Month: February 2023
Why Sat Is Hard
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Another Round of Layoffs at Meta
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Creed III brings Adonis’ story full circle by trading in one set of daddy issues for another
Image: Eli Ade Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut feels like an experimental remake of Rocky V that finally lets Adonis Creed step outside of his mentor’s shadow. Continue reading…
First Mover Asia: Resilient Bitcoin Rebounds Above $24K Despite Investors’ Inflation, Labor Market Concerns
ALSO: CoinDesk analyst Glenn Williams explains the significance of bitcoin funding rates’ 10-day, positive streak; bitcoin rebounds above $24K.
Sotheby’s to Auction Neal Stepheson’s ‘Snow Crash’ Manuscript And Digital Collectibles
The auction house is offering up the original 1991 manuscript of the sci-fi novel that coined the term “metaverse,” alongside a series of physical and digital collectibles.
Burgr – Books in Your Terminal
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Coinbase’s New Layer 2 Blockchain, Base, Has Rocky Rollout
The much-anticipated protocol struggled to process user transactions, then became the target of some Twitter shade for changing some terms of a contribution pledge on the fly.
YouTube says it isn’t messing with 1080p — ‘1080p Premium’ is higher-bitrate
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube has confirmed that it’s experimenting with a higher-quality 1080p option for Premium subscribers after some Reddit users noticed a new “1080p Premium” option in the quality settings menu. The option is currently available to “a small group of YouTube Premium subscribers,” according to Paul Pennington, a spokesperson … Read more
The SEC’s Stablecoin Hammer, Courtesy Terraform Labs and Do Kwon
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Terraform Labs and Do Kwon last week, alleging the terraUSD stablecoin was a security, alongside various other tokens and products. This feels pretty important.
SEC comes out against Binance.US’s $1 billion deal to buy a bankrupt crypto firm’s assets
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Binance.US’s proposed deal to purchase the assets from the collapsed cryptocurrency brokerage Voyager Digital is facing scrutiny from federal and state regulators, as reported earlier by CoinDesk. In a set of court filings submitted on Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and New York’s financial regulator expressed … Read more
The biggest news from PlayStation’s State of Play
Image: KO_OP Sony’s first State of Play of 2023 gave fans a little bit of everything. Some neat VR games were shown off. Resident Evil 4 made a brief appearance, along with a new puzzle game from the makers of Tetris Effect, a heaping helping of the Suicide Squad, and more. Here are some of … Read more
Crypto Bank Custodia’s Bid for Fed Supervision Rejected Again
The Federal Reserve Board announced Thursday it had again rejected crypto bank Custodia’s bid for Fed supervision.
DAOs Don’t Have to Be Completely Decentralized
Complete organizational decentralization isn’t always the most effective path for Web3 communities.