Month: February 2022

Ruby on Rails creator backpedals about Bitcoin: ‘We need crypto’

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Canada’s move to freeze Bitcoin (BTC) wallets and bank accounts related to the COVID-19 vaccine protests is driving cryptocurrency adoption, with some crypto naysayers reconsidering their stance on Bitcoin. David Heinemeier Hansson, the Ruby on Rails web development framework creator, took to Twitter on Monday to tell his followers that he was no longer a Bitcoin skeptic. “I still can’t believe that this is the protest that would prove every Bitcoin crank a prophet. And for me to have to slice a piece of humble pie, and admit that I…

Snoop Dogg Drops 10,000 Playable Sandbox Avatar NFTs – Mint a Unique Doggie and Explore the Metaverse in Style – Sponsored Bitcoin News

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sponsored With the memory of The Sandbox Alpha release still fresh and the funky music from the Snoop Dogg concert still lingering in their minds, fans must be thrilled to know that Season II is already on the way! Prior to the new season, The Sandbox is going to launch a grand collection of unique Snoop Dogg NFT avatars that are fully playable in the game! Minting will be on 2/22/22 at 10PM UTC at Sandbox.game/en/snoopdogg/ and will cost 150 SAND (plus gas fees). Learn how to buy SAND here.…

$250K bounty ‘not too low to be insulting,’ says Coinbase white hat hacker

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On February 11th, two days before the Super Bowl and Coinbase’s $14 million color-changing QR code advert, an engineer was desperately trying to reach out to Coinbase management and the development team. Anyone here can get me a direct line with someone at @coinbase , preferably management or dev team, possibly @brian_armstrong himself? I’m submitting a hacker1 report but I’m afraid this can’t wait. Can’t say more either, this is potentially market-nuking. DMs open. — Tree of Alpha (@Tree_of_Alpha) February 11, 2022 Tree of Alpha had discovered “a flaw in…

Meta’s Horizon Worlds Userbase Grows Tenfold in Three Months – Bitcoin News

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Horizon Worlds, one of the flagship metaverse apps that Meta has released, has reached a monthly userbase of 300K users on its platform. Meta’s executives announced this milestone in a virtual all-hands update last week. The company also announced recently that more than 10,000 worlds had been created on its platform, a sign of the growth that the tool has experienced since its launch in December. Horizon Worlds Grows Amidst Metaverse Push Meta’s focus seems to be picking up steam among the VR crowd. The company announced that…

BTC price falls below $38K as Tencent leads worst China tech rout since July

Bitcoin (BTC) kept falling lower on Feb. 21 as $38,000 became the latest level to fail the test for bulls. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView $40,000 eyed as BTC relief bounce target Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView painted a grim picture for BTC/USD Monday, as $38,000 support abruptly vanished after holding throughout the weekend. #BTC Update 1h TF First retest of key trendline since reclaim @ $38,5k Current range $36,6k – $37,8k pic.twitter.com/sjxUv7AGlV — AN₿ESSA (@Anbessa100) February 21, 2022 While threatening to invalidate analysts’ hopes of a…

Russian Government Introduces Crypto Bill to Parliament Over Central Bank Objections

The announcement highlights the policy split with the Bank of Russia, which opposes regulation and would rather see cryptocurrency trading and mining banned. The central bank, which has been pushing forward the pilot of its central bank digital currency, the digital ruble, has suggested punishing crypto trading and issuance with fines up to 500,000 rubles (US$6,360) for individuals and 1 million rubles for companies, the Tass news agency reported. Source

Mining Bitcoin / Ethereum With RTX 3080 on Aorus 15G Laptop

▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com ▶ CEX Website: cex.io Looking for mining GPUs is almost impossible, so I had to be more creative to get my hands on them. Then I saw the Aorus 15G laptop with the RTX 3080 inside. I had to give it a try to see how much can I make mining on it. My Alienware 17R with 1080 was about to retire anyway so that was a perfect time for me to buy a new one (it ended up dying by the time I finished making…

How to Recover $100 Billion in Lost Crypto Wallets

KeychainX AG is a Swiss based crypto recovery company helping people access lost crypto since 2017. The company also has a patent pending keyless crypto wallet based on geographical and bio metrics using social recovery. Robert Rhodin is the CEO of KeychainX. He recently joined the Cryptox.trade News Podcast to talk about the possibilities of recovering $100 billion in lost crypto wallets, as well as best security practices, dangerous hacks, bugs and much more. KeychainX, it is a cryptocurrency wallet recovery service operating since 2017. The company recovered wallet keys…

Happy to be regulated? Fallout from BlockFi settlement is a matter of speculation

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It might seem unlikely that BlockFi founder and CEO Zac Prince would describe a prosecution that resulted in a $100-million fine for his company as “a win not only for BlockFi but for the broader cryptocurrency industry,” but that is indeed what he said. And, he might be right, although it remains to be seen for now.  The settlement Founded in 2017, BlockFi is a New Jersey-based crypto financial institution with a team of 850 and one million clients worldwide. Its popular BlockFi Interest Account product, with half a million…