broker, a market leader in liquidity and technological ecosystem for the Forex and crypto industries, has been officially released. Thanks to the new solution, brokers will now be able to access one of the most popular and functional multi-asset trading platforms the market can offer nowadays. As a famous…
Global cryptocurrency taxation rules significantly vary among countries, and some jurisdictions have come up with extremely tough crypto tax policies for their residents. In a new study by crypto analytics firm Coincub, Belgium is referred to as the worst country in the world in terms of crypto taxation for residents. That is according to in-house rankings covering taxation aspects like…
Artist and filmmaker Charlotte Colbert is launching a 1-of-1 NFT based on her horror film “She Will,” with the proceeds of the sale going to support the charity End Violence Against Women. The NFT, titled “Why are we taught to fear the witches?” depicts the film’s star Alice Krige in a short video that draws on the film’s folk-horror aesthetic.…
The Vienna-based fintech unicorn Bitpanda is harkening back to the ways of traditional finance (TradFi) through new offerings on its exchange platform. By adding commodities to its list of available investment options, Bitpanda aims to provide its users to benefit from short-term price fluctuations in more traditional instruments, such as oil, natural gas and wheat. Bitpanda CEO Eric Demuth told…
The Vienna-based fintech unicorn Bitpanda is harkening back to the ways of traditional finance (TradFi) through new offerings on its exchange platform. By adding commodities to its list of available investment options, Bitpanda aims to provide its users to benefit from short-term price fluctuations in more traditional instruments, such as oil, natural gas and wheat. Bitpanda CEO Eric Demuth told…
As Ethereum’s largest upgrade since the network’s 2015 inception is expected within roughly a week’s time, the price of the industry’s second-largest cryptocurrency has recently been on quite a rollercoaster. Last month, the cryptocurrency briefly surpassed the psychological $2,000 level, but the momentum didn’t last long, as the asset fell back to within the $1,500 – $1,700 range. Ethereum, currently…
