In the year 2000, Blizzard Entertainment released Diablo II. Within just three weeks, it sold over a million copies, setting a new record for computer game sales. It boasted an addictive single-player experience, and its online gameplay was also engaging, allowing players to adventure in groups and...
WASHINGTON — The price of bitcoin surged to over $109,000 early Monday, just hours ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, as a pumped up cryptocurrency industry bets he’ll take action son after returning to the White House. Once a skeptic who said a few years ago that bitcoin...
NEW YORK (AP) — Bitcoin has topped the $100,000 mark as a massive rally in the world's most popular cryptocurrency sparked by the election of Donald Trump rolls on. The milestone comes just hours after the President-elect signaled a lighter regulatory approach to the crypto industry when he...
NEW YORK — Sometime in the next few days or even hours, the "miners" who chisel bitcoins out of complex mathematics are going to take a 50% pay cut — effectively slicing new production of the world's largest cryptocurrency in half. That could have a lot of implications, from the price...
Homegrown Smart Citi Teknologi (SCT), which specializes in the development and integration of technologies, in partnership with Hong Kong technology companies announced three projects aimed at advancing digitalization in the Philippines through blockchain technology. PHILIPPINE DIGITALIZATION --...
HOMEFRONT column by Victor B. Consunji , Founder and CEO of Victor Consunji Development Corporation By now everybody has heard of cryptocurrencies, NFTs and the blockchain. With Bitcoin trading above two million pesos, those who bought Bitcoin 10 years ago are multi-billionaires. From many...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Last September, El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender; two months later, just last Friday, their president, Nayib Bukele, shocked the world once again with the announcement of Bitcoin City –– a digital investor’s...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Brace yourselves. The next phase of the digital revolution has just kicked into hyperdrive; the battle to decentralize money and power through technology has entered its next crucial phase and I can’t think of a more exciting time to be alive. I’m talking about...
NEW YORK (AFP) - Bitcoin moved closer to $50,000 for the first time on Tuesday, while the dollar declined as equity traders monitored anticipated US fiscal stimulus and Covid-19 vaccine developments. Asia's main stock indices closed stronger, with Tokyo hitting a 30-year high, while the Dow Jones...
Vista Land and Lifescapes Inc. Founder and Chairman Manuel B. Villar, who is the only Filipino to make in to the latest Forbes global billionaires list, yesterday issued another warning to the public against the fraudulent use of his name and photos for a cryptocurrency scam. “It has come to...
