Fresh off building a Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) on the Bitcoin blockchain, the Ninjalerts team is at it again. This time, the Pizza Ninjas project has inscribed a Nintendo 64 (N64) emulator on the network, the group announced on Wednesday. Like the prior project, the N64 emulator is inscribed on Ordinal Inscription 61,648,429, and users with compatible game files…
Sky Mavis, creator of the Ronin blockchain and its Axie Infinity game, announced the next game that is coming to the Ethereum gaming sidechain: Kaidro, an anime-style role-playing game based on the webcomic of the same name by Gadget-Bot Productions. Originally planned to launch on Immutable X, another gaming-centric Ethereum scaling network, the Kaidro game will instead release exclusively on…
Fundstrat’s head of research, Tom Lee, has doubled down on his $150,000 bitcoin price prediction, stating that the crypto could reach that price level this year. He cited three key reasons driving his bullish price forecast. Describing bitcoin as “sound money,” he emphasized that the cryptocurrency is incredibly secure and proving to be a good […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/fundstrats-tom-lee-anticipates-bitcoin-hitting-150k-this-year-calls-btc-sound-money/
Nvidia stock (NASDAQ:NVDA) rose 8% to $728.35 from $674.72 during after-hours trading late Wednesday, following the company’s better-than-anticipated fourth-quarter earnings report—headlined by massive growth in artificial intelligence. The hardware developer reported that its $22.1 billion revenue—logged in the fourth quarter ending January 28, 2024—was 22% higher than the previous quarter and 265% higher than the year before. Market watchers were…
Some Nigeria-based users of Binance’s peer-to-peer platform have blasted the crypto exchange’s decision to block or remove traders quoting USDT to naira exchange rates exceeding NGN1,802. Binance says it has the right to remove “users behaving in a malicious or manipulative way.” The Nigerian Currency’s Woes Some Nigerian users of Binance’s peer-to-peer (P2P) platform have […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/nigerian-users-criticize-binance-for-imposing-exchange-rate-caps-on-usdt-to-naira-transactions/
Having weathered “at least three bull-to-bear-market cycles,” Web3 venture capital firm Hack VC is committed to staying the course, the company said yesterday announcing its first venture fund. The company says it raised $150 million for the fund “opportunistically, in a bear market.” The venture fund raise follows Hack VC’s initial $200 million crypto fund raise, which closed in February…
Nifty Island, a social multiplayer game featuring NFTs from over 100 collections, announced a new quest in its play-to-airdrop campaign on Tuesday. The quest will last all week and give players a chance to earn Legendary Palms NFTs. In a previous announcement, Nifty Island noted that Legendary Palms—which are minted on Ethereum—play a special role in the play-to-airdrop campaign, which…
While it’s generally understood that generative AI models are prone to hallucinating—that is, making up facts and other information in defiance of reality—OpenAI’s flagship ChatGPT suffered from a particularly widespread bout of largely amusing incoherence on Tuesday. “ChatGPT is apparently going off the rails right now, and no one can explain why,” Twitter user Sean McGuire wrote late Tuesday in…
Oasys, a rising gaming-centric blockchain network, has announced a new collaboration with Metabora SG, the Web3 gaming division of leading South Korean video game company Kakao Games. The collaboration aims to “create and deliver superior blockchain games to more users,” according to a statement released by Oasys on Wednesday. It comes as part of Oasys’ “Dragon Update” plan for 2024,…
On Wednesday, the blockchain interoperability platform Wormhole revealed it is collaborating with the American multinational semiconductor company AMD (Advanced Micro Devices). Wormhole plans to utilize AMD’s Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology in order to bolster cross-chain communication and multi-chain scalability. AMD’s FPGA Tech to Power Wormhole’s Interoperability Ambitions Wormhole, an interoperability platform for blockchains, […] Source: https://news.bitcoin.com/wormhole-and-amd-forge-alliance-to-revolutionize-blockchain-interoperability/
