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Fidelity Reduces Value of Investment in Twitter by More Than Half

Following the backing of Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, investment company Fidelity has written down the value of its original share in the social media site. Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund has reduced the carrying value of its Twitter investment by more than 50 percent, as reported in a November

January 8, 2023 1 min read

Mycelium Liquidity Pool Suffers Loss Due to Issues With Price Feed

Mycelium, a Web3 ecosystem comprised of many products, recently revealed that price feed problems had caused losses in one of its liquidity pools. Additionally, the IP address of the protocol was blacklisted by the Binance API component. Team members from Mycelium issued a statement on January 7th, 2023, saying that

January 7, 2023 1 min read

Kazakhstan Crypto Miners Now Subject To Higher Electricity Charges

Cryptocurrency miners in Kazakhstan have been subject to a progressive scale. For the calculation of their monthly power fees as of January 1. The first universal fee, implemented in the summer of 2021, was 1 Kazakhstani tenge ($0.002) per kilowatt-hour (kWh). But it may currently exceed 25 tenge (above $0.05).

January 7, 2023 1 min read

Bitcoin Mining Hashrate Reaches New All-time High This New Year

This first week of 2023 has been particularly intense for Bitcoin’s computing power, as it set a new milestone and ushered in the year by shattering its previous high point. On 7 January, Bitcoin’s hashrate was reported to be 290 EH/s, having already reached an ATH the day before. ATH

January 7, 2023 1 min read

Metaverse Could Possibly Bring in $5 Trillion by 2030 as per Mckinsey

While enthusiasm for new crypto sub-ecosystems like NFTs was dampened by the 2022 bear market. The Metaverse is still set up for long-term upheaval. McKinsey & Company estimates that the metaverse might be worth up to $5 trillion by 2030. Because of the wide variety of consumer and business-focused use

January 7, 2023 1 min read

New Deadline For Repayments Registration Revealed For Mt. Gox Creditors

The first payback instalment from Mt. Gox has been postponed by two months, from July 31 to September 30 per a notice from the creditors. Payments will now begin on March 10th, two months later than originally planned. In addition, the January 10th deadline for submitting financial information and cryptocurrency

January 7, 2023 1 min read

Indian Music Legend AR Rahman Launches Metaverse Platform

AR Rahman, a world-famous musician and music director, turned 56 on Friday. On the occasion of his birthday party, Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman announced the release of his metaverse platform “Katraar.” Moreover, he shared the clip across his various social media platforms with a witty remark. The famous artist is

January 7, 2023 2 mins read

Moody’s Downgrades Struggling Silvergate Ratings Adding Further Woes

Moody’s downgrade and Ark Invest selling off of Silvergate Bank’s shares indicate deteriorating conditions at the financial institution. There was a run on the bank and it has been linked to the FTX crash. Ark Invest, Cathie Wood’s investment vehicle, reportedly sold more than 400,000 shares of parent firm Silvergate

January 7, 2023 1 min read

y00ts NFT Received $3 Million by Polygon To Migrate From Solana

With the help of a $3 million grant, DeLabs, the company behind the popular Solana NFT collections DeGods and y00ts, migrated y00ts to the Ethereum sidechain Polygon. Frank (aka Rohun Vora), the company’s founder, said in a Discord post that the money will be used for recruiting and the establishment

January 7, 2023 1 min read

Justin Sun Transfers $100M Stablecoins to Huobi Amid Large Withdrawals

After hearing that the crypto exchange Huobi was laying off workers, Tron founder Justin Sun shifted $100 million worth of his stablecoins to the exchange. Nansen’s analysis of the blockchain shows that the funds were transferred from Binance to Huobi, a cryptocurrency exchange in which Sun has a controlling share.

January 7, 2023 1 min read