Block’s Q1 Bitcoin Revenue Rises 18% From Q4, Gains 25% From a Year Ago
For the full year, Block’s bitcoin revenue declined 29% from 2021 due to the fall in the price of bitcoin, the company said. Source
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Art Blocks Co-Founder Erick Calderon Uses Free Market Ideals to Defend NFT Creator Royalties
Calderon delivered a defense of creative royalties – and the incentives that they encourage on the part of artists – that wouldn’t be out of place in an Ayn Rand novel. According to Calderon, NFTs incentivize artists to think more deeply about their artwork and engage continuously in the NFT
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Italy blocks ChatGPT, investigates suspected violations
Italy’s watchdog in charge of protecting data has announced that it’s temporarily blocking the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT and is opening an investigation over suspected breaches of data privacy rules. The data protection agency has ordered the immediate limitation of data processing for Italian users by OpenAI, the United States company
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Latest Ethereum Blocks Suggest Validators Are Reversing Censorship
After OFAC sanctioned Tornado Cash, there was debate over whether validators should include those transactions or not. Ever since then, the Ethereum community has continued to push for a censorship reversal, and the results of those efforts now appear to be paying off thanks, in large part, to the introduction
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Euler Finance blocks vulnerable module, working on recovering funds
Decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol Euler Finance became a victim of a flash loan attack on March 13, resulting in the biggest hack of crypto in 2023 so far. The lending protocol lost nearly $197 million in the attack and impacted more than 11 other DeFi protocols as well.On March 14,
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THNDR Games Launches Play-to-Earn Bitcoin Blocks Puzzle Game
As a part of the game release, the company is introducing its Gaming Graph, a feature that allows users to connect to their profiles on decentralized social network Nostr. Users can then earn “badges” for their gameplay milestones, linking them to their Nostr profiles to help build out their gaming
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Apple blocks Uniswap wallet app on platform
Uniswap, the decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, faces hurdles in launching its new crypto wallet app after being rejected by Apple, raising questions about the future of crypto apps and their ability to reach mainstream audiences. Uniswap, the leading decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, has been making waves in the crypto space lately with its
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CoinDesk and Art Blocks Release Microcosms to Supercharge Consensus With NFTs
Unlike with a traditional event ticket that simply gains you entrance to an event, we focused a set of on-the-ground rewards to enhance an attendee’s experience. Beyond access, all users get our DESK token airdropped to them. The token can be used at the event for food, drink, merchandise or
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Illuvium DAO blocks NFT pack-opening event involving 3AC founder Su Zhu
The community supporting Illuvium, an interoperable blockchain game, has demonstrated the power of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) after blocking a scheduled nonfungible token (NFT) pack-opening event between Illuvium CEO Kieran Warwick and Three Arrows Capital (3AC) founder Su Zhu.Warwick was scheduled to go against Zhu in what’s called an “Influencer
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BRICS Nations ‘Coalescing Against the Dollar,’ Major Banks Predict More Fed Hikes, Bitcoin Records Large Blocks as Ordinals Gain Currency – The Weekly Bitcoin News
In spite of turbulence in traditional global finance, with BRICS nations said to be pushing for de-dollarization and major banks like Bank of America and Goldman Sachs predicting further interest rate hikes from the U.S. Federal Reserve, creativity in crypto has found a new boon in the form of controversial
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