An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Interviews with Coinbase customers around the country and a review of thousands of complaints reveal a pattern of account takeovers, where users see money suddenly vanish from their account, followed by po…
The World’s Second-Largest Stablecoin Is Undergoing a Massive Change
Digital currency company Circle says it’s changing the makeup of its dollar-pegged stablecoin’s reserves to just cash and U.S. Treasury bonds. CNBC reports: Digital currency company Circle had claimed its stablecoin, USD Coin, was backed 1:1 by actual …
Visa Buys a CryptoPunk As It Takes First Steps Into ‘NFT Commerce’
Payments technology company Visa announced Monday that it has bought a CryptoPunk as it enters into the world of non-fungible token (NFT) commerce. The Block reports: Visa bought CryptoPunk 7610, one of 3,840 female punks, for around $150,000 last week…
Coinbase To Invest 10% of All Future Profits In Crypto
According to a tweet from Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, the brokerage firm is planning to purchase more than $500 million worth of cryptocurrency on its balance sheet. It’s also going to be investing 10% of all future profits in crypto. The Block repor…
Vine’s Creator Is Now Working On NFT Blockchain Video Games
Dom Hofmann, one of Vine’s founders, has a new project called Supdrive. He calls it an “on-chain fantasy game console” that plays classic-style games with NFTs acting as a sort of virtual cartridge. The Verge reports: In a Discord set up for Supdrive, …
ビットコインを法定通貨に採用するエルサルヴァドル。その戦略は奇策か福音か
中米のエルサルヴァドルの議会が2021年6月、ビットコインを法定通貨として採用する法案を可決した。大統領である39歳のナジブ・ブケレのアイデアは世界中のビットコイン支持者たちに熱狂を巻き起こしたが、これは果たして「政治的なショー」であり奇策にすぎないのか。それとも、ほかの国々の先駆けとなり、銀行口座をもたない多くのエルサルヴァドル国民にとっての福音になるのか。
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Facebook Says It Wants a ‘Fair Shot’ In the Crypto Payments Sphere
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Facebook’s mission is to “bring the world closer together.” Increasingly, that’s about not just connecting friends and family to share messages, but also serving as a platform for people’s fi…
Crypto world shows signs of being rather bullish
Bitcoin maximalists aren’t going to find much here that underscores their core thesis that every coin not mentioned in Satoshi’s whitepaper is, in fact, a scam. Save your tweets, please.
Free Clipart of a Cartoon Rock Is Selling For $300,000 As NFTs
EtherRock, an early NFT project consisting of 100 discrete images of the same cartoon rock, each tinted a slightly different color, is seeing the price of its NFTs soar after crypto-savvy media personality Gary Vaynerchuk tweeted about them a couple of…
Rise of Cryptocurrencies Can Be Traced To Nixon Abandoning Gold In 1971
On August 15, 1971, Richard Nixon announced that the U.S. would no longer exchange dollars held by foreign governments for gold. “Shock waves from Washington’s decision to break the link with gold have rippled down the decades,” reports The Guardian. “…