Real estate ownership is the core aspiration driving the Modern Serfdom Model. Debt — and in particular, mortgages — is the mechanism that binds the serf to the system. Inflation covertly moves the finishing line further away each year. This is a game that’s impossible to win. The bad news is it’s getting even harder. But there are two pieces…
Operator-led venture capital firms Velvet Sea Ventures and 01 Advisors invested $100 million into Pixel Vault, a large nonfungible token collection of superheroes, to jointly launch the rebranded multi-franchise NFT entertainment company, Pixel Vault Inc. According to Pixel Vault, the aim of the new venture is to leverage NFTs and intellectual property to tell the stories of crypto-native communities across a…
The biggest trend in crypto right now has little to do with Bitcoin or even Bored Apes. It’s cryptocurrency exchanges stockpiling sports partnerships and athlete endorsements. That’s set to reach fever pitch on February 13 during the Super Bowl, the most watched television program in the U.S. each year. Both Crypto.com and FTX have lined up celebrity sponsors and shelled…
Normally, the only way to access one’s crypto funds is through their private key, which, thanks to advances in cryptography, would take nothing less than an advanced futuristic quantum computer to decipher. That said, mafias and gangs have managed to think outside the box. Instead of wasting their efforts on breaking the underlying cryptography, they’ve turned their attention to targeting…
In brief AMC will launch The Walking Dead NFTs via startup Orange Comet. The Walking Dead franchise previously launched NFTs for The Sandbox, an upcoming metaverse game. The popular The Walking Dead franchise is returning to the world of NFTs following an earlier collaboration with The Sandbox. This time around, it’s television network AMC that will produce collectibles based on…
Russians may own more cryptocurrency than previously thought, a new estimate reportedly used by the government has indicated. The quoted figure amounts to over a tenth of the global holdings and may serve as an impetus for the government to regulate Russia’s crypto market rather than outlaw it. Estimated 12% of Crypto Allegedly Held by Russians Russian citizens own cryptocurrencies…
Watch This Episode On YouTube Listen To This Episode: In this episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s “Fed Watch’,’ I flew solo without co-host Christian Keroles, but got to interact with the live stream fellows at Bitcoin Magazine, Q and Alex, and answer some questions from the live audience. Topics for this episode were the new nominees for the Federal Reserve board,…
Bitcoin (BTC) rose above $39,000 on Feb. 1 but the sharp fall in the shares of PayPal may have resulted in aggressive selling by the short-term traders. However, in the long-term, large investors seem to be viewing the decline as a buying opportunity. On-chain monitoring resource Whalemap said that whales holding between 100 to 10,000 BTC have accumulated during the recent…
Norwegian data firm Dune Analytics has raised $69.420 million in a Series B funding round, the company announced today. As a Web3 company, Dune allows users to view real-time analytics for a variety of different cryptocurrency metrics, such as NFT statistics, Solana transactions, and decentralized exchange (DEX) volume. Tech investment firm Coatue led Dune’s Series B funding round. Multicoin Capital…
In an exclusive television interview with Fox Business on Wednesday, JMP Securities director of financial technology research, Devin Ryan spoke candidly on a range of topics within the cryptocurrency industry. This included the macroscopic regulation amid the impending expectations of a White House policy framework, states within the United States accepting Bitcoin as legal tender as well as the vast…
