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Month: June 2022
Inside an 18 Year Old’s Crypto Mining Warehouse
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Singapore Grants In-Principle Licenses to Crypto.com, Two Others
The new grants bring the total in-principle crypto licenses awarded to 14. Source
Crypto Investors Are Adherents of the Greater Fool Theory – Emerging Markets Bitcoin News
The incoming governor of the Philippine central bank, Felipe Medalla, has suggested that people that invest in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are adherents of the Greater Fool Theory. He also argued that people investing in cryptocurrencies are doing so because they want to “hide their money from the government.” A ‘Very Scary’ Investment Strategy The new governor of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Felipe Medalla, has claimed that bitcoin investors only buy the cryptocurrency because they are convinced that someone else will buy the same digital asset at a higher price.…
Ethereum’s Gray Glacier (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Difficulty Bomb)
“The second reason [for the Difficulty Bomb] – and this is one I think is probably way underrated – is the idea that it makes it a bit harder to create a scam fork of Ethereum,” Beiko said. “Two years or three years ago, there was, like, Bitcoin Diamond, Bitcoin Unlimited, Bitcoin Gold, all these forks of forks of forks. The reason in large part you don’t see those on Ethereum is because they require not only a one-line change – like a lot of these Bitcoin forks do –…
Meet the Snoop Dogg impersonator who walked around NFT.NYC
A man impersonating the hip-hop icon Snopp Dogg went around NFT.NYC to fire things up at the nonfungible token (NFT) event. While the intention was to bring fun to the event, there were some mixed reactions from the online community. In a tweet, Kevin Collier shared his encounter with the fake Snoop Dogg at the NFT event at Times Square. According to Collier, the guy who dressed up as the well-known rapper was not really Snoop Dogg, but rather an impersonator that was hired to “drum up excitement.” Collier added…
Qatar at 'Foundation Stage' of CBDC Exploration, Central Bank Governor Says
The Gulf State central banker praised the “innovation” of crypto assets. Source
Embr Releases Checkout to Future-Proof Trust in Web3 Payment Experiences – Sponsored Bitcoin News
sponsored Embr is an all-remote corporation building a global Web3 fundraising infrastructure, and Checkout is the first of many product releases focused on moving startups and creators into a new era of the internet. Web3 has the potential to rewrite the future of economic opportunity for innovators and investors everywhere. Still, crypto first-timers and veterans alike often suffer through long, error-prone processes when purchasing digital assets. Embr Checkout eliminates all friction from the current state of token purchases, enabling people to buy tokens with nothing more than a credit card…
Consulting Giant KPMG Makes Its First Foray Into Metaverse
The hub will allow the firm’s employees, clients and communities to connect, engage and explore opportunities for growth across industries and sectors, the consulting firm said in a statement. “The metaverse is a market opportunity, a way to re-engage talent and a path to connect people across the globe through a new collaborative experience,” said Laura Newinski, deputy chair and chief operating officer at KPMG in the U.S. Source
Shiba Inu’s SHIB Jumps Amid Speculative Frenzy, BONE Proposal
“Recency bias suggests to investors that a bottom has been formed with Bitcoin and Ethereum this past weekend and that the market may be poised for a short-term recovery,” Edson Ayllon, product manager at dHEDGE, told CoinDesk in a Telegram message. “This kind of sentiment brings back confidence in speculators, which, because of the absence of utility, SHIB attracts speculation,” Ayllon added. Source