El Salvador to open a Bitcoin Embassy in Texas
Salvadoran ambassador to the United States Milena Mayorga revealed the plans to expand commercial and economic relations with the U.S.
Elon Musk introduced a new CEO of Twitter
It is quite natural (for Musk) that a Shiba Inu dog was chosen as a photo model.
SBF caught using VPN
Sam Bankman-Fried, being under house arrest, has no right to contact the exchange’s current or former employees. But he doesn’t abide by the rules: he was caught using the encrypted Signal application and VPN.
Microsoft halts development of its own metaverse
More than 100 employees who worked on this project will be laid off. The global behemoth underestimated its power and the necessary investments for implementation. Microsoft officials say that everything will happen, but it will be later. When will the global markets calm down?
Waiting for a special gift for Valentine’s Day from the USA
The U.S. inflation data will be released today at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time (1:30 p.m. GMT). The expected rate is 6.2%. But as the saying goes, “We plan, God laughs.”
The percentage of censored transactions on Ethereum fell to 47%
Guided by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), some validators are now censoring transactions on the Ethereum network. Last November, the percentage of OFAC-compliant blocks peaked at 79%, but now that figure has dropped to 47%.
An empty block was mined in the Bitcoin network
It sounds weird, but it’s normal. There are usually 1-2% of these blocks in the network.
NFTs conquering the world’s biggest museums
The Centre Pompidou in Paris, one of the top modern art museums, expanded its permanent collection with a pixel “crypto punk” (NFT #110 of the legendary CryptoPunk collection by Yuga Labs).
Vitalik Buterin confessed his NFT sin
In a new podcast, Buterin admitted that the original Ethereum Whitepaper predicted the rise of DeFi but lost out on NFTs.
Paris Hilton invites you to the metaverse for Valentine’s Day
The Sandbox and lonely Paris Hilton invite everyone to Parisland, a specially designed virtual tropical island ready for a Valentine’s Day party.
In Mississippi, it’s forbidden to insult miners!
The Mississippi Senate passed a bill to protect cryptocurrency miners from discrimination.
Interpol Is Figuring Out How to Scrutinize the Metaverse
Interpol doesn’t want to be sluggish. The leading international police organization is exploring ways of investigating crimes in the metaverse – but is not yet quite sure how to best do it.
Ukrainians are huge fans of metaverses
According to the CoinKickoff company, Ukraine is one of the top three countries in terms of metaverse adoption. 1.6 million tweets were analyzed in order to reach this conclusion.
LocalBitcoins is shutting down
One of the oldest cryptocurrency P2P exchanges (founded in 2012) is yet another crypto winter victim.
The market looks bullish despite the Fed Chair’s unchanged rhetor
At yesterday’s speech, US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell confirmed that inflation is slowing down, though he expects more interest rate hikes ahead.
SEC tensions over crypto will increase in 2023
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a press release yesterday outlining its priorities for the next two years. Crypto projects are among the top agenda items.
Optimism, Arbitrum, Polygon. Successes of L2 Ethereum solutions
According to the most recent Token Terminal statistics, the top layer 2 networks based on Ethereum have experienced a sharp rise in the number of active users. These include L2 solutions like Optimism, Arbitrum, and Polygon.
MicroStrategy to Shelve BTC? Nope
Lost some billions due to BTC price fluctuations? That’s nothing to worry about, according to MicroStrategy.
Borrowed money from SBF for politics? It’s time to pay back!
FTX Group sent “confidential letters” to politicians who had received SBF donations, asking them to return the money by the end of February.
Have you forgotten about the high fees in Ethereum?
A transaction with an unusually high gas fee was carried out on the Ethereum network. A fee of 927,246 Gwei (20 ETH) was manually set by an anonymous user for a transfer of 33,5 ETH.
LG launches an NFT app Art Lab
The program will be available on its new TVs running WebOS 5.0. The artworks will include digitized works by American sculptor Barry X Ball. The most expensive NFT is a gold-plated statue of the author and a sculpture of Pope John Paul II.
Justin Sun’s Tron continues to conquer the Caribbean!
Following the exotic Dominican Republic, another Caribbean country may accept TRX as a means of payment. This was announced in the Parliament of Saint-Martin
NFT Scammers Feud: “You Betrayed Me.”
If planning a major NFT heist, make sure that your partner-in-crime “doesn’t need time on his own” after.
Chinese economist calls for review of crypto ban
Huang Yiping, a former adviser to China’s central bank, decided to sit on two chairs, expressing the opinion that the current crypto policy is practical (hmm, probably he said it in order not to be shot), but he is not sure of its feasibility in the future (followed by the voice of his inner economist.)
South Korea to introduce a crypto tracking system
The South Korean Ministry of Justice has announced a program called “Virtual Currency Tracking System” aimed at combating money laundering. It provides for the verification of already completed and new cryptocurrency transactions, including the study of the sources of origin of funds.
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