[Fortune] Robert first came across Voyager Digital in March 2020. Like countless others, he decided to give the cryptocurrency broker a try. The platform was easy to navigate. It offered him an up to 9% annual percentage yield (APY)—much higher than a traditional savings account. It claimed to be FDIC (Federal […]
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[CNBC, Getty Images] Economists and bankers tell CNBC they aren’t worried about the crypto sell-off hurting the broader U.S. economy. “People don’t really use crypto as collateral for real-world debts. Without that, this is just a lot of paper losses. So this is low on the list of issues for […]
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[NBC NEWS, Getty Images] Congressional child nutrition waivers that allowed for free meals in school and other food assistance measures are expiring June 30. Advocates say it couldn’t come at a worse time. A federal waiver that made school breakfasts and lunches free to students regardless of their family’s income […]
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[Business Insider] Seth Green has paid 165 Ether ($260,000) for the return of a Bored Ape NFT stolen last month. The actor told BuzzFeed News that the ape “is home,” with records showing the purchase. The NFT, “Bored Ape NFT #8398,” is set to feature in Green’s new show called […]
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[Bloomberg] The men are funding a Bitcoin-focused education program for residents at the rapper’s childhood home. Hip-hop mogul Jay-Z and Block CEO Jack Dorsey are teaming up to take Bitcoin and financial education to the rapper’s childhood home. Dorsey announced the launch of Bitcoin Academy on Thursday. The financial education program will be free […]
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[The Verge, eBay] Buy / sell trading cards as quickly as NFTs Consider dusting off your attic shoeboxes filled with baseball cards; eBay might have a new home for some of them soon. The pioneering online marketplace site built a new 31,000-square-foot facility, called the eBay Vault, which is open now to […]
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[Yahoo! Finance, Kotaku] The GameStop in the Gateway Mall in Lincoln, Nebraska is one of the busiest around, at least according to the person who used to run it. But over the weekend it was closed after four employees decided to walk out and never return over what he says are bad […]
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[GQ, Señor Salme] It’s already the world’s most coveted NFT collection, but the Bored Ape Yacht Club is becoming something else: highly lucrative I.P. With buyers racing to make their apes the stars of movies and books and albums and shows, GQ goes inside the quest to cash in on […]
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[Bloomberg] Paris (AP) — A man seemingly disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair threw a piece of cake at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum and shouted at people to think of planet Earth. The Paris prosecutor’s office said Monday that the 36-year-old man […]
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[NBC NEWS] A few days before Christmas last year, Philip Martin sat in front of his computer to check his cryptocurrency balance. It was the beginning of what would become, for him, an ongoing nightmare. Martin told NBC News he thought he was typing the web address for his cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, […]
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