OpenSea disables features temporarily as contract migration completes
Bids and purchases are made unavailable to ensure that listings are protected until the migration completes. The week-long period that...
Month: February 2022
Officials Attend First Lecture on NFTs at Major Turkish University
Ankara University has become the first higher education institution in Turkey to organize a course on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The...
Sotheby’s Cancels Cryptopunks NFT Auction After Consignor ‘Decided to Hodl’ Collectibles
On February 8, the multinational luxury auction company Sotheby’s announced the firm would be auctioning 104 Cryptopunk non-fungible token (NFT)...
NoVa Battles: A Play to Earn Mobile Game That’s Building It’s Own Universe
PRESS RELEASE. NoVa Battles is a PlayToEarn mobile MOBA game developed with the core focus on implementing blockchain technology. The...
Senator Ted Cruz invokes Canadian unrest to advocate for Bitcoin again
Cruz has joined the growing list of American politicians who have been advocating for Bitcoin adoption in the United States....
Ukraine Bitcoin exchange volume spikes 200% as Russia war sparks currency concerns
Kuna, a long-running native crypto exchange, sees a swift change in client activity amid currency controls and the hryvnia at...
Block nets $1.18B Q4 gross profit marking a 47% YoY increase
In total, Block generated $4.42 billion worth of gross profit in 2021 marking a total YoY growth of 62%, however,...
Snow Crash’s Metaverse was filled with ads in 1992, and the real one will be too
“Just making sh*t up” — Neal Stevenson’s science fiction novel, Snow Crash, long foretold the rise of a techno-marketing dystopia....
BitMEX founders plead guilty to Bank Secrecy Act violations
Arthur Hayes and Benjamin Delo will each have to pay a fine for their part in flouting the Bank Secrecy...
India Unveils Guidelines for Crypto Advertising
The Advertising Standards Council of India has released guidelines for the advertising and promotion of crypto assets and related services....
US Secret Service Launches Crypto Awareness Hub to Educate the Public on Digital Asset Security
The U.S. Secret Service has launched a cryptocurrency awareness hub. The new platform “will feature the latest in the agency’s...
BitsCrunch raises $3.6M in funding for NFT analytics tools
Several high-profile investment firms contributed to the funding round, suggesting interest in the space is far from waning any time...
Gemini joins Coinbase and Block at the Crypto Council for Innovation
The crypto exchange declared it spent $120,000 on lobbying activities in the U.S. in the third and fourth quarters of...
Russian miners keep running, may see pivot to Bitcoin in response to sanctions
With sanctions coming from the U.S. and allied NATO nations, it is unclear how the local BTC sector and the...
Coinbase made $2.2 billion in revenue from transaction fees in Q4
The largest crypto trading platform in the U.S. has beaten analysts’ expectations by 27% in its Q4 earnings despite a...
