Altcoins
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Cardano’s Pavia plot sale shows land rush is on in the metaverse
- January 23, 2022
- Posted by: MasterAdmin
- Category: Altcoins
No CommentsCardano’s first metaverse project is available to investors now — if you can find a piece of digital land on sale. Plots sold fast despite the project’s early stage limitations.
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Bitcoin Extends Slide, Has Fallen More Than 50% From Record High
- January 23, 2022
- Posted by: MasterAdmin
- Category: Altcoins
Bitcoin, the largest digital asset, extended its decline Saturday, and has now shed more than 50% from its record high in November.
Bitcoin’s decline since hitting the record has wiped out more than $600 billion in market value, and over $1 trillion has been lost from the aggregate crypto market. While there have been much larger percentage drawdowns for both Bitcoin and the aggregate market, this marks the second-largest ever decline in dollar terms for both, according to Bespoke Investment Group.…
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Shazam! Referenced This Weird DC Character Before Peacemaker Did
- January 23, 2022
- Posted by: MasterAdmin
- Category: Altcoins
Shazam! referenced weird DC character Matter-Eater Lad before Peacemaker did it. James Gunn’s HBO Max show centered on John Cena’s The Suicide Squad assassin has proven to be a treasure trove of Easter eggs for hard core DC fans.
Indeed Gunn seems to have a particular love for some of the more obscure characters featured in DC Comics over the years. The Suicide Squad of course had room for loads of less-than-well-known figures like Polka-Dot Man, Ratcatcher, King Shark and Javelin alongside famous ones like Harley Quinn.…
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Congress weighs cleaning up cryptocurrency mining in the US
- January 22, 2022
- Posted by: MasterAdmin
- Category: Altcoins
The “Sandow Switch” that once was used by the Alcoa coal power plant now provides electricity for the Whinstone US Bitcoin mining facility in Rockdale, Texas, on October 9, 2021. | Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images
On Thursday, members of Congress debated how to make cryptocurrencies greener, as energy-intensive bitcoin mining booms in the US. One of the biggest questions was whether to use renewables to power the energy-hungry mining at the heart of bitcoin’s blockchain, or turn to other blockchains that don’t need as much energy in the first place.…
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Ozzy Osbourne’s NFT project shared a scam link, and followers lost thousands of dollars
- January 22, 2022
- Posted by: MasterAdmin
- Category: Altcoins
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
When a pop-cultural icon like Ozzy Osbourne announces an NFT collection, you can count on the project getting publicity. The launch of the “CryptoBatz” collection, a series of 9,666 digital bats, received coverage in outlets like Billboard, Rolling Stone, NME, Hypebeast, and Business Insider, among others.
But just two days after the tokens were minted, supporters are being targeted by a phishing scam that drains cryptocurrency from their wallets, playing off a bad link shared by the project’s official Twitter account.…