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AMC Theatres Begin Accepting Dogecoin for Gift Cards

AMC Theatres announced that it now accepts Dogecoin (DOGE) among other selected cryptocurrencies as a payment option for its digital gift cards. AMC CEO Adam Aron took [...]

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6 October 2021 09:40

Ethereum-Based Blogging Platform Mirror Opens Up to Everyone

Mirror, an Ethereum-based decentralized blogging protocol that first launched last December, has opened up its doors to all creators. Prior to today’s announcement, creators could only gain [...]

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5 October 2021 22:44

Gutter Cat Gang Shows How NFT Collections Try to Stay Relevant

Cat videos received more than 26 billion views on YouTube in 2014 alone, according to a 2015 research paper published by Indiana University. Given these statistics, along [...]

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5 October 2021 21:37

Brazilian Lawmaker Aims to Make Bitcoin a Legal ‘Payment Currency’

Lawmakers in Brazil are working on establishing a regulatory framework that would make it easier to invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies while making it tougher on [...]

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5 October 2021 21:29

Colombia Could Use Waterfalls to Produce Bitcoin, Not Cocaine: Senator Petro

A high-profile Colombian politician has suggested the country look to El Salvador for inspiration and mine Bitcoin using renewable energy—instead of producing cocaine.  Gustavo Petro, a leftist [...]

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5 October 2021 21:02

Fifth-Largest Bank in U.S. Now Offering Bitcoin Custody Services

U.S. Bank, the fifth-largest banking institution in the United States, today announced that it has launched custodial services for Bitcoin. Institutional investment managers with private funds in [...]

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5 October 2021 20:54

Congressman Submits Bill to Give Safe Harbor to Crypto Startups Selling Tokens

Representative Patrick McHenry (R-NC) has proposed the Clarity for Digital Tokens Act of 2021, which would provide legislative backing to SEC Commissioner Hester Pierce’s “safe harbor” approach [...]

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5 October 2021 17:18

Snoop Dogg: Spamming Crypto Wallet With NFTs Is ‘Insult to Artists’

Snoop Dogg is no stranger to the world of non-fungible tokens (NFTs); soon after having revealed himself as pseudonymous NFT whale Cozomo de’ Medici, the California rapper [...]

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5 October 2021 15:39

Manifold Announces Verified NFT Studio, Funding from a16z and Initialized

When high profile artists such as pplpleasr or FVRENDER (shown above) want to make a non-fungible token (NFT), a growing number of them are turning to Manifold—a [...]

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5 October 2021 15:01

Axie Infinity Creator Raises $152 Million in Andreessen-Led Series B

Axie Infinity has rapidly become the largest player in the burgeoning crypto gaming space, not to mention the largest NFT project to date by total trading volume—and [...]

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5 October 2021 14:46

Cross-Chain DeFi Exchange THORSwap Raises $3.75M in Private Token Sale

THORSwap, a leading decentralized exchange (DEX) for the Thorchain ecosystem, has announced it has raised $3.75 million in a private token sale led by IDEO CoLab Ventures. [...]

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5 October 2021 14:11

OK, But Is It Really DeFi?

DeFi Friday is Decrypt’s DeFi email newsletter. (art: Grant Kempster) A key conversation in crypto these days revolves around whether a crypto thing is really DeFi or [...]

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5 October 2021 13:02

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