Limit Break’s commercial advertised a free “digital collectible” for scanning a QR code. The floor price on OpenSea the morning after are hovering around 0.31 ETH, or about $460. Source
DigiDaigaku NFTs' Price Rises After $6.5M Super Bowl Ad
Month: February 2023
Brazilians Will Be Able to Pay Taxes With Crypto – News Bitcoin News
Brazilians will now be able to pay part of their state taxes using cryptocurrencies. Banco do Brazil, a mixed ownership bank, is launching the option of paying a set of taxes with crypto, using Bitfy, a Brazilian cryptocurrency startup, as a payment processor, exchanging the cryptocurrencies paid for Brazilian reals on the fly. Brazilians Will Have the Opportunity of Paying Taxes With Crypto Using Banco Do Brazil Cryptocurrencies are making inroads when it comes to their usability in Brazil. Banco do Brazil, one of the oldest banks in Brazil, and…
Bitcoin flirts with bid liquidity as BTC price nears new 3-week lows
Bitcoin (BTC) drifted toward major liquidity around the Feb. 13 Wall Street open as the dust settled on United States regulatory news. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView BTC traders spread bids lower Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD $21,476 on Bitstamp, almost matching the weekend’s three-week lows. As analysts expected a “choppy” day prior to key U.S. macroeconomic data, news that Blockchain firm Paxos was being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) added to market nerves. BTC spot price action thus inched ever…
You don’t see that every day: Bitcoin empty block found
Bitcoin (BTC) is known for its robustness, security and predictability. Every 10 minutes–on average–the blockchain produces a new block and the successful miner earns a block reward of 6.25 BTC, circa $130,000. However, every once in a while, the Bitcoin blockchain surprises observers and participants. At block height 776,339, nodes across the network verified a completely empty block. The block was added to the Bitcoin blockchain with zero included transactions–leading to some confusion among the crypto community. So, what exactly is an empty block, and how does it happen? Block…
Aave Community Mulls Freezing Binance Stablecoin Amid SEC Pressure
Members of the Aave community are examining whether to freeze BUSD on the platform and the stablecoin’s issuer, Paxos, was sued by the SEC today. Source
Brazil’s Largest Public Bank Enables Tax Payments to Be Made With Crypto
“The new digital economy is a catalyst for a future full of advantages. This partnership makes it possible to expand the use of and access to the ecosystem of digital assets with national coverage and with the seal of security and reliability of Banco do Brasil,” Lucas Schoch, the founder and CEO of Bitfy, said in a Portuguese-language statement. Source
Digital Asset Platform Bakkt to Discontinue Consumer App After Two Years
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Coins of War: How Crypto Keeps Feeding Russia's War Despite Sanctions
Russian troops in Ukraine receive millions in crypto donations, despite international sanctions. CoinDesk investigates how these funds are flowing and talks to fundraisers. Source
Hackers Attack Domain Registrar Namecheap; Flood of DHL and Metamask Phishing Emails Follow – Bitcoin News
On Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023, the domain registrar Namecheap’s email account was compromised by hackers. Subsequently, a large number of individuals received phishing emails claiming to be from Metamask and DHL. These emails originated from the email platform Sendgrid, a service used by Namecheap for marketing correspondence. Namecheap Confirms Email Account Compromise and Disables Sendgrid Services Multiple reports indicate that Namecheap was breached on Sunday and hackers leveraged the company’s email account through the Sendgrid service. Namecheap CEO Richard Kirkendall confirmed the compromise and said the firm has disabled Sendgrid…
5 key features of machine learning
Machine learning has a wide range of applications in the finance, healthcare, marketing and transportation industries. It is used to analyze and process large amounts of data, make predictions, and automate decision-making processes, among other tasks. In this article, learn the five key features of machine learning that make it a powerful tool for solving a broad set of problems, from image and speech recognition to recommendation systems and natural language processing. What is machine learning? Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that involves the development of algorithms and…