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Infura Mistakenly Leaves Venezuelan Users Without Metamask Support

Infura, the service provider of Metamask, one of the most used smart contracts-based wallets, blocked the access of Venezuelans to the Ethereum blockchain. Reports about this happening circulated on social media, attributing it to the existence of sanctions that the infrastructure provider might have applied to Venezuela. However, Infura later stated this was the result […]

Politicians keep pointing to crypto scams as a major reason to ban/oppose crypto. Crypto scammers around the world cost users a total of $14 billion. While just Americans alone lost $29.8 Billion to phone scams. So what gives? Is this blind hate or do these counter-points hold up.

Came across these numbers while digging around as part of another conversation. Both of the following articles are taken from the same site (CNBC) for consistency's sake Scammers around the world took home a record $14 billion in cryptocurrency in 2021 Americans lost $29.8 billion to phone scams alone over the past year So a…
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Ultimate irony? Feds using Russia as an excuse to attack crypto just when it was used to help Ukrainians fend off Russia.

If anything it is dark comedy. Don't expect to laugh. more than 50 million dollars donated to Ukraine using crypto and what is Fed's reaction? Lets regulate the fuck out of it before Russia use it to avoid sanctions. I mean it is like your weight lifting neighbor helping you push your car out of…
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GAIMIN Poised for Significant Growth and Technology Advancement in 2022

March 6th sees GAIMIN enter its fifth and most exciting year: GAIMIN’s distributed data processing application which rewards users for participation in the network will be launched in April 2022. GAIMIN’s Minecraft plugin is delivering blockchain and NFT functionality to the Minecraft Metaverse. GAIMIN’s SDK for the Unreal/EPIC platform extends blockchain and NFTs to games […]

Korean blockchain experts seek the government's help for digital asset market

The Korea Digital Asset Industry Committee meeting discussed crypto tax, DeFi markets, nonfungible tokens and metaverse during their meeting on Thursday.

Google Trends data reveals that no one cared about metaverse or NFTs in 2022

Search interest for main keywords “metaverse” and “NFT” continues to drop since the start of the year.

Recent Crypto Rally Had Nothing to do With Sanctions on Russia

This week Bitcoin (BTC) price rallied all the way to $44,000 levels amid reports that the recent U.S. sanctions on Russia were the reason for that. However, new data shows that talks of Russians are evading sanctions via crypto don’t seem to be true. As per data from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, the ruble-denominated crypto…
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How crypto execs react to economic sanctions against Russia?

Most companies in the United States and other Western nations are no longer allowed to conduct business or exchange money with Russian banks.

A Rude Awakening – The Daily Gwei #451

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