Hong Kong tech giant Meitu made headlines in April last year after it reported nearly $100 million in crypto holdings. However, with the advent of the bear market, the tech firm has lost nearly half of the valuation of its crypto holdings. According to a local media report, Meitu reported an impairment loss of over 300 million yuan, approximately $43.4…
Top cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), have posted severe losses over the past week. Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of roughly $382 billion, has plummeted 7.9% over the past week. It trades at around $19,990, down 1.6% over the past 24 hours, per data from CoinMarketCap. Bitcoin held range-bound this week, trading between a weekly…
Lawmakers in California State Assembly 71-0 passed the Digital Financial Assets Law, also known as AB 2269, on Tuesday, Aug. 30. The bill is now in the hands of the state’s governor Gavin Newsom, who will either set it into motion or veto it completely. This bill requires digital asset exchanges and crypto companies to have an operating license given…
Bitcoin (BTC) has sealed its worst August performance since 2015 after the monthly candle closed down 13.9%. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Weekly candle “doesn’t look good” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView confirms that BTC/USD finished the month at $19,990. A knock to bulls’ efforts to stabilize spot price, the August close was only the second…
The layer two (L2) scaling solution Arbitrum revealed on Wednesday that the team has implemented the project’s Nitro rollup stack migration. Earlier this month, Arbitrum developers noted that the Nitro migration would reduce network fees and improve throughput. Arbitrum Developers Implement Nitro Update The Offchain Labs-managed L2 Ethereum scaling solution Arbitrum, told fellow Arbinauts (the project’s users) on Wednesday that…
OpenSea, the largest nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace, will be exclusively supporting proof-of-stake (PoS) NFTs on Ethereum, tweeting on Wednesday that “we are committed to solely supporting NFTs on the upgraded Ethereum PoS chain.” The NFT behemoth added that any Ethereum forks, a technical term for when a blockchain network splits, will not be supported on OpenSea to provide the smoothest…
The music industry has been a major adopter of Web3 integration, with use cases ranging from song rights, blockchain-based streaming and new forms of digital releases. Genres like pop, EDM and hip hop have represented nonfungible tokens (NFTs) in the music industry so far. However, classical music, and specifically opera, just found its entrance. Living Opera, a Web3 community that…
As the date for the Ethereum Merge approaches, nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea has announced that it will focus on supporting only the NFTs that are on the upgraded proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain. In an announcement on Twitter, the NFT marketplace said that while their team is not speculating on any potential forks, it clarified that if there are forked NFTs,…
Ethereum (ETH) hodlers that don’t play their cards right following the Ethereum Merge may be in for a hefty bill come tax time, according to tax experts. Around Sept.15, the Ethereum blockchain is set to transition from its current proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to proof-of-stake (PoS), aimed at improving the network’s impact on the environment. There is a chance that…
The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1256: “Most people are not prepared.” Sign up for the newsletter here. The freight train is barrelling down the tracks with malfunctioning brakes, the conductor is leaning on the horn, but very few people standing on the tracks and in imminent danger seem to hear it. The deaf ears are…
