Scammers appear to have wasted no time since the launch of Meta’s new microblogging app — with several high-profile Crypto Twitter users already warning of imposter accounts on Threads. Threads was launched on July 5 and has seen sign-ups climb above 98 million in the days following. It’s still far away from Twitter’s estimated 450 million users. However, over the…
Some may sense a thaw in the Crypto Winter as Bitcoin flirts with its highest price in over a year. But tokens aside, the icy market that defined 2022 appears far from gone when it comes to software development. The number of active developers working on open-source crypto projects has fallen 22% over the past year, according to a report…
Crypto firms may appear to have been prepping entry to Hong Kong with unabated excitement, but it’s yet to translate into in-country hires, according to recruitment executives. On June 1, around 150 companies lined up for a local crypto license which permits the operation of a local crypto trading platform. Some have reportedly even spent up to $25 million to…
This story comes from GG. Your Web3 Gaming Power-Up Discover GG The most impressive video gaming worlds take hundreds of game designers, graphic artists and musicians many years to create. Generative artificial intelligence (AI) will drastically cut that time down by roughly five to 10 times, predicts Unity’s CEO John Riccitiello. Riccitiello reflected on the future of gaming in the…
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr, confirmed that he owns a considerable amount of Bitcoin—after saying he didn’t, and after the crypto was initially atrributed to his wife. Even so, it’s not a conflict of interest, according to his campaign. Kennedy praised Bitcoin during a keynote address at Bitcoin 2023 in Miami in May, and said the network should…
A Canadian judge has ruled that the widely used thumbs-up emoji can affirm that a person is legally entering into a contract. According to a report from the New York Times, judge T.J. Keene said the decision mirrors a “new reality in Canadian society” as more people use emojis to express themselves in all sorts of situations, including business dealings.…
“I think if we want Bitcoin to be more than payments, it needs more scaling solutions,” said Vitalik Buterin, on a Twitter Spaces this week, pointing to several experiments that Ethereum has been trying out over the past years. But the main problem, for him, is politics. “Bitcoin has really weird politics,” he said, adding that he “doesn’t vibe with…
The recent investment disclosure contrasts with his claims in May that he was not an investor in Bitcoin. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/app/public/index.php/news/robert-f-kennedy-jr-invested-up-to-250-000-in-bitcoin-after-miami-conference
One of the biggest fights in social media history is underway, as two tech giants—one long under fire, the other new but not—battle over ownership of the next text-based town square. And their respective leaders are sparring directly. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter replacement Threads has come out swinging, rocketing toward 100 million users in its first week. The toe-to-toe…
Nonfarm payrolls rose by 209,000 in June, below economists’ expectations of an addition of 240,000 jobs. Although the figures show a cooling labor market, market observers remained concerned as the average hourly earnings growth held steady at 0.4% from May and 4.4% from a year ago. The report did not alter expectations of a 25 basis point rate hike by the…
