Sam Bankman-Fried is ‘deeply sorry’ for collapse in letter to FTX team
The former CEO described his role in the exchange’s downfall as a failure in oversight, saying he should have been “more skeptical of large margin positions.”
Blockchain VC funding halves in October despite some strong raises
VC funding continues to decline, but Uniswap bucks the trend by drumming up $165 million in a Series B round.
Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside acquires Stremium to bring live, interactive shows to your TV
Mark Cuban-backed streaming app Fireside, which today offers podcasters and other creators a way to host interactive, live shows with audience engagement, will soon expand to the TV’s big screen. Variety reported, and Fireside confirmed, it’s acquired the open streaming TV platform Stremium, which will allow Fireside’s shows to become available to a range of … Read more
Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 Classic and its slick rotating bezel is just $149
That rotating bezel for just $149 has got me spinning. | Photo by Dieter Bohn / The Verge Smartwatches can be a popular gift around the holidays, but the best ones can certainly blow up many folks’ budgets. Thankfully, today, you can get the 42mm Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 Classic for just $149 from Walmart … Read more
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Shadow launches cloud storage service Shadow Drive
Shadow is now officially a tech company with two different products. In addition to its cloud computing service that works particularly well for games, the company is launching Shadow Drive, a cloud storage service based on Nextcloud. “It’s now been a year and a half since Octave Klaba acquired Blade with a vision: take down … Read more
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special turns Christmas into lore
Dave Bautista as Drax. | Image: Disney The sprawling Marvel Cinematic Universe has set its sights on the holidays. It started quietly, with a black-and-white monster movie released ahead of Halloween. But now, with The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special on Disney Plus, the MCU has gone ahead and turned the most wonderful time … Read more
Bitcoin Wallet of the Failed BTC-e Exchange Wakes Up
A wallet linked to the failed crypto exchange transferred 10,000 bitcoin even as the alleged operator sat in jail.
YouTube starts testing a quiz feature for community posts
YouTube is experimenting with a new feature that allows creators to add quizzes to their community posts — the social media-style posts for channels that have at least 500 subscribers. The quiz beta is only available to a small number of creators. The details were first published in a new video on YouTube’s Creator Insider … Read more
How startups can lower their chance of a down round in a downturn
Here on the eve of Thanksgiving in the United States, this column spent a good portion of the morning hunting up something to be thankful for in startup land. There are options: The world has never been more software-centric, meaning that the core startup product is well-aligned with long-term macroeconomic trends. That’s good. Consumers are … Read more
Chinese VC loses $42M in crypto due to compromised mnemonic seed phrase
Bo Shen previously suffered another devastating hack to his personal wallet in 2016.
New York pauses permits for the most polluting crypto mining
Governor Kathy Hochul greets the crowd at Election Night Watch Party at Capitale in New York City on November 9th, 2022. | Photo by Lev Radin / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Efforts to crack down on crypto’s pollution notched a big win yesterday when New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a bill into law … Read more
Keychron’s new keyboard pairs a low-profile design with premium construction
Keychron’s S1 keyboard. | Image: Keychron People like to make fun of the sheer number of keyboards that Keychron releases, and the company is showing no signs of slowing down anytime soon. It’s just put on open sale the first entry in a whole new lineup, the $109 Keychron S1, which combines the low-profile laptop-style … Read more
Twitch says it’s getting better at detecting and blocking young users
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch is cracking down on accounts belonging to users under the age of 13 as part of its efforts to protect children on the platform. In a post on Twitch’s safety center, the Amazon-owned company announced that it’s improving its methods for detecting and terminating the accounts belonging … Read more
Amazon is selling last year’s Apple TV 4K for $80, and that’s practically a steal
Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge There aren’t a ton of differences between the third-generation Apple TV 4K and last year’s model. The new one’s faster (but good luck telling the difference), supports HDR10 Plus, and has a smaller, lighter design. But unless you’ve got a recent Samsung TV, those aren’t good enough reasons … Read more
Hearing aids may be the surprise holiday gift category nobody saw coming
Back in August, the FDA announced it was making a big change in the world of hearing aids: From October onwards, hearing aids would be available without a prescription, over the counter. In a world where getting fitted for a hearing aid could be very expensive, and the hearing aids themselves were wrapped up in … Read more
Quantum Space, US Space Force talk commercial ops in orbit at TC Sessions: Space
Gone are the days when outer space was the exclusive purview of government and defense. Now, we’re in a period often called “New Space,” in which commercial ventures are leading the way in carving out new markets and use cases for space. But as the past five years have vividly illustrated, government and defense have … Read more
BTC price holds $16K as analyst says Bitcoin fundamentals ‘unchanged’
Bitcoin sentiment is the worst one analyst has ever seen as BTC price action holds its own into Thanksgiving.
Cointelegraph Historical Collection private sale is now live
Crypto fans can immortalize cryptocurrency history via Cointelegraph’s digital collectibles, with the full launch coming on Dec. 1.
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