January 24, 2023

Want to rub shoulders at the Tribeca Film Festival? You’ll need an NFT for that

Want to rub shoulders at the Tribeca Film Festival? You’ll need an NFT for that

NFTs are being released by the Tribeca Film Festival and the cryptocurrency exchange OKX, giving holders VIP access to the movie event. To mint one NFT, it costs 0.6 ETH, or about $838, plus gas, or $899 with a credit card. At the Tribeca Film Festival this year, do you want to mix and mingle …

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Unstoppable Domains, Ready Player Me to connect metaverse avatars with domain names

Unstoppable Domains, Ready Player Me to connect metaverse avatars with domain names

Users will be able to link their virtual personas to their web3 domain name identities thanks to a new integration that Unstoppable Domains has announced with the avatar platform Ready Player Me. Web3 domain names have gained popularity as a method of online persistent identity. Users can now add their Ready Player Me avatars to …

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Tribeca Film Festival Will Sell VIP Passes as NFTs

Tribeca Film Festival Will Sell VIP Passes as NFTs

The Tribeca Film Festival is capitalising on the growing number of use cases for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by selling VIP passes as digital collectibles. The annual film festival’s first foray into NFTs, the VIP passes, was created in collaboration with the cryptocurrency exchange OKX. They will come with benefits like special access to movie screenings …

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Sam Bankman-Fried: ‘I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away.’

Sam Bankman-Fried: ‘I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away.’

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of FTX, has largely refuted the accusations made against him in a “pre-mortem overview” of the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange. Bankman-Fried claimed in a post on January 12 on Substack that FTX US had been “fully solvent” at the time the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, with about …

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How is Hong Kong’s new crypto policy beneficial to Bitcoin investors?

How is Hong Kong’s new crypto policy beneficial to Bitcoin investors?

Despite a brutal winter that has deterred neighbours like Singapore from investing in this volatile sector, Hong Kong has moved to embrace the crypto industry. The top securities regulator for the island city recently issued a directive encouraging investment in a select group of crypto assets with high liquidity. Highly liquid crypto assets for retail …

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Bill Gates Pours Cold Water on Web3 and Crypto

Bill Gates Pours Cold Water on Web3 and Crypto

Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft, recently poured cold water on Web3 and cryptocurrency during a Reddit ask-me-anything session, dashed hopes that these technologies would become the next big thing. Gates said artificial intelligence (AI) was “the big one” in response to a user’s query about whether a “mammoth technology shift like the Internet” was …

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