Logan Paul and CryptoZoo sued in class action lawsuit
Plaintiff Don Holland has filed a lawsuit against CryptoZoo and Logan Paul, alleging the YouTube influencer’s “fraudulent venture” executed a “rug pull.”
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Silvergate faces DOJ investigation over FTX and Alameda dealings: Report
The crypto bank hasn’t been accused of wrong doing, but prosecutors want to see how deep the dealings between the crypto bank and FTX went.
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Dips Into Red but Holds Strong Above $23.5K
Bitcoin dips into red but holds over $23.5K. ALSO: CoinDesk analyst Glenn Williams Jr. highlights the spike in crypto trading activity following the U,S. central bank’s interest rate hike.
OpenSea serves as an example of why crypto security must improve
For cryptocurrency to achieve mass adoption, breaches that can be easily prevented — like the phishing attack that resulted in OpenSea losing $1.7 million — need to end.
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Indonesia targets launch of its national crypto exchange by June
Indonesia’s financial services regulator first expressed its intentions to establish a crypto exchange back in 2021.
MicroStrategy says no plans to stop trading BTC as paper loss hits $1.3B
The company also booked a loss of $34 million on its first-ever Bitcoin sale last quarter but said it was conducted to harvest a tax loss.
Fiat is in ‘jeopardy’ but Bitcoin, stablecoins aren’t the answer either: Ray Dalio
The hedge fund manager instead wants to see an “inflation-linked coin” be brought to the masses which would serve to ensure consumers secure their buying power.
The Xbox 360 store won’t be closing down, despite what an Xbox support page says
An Xbox 360 and a Kinect. | Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge Microsoft will not be closing down the Xbox 360 Marketplace, the company tells The Verge, even though text on an official Xbox support page indicated that was the plan. Earlier this week, Microsoft said that it would be pulling many beloved … Read more
Google is holding an event about search and AI on February 8th
Illustration: The Verge Google is about to share more about its work in artificial intelligence. Next week, Google will be holding an event about how it’s “using the power of AI to reimagine how people search for, explore and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before to find what you … Read more
Marathon Digital Sells Mined Bitcoin for First Time to Monetize Recent Rally
The bitcoin miner sold 1,500 bitcoins in January.
TikTok’s transparency theater
One of the displays inside TikTok’s Transparency and Accountability Center in Los Angeles. | Photo by Allison Zaucha for The Verge What I observed during a recent visit to TikTok’s first transparency center. Continue reading…
It sounds like Google’s getting ready to compete with ChatGPT
Illustration: The Verge Google may be gearing up to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT by letting people “interact directly” with its “newest, most powerful language models as a companion to search,” according to CEO Sundar Pichai. It would be a big move for the company — as systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E have gone viral, Google … Read more
OpenSea Releases Suite of New Tools for Creator NFT Drops
The new experience allows select creators to include multi-stage minting phases, allowlist support and personalized landing pages for their NFT releases.
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Apple surpasses 2 billion active devices
Illustration: The Verge Apple has reached a new milestone on how many people are actively using iPhones, iPads, Macs, and its other hardware products: 2 billion. The number highlights fast growth for the company, which hit 1.5 billion active devices at the start of 2020 and only surpassed 1 billion back in 2016. Apple was … Read more
Qualcomm predicts ‘broadening demand weakness’ for phones
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Qualcomm thinks the world won’t be buying very many Qualcomm phones in the first half of this year. On today’s Q1 2023 earnings call, the company says it sees “broadening demand weakness among handsets and IoT products” and expects its customers simply won’t bother shipping as many phones … Read more
Huawei NFTs, Toyota’s hackathon, North Korea vs. Blockchain: Asia Express
Our weekly roundup of news from East Asia curates the industry’s most important developments. Huawei moves to trademark its NFTs According to a Jan. 28 report by Sina News, Chinese telecom giant Huawei has recently filed for eight trademarks related to its Huawei “YunYunBao” nonfungible tokens (NFT) series. The trademarks include digital collectibles in the … Read more
Crypto Market’s Post-Fed Rally Continues as DeFi, Smart Contract Platform Sectors Star
Uniswap’s UNI token and Avalanche’s AVAX token were recently up about 4.5% and over 3%; ether rose 3% at one point Thursday following unexpectedly moderate comments from Fed Chair Jerome Powell.