Tag: Video

GameFi Short Video Platform Cheelee Launches CHEEL Community Drop Worth $5,000,000 – Press release Bitcoin News

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press release PRESS RELEASE. Cheelee, the GameFi short video platform well-known for rewarding users for viewing their feeds, has announced the most monumental Community Drop of 2023. Starting from April 17th, every vertical video lover now gets the chance to get on board one of the most promising projects ever launched and take home a share of a $5,000,000-worth pool of CHEEL tokens. The community drop will be run on Zealy platform, so everyone is warmly welcomed to grab a share of the loot. To succeed in Cheelee Community Drop,…

Video of SEC chair praising Algorand resurfaces after recently deeming it a security

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A four-year-old video of United States Securities an Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Genser giving praise to smart contract platform Algorand (ALGO) is circulating on Twitter following the SEC declaring ALGO is an unregistered security. In the video, Gensler referred to Algorand as a “great technology” while he was contemplating whether a “high performance” smart contract network would be capable of integrating an Uber or Lyft-like application on its platform. ALGO is one of six tokens that Gensler claimed was an unregistered security in the SEC’s lawsuit against crypto trading…

Why Senegal rejects the CFA and is warming to Bitcoin: video

Cryptox goes to Senegal, West Africa. The medium-sized African nation recently hosted a Bitcoin conference (BTC) and more and more merchants and customers are joining the Lightning Network.  Armed with a camera, a lightning wallet and a microphone, Reporter Joe Hall took to the streets of Senegal to peer under the surface of Bitcoin adoption in the capital city, Dakar. As the Cryptox Youtube video highlights, Senegal has a young, digitally native population and in recent years, its become second nature for people to send money via mobile phones rather…

Paying the way for Bitcoin adoption in El Salvador: Video

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The Bitcoin (BTC) white paper title describes Bitcoin as a “peer-to-peer electronic cash system.” So how is Bitcoin being used as a means of exchange, or electronic cash, in the first country to adopt Bitcoin?  Reporter Joe Hall spent a few weeks in El Salvador attempting to live off Bitcoin and Bitcoin only. He documented his trials, tribulations, successes and satoshis (the smallest amount of a Bitcoin) in a video for Cointelegraph’s YouTube channel: Headlines from El Salvador within the crypto community have been largely positive. Moreover, statistics emanating from…

Disgraced FTX Co-Founder Awaits Trial, Passes Time Playing Video Games and Blogging on His New Substack Newsletter – Bitcoin News

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The former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), has published a Substack newsletter on Jan. 12, 2023, and the first post is titled “FTX Pre-Mortem Overview.” In the post, SBF maintains that an “extreme, quick, targeted crash precipitated by the CEO of Binance made Alameda insolvent.” The blog post does not mention the allegations made by his former co-workers, ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX co-founder Gary Wang. The disgraced former FTX executive also conducted a one-on-one interview at his home in Palo Alto with Puck News reporter Theodore Schleifer.…

Spain Will Provide 8 Million Euros in Grants to Develop Video Game and Metaverse Experiences – Metaverse Bitcoin News

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The Ministry of Culture and Sports of Spain has decided to direct 8 million euros ($8.5 million) toward the development of video games and narrative metaverse experiences. The program, part of the Spanish “Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan” will give grants directed to incubate projects in these areas in 2023. Spain Directs 8 Million Euros to Help the Metaverse and Video Game Ecosystem Video games and metaverse experiences are starting to be considered in the cultural plans of some key states around the world. The Ministry of Culture of Spain…

Amazon Prime Video Commissions Eight-Episode TV Series on Embattled Crypto Exchange FTX: Report

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An eight-episode series based on the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and his FTX crypto exchange is reportedly in the works at Amazon Prime Video. According to Variety, the online retail giant’s streaming service has tapped Joe and Anthony Russo’s production company, AGBO, to create the series about FTX’s implosion. The brothers are best known for directing four films in the Marvel franchise and could reportedly also direct the series. David Weil, the creator of Amazon’s Hunters series, is set to write the pilot episode. According to the report, the series…

SBF Is Sleeping Better, Playing Video Games — New York Times Sam Bankman-Fried Interview Dunked on for Going Soft on FTX Co-Founder – Bitcoin News

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On Nov. 14, the New York Times (NYT) published a massive 2,200-word expose and interview with the former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), and the article was criticized a great deal after it was published. The article noted that SBF would only offer “limited details about the central questions swirling around him,” and most of the article cited a number of former employees and sources familiar with the matter. New York Times Article Interviewing Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Slammed for ‘Disgraceful Reporting’ The news publication the New York…