El CEO de Amazon (AMZN), Andy Jassy, dijo en CNBC el jueves por la mañana que el gigante del comercio electrónico no está cerca de sumar a las criptomonedas como método de pago para los negocios minoristas, pero es posible que venda NFTs (tokens no fungibles) en el futuro. Source
Speaking during an interview with CNBC after releasing his first shareholder letter as the new CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy said that while he does not own any cryptocurrencies or nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, he is optimistic about the outlook of the industry. Jassy stated: “We’re not probably close to adding crypto as a payment mechanism in our retail business, but I do believe over time that you’ll see crypto become bigger. I expect that NFTs will continue to grow very significantly.” Specifically, regarding the sale of NFTs by Amazon,…
Liang alleges that a token purchase agreement (TPA) between him and Olympus stated that money raised in the private funding round would go to a company that did not actually exist. With the identities of Olympus’s founders a secret, the lack of an officially-registered company behind the fundraiser was, according to the lawsuit, designed to make it difficult for an investor like Liang to pursue legal action against the project. Source
On-chain data shows the Bitcoin short-term holder SOPR has broken above one for the first time since December 2021. Bitcoin Short-Term Holders Return To Profit Once Again As pointed out by an analyst in a CryptoQuant post, the BTC STH SOPR has once more broken past the “one” barrier. The “Spent Output Profit Ratio” (or SOPR in short) is a Bitcoin indicator that tells us whether coins selling right now are selling at a profit or a loss. The metric works by looking at the price history of each coin…
Ethereum challenger Terra (LUNA) continues to build up its Bitcoin (BTC) reserves as the world’s largest crypto exchange Binance adds support for its stablecoin, TerraUSD (UST). Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon took to Twitter to tell his 357,000 followers that the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) has purchased $100,000,000 more worth of the leading digital asset. “[Luna Foundation Guard] bought an additional $100 million worth of BTC for UST FX [foreign exchange] reserves.” Previously, Kwon had said that Terra plans to buy up a staggering $10 billion worth of the top…
▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com ▶ CEX Website: cex.io This is an episode of Compass Live hosted by Compass Mining. In this livestream, Compass talks about the usefulness of bitcoin mining as a tool for financial sovereignty. Two experts in the financial freedom and cryptocurrency mining world are guests on this livestream. Both individuals offer unique perspectives on how mining makes bitcoin, and by extension wealth, more accessible to everyone. Whether it’s hosted or at home, a bitcoin mining rig creates opportunities that previously never existed for individuals around the world.…
One of the biggest challenges cryptocurrency projects face is finding the right type of real-world integration and a use case that can spark a new waves of adoption. Integrating blockchain and cryptocurrency with professional sports has been the expected “next wave” for some time and Chiliz (CHZ), a protocol focused on creating a fan engagement platform for various sports leagues, made headlines for its new developments this week. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that the price of CHZ has increased 69% from its 2022 low of $0.144…
SBF is 30 and his company, FTX, is everywhere. He’ll be appearing at CoinDesk’s Consensus festival in June. Source
The United States Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) list was updated Thursday to reflect the possibility that North Korean cyber-criminal Lazarus Group was behind last month’s hack of the Ronin Bridge, in which over 173,600 Ether (ETH) and 25.5 million USD Coin (USDC) was taken, Chainalysis announced by Twitter. The information was also confirmed by Ronin. The hack, which took place on March 23, was worth over $600 million at the time. Discovered several days after the fact, it is one of the…
American comic book publisher Archie Comics, known for its iconic Riverdale characters, is leveraging the blockchain to develop fan-generated art and stories as well as Archie-inspired nonfungible token (NFT) collections. Laura Braga and Vincezo Federici, the artists behind the 80-year-old franchise, partnered with Palm NFT Studio, to create a new blockchain-based writer’s room called the “Archiverse: Eclipse.” Source: Palm NFT Studio According to the company, the Archiverse intends to empower Archie Comics fans to author the brand’s future through generative storytelling. Its writer’s room invites fans to create and submit…