Bitcoin sees first difficulty drop in 2 months as miners sell 8K BTC

Bitcoin (BTC) miners remain under stress at current price levels as data shows large outflows from miner wallets returning. According to on-chain analytics firm Glassnode, monthly miner sales totaled up to around 8,000 BTC in September. Bitcoin miners see heavy sales In contrast to the June lows, when BTC/USD hit its current multi-year floor of […]

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Enter the afterlife in style, Solana NFT game demo hits Epic store and more

The company behind the Spartan Race has released a nonfungible token (NFT) collection which will immortalize the names of the initial holders in stone, with plans to build a 35-foot (10.5 meters) statue in Ancient Sparta encircled with 15,000 name-engraved stones. Spartan founder and CEO Joe De Sena plans to bury his ashes under his […]

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Researchers allege Bitcoin’s climate impact closer to ‘digital crude’ than gold

The Bitcoin (BTC) bashing has continued unabated even in the depths of a bear market with more research questioning its energy usage and impact on the environment. The latest paper by researchers at the department of economics at the University of New Mexico, published on Sept. 29, alleges that from a climate-damage perspective, Bitcoin operates […]

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‘I’ve done nothing wrong’ — Lark Davis denies ‘pump-and-dump’ allegations

Crypto influencer Lark Davis has refuted new allegations from Twitter “on-chain sleuth” ZachXBT of shilling “low cap projects” to his audience “just to dump them shortly after.” Davis was responding to a Twitter thread posted by Zach on Sept. 29, containing allegations that he profited over $1.2 million through selling tokens from crypto projects which […]

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Warner Music Group partners with OpenSea to create more Web3 opportunities for artists

On Sept. 29, global music and entertainment company Warner Music Group (WMG) announced a partnership with nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace OpenSea to provide a platform for select musical artists to build and extend their fanbase into the Web3 community.  According to the release, the collaboration between these two entities will allow select WMG artists to get […]

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David Rubenstein says ‘crypto is not going away’

The Carlyle co-founder David Rubenstein also believes Congress will not overregulate the crypto industry. David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-chairman of Carlyle, a global private equity firm, believes crypto is here to stay. Rubestein, who aired his views on the crypto sector in a recent interview with Bloomberg, however suggests key factors that might drive one […]

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Top NFT cryptocurrencies to watch in October as large corporations dig in

One of the markets that have a lot of potentials to take off in October is the NFTs market. That’s because some of the largest corporations in the world are getting into NFTs, and that means not just the potential for value growth but also FOMO. That’s why as we head into the new month, […]

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