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A significant Bitcoin transaction was recorded on Sept. 2 when an investor purchased 1,000 BTC for $57.3 million. This whale purchase marks the second time in four days that 1,000 Bitcoin (BTC) were acquired on Binance, bringing the total accumulation to 2,000 BTC. The investor currently holds 8,559 BTC, valued at $490 million. The increase in Bitcoin holdings coincides with Bitcoin’s price dropping by nearly 8% over the past week as the markets enter September. Bitcoin briefly touched $61,000 on August 29 before slumping and almost touching $57,000 on Sept. 1. Historically, Bitcoin has experienced losses in six out of the…
Layer-2 monthly active users and daily transaction counts have both doubled since March 2024, according to Token Terminal.
Libre, a startup focused on tokenizing financial assets in partnership with Nomura’s Laser Digital, Brevan Howard’s WebN group and private markets giant Hamilton Lane, is adding several digitized funds to the NEAR blockchain, enabling tokenized real-world assets (RWA) to be transferred across multiple blockchains.
An investigation has begun against Telegram in South Korea on similar charges brought against the messenger in France. Yonhap News Agency, citing the police, reported that the platform is accused of aiding and abetting sexual crimes. The head of the South Korean National Police Investigation Agency, Woo Jong-soo, said that Telegram is not providing the data necessary for the investigation, including account information. Yonhap notes that this is the first investigation against Telegram in South Korea. It concerns eight bots that generate fake materials with sexual content and channels that distribute these images. From Aug. 26 to 29, the police…
A great science fiction movie might scare you. It might inspire you. It might speculate about the nature of the human race, and what lies beyond our limited knowledge of the universe around us. It might propose an alternate past or a potential future. It might introduce you to an extraterrestrial or a brand-new…Read more…
In June, Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service dropped charges against Binance executives Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla.
Photo: WWE/Getty Images (Getty Images)Arguably the top guy in the company, Cody Rhodes continues to perform at a high level. Since defeating Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 40 to win the biggest prize in all of wrestling, the WWE Championship, Rhodes finds himself as a mainstay at the top of the card. Over the summer, “The American Nightmare” continuously had to fend off members of the Bloodline, a faction he’d been battling for over a year. At SummerSlam, Rhodes overcame the group thanks to his former rival, as Roman Reigns came out to help the founding AEW member by spearing and…
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I was staring at a wall. It was an early mission in Ubisoft’s latest behemothic RPG, Star Wars Outlaws, in which I was charged with infiltrating an Empire base to recover some information from a computer, and this wall really caught my attention.Screenshot: Ubisoft / KotakuIt was a perfect wall. It absolutely captured that late-70s sci-fi aesthetic of dark gray cladding broken up by utilitarian-gray panels covered in dull blinking lights, and I stopped to think about how much work must have gone into that wall. Looking elsewhere on the screen, I was then overwhelmed. This wall was the most…
A Nigerian high court heard arguments for and against the release of an imprisoned Binance employee days after CEO Richard Teng encouraged U.S. intervention. The trial of Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan resumed in Abuja on Sept. 2 as Nigerian prosecutors contested his bail request and downplayed his health conditions. Individuals present at the hearing told crypto.news that Gambaryan appeared “in visible pain and very distressed.” The Binance staff member, who was previously allowed a wheelchair, was reportedly denied the mobility aid this time and forced to enter court on crutches. Gambaryan’s lawyers filed a bail motion, asking the judge to…
