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UPDATED: Thanks to Ordinals, you can find video games and emulated consoles inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain. Here’s how to play them.

If you don’t want to go into Capcom’s latest adventure blind, our Dragon’s Dogma 2 guide can help you make some smart early decisions.

The buzz around Runes was just as loud as the minting of the 840,000th BTC block.

If you spent last week following the frenzy around the Bitcoin halving and Runes launch, here’s all of the crypto gaming news you missed.

Bitcoin was the biggest story coming into the weekend, but hype around the halving hasn’t fueled a price surge—not yet, at least.

Bitcoin’s much talked-about halving just happened, and another one is already on the horizon. Here’s when to expect it.

Bitcoin’s halving is here, so what happens next for crypto’s oldest coin? Experts say that depends largely on macroeconomic factors.

The Bitcoin halving happened early this morning, but after a tumultuous week, the biggest digital asset is sitting still.

Four years in the making, the built-in cut in Bitcoin mining rewards didn’t significantly change the price of BTC.

Bitcoin’s 4th halving arrives with cheers and high hopes for a new era with the Runes protocol coming online.

The Bitcoin network successfully underwent its fourth halving late Friday, cutting the amount of BTC that miners earn by half.

Llama 3, Meta’s most advanced large language model arrived early and hit millions of devices across top apps. We took it for a test drive.

As the Bitcoin halving nears, anticipation builds among creators trying to etch one of the very first tokens via the Runes protocol.

Increased scarcity for Bitcoin after the halving, paired with demand for Runes tokens, could shake up the Ordinals space.

As hopes for a Fed rate cut fade, Bitcoin is finding more sellers than buyers. Will the tide turn?

The halving will reshape who mines Bitcoin, and thus the network’s energy efficiency, experts say. Will that offset BTC’s immense usage?

The Web3 Foundation has a 10 million DOT prize pool to foster development of the JAM protocol, which aims to replace Polkadot’s Relay Chain.

With the Bitcoin halving on the horizon, anon Twitter user Leonidas broadcasted some top tips when minting Runes.

The partnership with Tether is meant to rapidly expand TON’s attractiveness to a broader audience of non-crypto savvy Telegram users.

The SEC argued that because Justin Sun “traveled extensively” to the U.S., the case falls under the regulator’s jurisdiction.

Bitcoin touched $65,000 as it experienced another jolt of volatility ahead of the BTC halving, set to take place late tonight.

At Token 2049 in Dubai, The Open Network’s director of investments sat down with Decrypt’s Sander Lutz to discuss what he sees as the game-changing integration of USDT onto TON, and his plans for getting Telegram’s 900 million users to start using crypto in the immediate future.

Bitcoin fell again late Thursday amid reports of explosions in Iran, and with the quadrennial halving event less than a day away.

Meta has deployed its brand new Llama 3 AI model across its massively popular apps.

Analysts at America’s biggest bank say the quadrennial event has already been priced in for BTC.

Ansem, the crypto trader who’s amassed a sizable following on the back of meme coin Dogwifhat (WIF) and other calls, chats with Decrypt reporter Sander Lutz at Token 2049 Dubai about his meme coin thesis, why he’s bullish on Bitcoin Runes, and what he sees ahead for the crypto markets.

Shark Cat used the likeness of a social media-famous feline without permission. Now the cat’s owner is fighting back.

On-chain analysis back a bullish view, but major banks see more losses ahead.

The JP Morgan CEO revisits some of his classic digs, calling BTC a “decentralized Ponzi scheme.”

Over 4,000 HV-MTL NFTs have been burned by Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs at the request of game studio Faraway.