How Blockchain Can Be Sexy (and Safe)

Perhaps more importantly, VR can also be leveraged to help people safely experiment with their sexual identity and gender expressions. If so, it will be blockchain technology that helps ensure that participants on both sides of the market are kept safe while they explore, in terms of both physical wellbeing and desired level of anonymity. Source link

How L2 Networks Are Changing The World of NFTs

The past few years have seen NFTs explode onto the blockchain scene, progressing from a relatively unknown technology to one that’s been papered across the front pages of seemingly every crypto publication. Alongside the increase in both understanding and trading in NFTs, the global market has continued to rise, predicted to reach an incredible $122.43 billion by 2028. With the expansion of NFTs beyond just digital art, also integrating into Play2Earn blockchain gaming projects and metaverse creations, this digital medium is set for a dazzling future. While progress has been…

Have Bitcoin Whales Started Buying Again? – Blockchain News, Opinion, TV and Jobs

By Marcus Sotiriou, Analyst at the publicly listed digital asset broker GlobalBlock  The crypto market cap fell back below $1 trillion over the weekend, after the Jackson Hole symposium where Federal Reserve chairman Powell reaffirmed the hawkish stance of the U.S. central bank. Meanwhile, the Securities and Exchange Commission has delayed yet another decision on VanEck’s latest bid to launch a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). VanEck was previously denied a spot Bitcoin ETF in November last year. The date which the SEC will make their decision has been…

Bitcoin: A Long-Term Buy?

▶ Coinbase Website: Coinbase.com ▶ CEX Website: cex.io Bitcoin has been one of the most lucrative investments to be in during the last few years, but will it continue to be so, say, in the next 5-10 years? A Bitcoin Bull and a Bitcoin Bear battle it out. — My main tool for fundamental screening and analysis of stocks: tikr.com/tsi (If you sign up I earn a small commission) — How the calculation on gold was made: 50 B.C. yearly salary (Caesar legionnaire) = 225 silver denarii = 9 aureus…

Myria to Offer Myriad L2 Solutions in The Blockchain Gaming Space

Web3-gaming platform Myria has announced the launch of its Layer-2 scaling solution on the Ethereum network. Myria’s Layer-2 solution uses StarkWare’s Zero-Knowledge Rollups (or ZK-Rollups, for short), which bundles many transactions into one before executing on the Ethereum blockchain. As a result, Myria claims it can offer 9,000 transactions per second, which is significantly more than the Layer-1 rate on Ethereum, at 50 TPS. ZK-Rollups also decrease the costs associated with operating on Ethereum, and Myria claims it’s users will be able to mint, sell and buy NFTs with zero…

Thai SEC Fines Bitkub Executive $235K for Insider Trading

The insider-trading case stems from an incident from last November, when the SCB acquisition plan was first announced. According to the SEC, Wajanasathian – armed with this information – bought 1.99 million Thai baht (roughly $61,000 at the time) worth of the KUB token. The price of KUB subsequently more than doubled immediately upon the public announcement. Source

Bitcoin Takes Hit after Powell Says U.S. Central Bank May Well Keep Raising Interest Rates – Blockchain News, Opinion, TV and Jobs

The the biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, has been battered this year following a huge market sell-off and the soaring global economy. Now trading at a price 70% lower than its November 2021 all-time high of $69,044.77. Ethereum, the second biggest digital asset followed suit, trading at around $1,584,82 at this time of writing. The US Fed has been raising interest rates multiple times this year in order curb inflation, which currently is at a four-decade high. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City hosted dozens of central bankers, policymakers,…