13 posts tagged ‘Crypto’
Robinhood, already a ‘comeback’ stock, has even more aggressive plans for 2025
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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has a lot to celebrate this holiday season. After a bumpy few years following Robinhood’s 2021 IPO — a period during which shares of the commission-free trading app plummeted by more than 90% after it abruptly restricted trading in some meme stocks — the 12-year-old company was just declared Yahoo Finance’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Banana and duct-tape sold again, this time for $6.2 million
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GET BOING BOING AD-FREE A banana duct-taped to a wall, entitled "Comedian," has sold for 6.2 million dollars in a Sotheby's auction in New York City. The piece, one of a set three, is just a banana duct-taped to a wall. — Read the rest The post Banana and duct-tape sold again, this time for $6.2 million appeared first on Boing Boing.
Google pulls Binance, other global crypto apps from India store
Google pulled many crypto exchanges, including Binance and Kraken, from its Play Store in India on Saturday in what is the latest blow to the world’s second largest internet market’s already dwindling web3 dream. The ban comes two weeks after these global crypto exchanges were flagged for operating “illegally” in the South Asian market. Financial […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
India to block crypto exchanges Binance, Kraken websites
Financial Intelligence Unit, an Indian government agency which scrutinizes financial transactions, said Thursday nine global crypto exchanges — including Binance, Kraken, Kucoin and Mexc — are operating “illegally” in the country without complying with the local anti-money laundering act and asked the IT Ministry to block their websites. FIU said it has issued show cause […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Deadmau5-founded startup Korus taps into AI for music creation
Pixelynx, an Animoca Brands-owned metaverse company co-founded by DJ and producer Deadmau5, announced today its newest suite of tools for its flagship product Korus, an AI-powered music creation platform where you can remix content using AI and licensed stem files made by artists and music labels, then mint music and earn revenue. Starting today, Korus […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Bitcoin ATM company Coin Cloud got hacked. Even its new owners don’t know how.
In November, the cybersecurity collective vx-underground wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that unknown hackers were claiming to have breached Coin Cloud, a bankrupt Bitcoin ATM company. According to vx-underground, the hackers claimed to have stolen 70,000 pictures of customers taken from cameras embedded in the ATMs, as well as the personal data of 300,000 customers, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
China’s tech giants dip their toes into web3, but prospects are limited so far
During the Staking Summit in Istanbul, a conference attended by hundreds of individuals involved in the staking practice of the crypto ecosystem, two exhibition booths stood out. They belonged to Tencent and Huawei. Amidst a backdrop dominated by twenty-somethings clad in trendy company hoodies and giving out well-designed merchandise, the two Chinese tech giants appeared […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Worldcoin token’s value drops nearly 10% after Sam Altman removed as OpenAI CEO
Sam Altman, the now former CEO of OpenAI, has departed his role and is leaving its board, according to a company post on Friday. But questions about his role at other entities like Worldcoin, the crypto project he co-founded, remain up in the air as its token falls on the news. Worldcoin’s token, WLD, fell […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.