The popular Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Austria, in collaboration with the artèQ auction house, has turned Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s famous masterpiece ‘The Kiss’ into 10,000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The collection dropped on Valentine’s Day and “each one is a unique part of the high-resolution image of The Kiss,” according to the official website….…
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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the world’s largest stock exchange, has filed a trademark application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to register the term “NYSE” for an array of metaverse- and non-fungible token (NFT)-related products. Trademark attorney Michael Kondoudis initially revealed the application, saying that the NYSE “is coming…
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Disney has created a specialized unit of senior employees and executives to oversee its move into the metaverse. Per Reuters and the BBC, which claim to have seen a Disney internal memo emailed to staff on the matter, Mike White, an executive who has been with Disney for over a decade, will oversee a…
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President Alexander Lukashenko has signed another decree regulating the crypto economy of Belarus. It envisages the establishment of a register for cryptocurrency wallets and addresses certain legal aspects pertaining to the circulation of cryptocurrencies in the country.
Presidential Decree Aims to Prevent Use of Crypto Wallets in Criminal Activities
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has…
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Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) backed by bitcoin (BTC) futures contracts traded in the US largely retained their trading volumes last week, despite a slump in the bitcoin price over the course of January. According to exchange data, the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) – the first bitcoin ETF to go live in the US in…
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The link between Latin American football and crypto is continuing to deepen this year – with a flurry of activity surrounding some of the region’s biggest football teams, star players, and its most heavily backed crypto exchanges. Early this month, Tigres Femenil – the women’s football club arm of the UAL Tigres club, winners…
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Massively popular Canadian rapper Drake has profited USD 300,000 from his three bets cumulatively worth USD 1.26m worth of bitcoin (BTC), on the Super Bowl match between the Los Angeles Rams (LA Rams) and the Cincinnati Bengals. The 35-year-old rapper first posted screenshots of his wager on Instagram over the weekend. As per the…
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The Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada has claimed that banks in the country could be asked to immediately freeze or suspend the bank accounts of individuals in the country, as the “truck drivers’ protest” over Canadian COVID-19 restrictions continues…. Read More: Canada Joins Lebanon and Turkey in ‘Bitcoin’s Marketing Team’ Read…
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Umberto Canessa Cerchi is the CEO of Kryptomon, an NFT play-to-earn blockchain game._____ Traditional institutions and decentralized ones have always been at odds given their competing philosophies, but the recent explosion in NFTs has given them a shared interest, with both racing to give users easier and more convenient access to NFTs…. Read More:…
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