Day: January 7, 2022

Mozilla backflips on accepting crypto after ‘planet incinerating’ backlash

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The Mozilla Foundation has put cryptocurrency donations on hold following a community backlash sparked by trenchant criticism from co-founder Jamie Zawinski. Last week the development company behind the Firefox browser tweeted an appeal for donations in cryptocurrency. But earlier today, Mozilla announced it had paused crypto donations due to the online discussion around crypto’s environmental impact. Last week, we tweeted a reminder that Mozilla accepts cryptocurrency donations. This led to an important discussion about cryptocurrency’s environmental impact. We’re listening, and taking action. 1/4 — Mozilla (@mozilla) January 6, 2022 Mozilla…

P2E game Nyan Heroes aims to save 1 billion sheltered cats

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Cat themed play-to-earn (P2E) NFT game Nyan Heroes is aiming to save 1 billion cats from euthanization in animal shelters across the U.S. Nyan Heroes is an upcoming NFT battle royal shooter style game built on the Solana blockchain that will enable players to compete with each other using NFTs depicting animated cats that are used to pilot mech-robot NFTs in the game. The U.S. based project has been in development since October and the game is set for release in Q4 2022. Its first NFT drop is currently available…

A Quick Review And Look Ahead

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Solana has had an amazing past 2 years as it became one of the fastest growing altcoins; in 2022, we see how they are doing what many tokens couldn’t and won’t be able to do. Few fall in the same category as Solana, so let’s take a look at what’s taken the token here, and what may look ahead. Related Reading | GameStop Turn To NFTs, Plans To Launch Marketplace Later In The Year Briefing Of Solana And It’s Rise During 2021… Solana in short, is a public blockchain platform. It…

Vitalik proposes new ‘multidimensional’ Ethereum fee structure

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has put his thinking cap on again in an attempt to improve the current fee structure for the network. The proposal titled “Multidimensional EIP-1559” was laid out in a blog post on Jan. 5 in which Buterin noted that different resources in the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) have different demands in terms of gas usage. He added that there are different limits for short-term “burst” capacity as opposed to “sustained” capacity within the EVM citing examples of block data storage, witness data storage, and block state…

Devere Group CEO Predicts 3 Countries Will Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender This Year – Featured Bitcoin News

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The CEO of financial advisory and asset management firm Devere Group has predicted that three countries will adopt bitcoin as legal tender this year. He is more bullish than El Salvador’s president who predicted that two countries will make bitcoin their national currency. 3 Countries Will Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender in 2022, Devere’s CEO Predicts The CEO of Devere Group, an independent financial advisory and asset management firm, predicted earlier this week that three more countries will adopt bitcoin as legal tender in 2022. His prediction is more bullish…

SEC files complaint against operator of ‘unregistered’ $33M Crowd Machine ICO

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a suit against Australian Craig Derel Sproule for the allegedly “fraudulent and unregistered” sale “of digital asset securities” in an Initial Coin Offering his company conducted in 2018. The SEC alleges in a Jan. 6 complaint that Sproule’s company, Metavine, Inc. which operated the ICO for Crowd Machine (CMCT) from Jan. to April 2018, sold unregistered securities, never made the project operational and “materially misrepresented how it intended to use ICO proceeds.” In total, the SEC says Sproule raised at…

GameStop shares jump 26% in after hours trade after NFT division unveiled

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The share price of Reddit’s cult-favorite stock GameStop Corporation (GME) jumped by one quarter (in after-hours trading following a Wall Street Journal report on its upcoming NFT division. The U.S. retail game store giant has been quietly working on an NFT marketplace since May, and ramped things up in October by listing several job openings for Web 3.0 and NFT-experienced software engineers and product marketers. According to a Jan. 6 report from the WSJ, GameStop has now hired more than 20 people to operate its freshly minted NFT unit. An…

Goldman Sachs Predicts Bitcoin Could Reach $100K as BTC Continues to Take Gold’s Market Share as Store of Value – Markets and Prices Bitcoin News

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Goldman Sachs has predicted that the price of bitcoin could reach $100,000. The global investment bank believes that bitcoin will continue to take market share away from gold as cryptocurrency adoption grows. Goldman Sachs’ Bitcoin vs Gold Prediction Goldman Sachs analyst Zach Pandl, co-head of global foreign exchange strategy, outlined the future outlook for bitcoin in a research note to clients Tuesday. The Goldman Sachs analyst expects that bitcoin will continue to take market share away from gold in 2022 as cryptocurrencies become more widely adopted. The research note details:…

Autonomy Network Introduces AutoSwap That Offers Stop Losses and Limit Orders on Decentralized Exchanges

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On January 7, Autonomy Network, a DeFi protocol, announced the launch of a unique decentralized application (DApp) known as ‘AutoSwap’ on Binance Smart Chain (BSC)    blockchain  Blockchain Blockchain comprises a digital network of blocks with a comprehensive ledger of transactions made in a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin or other altcoins.One of the signature features of blockchain is that it is maintained across more than one computer. The ledger can be public or private (permissioned.) In this sense, blockchain is immune to the manipulation of data making it not only…

$139M Terra proposal to ‘bring awesome UST use-cases’ to DeFi projects

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Decentralized stablecoin issuer Terra issued an ambitious proposal to expand the interchain deployment of its UST stablecoin across five projects on Ethereum, Polygon, and Solana. Terra’s Jan. 6 Research post UST Goes Interchain: Degen Strats Part Three provides details about how $139 million of UST and its native stablecoin LUNA would be utilized and on what platforms if the proposal is passed. Terra is a blockchain that supplies algorithmic stablecoins and LUNA has market cap ($28.5 billion). In each proposed deployment, Terra would deposit UST in varying amounts from $250,000…