Bitcoin price hits $20.8K as volatility ensues over Fed 75-point rate hike
The Fed acts as expected, with comments from Chair Jerome Powell still to come as BTC/USD wakes up.
Month: November 2022
OpenSea is trying to prevent scammers from flipping stolen NFTs
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge OpenSea has announced it will start freezing sales for NFTs that it suspects have been stolen in an attempt to stop scammers and hackers from flipping ill-gotten tokens. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company said it’s “beginning to test a new system” that will mark NFTs … Read more
Opendoor lays off about 550 employees, or 18% of its workforce
Opendoor is letting go of about 550 people, or 18% of the company, across all functions, its co-founder and CEO Eric Wu announced in a blog post today. The real estate technology company is one of many real estate tech companies that have had to lay off workers in 2022. Online mortgage lender Better.com has … Read more
Binance CEO Zhao Considering Buying Banks: Report
Zhao wants his crypto exchange to become a bridge between traditional finance and crypto, according to a report in Bloomberg.
Ethereum Merge Had ‘All the Ingredients of a Scammer’s Dream,’ Chainalysis Exec Says
Eric Jardin, cybercrime research lead at blockchain firm Chainalysis, discusses how scammers were able to capitalize on the second biggest blockchain’s transition and how $2 million in Ether was swindled from the blockchain’s ecosystem.
Gmail to add a new package tracking feature ahead of holiday shopping season
Google announced today a small but useful update to Gmail that will allow users to soon be able to track their upcoming package deliveries directly from their inbox. The feature works by looking for emails that include tracking numbers, then using that information to determine the order’s expected delivery date and flagging this for you … Read more
Zhao, CEO de Binance, sugiere que el exchange podría seguir aceptando usuarios rusos
Mientras que los exchanges de criptomonedas de la Unión Europea han cumplido con las sanciones contra Rusia, la decisión no es tan clara fuera de Europa, dijo el CEO de Binance.
Digital bank Chime is cutting costs across the board – including 12% of staff
Digital bank Chime confirmed today that it is laying off 12% of its workforce, or about 160 people. The Information first reported the news. According to an internal memo obtained by TechCrunch, Chime co-founder Chris Britt described that the move was one of many that would help the company thrive “regardless of market conditions.” In … Read more
Why Elon Musk is so desperate for Twitter to make money
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge It’s been six days since Elon Musk took ownership of Twitter, and the changes have been both furious and fast. He’s proposed cataclysmic layoffs — somewhere between 50 percent and 75 percent of the company’s staff, depending on which reports bear out. He’s established an entirely new user … Read more
HBO series ‘The Last of Us’ premieres this January
“The Last of Us,” HBO’s upcoming original series, gets an official release date of January 15, 2023, WarnerMedia announced today. Based on the popular video game, the series will make its debut on HBO at 9:00 p.m. ET and then stream in 4K on HBO Max. It appears HBO Max is looking to compete with … Read more
Panasonic breaks ground on $4 billion EV battery plant in Kansas
The company will assemble batteries primarily for Tesla. | Image: Panasonic Four months after selecting De Soto, Kansas, as the location of its future EV battery plant, Panasonic has broken ground on the $4 billion facility — an important step as the US aims to increase the number of electric vehicle batteries that are assembled … Read more
Crypto executives discuss the emergence of Web3 tech hubs around the world
While the San Francisco Bay Area and Miami are the traditional top picks, Singapore — or just about anywhere in the world with stable internet — has also been gaining in popularity.
Bitcoin bulls aim for a post-FOMC win in Friday’s $640M BTC options expiry
FOMC-induced volatility is impacting BTC price, but bulls are still aiming for a win in this week’s $640 million options expiry.
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OpenSea Rolls Out Two New NFT Theft Protection Features
The top NFT marketplace by market share is taking additional efforts to protect its users from phishing attacks and prevent the resale of stolen NFTs on its platform.
Warner Bros. Discovery and HBO announce plans for ‘Game of Thrones’ NFTs
“Game of Thrones” NFTs are coming this winter. Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and HBO have teamed up with NFT platform Nifty’s to launch digital-collectible non-fungible tokens based on the hit series. An official launch date is not yet confirmed, but fans can expect “Game of Thrones” NFTs in late 2022. The NFT experience, “Game of … Read more
Y42 wants to become mission control for your data pipelines
When Berlin-based Y42 launched in 2020, its focus was mostly on orchestrating data pipelines for business intelligence. That mission has expanded quite a bit over the course of the last couple of years and today, Y42 announced the launch of what it calls its “Modern DataOps Cloud.” Built on top of data warehousing service Snowflake … Read more
How (and why) to watch the Overwatch League grand finals
Image: Joe Brady The Overwatch League playoffs are already underway, but it’s not too late to catch the first live grand finals event in two years on Friday, November 4th, broadcast on YouTube. (Get the full playoff schedule here.) We don’t know yet which two teams will be competing in the final match, and any … Read more
With new Microsoft Teams update, bosses can ‘assign seats’ in meetings
Time for a meeting! You know, those things we have. | Image: Microsoft Picture this. You’re sat down with your direct reports for your weekly virtual meeting over Microsoft Teams. Your presentation is queued. You’re raring to go. But as you scan the sea of camera feeds that faces you, you realize that something is … Read more
Dogecoin supera su media móvil de 200 días por primera vez desde junio del 2021
Si bien la memecoin entró en lo que los técnicos consideran territorio alcista, perseguir el repunte puede ser riesgoso, según una analista de gráficos.
SEC chair highlights crypto enforcement cases to legal experts
Gary Gensler used examples of SEC enforcement against BlockFi and a former Coinbase employee in justifying the agency’s approach to violations of U.S. securities laws.