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NFT Sales Bleed Out: The Unrelenting Seven-Week Descent Source: Getty ImagesChina Daily, a prominent English-language newspaper owned by the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party, has allocated a substantial 2.813 million Yuan ($390,000) to build its own metaverse and a non-fungible tokens (NFT) platform.China Daily has called for a public tender, seeking bidders to respond before October 17. The media outlet has called for a third-party contractor, both domestic and international blockchain firms, to develop the marketplace.The “qualified bidder” must possess the capacity to handle more than 10,000 transactions per second, China Daily said in a document. Selected contractors will have 3months time to bring the platform live.Further, once the form of the digital collectibles is confirmed, “a single digital collection must be developed and launched for online distribution and promotion within one month,” a translated document read.China Daily NFT marketplace aims to support multimedia and other types of collections, including pricing and bidding, limited-time features and multiple currency support for settlements to ensure a reliable and robust experience.Project Has Four Key AspectsAccording to the announcement, the project would include four key service components including1.    The construction of China Daily’s “Digital Collection Issuance Platform,”2.    Domestic and international creative development and promotion of NFT digital collectibles,3.    Fostering the development and promotion of AR and VR content and4.    The conceptualization, development, and promotion of creative spaces within the metaverse.The project stressed that it does not accept joint bids and companies must apply individually to be considered.The ambitious plan comes at a time when global interest in these nascent technologies is on the rise. A report from blockchain analytics firm Nansen predicted an $80 million market capitalization by 2025 and rapid growth of the NFT market.China Daily’s initiative highlights the relevance of the metaverse and NFTs in shaping the future of journalism and content.Brazilian Police Arrest ‘Gunpoint Crypto Thieves’ What happens if Bitcoin runs out?Ethereum prices might be stagnant at spot rates, weaving around the $1,540 and $1,560 zone, looking at technical charts. However, amid this period of consolidation and holders worrying about Ethereum’s prospects, Kaiko notes that the coin’s open interest has been gradually rising since September 2023. As mentioned above, the main feature of this category of tokens is that they act as real cryptocurrency wallets, capable of holding assets.

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The Canadian Bitcoin (BTC) mining company Hut 8 continues to accumulate self-mined BTC amid the ongoing merger deal with the industrial cryptocurrency miner, US Bitcoin (USBTC). When it comes to Validium, it combines the validity proofs with off-chain data storage to enhance scalability. Validium ensures that the validity proofs are published on the base chain and the data is stored off-chain. Panel Rejects Proposal to Allow Election-Related TradingBitcoin application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) manufacturer Bitmain has paused employee salary payments for September and beyond.According to recent local news reports, citing multiple Bitmain employees familiar with the matter, the firm has allegedly cut all “bonuses and incentives” for its staff and still has not paid remuneration due since last month. In addition, employees face a 50% cut to their base salary. A message allegedly from Bitmain reads:“For the month of September, the company has yet to achieve a net positive cash flow, especially in the orders of [new] ASICs. The Executive Management Team therefore decided that salaries for the month of September will be paused, to be reviewed after October 7 after the holiday.”Founded in Beijing, China in 2013, Bitmain is one of the world’s largest Bitcoin (BTC) mining ASIC manufacturers, with an estimated 70% market share during its peak. The firm’s Antminer ASIC series currently leads the industry in terms of hash rate computations for mining Bitcoin.In August, Bitcoin miner Hive announced the purchase of 2,000 Bitmain S19 XP ASIC miners for immediate deployment in its rigs. The S19XP ASIC miners have a listed price of $4,653 on Bitmain. Hive said that after its integrations, the firm’s mining rigs will generate a combined $80 per megawatt hour in revenue, including both old and non-Bitmain models.In 2021, Jihan Wu, co-founder of Bitmain, announced the settlement of a year-long ownership dispute with co-founder Micree Zhan. Under the agreement, Wu would resign as chairman and CEO of Bitmain and sell his ownership stake to Zhan for $600 million. At the time, Bitmain planned for an initial public offering at a $5-billion valuation by late2022. Such plans are believed to have been shelved due to the ongoing bear market.Magazine: 3AC fugitives in disarray as OPNX faces new peril It seems this backdrop is the context through which Project Spartacus attempts to take a foothold in the bitcoin ecosystem. The project leverages the Ordinals protocol, a metaprotocol for bitcoin that lets anyone add arbitrary data to the original cryptocurrency's blokchain. Given the properties of bitcoin and its decentralized network of nodes, once data is added to its blockchain it can never be removed or altered.

While the debut of ether futures ETFs in the US was fairly uneventful on day one, one analyst predicted the launches could spur further adoption of the digital asset. iFinex did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Block. How do I get Dogecoin in my wallet?Financial Sector Implications in Hong Kong Jones also delved into his views on U.S. stocks during his recent CNBC appearance. Labeling the present era as an especially challenging time for equity investors in the U.S., Jones pointed to the combination of geopolitical uncertainty and the U.S.'s problematic fiscal situation as main deterrents.

Financial services  When the whole crypto industry stood frozen in the long crypto winter that followed the abrupt downfall of the then-prominent crypto exchange FTX, Zhao came forward with the IRI proposal, intending to raise at least $1 billion from industry giants to fund promising startups. In November 2022, Zhao shared a Twitter thread announcing Binance’s IRI project to help strong projects in liquidity crisis. Several Binance.US Trading Pairs Get the Axe Amid SEC Scrutiny“This is probably the most exciting discovery in the history of bitcoin script,” said Super Testnet, a pseudonymous software developer who reviewed the paper. Judge Kaplan is likely to rein in the defense if he believes their questioning is not making meaningful points or if it wastes the jury's time.


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