Esports leaders discuss ongoing industry challenges, including VC bubbles, layoffs, and ageism, and call for wealthy game studios to take on more responsibility
OpenSea lays off ~50% of staff and is moving to “OpenSea 2.0”; after laying off 20% of its workforce in July 2022, the NFT marketplace said 230 staff remained
A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company.
Early screenshots show Microsoft is testing a non-custodial Ethereum crypto wallet built into Edge that lets users send and receive cryptocurrencies and NFTs
Yuga Labs announces its first Bitcoin NFT project TwelveFold, which contains 300 limited-edition generative art pieces inscribed to the Bitcoin blockchain
TwelveFold, a limited series of just 300 generative Ordinals NFT art pieces on Bitcoin, will be auctioned later this week.
Filing: Tesla lost ~$140M on its bitcoin holdings in 2022, taking a $204M impairment loss, nearly doubling its $101M loss in 2021, offset by $64M in profit
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Google Cloud says it is running a Solana validator and is indexing Solana data for BigQuery, will add Solana support to Blockchain Node Engine in 2023, and more
Solana ( SOL) rose 12% on the news, changing hands at around $36.80 at time of publication.
Days after Celsius shared all its users' names and crypto transaction histories in a bankruptcy filing, a new website shows who allegedly lost the most money
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Nova Labs and T-Mobile sign a five-year deal to launch Helium Mobile, a 5G MVNO service for smartphones that combines coverage from the two companies' networks
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A look at the two-day Crypto Policy Symposium, the world's first conference for crypto skeptics, from policymakers and journalists to disillusioned programmers
The Crypto Policy Symposium in London was a historic gathering of crypto skeptics—and nobody tried to sell me anything. Tweets: @hkanji , @ben_munster , @izakaminska , @molly0xfff ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a national ban on using digital assets for payments, but allows investing in digital assets like bitcoin
The drastic move comes after mixed signals from Russia's leaders and regulators. — Russian President Vladimir Putin today signed …
As Terraform Labs rebooted the Terra blockchain, freshly minted LUNA tokens started trading on exchanges and swiftly plummeted about 70% from the opening price
After peaking at $19.54 earlier on Saturday, it's been mostly downhill. — Terraform Labs early Saturday launched a new version …
Q&A with retail traders after Terra's crash: some lost their life savings, others shared suicidal ideation on forums, some now acknowledge it's a Ponzi scheme
It took less than a week for the third largest stablecoin and its ecosystem to become virtually worthless, wiping out countless traders' savings.
Terraform Labs halts Terra block production for the second time in 24 hours “to come up with a plan to reconstitute” the network, after UST and LUNA collapsed
Terra's “Stable” Coin Destabilizes Finsmart Community / Finsmart's Newsletter : Could this be the end of $UST / $LUNA? Ian Allison / CoinDesk : ‘Stable in Name Only’: Stablecoin Is...
Terraform Labs halts Terra block production for the second time in 24 hours “to come up with a plan to reconstitute” the network, after UST and LUNA collapsed
The blockchain behind the collapsed TerraUSD stablecoin and the affiliated Luna token stopped processing new transactions for the second time in less than a day. Source: @terra_mon...
Musk's free speech definition is utter nonsense and his suggestions for Twitter completely ignore decades of content moderation iteration on social platforms
from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept — Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter.
Twitter should not only open source its algorithm but also create a marketplace where anyone can build their own algorithms and use the algorithms others create
increases usage — decreases assholery — rebuilds trust I wrote all about it how it could work and why to do it here: https://every.to/...
Musk's free speech definition is utter nonsense and his suggestions for Twitter completely ignore decades of content moderation iteration on social platforms
from the not-how-any-of-this-works dept — Lots of talk yesterday as Elon Musk made a hostile takeover bid for all of Twitter.
Musk says he may not “actually be able to” buy Twitter, he is motivated by its public interest value, it should open source its algorithm, and he has a Plan B
The billionaire made his first public comments about his Twitter takeover efforts at the TED 2022 conference
Sources: Elon Musk is speaking to investors, including Silver Lake, to partner with him on a Twitter bid; a plan with partners could be announced within days
Elon Musk is speaking to investors who could partner with him on a bid for Twitter, sources close to the matter told The Post.
Source says Twitter's board of directors views Elon Musk's takeover offer as unwelcome, suggesting the company will fight the bid
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