“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music,” — Friedrich Nietzsche Bitcoin and art could lead us out of the mechanical stronghold that the predatory, manipulative and exploitative fiat reality imposes on us. Art is individually liberating and inherently disruptive. Bitcoin is the groundbreaking technology that does the same.…
Month: October 2022
You can now search ETH addresses on Google — But what about Bitcoin?
While Google’s feature appears to be a good thing for crypto adoption, a CIO says a move from Apple would make the “crypto industry go from 100 miles an hour to… Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/you-can-now-search-eth-addresses-on-google-but-what-about-bitcoin
$100M drained from Solana DeFi platform Mango Markets, token plunges 52%
The platform’s treasury was drained of over $100 million worth of cryptocurrency after an attacker manipulated price data of its native token to take out loans against their holdings. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/100m-drained-from-solana-defi-platform-mango-markets-token-plunges-52
Bored Ape creators and other NFT projects investigated by SEC probe
A source familiar with the matter said the SEC is looking into whether certain NFTs from Yuga Labs could be “more akin to stocks.” Source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bored-ape-creators-and-other-nft-projects-investigated-by-sec-probe
Crypto Bankruptcies Have Generated a Wave of New Accounting Clients for Armanino
Although bad news for the companies involved, bankruptcies, liquidations, and tokens going to zero have created myriad opportunities for accounting firms like Armanino. The company, founded in 1969, started looking at providing services to crypto firms back in 2014, and has since built out an entire suite of products under the umbrella of its TrustExporer brand. “The stuff that happened…
Google Cloud Partners With Coinbase to Accept Crypto Payments, Drive Web3 Innovation – Exchanges Bitcoin News
Google Cloud has announced a partnership with Coinbase to drive Web3 innovation that includes using the crypto exchange to accept cryptocurrency payments. “We are excited Google Cloud has selected Coinbase to help bring Web3 to a new set of users and provide powerful solutions to developers,” said Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. Google Cloud Partners With Coinbase Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud…
An ‘Open, Interoperable’ Metaverse is ‘Better for Everyone’: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg
In brief Meta showcased its latest metaverse announcements at its Connect conference. Co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that an “open, interoperable metaverse” will be “better for everyone.” Last October, Meta—the rebranded parent company of Facebook and Instagram—unveiled its grand plan to help build the future immersive internet of the metaverse. Since then, the social media giant’s stock price has…
Bitcoin Miners Are Dung Beetles Of Energy – Bitcoin Magazine
This is an opinion editorial by Robert Warren, partner at Distributed Hash and business development at Upstream Data Inc. The layperson knows only one thing about Bitcoin mining — it uses a lot of energy, and that is bad. This mind-virus, successfully spread by the climate extremists and anti-Bitcoin street corner preachers (typically carrying a proof-of-stake torch) is intended to…
Bitcoin Miner Cleanspark Completes Sandersville Facility Acquisition, Firm’s Hashrate Now 4.7 Exahash – Mining Bitcoin News
On October 11, the publicly-listed bitcoin miner Cleanspark announced that it has completed the acquisition of Mawson Infrastructure Group’s Georgia-based bitcoin mining facility. Following the acquisition, Cleanspark says it now manages 220 megawatts (MW) of bitcoin miners with a hashrate of over 4.7 exahash per second (EH/s). Cleanspark Hashrate Moves Closer to 5 Exahash, Firm Obtains 6,500 Mining Rigs From…
It Is Time to Re-Found the American Republic – Bitcoin Magazine
This article is the core story in Bitcoin Magazine’s “The Orange Party Issue”. Click here to subscribe now. An Era of Democratic Revolutions In the early 1980s, my parents immigrated to the United States from communist Poland. Both software engineers, they saw in the U.S. a place where they could build the future and prosper without the oppression of a…