$1.5M CryptoPunk bought for $23K, Coinbase’s NFT legal defense fund: Nifty Newsletter

Digital lead for Calibra Ben Maurer gave a presentation on Facebook's Move programming language at the Stanford Blockchain Conference on Feb. 19. Move was created by Facebook to provide a safe and programmable foundation for the Libra blockchain. Maurer explained that Move will make it easier and more secure to program financial applications that run…

“We are witnessing a drive to make financial risk a tawdry political issue," said Sarah Bloom Raskin. 591 Total views 17 Total shares Former Federal Reserve Board governor Sarah Bloom Raskin has withdrawn her name for consideration as the central bank’s vice chair for supervision in an attempt to allow other nominations to move forward.According…

The sports industry should heed the warning signs as they adopt emerging blockchain technologies such as NFTs, experts warn. 1209 Total views 2 Total shares The sports industry took a hard hit from the coronavirus pandemic. Most leagues got suspended, and then teams played without the audience for an extended period. Sports clubs started to…

The United States is the world’s leader in blockchain-related jobs, according to a research by The NextWeb (TNW) published on March 8.To prepare the report, TNW gathered information from job and recruiting site Glassdoor, finding all the job offerings that had the term “blockchain” in the job listing in countries around the world.The results reportedly…

American financial software company Intuit has apparently limited the account of one of the cryptocurrency industry’s best-known figures, Andreas Antonopoulos. In a series of tweets on Dec. 4, Antonopoulos stated that Intuit had prevented him from accepting credit card payments via its accounting services due to his use of cryptocurrency. According to Antonopoulos, who undertakes regular international…

Bitcoin (BTC) may offer investors a rare chance to buy at a support zone with a “100% long hit rate,” new analysis says.In its latest update piece on Aug. 29, crypto asset manager Capriole Investments told investors to watch for a BTC price dip to $24,000.Capriole founder “very confident” in $23,000 BTC price support Bitcoin continues…

Geth developers to blame? 852 Total views 10 Total shares The Ethereum network has suffered what looks like a hard fork on Wednesday as reports emerged of outages and irregularities on infrastructure providers Infura and Blockchair.While initially it was believed to be an internal issue in Infura, a hosting service used by some exchanges and…