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Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Billionaire Peter Thiel is betting big on Ethereum, joining Fundstrat’s Tom Lee in an ETH treasury play via the purchase of a $250 million stake in BitMine Immersion Technologies. A July 15 SEC filing shows Thiel’s Founders Fund acquired 5,094,000 shares, representing a 9.1% stake in the crypto mining and Ethereum treasury firm led by Fundstrat CIO Lee. That disclosure follows an announcement at the end of June that Founders Fund had invested in BitMine.  BitMine shares (BMNR) surged more than 19% in after-hours trading, according to…

While countries like the United States explore crypto as a new campaign fundraising tool, ministers in United Kingdom are sounding the alarm, with one calling for a ban on crypto donations over concerns about traceability and foreign interference.On Tuesday, Pat McFadden, a Cabinet Office minister, said he thought there was a case to be made for banning such donations, considering how hard they are to trace.McFadden addressed the topic after being asked by Labor party member Liam Byrne about banning crypto fundraising, saying that the UK should always keep its “legislation up to date to ensure that the financing of…

 How good is the game that has already enchanted so many people with its demo? I’ll tell you. What you shouldn’t expect: A sophisticated tactical game with ingenious artificial intelligence and maps on which you set your own path to the goal. In Eriksholm, enemies act in predictable ways, as if they had only an on/off switch instead of a complete circuit board in their heads. They populate beautiful but extremely linear levels in which you follow a predetermined path to your goal, solving countless little logic puzzles along the way that are disguised as stealth challenges. Your top priority…

Cryptocurrency exchange BigONE confirmed a $27 million loss from a third-party attack on its hot wallet on July 16. Exchange Details Swift Response and User Reimbursement Cryptocurrency exchange BigONE confirmed a security incident in the early hours of July 16, revealing that a third-party attack targeting its hot wallet resulted in an estimated loss of […]

US Democratic lawmakers characterized crypto as an outright “scam” in a Wednesday press conference, pushing for the development and rollout of a central bank digital currency (CBDC).Representative Maxine Waters called the CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act, a bill that would prohibit the creation of a government-controlled digital dollar, the “anti-innovation act.” The anti-CBDC bill and the GENIUS stablecoin bill “endanger our national security,” Waters said. Representative Stephen Lynch, who also attended press event, said crypto had no legitimate use case:“As a committee, we’ve learned that there is no legitimate use case for cryptocurrency, as of yet, unless you count the illegal practices…

The past week has been nothing short of interesting for XRP. Notably, the cryptocurrency has been on an extended run of increases in the past seven days, which saw it momentarily touch the $3 price level for the first time in months.  This interesting move came after reports broke of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s approval of the ProShares Ultra XRP ETF, which allowed XRP to extend its upward movement. However, this momentum didn’t just affect price; it also had major effects on XRP’s standing in the overall crypto market. XRP Becomes Top 3 Crypto The SEC’s decision to…

The long-anticipated London upgrade is now ready for deployement on the Ethereum testnets! The upgrade will first go live on Ropsten, at block 10499401, which is expected to happen around June 24, 2021. This upgrade follows Berlin, which was activated only a few months ago on the Ethereum mainnet. By starting the work on London while Berlin was being rolled out, client teams were able to release this network upgrade at record speed! The upgrade includes the following EIPs: The Ethereum Cat Herders have put out a blog post going over the details of these EIPs. It is worth noting…

Photo by GrimyRannarr of UKCSGO Spanish Counter-Strike 2 team Iberian Soul will be competing at EPIC.LAN 45 with UK Counter-Strike player and streamer Owen ‘smooya’ Butterfield. The Spanish core of Alejandro ‘mopoz’ Fernández-Quejo, David ‘dav1g’ Granado, Pere ‘sausol’ Solsona, and Alejandro “alex” Masanet complete the line-up for the upcoming tournament. The Iberian Soul team have been without an organisation since KOI’s departure from the CS2 scene back in January earlier this year. This will be the first time in a while that smooya has competed at the Kettering-based event, with his last appearance coming in February 2024 at EPIC.LAN 41.…

Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem As soon as Google launched its latest video-generating AI model at the end of May, creatives rushed to put it through its paces. Released just months after its predecessor, Veo 3 allows users to generate sounds and dialogue for the first time. It sparked a flurry of hyperrealistic eight-second clips stitched together into ads, ASMR videos, imagined film trailers, and humorous street interviews.But others quickly found that in some ways the tool wasn’t behaving as expected. When it generates clips that include dialogue, Veo 3 often adds nonsensical, garbled subtitles,…

Bitcoin spent about nine months stuck below $110 K before finally pushing past that ceiling this month. The move up to $123,000 shows real buying power. According to EliteOptionsTrader, a crypto expert, many investors see this as the start of something bigger. Related Reading Key Catalysts Driving The Surge Based on examination by EliteOptionsTrader, one of the biggest factors is the potential approval of a spot Ethereum ETF. Bitcoin’s own ETFs have pulled in billions from major institutions, and a greenlight for Ethereum could send more money into crypto overall, lifting Bitcoin further. The US election is now behind us, and…