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Firms that don’t go through Nigeria’s approval process are not “well intentioned,” the government said.

GameStop’s shares jumped 10% on Thursday, shortly after the retailer announced it would lean into selling vintage games and consoles.

Haven’t played X Empire in a while? The Elon Musk-themed Telegram crypto game plans to purge the coins of lapsed users before the airdrop.

It doesn’t happen often, but a solo Bitcoin miner processed a block on the leading crypto network Thursday—and received nearly $200K in BTC.

One investor turned $29 into $125,000; others weren’t so lucky as Kylian Mbappé became the latest celeb to have his Twitter hacked for an apparent crypto scam.

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Digital membership card platform Galaxis is building “a combination of Kickstarter and Patreon,” for creators, CEO Andras Kristof says.

“We’ve known for a while that infrastructure compromises tend to be the most devastating hacks in the cryptocurrency world,” an Immunefi exec said.

Police officers carried out a search warrant at an electronics shop in Chatham, Kent, where they seized several crypto ATMs, including one that was on public display.

In their first three weeks of trading, Ethereum ETFs have seen 17 days of outflows. By contract, the Bitcoin ETFs saw only 6 red days.

Despite strong profits earnings, NVIDIA’s stock fell nearly 6% in after-hours trading on Wednesday, leaving investors puzzled.

Lee, who was stabbed multiple times in the neck by a man described by local media as being in his 50s, was immediately taken to hospital.

Anticipated rate cuts are expected to inject fresh liquidity into financial markets, boosting risk assets, including crypto, analysts say.

The newly released Imagen 3 image generator is part of the update, but safety guardrails are in place.

The October release, according to The Washington Post, aims to turn Alexa into a more interactive and indispensable household presence.

Former president Donald Trump’s latest NFT collection consists of an astounding 360,000 digital trading cards. Less than 21,000 have sold.

“Bridging” DeGods NFT holders to a hype-fueled Telegram chat has reinvigorated the community—and sales too. Can it last?

Custom malware was used to infiltrate ISP networks, tapping a zero-day vulnerability in widely-used management software.

A French deputy prosecutor tells Decrypt that the investigation could take several months.

The union representing professional football athletes alleged that DraftKings owes it around $65 million.

The CABAL team airdropped their meme coin to 10 influencers. Then the price crashed when almost all of them dumped their bags.

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Binance’s CEO Richard Teng dismissed claims that the crypto exchange has helped Israel seize assets from swaths of Palestinian users.

The Open Network blockchain associated with Telegram has gone down for the second time in 24 hours thanks to the meme coin mania around DOGS.

Promises to lower interest rates caused a “sugar high,” but the market’s “real food” will come a bit later, Hayes claims.

A chorus of pro-crypto voices took aim at the regulator after it notified NFT marketplace OpenSea of its plans to pursue enforcement action.

After2049 will feature an immersive 360° live sound experience from spatial audio pioneers Polygon Productions.

Bitcoin scaling network Stacks will get a 120x speed jump in confirming transactions, developers say of the Nakamoto upgrade.

Privacy-focused and crypto-friendly browser Brave has laid off 27 of its employees just 10 months after cutting 9% of its workforce.

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov has been brought to court for questioning by French authorities following his arrest on Saturday.