Frieze Art Fair, one of Londons oldest and most prestigious art events, stumbled into the post-pandemic, post-Brexit world for its 2021 edition earlier this month. Crammed in between two other major art fairs, Art Basel and Fiac Paris (all three were canceled last year due to the pandemic) from October 13-17, Frieze London was low on crowds compared to years…
The 13th birthday of the Bitcoin (BTC) white paper has crept up just as the world continues to deal with a global pandemic, inflation fears, an astounding memecoin mania trendand growing institutional adoption of the cryptocurrency space. On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin white paper to a cryptography mailing list hosted by Metzdow. The Metzdow mailing list…
We ask the buidlers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector for their thoughts on the industry… and we throw in a few random zingers to keep them on their toes! This week, our 6 Questions go to Yoni Assia, the co-founder and CEO of eToro. Yoni Assia is the co-founder and CEO of eToro, the social investing network with…
In brief MANA is up 100% while SAND climbed 35%. The Metaverse Index Token rallied 20% overnight. Facebooks rebrand to meta is driving the prices of metaverse-related assets. The prices of crypto metaverse tokens are soaring as much as 100% in the wake of Thursdays news that Facebook was rebranding to Meta in a bid to bring the metaverse to…
sponsored OVR AR Metaverse goes to a whole other level. Italian company OVR is announcing today the creation of the so-called OVR Land Map. OVR Land Mapping: the metaverse to another level Thanks to the powers of AI, in fact, OVR is able to generate a 3D map of the physical world starting from simple pictures, no lidar or other…
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation has issued a draft order allowing its agents to request information from cryptocurrency platforms among other organizations. The move follows changes made to the anti-corruption legislation in Russia, the agency noted. FSB Wants Access to Crypto Data for Anti-Corruption Checks in Russia Russia’s main law enforcement agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB),…
The research paper detailing the engineering and design requirements to enable the first distributed, uncensorable, electronic digital cash system to come to life was released 13 years ago. The Bitcoin white paper publicized the long-sought resolution to the double-spending problem of all previous attempts to build digital cash. However, contrary to popular belief, the invention of Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto…
An average American taxpayer received three rounds of stimulus checks from the United States government as a means to reignite the economy by increasing consumers spending potential. For many, this meant an opportunity to invest in Bitcoin (BTC). A Cointelegraph report from Aug. 26 shows that 11% of the respondents between the ages of 18 to 34 reinvested a part…
Alchemy, one of the leading infrastructure providers for blockchain and web3, has raised $250 million in its series C funding round, giving it a valuation of $3.5 billion. The round was led by a16z, which considers we are at a turning point in the web3 space. The company has multiplied its revenue by 15x in the last six months, a…
After Bitcoins all-time high boosted traders to altitudes never reached before, the past few days included plenty of surreal and heady moments on Crypto Twitter. First, remember Leonardo Di Caprios dramatic Im not leaving! scene from The Wolf of Wall Street? If not, fear not: the real wolf, a trader called Jordan Belfort, is no different in real life. On…
