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Benjamin Von Wong – a Canadian artist responsible for creating the “Skull of Satoshi” installation back in mid-March – has apologized for his work, claiming in a recent interview that it was “never meant to be anti-bitcoin,” and he is not pleased people took it in such a way. Benjamin Wong: I Never Sought to Create an Anti-Bitcoin Project Wong stated: It was an optimistic hope that bitcoin could shift away from the needless burning of fossil fuels without losing all the...

Despite a relatively broad history with cryptocurrencies and digital assets, graphics card manufacturer Nvidia has come out to say that crypto has no purpose in society. Nvidia Doesn’t Think Crypto Has Much to It In a recent interview, the company’s chief technology officer Micheal Kagan commented that the graphics cards Nvidia creates should be utilized for activities other than simply mining crypto. He suggested using them to power AI-based technologies like Chat GPT....

Amid lower fossil fuel costs, BP’s profits tanked in comparison to the bumper profits recorded in 2022. On Tuesday, May 2, oil major British Petroleum (BP) reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter (Q1 2023) profits, and rising from the previous quarter i.e. Q4 2022. However, the numbers were down from the exceptional profits that the company recorded during a blockbuster 2022 when fossil fuel prices shot up significantly following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. BP Q1 2023...

The new secondary art NFT marketplace by Sotheby’s also pays royalties from sales directly to the artists, from payments made by collectors. Sotheby’s has launched an on-chain non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace that facilitates the sale of secondary digital art items. According to Decrypt, the New York-based auction house now supports secondary NFT sales, allowing artists to transact directly with collectors. For example, interested collectors can list and make offers on work from select...

American multinational banking giant JPMorgan Chase has emerged as the lucky buyer of the embattled regional banking firm, First Republic Bank. As reported by CNBC, JPMorgan Chase & Co (NYSE: JPM) acquired all of the deposits of First Republic Bank (NYSE: FRC) and a substantial number of its shares. The acquisition was made possible after regulators took a hold of the bank on Monday. This notably placed the collapse of First Republic Bank as the worst in the US banking ecosystem...

ADA price is showing bearish signs below the $0.412 support zone against the US Dollar. The price is now trading below $0.40 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a major bearish trend line forming with resistance near $0.3980 on the 4-hour chart (data feed via Coinbase). The price could continue to move down if it stays below the $0.412 resistance zone. Cardano price is struggling below $0.412 against the US Dollar, similar to Bitcoin. ADA price could...

Ethereum price is gaining bearish momentum below the $1,900 resistance against the US Dollar. ETH price is now trading below $1,920 and the 55 simple moving average (4 hours). There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance near $1,910 on the 4-hour chart (data feed from Coinbase). The pair could recover, but it is likely to face sellers near the $1,920 resistance zone. Ethereum price is declining below $1,920 against the US Dollar. ETH/USD remains at a risk of...

Do Kwon – the crypto executive behind the Terra USD collapse that occurred in the summer of 2022 – has been arrested and taken into custody. Do Kwon Has Reportedly Been Taken In Kwon has allegedly been a fugitive these past few months. He was apprehended in the European nation of Montenegro, where he was found to be holding phony passports and documentation. The country’s interior minister Filip Adzic issued the following statement: Montenegrin police have detained a...

Binance – the world’s largest and most popular digital currency exchange per daily market data – gave traders a bit of a scare in late March when it put a temporary halt in place on spot trading, citing system glitches as the reason for doing so. The move only lasted a few hours and trading was quickly restored on the platform, but it had a few people shaking in their boots. Binance Briefly Stopped Trading Over a Month Ago The trading firm issued a statement claiming...

Just a day ago, we talked about how Coinbase was served a Wells notice by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The situation is scary given that Coinbase has met with the SEC over 30 times in recent years, and thus the exchange really doesn’t appear to be in a position of any wrongdoing. The situation just comes off as more evidence that Biden and his nation and innovation-hating cronies will do anything to ensure crypto dies in America and that residents cannot...