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MLB Team Washington Nationals Partners With Terra Blockchain Community, Ballpark Plans to Accept UST

On February 9, the American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C., the Washington Nationals, announced the team has partnered with Terra, the open-source blockchain platform and decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). The Washington Nationals detail that the team is a “leading innovator” and is “consistently introducing new technologies to enhance the fan experience.” Washington Nationals Ink Long-Term Deal With Terra Major League Baseball (MLB) team the Washington Nationals has partnered with the blockchain platform and DAO Terra, according to an announcement published by the team on Wednesday. The deal with Terra follows a slew of sports-related deals with crypto firms, but the MLB team will be the first to partner with an open-source blockchain project. In addition to the partnership, the algorithmic stablecoin UST that’s issued on the Terra blockchain will be “accepted as a payment method at Nationals Park as early as next season.” “The Nationals continue t...
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India’s finance minister waiting for consultations to decide whether to ban or regulate crypto

The country's finance minister admitted to not having enough information to make a fateful call. Yet another statement by a top Indian official suggests that regulatory uncertainty around the status of digital assets in the country will persist in the near term. Responding to the general discussion of the 2022–23 Union Budget at Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of India’s bicameral parliament, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated that she was not going to “legalize or ban” cryptocurrency at this moment. The minister added that “Banning or not banning will come subsequently,” when the ministry reviews input from consultations. Sitharaman also mentioned that the state has “the sovereign right to tax” income that citizens derive from cryptocurrency transactions. Furthermore, the government’s capacity to levy crypto taxes is separate from the issue of legally recognizing the asset class. This argument echoes the statement made earlier in the week by the head of India’s tax aut...
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Technical Analysis: IOTX Captures the Biggest Gains, as Crypto Markets Fall on Friday

IOTX was Friday’s big gainer, as crypto markets were lower across the board to end the week. Overall, the global cryptocurrency market cap is down close to 4% in today’s session. Biggest gainers Following a strong start to the week, which saw the likes of shiba inu (SHIB), and leo token (LEO) both rally by over 50%, cryptocurrency prices fell as we headed into the weekend. Although the majority of the top 100 markets were in the red, there were a few notable exceptions to this. IOTX/USD, which was trading at a low of $0.1029 on Thursday, climbed to an intraday high of $0.1205 earlier today. Today’s move came after two consecutive sessions of declines, which took prices to support of $0.1234, where bulls seemed to have bought the dip. As a result of the rally from support, the 10-day (red) 25-day (blue) moving averages extended their recent upward cross, which was the first time such a crossover happened since early November. Price strength also fell from its highest point since...
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Intel to enter crypto space with blockchain accelerator shipping later this year

For now, it appears its efforts are focused on improving GPUs for crypto mining. On Friday, Raja M. Koduri, senior vice president of accelerated computing systems and graphics group at Intel, declared their intent to contribute to the development of blockchain technologies, beginning with the introduction of energy-efficient crypto mining accelerators that will be released this year. Previously, Intel had announced it would unveil the next generation of Application-Specific Integrated Circuit mining machines at the next International Solid-State Circuits Conference later this month. The company would also form a new International Solid-State Circuits Conference within Koduri's division. It would be responsible for building custom silicon platforms for optimizing blockchain mining performance and the design of supercomputers. In addition, the firm believes that its circuit innovations will deliver a blockchain accelerator that has over 1000 times better performance per watt, or...
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Crypto Stories: Gavin Wood discusses why he decided to code Ethereum

The latest episode of Cointelegraph's YouTube series tells the story of Gavin Wood, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Polkadot and Kusama networks. Among the original founding fathers of Ethereum ( ETH ) is Gavin Wood, who joined a group led by Vitalik Buterin that set out to build Bitcoin's competition. Wood is the computer scientist who wrote the first smart contracts for the Ethereum blockchain back in 2014. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Wood admitted that at the time, he just needed a job.   A self-described "technologist at heart," he knew coding was his calling and made the "obvious" switch from building LEGO bricks to writing blocks of code from an early age. He first discovered Bitcoin via The Silk Road, the online black market that ran from 2011 to 2013. The cryptocurrency originally "took his fancy" for being "a purely algorithmic mechanism for human cooperation and interaction" that, according to Wood, ...
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13 Years Ago Today, Satoshi Nakamoto Published the First Forum Post Introducing Bitcoin

13 years ago today, the creator of the Bitcoin network, Satoshi Nakamoto published the inventor’s first forum post on the P2P Foundation website. The forum post called “Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency” introduced the e-cash system to the members of the advocacy and research forum focused on peer-to-peer dynamics in society. The First of 3 February 2009 Forum Posts Introducing Bitcoin There was three occasions in February 2009 when Satoshi Nakamoto introduced the inventor’s Bitcoin white paper and open source codebase to the P2P Foundation forum members. The occasion on February 11, 2009, was the first time the creator of Bitcoin publicly announced the project using the P2P Foundation forum. Prior to these instances during the month of February, Nakamoto leveraged the email system tethered to the cryptography mailing list hosted on metzdowd.com . The introductory forum post is quite fascinating, and the inventor also leaves a link to the software’s first version ...
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Coinbase partners with OneRiver to roll out new institutional platform

The separately managed account will be exclusively available for Coinbase Prime users and specifically targets the institutional investor. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has penned a partnership agreement with One River Digital Assessment Management to provide institutional-grade wealth managers with an exclusive platform to acquire digital asset investments and engage in related activities. Detailed in an official blog post, Coinbase claimed that the creation of the ONE Digital SMA will grant exposure to “a suite of digital investment strategies and indexes in an easy-to-use separately managed account platform." The function will be exclusively accessible to Coinbase Prime users, a premium subscription service offering enhanced trading capabilities, and a bespoke custody model to protect assets tailored for the niche requirements of high net-worth individuals.  In the announcement, Coinbase summarized the service by saying: “ONE Digital SMA is a solution for wealth manage...
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