5+ mon, 3+ week ago (78+ words) Decrypt's Ryan S. Gladwin went to Token2049 in Dubai to ask the Crypto world to choose either "this" or "that" for some of the industries most popular coins, tokens and assets This OR That: Crypto Edition Decrypt's Ryan S. Gladwin went to Token2049 in Dubai to ask the Crypto world to choose either "this" or "that" for some of the industries most popular coins, tokens and assets Candid chats and deep dives with the biggest names in crypto....

3+ week, 2+ day ago (407+ words) 'Final Fantasy' Maker Square Enix Confirms Layoffs as AI Takes Over Game Development Square Enix, the gaming giant behind the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest franchises, confirmed layoffs on Thursday across its United States and European divisions'the same day the company said it's ramping up generative AI use to streamline game development. "We are reorganizing our operations in North America and Europe to strengthen our development structure and to drive a globally integrated marketing strategy," a spokesperson told IGN. "This was an extremely difficult decision, made following careful consideration and analysis by our leadership, in order to best position the group's long-term growth." In a presentation shared Thursday, the game publisher said that it was shifting more development back to Japan, where Square Enix was founded. The company has been gradually trimming down following a period of global expansion, and…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago (157+ words) $BTC, MARKETS, NEWS + MORE - FOMO HOUR EP369 FOMO HOUR brings you the biggest daily news, updates and events from inside and outside of the crypto and macro spheres! Join hosts Farokh, Mando and Tyler as they cover some of the biggest topics at present with some of the biggest names in the ecosystem. Streaming live 5 days per week, Monday to Friday 10:00 AM EST to 11:00 AM EST on YouTube and X. JOIN YEET = https://yeet.com/register?aff=fomohour PLAYLIST = https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGSgoImPFTiVpkHhLXF78cE_Z3uG7VNGL PODCAST = https://x.com/i/spaces/1kvKpydgqMQGE Links: https://linktr.ee/fomohour https://twitter.com/fomohour https://www.rug.fm/ https://x.com/rugradio Hosts: https://twitter.com/farokh https://twitter.com/rektmando https://twitter.com/tyler_did_it Myriad: https://myriad.markets https://x.com/MyriadMarkets #bitcoin #crypto #podcast $BTC, MARKETS, NEWS + MORE Candid chats and deep dives with the biggest names in crypto....

11+ mon, 3+ week ago (565+ words) Getting Started With MYRIAD Now available in open beta, MYRIAD is the evolution of Decrypt and Rug Radio's interconnected media ecosystem, integrating on-chain prediction markets into news stories and creator content. Here's how it works, and how to get started. MYRIAD is a new platform that integrates prediction markets alongside written and video content from Decrypt and Rug Radio'enabling new forms of reader engagement, opening up new business models for publishers and content creators, and ultimately aiming to rebuild user trust in media. Finding your way around MYRIAD Once you've registered for MYRIAD, head to myriad.markets to view the main hub for MYRIAD activities. Along the top of the page you'll see several options: MYRIAD's on-chain prediction markets are the heart of the platform, enabling users to back their calls on real-world events with Points. Those events can include…...

11+ mon, 2+ week ago (375+ words) Decrypt University to Relaunch Community With "Dynamic Utilities" by Galaxis Decrypt"s educational platform Decrypt University is set to relaunch in the new year, with a major upgrade integrating on-chain certification from Web3 SocialFi platform Galaxis. The cutting-edge system will "redefine user engagement" and bring "innovative dynamic utilities, transparency and trust" to Decrypt University"s digital learning community, Galaxis said in a statement. " " " " "! " Decrypt (@decryptmedia) December 5, 2024 "We started with education," said Decrypt co-founder and CPO Ilan Hazan, adding that, "we always wanted for people to actually use the technology and not just learn about it." To date, Decrypt University users have minted over 250,000 certificates, he said, explaining that the experience of doing so "gets you to another level of understanding" of the Web3 ecosystem in a way that passively reading about it doesn"t....

11+ mon, 3+ day ago (1551+ words) The Year in Crypto: Gary Gone Wild Dec 27, 2024Dec 27, 2024 As the Securities and Exchange Commission's five voting members sat before lawmakers on Capitol Hill in September, House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry (R-NC) pressed the agency's head about a supposed lack of regulatory clarity regarding crypto. "The laws are clear, and it's written by the Supreme Court," SEC Chair Gary Gensler began to say before McHenry cut him off'turning to Gensler's Republican-appointed colleague, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, to ask about the agency's stance on crypto regulation again. "We've taken a legally imprecise view to mask the lack of regulatory clarity," Peirce responded, with Gensler just a few feet away. "It's always helpful to have Congress weigh in, but there certainly are some guidelines we could provide in this area that we have chosen not to." The exchange lasted minutes, but…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago (656+ words) Social news platform Digg is returning thanks to Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, with plans for crypto wallets and AI agents ahead. The upcoming revival of tech entrepreneur and investor Kevin Rose's social news site Digg has a crypto connection, as the social news platform is using embedded wallet platform Privy as an account authenticator for its revamped launch. Privy is currently utilized in other popular Web3 applications like NFT marketplace OpenSea and token launchpad Pump.fun, allowing users to create a crypto wallet with just an email. That abstracts away technical complexities like seed phrases that have been barriers to adoption. "Privy gives us all the modern and legacy authentication systems we'd like to support. Embedded wallets are a future-proof feature we'd like to have there from day one," said Rose in a post on Circle, a community feedback platform…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago (313+ words) Bitcoin Mining Is Now More Difficult Than Ever Before It's the metric that many Bitcoin investors don't know'or care'about. But they should, despite the biggest and oldest digital coin's price taking a hit earlier Monday. Bitcoin's mining difficulty has edged up again to touch a new high. Data from CoinWarz shows that the difficulty hit a new all-time high of 110.45 trillion on Sunday. That means it's harder than ever before to mine a new block. In the world of Bitcoin, mining operations scattered around the world'typically large warehouses full of specialized computers'race to solve mathematical problems. The quickest to solve the problems processes transactions, which make up blocks. The blocks are then added to Bitcoin's ledger of transactions, and miners are rewarded for their speed with newly minted digital coins. It's measured by something called hashing'which is basically just turning…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago (335+ words) Available to mint for free via Magic Eden, the Solana Game Pass fuels an initial season of gaming benefits, with more to come. Free Solana Game Pass NFT Offers Access and Crypto Rewards And more and more games launch on the chain, the Solana gaming ecosystem aims to get a boost from Thursday's launch of the Solana Game Pass'a free NFT that will provide early access to games and potential crypto rewards to players. Available to mint via NFT marketplace Magic Eden, the Solana Game Pass launches with four weeks' worth of promotions across 30 partnered games, comprising "Season 0" of what's planned to be a multi-season program. Players who hold the free NFT will gain early access to games, and can complete quests via Solana's partner platform GAM3S.GG to win raffle tickets towards a prize pool of over $10,000 worth of Solana…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago (170+ words) DeFi users were warned about scammers taking over abandoned project websites to trick users into signing malicious transactions. These attacks exploit familiar URLs to drain funds from unsuspecting ... News Explorer " Crypto Attackers Are Using Deserted DeFi Websites to Scam Users Generated by AI, curated by humans DeFi users were warned about scammers taking over abandoned project websites to trick users into signing malicious transactions. These attacks exploit familiar URLs to drain funds from unsuspecting users, with little recourse once the security breach is discovered. Trump Solana Meme Coin Team Pulls Liquidity Ahead of Massive Token Unlock South Korean Presidential Candidate Aims to Relax Crypto Regulations Colorado Takes Crypto Payments for Taxes"But Almost Nobody's Using It Bitcoin Miner Manufacturer Auradine Raises $153 Million Amid AI Expansion Coinbase Analyst Warns of Possible 'Crypto Winter' as Bitcoin Steadies Bitcoin's Bottom Could Be $65K, Says…...