‘Calladita’ Director Miguel Faus: How Web3 Filmmaking is ‘Taking the Castle’ Miguel Faus, director of NFT-funded feature film “Calladita,” joined Decrypt’s Stephen Graves at NFT Paris to talk about the film’s recent premiere and how the “radically independent” decentralized Film3 movement is evolving. Source: https://decrypt.co/videos/interviews/IDoFDfZy/calladita-director-miguel-faus-how-web3-filmmaking-is-taking-the-castle
Based on the most recent international standings and weekly figures, sales of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have surged by 17.66% in the past week, amassing slightly more than $306 million in sales. This uptick marks a jump from last week’s 16.8% rise in NFT sales, with the leading blockchains in terms of volume — Ethereum and […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/weekly-nft-sales-rise-17-with-bitcoin-climbing-back-to-second-in-volume/
The court case between the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) and self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright isn’t likely to yield any blockbuster revelations. But the release of emails attributed to Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, has provided a surprisingly nuanced history lesson for the heralded cryptocurrency. The latest batch of emails from the creator of Bitcoin—dated between February 5, 2009,…
Lejilex and the Crypto Freedom Alliance of Texas, a crypto nonprofit, have teamed up to introduce a complaint against the actions of the SEC towards actors in the digital asset industry in America. The complaint alleges that the SEC has no regulatory powers over these crypto companies, having usurped functions not given to it by […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/lejilex-cfat-sue-sec-digital-asset-industry/
Pudgy Penguins Teams Up With Unstoppable Domains Pudgy Penguins CEO Luca Netz and Unstoppable Domains COO Sandy Carter joined Decrypt’s Stephen Graves at NFT Paris to talk about the launch of the NFT collection’s .pudgy domains, its second line of toys at Walmat, and the upcoming launch of the Pudgy World game. Source: https://decrypt.co/videos/interviews/Nh4p6vVD/pudgy-penguins-teams-up-with-unstoppable-domains
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt. After a phenomenal run, Bitcoin cooled down. The price of Bitcoin is now at $51,064, after a modest 2% weekly drop. Cash had flooded into the market as retail investors showed interest in the newly approved spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs), but that has finally slowed. Still, the asset is up significantly since the start of…
Coinbase has answered the SEC request for comments on the proposed rule change to list the ETH Grayscale Fund as a spot ETF. Coinbase stated that ether was a commodity, and its status has been publicly recognized in a variety of circumstances by U.S. agencies and courts. Coinbase Supports Ethereum Grayscale Fund Conversion as a […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/coinbase-on-grayscale-ethereum-spot-etf-application-eth-is-a-commodity-not-a-security/
Fluidkey has announced it has opened its Optimism-based alpha to more users, allowing them to test their private solutions. Fluidkey seeks to solve the transaction privacy problem in EVM chains by leveraging ENS and stealth addresses, allowing users to use a new self-custodial asset for each payment, and segregating these movements to avoid linkability. Fluidkey […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/fluidkey-launches-to-tackle-the-transaction-privacy-issues-on-evm-chains/
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has dismissed reports of his cryptocurrency exchange being blocked by Nigerian authorities. He emphasized that Coinbase products are fully operational in Nigeria without any interruptions. “We have not received any outreach or communication from officials in Nigeria,” the Coinbase executive affirmed. Meanwhile, Binance has reportedly admitted that some users in Nigeria […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/coinbase-ceo-says-no-access-block-in-nigeria-platform-operating-normally/
U.S. presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump has acknowledged the growing popularity of bitcoin, stating that “a lot of people are doing it” and the crypto has taken on “a life of its own.” Trump further shared: “More and more I’m seeing people wanting to pay bitcoin and you’re seeing something that’s interesting so […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/donald-trump-acknowledges-bitcoins-popularity-says-btc-has-taken-on-a-life-of-its-own-and-i-can-live-with-it/
