NFT news: Bored Apes hacked on Instagram; Sina Estavi’s $277 Dorsey tweet
All my apes, influenced.
Tag: nft
El Salvador: Bukele goes full dictator, Chivo theft, Bitcoin Towers
Bitcoin is not the biggest problem in El Salvador right now — it’s Bukele using the gangs to go as full dictator as he thinks he can get away with.
NBA Top Shot: a short history of the largest mainstream NFT project
Top Shot claimed to be about the cards — but it was all about the trading market. And it wasn’t so great at letting traders take out their money.
News: Facebook’s Zuck Bucks; Worldcoin wants your eyeballs; Bitcoin miners still can’t sell their coins; NFT gaming fails
“please note how they’ve taken the actual melbourne course design and just … pasted it onto the sydney image. so half the track is underwater.”
Web3: a VC-funded gig economy of securities fraud
If you look at a “Web3” offering and just think of it as a pump-and-dump onto retail investors, everything will make much more sense.
The National Post’s Invisible Hand Society NFT collection — the facepalm manifesto
Making money’s one thing — but some people get a bit weird about it.
News: Royal Mint NFT, Europe requires crypto transaction traceability, VCs drop the “.eth”
Original art, do not steal.
News: Crypto crime statistics, Axie Infinity hack, Kevin Roose debunked, Lightning Network speed, NFT lawsuits
I shall henceforth be calling Bitcoin mining “extreme bingo.”
News: no crypto in 401(k) retirement plans, more Bitcoin ETF rejections, NFTs on Instagram, Jamaican CBDC
“EBSA expects to conduct an investigative program aimed at plans that offer participant investments in cryptocurrencies and related products.”
News: Sanctioned Russians try to dump Bitcoin; no crypto ATMs in the UK; Bored Apes underwear fails; Associated Press NFT plan; football sponsorships; how Facebook’s Diem died
You can’t cash in billions of dollars of bitcoins instantly — but sanctioned Russians are trying.