Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will unveil prototype central bank digital currency systems as early as July, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The researchers, whose collaboration was announced in August 2020, have been “...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has sold a non-fungible token (NFT) of the first-ever published tweet for $2.9 million to an investor who goes by the name @sinaEstavi.  Earlier this month, Dorsey minted the tweet using Cent, an Ethereum-based service that allows users to mint, sell and bid on NFTs of tweets...
TIME is hiring a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to oversee the brand's money matters — and it would prefer someone familiar with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, according to a job description posted on LinkedIn on Monday.  The listing did not explain what the CFO would be doing with crypto, b...
Ethereum-based interoperability project Connext has raised $2.2 million in seed funding, according to a statement shared with The Block on Monday. The round was led by Polychain Capital, with participation from 1kx and Huobi Capital. With fresh capital at hand, Connext looks to seed the early networ...
Greenidge Generation Holdings, the parent company of upstate New York-based bitcoin mining firm Greenidge, expects to go public in the U.S. through a merger deal.  The bitcoin mining firm announced the merger plan on Monday, saying it has signed a definitive agreement to merge in a stock-for-stock t...
Last week, Bitcoin covered a relatively small 13.87% range before closing the week near $57,350, 2.73% lower than its opening price. Meanwhile, the altcoin market began this week near $704 billion after dipping from $681 billion to $653 billion during the past week. Small weekly ranges tend to be followed by large weekl...
SEC commissioner Hester Peirce remarked during a virtual conference appearance last week that "evidence-based rulemaking is not yet the norm in crypto-regulation" as part of a wider exploration of the topic. Peirce spoke on March 15 during an event organized by the British Blockchain Association. Ac...
A pair of finance firms -- First Advisors and the Anthony Scaramucci-led SkyBridge Capital -- have joined the growing chorus of companies trying to win approval for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund in the United States. The prospectus for the First Trust SkyBridge Bitcoin ETF Trust was published on Fr...
Fortress Investment Group is offering creditors of infamous defunct crypto exchange Mt. Gox an early payout ahead of a vote on a proposal that could remunerate them in mid-2022.  As per a letter obtained by The Block, the investment firm—which is known for its investments in private equity and stock...
Mobile phones are increasingly gaining more capability of hosting online games with complex gameplay and astounding graphics. And as a result, the mobile gaming market has rapidly gained the worth of multi million dollars. Most of the online players have opted for their mobile devices as their prefe...

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