Poor Andres Inièsta. The former Barcelona football star now plays for Vissel Kobe in Japan, but is still highly regarded in Spain, mostly because he scored the match-winning goal in the 2010 Fifa World Cup Final (or because of all the titles he won with Barcelona). The man boasts some 25 million followers on Twitter […]
Bulgarians, Romanians, Albanians, Serbs and Croats eager to try their hand on some Bitcoin mining might be swirling the internet this week looking for some cheap Kosovan mining equipment. After the government of Kosovo earlier this month installed a temporary ban on crypto mining in the country because of a mounting energy crisis. Facebook and […]
Although it will never be openly admitted, many authoritarian governments have hacking groups which they can send round the world to inflict mayhem. Russia has Fancy Bear, North Korea sports the Lazarus Group, which was formerly known as the Guardians of Peace. Back in November 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment was about to release a movie […]
As Bitcoin steadies at around $43k and awaits market guidance to see if last week’s predicted new target can be reached, the world’s biggest crypto coin looks set to dominate US politics in 2022. Both in Ohio and Florida, Republican candidates are vowing to make their state crypto friendly. It comes as the threat of […]
Last month already, we reported on the growing anger of gamers over companies trying to incorporate NFT (non-fungible tokens) into their virtual worlds. Back then, because of the massive revenue stream coming from popular games and the witnessed growing popularity of non fungible tokens, French gaming giant Ubisoft Entertainment probably thought it was a good idea to […]
Glauber Contessoto, the original SlumDoge Millionaire, starts off 2022 with a bang and Arkansas is offering $10k in Bitcoin to tech workers and entrepreneurs to move to the state. And would you know it, when looking at CoinMarketCap, Bitcoin has actually gone up in the past seven days (only 3.5%, but still). Ethereum managed to […]
Last year, two young South African brothers disappeared without a trace, taking with them 69,000 bitcoins (worth some 3.6 billion dollars). Ameer and Raees Cajee, barely 18 and 21 years old at the time of their disappearance, had set up an investment vehicle called Africrypt. They let the system collapse via a so-called ‘hack’ and […]
Crypto Ed, the Dutch trader who’s been garnering a mass following on Twitter as he’s provided free (and rather accurate) TA as of late, showed with a couple of charts yesterday why he believes that the turnaround in the crypto market we’ve been seeing in the past few days could mean that the ‘bottom is […]
All the doom and gloom of the past few weeks is wiped away today as Bitcoin (and with it the entire crypto market) seems to have found a footing and rebounded off the $40k level to hit $43.8k again. Most headlines in crypto media also noticed that Bitcoin was moving towards a death cross, one […]
The world’s biggest reality-TV star, Kim Kardashian, and former heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Mayweather are only two of the several celebrities that are facing a lawsuit for allegedly misleading investors by promoting a cryptocurrency. EthereumMax, which has no affiliation with Ethereum or Ether, crashed 98% about a month after Ms Kardashian spoke about the coin […]
