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Image: Valve / Freepik / KotakuA skin for Counter-Strike’s ever-popular AK-47 just became the most expensive skin ever sold publicly for the game. This isn’t the first time a skin from Valve’s iconic tactical shooter has gone for a high price, but, at over a million dollars, this is easily the highest price one has netted yet.The Week In Games: Pokémon With Guns And More New ReleasesThe skin in question, as revealed on X (formerly Twitter) by journalist Jake Lucky, is a StatTrak Factory New AK-47 in Blue Gem pattern 661, and though we know it just sold for over…
Bitcoin (BTC) Miners With Attractive Power Contracts Are Potential M&A Targets, JPMorgan (JPM) Says
Mergers and acquisitions are heating up in the mining sector, after the halving. On Tuesday, shares of Core Scientific (CORZ) surged higher after cloud computing firm CoreWeave signed a 200 megawatts (MW) artificial intelligence deal with the bitcoin miner, and was also reported to have made an offer to buy the company in an all-cash deal. Meanwhile, another large bitcoin miner, Riot Platforms (RIOT), made a hostile offer to buy out peer Bitfarms (BITF) last month. Source link
Grand Theft Auto Online’s next big summer update arrives in June and will add new bounty hunting and police missions to Rockstar’s massively popular crime simulator. Also coming in the future update: New props and modes for the in-game content creator, and some more quality-of-life improvements, too. You Should Play Grand Theft Auto III Before GTA VI | Total RecallGTA Online might be over a decade old at this point, but it’s still making Rockstar and its parent company Take-Two Interactive boatloads of money every month. So the online crime MMO continues to receive updates, even as we get closer…
Alchemy Pay will integrate with Scroll, a Layer-2 scaling solution for Ethereum. This development will leverage zero-knowledge technology and compatibility with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which means that users can acquire and access USDT and USDC on Scroll through Alchemy Pay. The overall goal of this development is to integrate global clients and address challenges in decentralized finance (DeFi). With this development, users can purchase these assets using more than 50 fiat currencies and various payment options across 173 countries. USDT and USDC support via Scroll Scroll is a Layer-2 blockchain created by Ethereum developers. It is scalable, secure,…
Image: UbisoftWe’ve only seen one trailer for Assassin’s Creed Shadows, the next entry in Ubisoft’s open-world stealth-RPG series, but fans already think they know exactly where the game takes place. Beyond the era in which the game will be set, Sengoku-period Japan, a series of developer riddles has drip-fed information that seems to point to a specific area of Japan that will serve as the game’s location. Here’s what community sleuths have uncovered.6 Things To Know Before Starting Persona 5 TacticaThe hunt for Shadows’ location started only a couple of weeks ago, in mid-May. Right before the game’s official reveal,…
Blockchain-powered audits with community in mind: Hats Finance joins Cointelegraph Accelerator
Hats Finance, a community-focused audit platform that enables permissionless on-chain competitions and bug bounties has joined the Cointelegraph Accelerator program. Source link
There is something about returning to many of Destiny’s previous locations, including the very first areas of the original game, that makes The Final Shape reek of high school. A lot has changed about the series in the ten years since our ghost first found us just outside of Old Russia. Moreover, running down the same halls I once traipsed with the old gang feels like a high school reunion of sorts. When I was first here, I felt so small, but coming back to my old haunts all these years later as a bigger and better version of myself…
Crypto Exchange Binance Asks UK Competition Tribunal (CAT) to Throw Out Most of Collusion Case: Reuters
The exchanges delisted the token in 2019, in what BSV Claims argues was collusion in anticompetitive behavior. As a result token holders missed out on potential gains of more than 9 billion pounds, the firm said. It calculated the loss by looking at gains made by other cryptocurrencies since then, BitMEX Research said. Source link
Image: Warner Bros.Most games tell you to get good by giving you a “Game Over” screen. MultiVersus, the newly re-released Warner Bros. crossover fighter, has something else in mind. What if players who lose too much got dumped into a different online queue that stopped them from playing against other humans? That’s the solution MultiVersus seems to have gone with, and players aren’t thrilled about it.Rooster Teeth’s RWBY x Justice League Collab Puts Batman’s New Anime Abilities To Good UsePlayers have sporadically reported on the MultiVersus subreddit instances of getting paired up against bots after losing too many matches. But…
Revolutionizing Blockchain with Scalability, User Experience, and Decentralization Introduction The Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) is more than just another blockchain. It aims to create a decentralized internet that rivals traditional cloud services. Unlike conventional blockchain networks burdened with transaction fees, ICP offers a unique model where developers handle costs, enhancing user experience and accessibility. Background and Creation Dominic Williams and his team at the DFINITY Foundation conceived the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) in 2016. Williams, an accomplished entrepreneur and technologist, envisioned a decentralized internet to overcome the limitations of traditional cloud services and centralized control. He founded the nonprofit DFINITY…