Animoca Brands Raises US$359 Million at US$5B Valuation to Grow the Open Metaverse – Trustnodes

Melbourne, Australia, 18 January 2022 — Animoca Brands, the company driving digital property rights via NFTs and gaming to build the open metaverse, today announced that it has completed a capital rai...

Bond Buying Breaks Record – Trustnodes

More bonds were bought in November than all of 2020, 2019 and 2017 combined, and twice more were bought in December than all of 2018, itself a record year. Call it the power of Wallstreetbets where th...

$1.6 Billion Bitcoin Miner to IPO – Trustnodes

Rhodium Enterprises, the Texas based bitcoin miner is hoping to raise $1.6 billion in an Initial Public Offering on Nasdaq this Thursday. The company is offering 56,839,846 shares of Class A common st...

Bitcoin’s Hashrate Rises to All Time High – Trustnodes

Bitcoin’s hashrate has risen to a new all time high on Thursday, crossing 216 exahashes a second (Ex/s) as pictured above, up from its previous all time high of 207 Ex/s. Despite an internet blackout ...

Hacker News Can’t Get Enough of Web3 – Trustnodes

Web3 flamewars are becoming an almost daily occurrence on Hacker News, the startups incubator that gave us Coinbase among others. The topic of the day is whether it is or it isn’t too early for blockc...

China Incorporates Metaverse in Government Plans – Trustnodes

Chinese local governments have included the metaverse for the first time in their plans for 2022, suggesting potential government approval for a new and upcoming space. The Shanghai Municipal Commissi...

Outbrain Shuns Crypto – Trustnodes

Outbrain, one of the few alternatives to Google Ads with half a billion in revenue during the first half of 2021, is prohibiting crypto advertising. “Cryptocurrency is not allowed,” Outbrain says in i...

Rio De Janeiro to Buy Bitcoin – Trustnodes

Rio De Janeiro, Brazil’s iconic city is to allocate 1% of its treasury reserves towards buying bitcoin. Eduardo Paes, its Mayor, said at the Rio Innovation Week that Rio De Janeiro is “going to launch...

China Decoupling From Bitcoin – Trustnodes

The once dominant Chinese market now appears to have little influence on bitcoin’s price with Asia’s trading hours seemingly becoming a bit quiet. On a day that had much activity on stock trading, wit...

Is Bitcoin Now on Three Months Cycles? – Trustnodes

Up 60k, down 30k, up 70k, down 40k, up to 80k? With so little data, there’s only theory, but is bitcoin now on waves of three months cycles? It used to be four years, but that was during very high inf...

Bitcoin Rises as Inflation Hits 7% – Trustnodes

US inflation has reached an expected 7% in December according to the latest data by the US Bureau of Labour Statistics. It said: “The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.5...

Fed Nimble on Policy Says Powell – Trustnodes

Fed chair Jerome Powell said Fed is “willing to adapt pretty nimbly on policy as we go through the year” at a confirmation hearing in front of the Senate. He said steps will be taken towards normaliza...

Bitcoin Falls Below $40,000, ETH Breaks $3,000 – Trustnodes

Bitcoin has fallen below $40,000 for the first time since July with the currency continuing to pile on losses as its market cap nearly halves since November to now $760 billion. Bitcoin has been in a ...

Get ETH Rapper Tells 10 Million Followers – Trustnodes

Meek Mill, a famous American rapper who reached more than 100 million streams within a week in October, has told his ten million Twitter followers to get an eth address, stating: “You gone need a eTh ...

Bitfarms Buys $40 Million Bitcoin – Trustnodes

Bitfarms, the stock traded bitcoin miner has announced they bought 1,000 bitcoin during the first week of January, worth $43 million. “Our guiding company strategy at Bitfarms is to accumulate the mos...

Albania and Kosovo Go Different Ways on Bitcoin – Trustnodes

Albania, the small Mediterranean country that once was ruled by the Medici and itself apparently ruled Egypt under the Ottomans, has legalized bitcoin this summer with it to be treated as a digital as...

Web3 “Reminiscent of Early Internet Days” Says Signal Founder – Trustnodes

Moxie Marlinspike (pictured), the founder of Signal chatapp with its 40 million monthly active users and previously head of security at Twitter, has stated “nerds like me are excited to build for” web...

Markets Wait For Powell’s Put – Trustnodes

Stocks are on edge. Half of all stocks traded on Nasdaq are down 50%. The index itself has lost 5% this week, and is down 5.6% year to date. A brutal January so far follows an equally brutal November ...

Bitcoin’s Hashrate Unmoved While Kazakhstan Turns Off Internet – Trustnodes

Bitcoin’s hashrate is largely unchanged despite a country that is thought to have about 5% of the global hashrate, Kazakhstan, cutting off the internet. The blackout appears to be fairly strict with n...

Speculation Mounts on MetaMask Token Launch – Trustnodes

MetaMask has become one of the biggest crypto app, contending with the likes of Coinbase and Binance as the blockchain connector attracts more than 21 million users. There are now more than 11 million...

Matt Damon Crypto Ad Goes Viral – Trustnodes

An advert by crypto.com featuring Matt Damon is going viral ahead of its expected debut at the Super Bowl this February. “There isn’t enough yuck in the world to describe Matt Damon advertising a Ponz...

Almost 10% of All Bitcoin Now Held By Companies and ETPs – Trustnodes

Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) now hold about 5% of bitcoin’s total supply with 809,848 BTC, worth close to $40 billion, held by stock traded products. Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust is the biggest by far...

Uniswap Crosses $1 Billion in Revenue – Trustnodes

Uniswap has become the first decentralized app running on the ethereum blockchain to cross $1 billion in yearly revenue. The defi dapp is currently handling $1.28 billion in volumes a day, giving it a...

Bitcoin Turns 13 – Trustnodes

It feels like a lifetime ago, an ancient era, when the first bitcoin block was mined amidst intense skepticism that decentralized digital money can be code robust. For such an historic event, there wa...

NFT Sells For $6 Million – Trustnodes

An NFT that mutates an ape jpeg has sold for 1,542 eth, worth about $6 million, making it an all time high for the serums. Deepak Thapliyal bought it, the ‘Chain’ CEO, a cloud blockchain infrastructur...

Web3 is “an Open Public Database” Says Fred Wilson – Trustnodes

Fred Wilson, one of the most prominent Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist (VC) and an early ethereum proponent, argues the disruptive potential of web3 is due to new capabilities that for the first tim...