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Digital assets still make a lot of sense, says Codex co-founder
Co-founder and chief evangelist officer for Codex, Alex Gordon-Brander, spoke to Cointelegraph about his Bitcoin story, the real-world use cases for crypto, and the economic downturn during a World Economic Forum interview in Davos, Switzerland. Standing curbside in front of Davos’ “Crypto House” at dusk, where Gordon-Brander had just finished demonstrating Codex’s capabilities during a crypto panel, the co-founder shared an upbeat outlook on crypto. A long-serving crypto enthusiast and trad-fi veteran, Gordon-Brander told Cointelegraph he was exploring digital and energy-backed currencies prior to discovering Bitcoin (BTC). He researched a “distributed currency based on renewable energy credits and governments,” but he concedes it was “super complicated.” Around the time, a friend s...
Exotic Markets Interview: Generating yield by selling optionality
It has been a turbulent time in the cryptocurrency markets recently. With the macro climate worsening to the point that we have more bearish sentiment than at any time since the Great Financial Crisis, coupled with the now-infamous UST debacle that saw a stablecoin worth $18 billion vanish into thin air, investors are fighting an intensely risk-off environment. It is precisely this environment that highlights how vital diversification and portfolio allocation is. This is part of the thesis behind Exotic Markets, who we interviewed last week following the launch of a Dual Currency Note (DCN) on the Solana network. In short, this product allows investors to generate yield by selling upside. Investors receive upside in their preferred currency, while avoiding the need for wrapped ...
Revoland Interview: What exactly does blockchain gaming offer compared to conventional gaming?
Blockchain gaming is quite an exciting space, with new innovations cropping up all the time. With the meteoric rise of both e-gaming and cryptocurrency in recent years, and the various potential use cases that incorporating blockchain into gaming could offer, it makes sense that we are seeing an exciting sector pop up which merges these two dynamic industries. Revoland is one such firm operating in this space. As the first blockchain-based multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game, it recently raised $10.6 million during seed and pre-sale rounds. The project calls on gamers to team up with colleagues, family, and friends to compete with other players for rewards in $LAND, a native token of the platform. The title was developed by Chain X Game (CXG): a London-based metaverse g...
Go Deep With EDM.com: Wax Motif Talks Musical Origins, Making Fake IDs, DJ Soccer League & More
With an increasingly boundless list of accolades and the talent and work ethic to back it up, Wax Motif is carving his own path in the music world. The celebrated DJ and dance music producer released his stunning, 17-track debut album House of Wax in early 2022 via his own Divided Souls imprint. He’s now hot off the heels of an electrifying performance at EDC Las Vegas amid a prolific 2022 that has seen him release one of the year’s biggest house tracks, “On The Low,” a collaboration with longstoryshort that samples Mario Winans’ 2004 R&B hit “I Don’t Wanna Know.” But before he became the force he is today, Motif came from humble beginnings, discovering raves at the age of 16 and even making fake IDs at one point. And ...
United Nations agency boss sees a great deal of potential in blockchain
The agency head in charge of the United Nations International Computing Center (UNICC) expressed a positive outlook on crypto at the World Economic Forum in Davos Bank of America head claims they are not missing out on cryptocurrencies during the Davos Forum In an interview with CoinTelegraph, Sameer Chauhan, a former mainstream finance executive and the current head of the United Nations International Computing Center since 2018, expressed a pro-crypto view. Explaining how it is just like any other technology, Chauhan claimed that blockchain could be used to bear either positive or negative outcomes. The use of crypto for good presents’ massive opportunities’ The UNICC boss noted how crypto could be used to bridge the digital divide already present as well as promote transparency if well ...
Danny Boyle Brings Anarchy to TV
London in the late 1970s was trash. Literally. Every street was lined with bags of refuse. Flies buzzed around moldy garbage that often sat for weeks at a time. The haulers were on strike. Prime Minister James Callaghan ignored the trade unions’ demands for higher pay. When pressed by the media over the widespread strikes, Callaghan remarked, “I don’t think that other people in the world would share the view that there is mounting chaos.” What a dolt. Meanwhile, around the city, in the abandoned warehouses and the seedy pubs, a noise was amplifying. At first it sounded like a simple eclectic hum. A single frequency crawling out into the world, learning to feed itself. And it did. This noise evolved into something we call a C major chord. Growing, the noise slithered its way to an A minor c...
The travel that changed me: Lottie Gross
From the biggest myth in travel writing to the dream destination she hasn’t yet seen, author Lottie Gross tells us about the travel that changed her Lottie Gross is a busy woman. A travel writer, author, public speaker and founder of popular newsletter Talking Travel Writing, she has a thoroughly daunting schedule – but this is hardly new. Before she even graduated, Lottie had written for National Geographic Traveller, produced a short film about the all-female village of Umoja in Kenya, and secured a coveted job at Rough Guides travel publisher. Lottie Gross Lottie Gross, author of Dog-Friendly Weekends Lottie has since written for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Independent and the i among others. She has travelled to less-trodden countries like Ethiopia and Albania, and ...
Interview: Aave CEO on launch decentralised social network platform, Lens Protocol
Aave Companies has today announced the launch of an open-source tech stack for the building of social networking applications. Named the Lens Protocol, it will reside on the Polygon blockchain and allow developers to build social media apps, marketplaces, recommendation algorithms, and more. Contained within the decentralised ecosystem that we call Web3, it will leverage NFT technology to allow users to fully own their data, unlocking new ways for creators to monitise their digital content and relationships with followers. Amid all the controversy around freedom of speech and Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, it’s a poignant time to be launching this new kind of social media endevour, and turn the keys of censorship over to the public. To gain more of an insight, Coi...
Market strategist claims the crypto crash might be ‘good’ for the sector in the long term
The unprecedented fall of Terra (LUNA) and the algorithmic stable coin UST sent shockwaves across the whole crypto market The crash has given more voice to calls for regulation and investor protection The past few weeks have been turbulent for investors in the crypto space, with market movements creating margins never seen before. Investors have had to cut losses, not to mention being caught in fixes, unable to predict how the cryptocurrencies they track might perform upon trading. The heavy downturn has opened up discussions on the utility and market performance among industry experts. Bitcoin may hit a bottom of $12,000 during this current cycle In an interview with Stanberry Research, Gareth Soloway, the President of InTheMoneyStocks.com, dismissed the popular belief that Bitcoin f...
Interview: Computecoin raises $6.2M to power Web3 infrastructure
ComputeCoin have annouced that the company has secured $6.2 million in strategic funds, led by Aves Lair. The network provides decentralised infrastructure for Web3. This is interesting because despite decentralisation being one of the core aspects of Web3, the reality is that a lot of Web3 applications are still deployed on Web 2.0 infrastructure. This creates central points of failure, as well as being converse to one of the mantras of Web3. AWS is an example of one such company that drives a huge amount of the Web3 network. With ComputeCoin, who only came together in 2018, aiming to “make global, distributed computing and storage power widely available for all Web3 builders to easily use”, we sat down with Dr Max Li, the Co-Founder and CEO, to get some answers to questions w...
Who Wants to Be Sports Entertained?
It’s not every day you get to chat with the Sports Entertainer of the Week. When Chris Jericho joined SPIN for a video chat (we’re over using the “Z” word) on a Sunday, he spent the previous week appearing on two of All Elite Wrestling’s weekly shows, Dynamite (where he threw a fireball at a guy’s head) and Rampage (where he gave himself the aforementioned award for doing it), as well as playing shows with his band Fozzy in Louisiana and Texas, with a gig in Austin a few hours away. Jericho’s current gimmick in AEW — he and his stable of toadies, the Jericho Appreciation Society, declare themselves “sports entertainers” rather than pro wrestlers — trolls AEW fans by invoking Jericho’s former employer, WWE, which strenuously avoids the term “wrestling.” It’s the kind of self-aware shtick th...
Holland Speaks Out After Suffering Homophobic Attack in Seoul: ‘I Want People to Recognize the Pain & the Courage’
To an online following of millions of fans, Holland is the slender, soft-spoken singer-songwriter whose experiences of growing up gay in South Korea have created a musical safe space as rare visibility for LGBTQ people in the K-pop scene. But to one man in Seoul, his existence ignited a homophobic hatred that elicited an attack in one of Seoul’s most foreigner-friendly areas. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Late on May 5 local time, Holland shared through Instagram and Twitter that a stranger physically attacked him and called him “a dirty gay” in Seoul’s Itaewon area, primarily known for having a large foreigner population and a handful of gay bars. Writing, “this is obviously a hate crime,” Holland, who is not fluent in English, refle...
