It's Internet Day! Well, it is not really. People haven't come up with a particular date for this holiday, and do you know why? Because even now, the internet is decentralised - we're talking about content and its consumers. People watch different videos on YouTube, read various media and use other platforms. The trend towards decentralisation is there, you know?
Digest is here. Let's go!
News from the world of NFT showbiz. There are 8,888 NFTs on Ethereum. There is such a collection of Pudgy Penguins. Recently this entire collection was bought by Netz Capital for 750 ETH, about $2.5m.
"We’re ready to announce the worst kept secret in Web3. Our next chapter has begun: new team, new roadmap, new heights." - the penguins hiccuped. Too bad they haven't said anything about any Penguin token airdrop yet :(
Like if you would like to buy some to get a possible airdrop.
The European Parliament has been eyeing crypto for a long time and has voted to introduce regulatory measures that could ban anonymous transactions.
The gist of the regulation is to oblige exchanges to collect personal information about individuals making transfers of more than €1,000 using cryptocurrency wallets such as MetaMask, Ledger and Trezor.
Storybook Brawl is a free-to-play card game with automated battles launched on the Steam online gaming platform in mid-2021.
As much as FTX US itself, the developer studio recently bought it to shove NFT and blockchain in there to popularise crypto among gamers. However, gamers' reaction to this was immediately evident in the comments on Steam: "Go home and stay away".
Ethereum miners brought in a total of $1.29 billion in March in revenue.
Revenues increased month-over-month by 7.2%. They had been on a declining trajectory since November of 2021, when the revenue total was $2.07 billion.
The metaverse economy could be worth up to $13 trillion by 2030, global investment bank Citi has said.
Total metaverse users could also reach around five billion, the New York-based multinational said in its Thursday "Metaverse and Money" report.
But it will take time, Citi added, with the content streaming environment of the metaverse likely needing a "computational efficiency improvement of over 1,000x today's levels."
Degen — is the name of a person who understands DeFi very well. Yes, crypto is toxic.
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