Author: Donald Munn

The auction for the resale of Jack Dorsey’s NFT has failed dramatically. The highest bid price was 99.5% lower than the purchase price. Sale of the NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet fails Jack Dorsey’s first tweet, the first ever in twitter history A few days ago, the CEO of Bridge Oracle, Sina Estavi, decided to auction the NFT of the first tweet ever published.  Check out my NFT listing on OpenSea! https://t.co/cnv5rtAEBQ via @opensea — Estavi (@sinaEstavi) April 6, 2022 This is the legendary tweet from 21 March 2006 when the famous co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, wrote that…

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C-VERSO, the well-known gallery in Lugano, has announced Edo Bertoglio’s new NFT project. The story of Edo Bertoglio After graduating in directing and editing from the Conservatoire Libre du Cinema Francais in Paris, Bertoglio moved first to London and then in 1976 to New York, where he stayed for fourteen years.  During that period he worked as a photographer with Andy Warhol‘s Interview magazine and decided to document the artistic and musical lives of the characters of the New York Downtown scene of the 1970s and 1980s, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Deborah Harry and John Lurie.  In the same years, he…

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Rabarama’s famous Trans-Calar statue enters the Metaverse thanks to startups The Token and Seven Art. The digitized artwork is broken down into 2,085 NFTs while the physical one is placed in an area at The Token headquarters in Brescia. An art gallery will be built in the Somnium Metaverse where the digitized statue will be placed.  The Trans-Calar statue of Rabarama in 2,085 NFTs Trans-Calare, the famous statue of Rabarama, enters Somnium’s metaverse thanks to a digital decomposition of 2,085 NFT NFT-mania is also arriving in northern Italy thanks to the startups The Token and Seven Art, which have digitized…

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American Idol, the popular American television singing competition series, is celebrating its 20th season by launching a series of NFT trading cards. The new Non-Fungible Tokens are powered by Theta Network. American Idol launches a series of NFT trading cards on Theta Network American Idol’s new NFT collection for its 20th season The American TV talent show, American Idol cannot resist the allure of Non-Fungible Tokens and, to celebrate its 20th season, has announced that it is launching a series of NFT trading cards powered by Theta Network.  .@AmericanIdol x @ThetaDrop Coming next Friday.https://t.co/JzEdmKOZ4W — ThetaDrop (@ThetaDrop) April 14, 2022…

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Even after the announcement of the inflation rate standing at 8.5%, Bitcoin and the major cryptocurrencies are marking a rise. Worst Tuesday since 1981. Bitcoin continues to rise even after inflation announcement Bitcoin and major cryptocurrencies resist inflation data On Tuesday, 12 April 2022, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) delivered its worst decline since 1981.  The inflation index stands at 8.5% and is now in the double digits, resulting in an apparent correlation of events.  Looking at the previous day’s data there has certainly been a jump in all the major cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (+1.1% to $40,149.63), Ethereum (+1.6% to…

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More than 70% of Wikipedia editors at the Wikimedia Foundation have voted to stop accepting cryptocurrency donations. One of the main reasons is to protect the environment, which is threatened by mining.  Wikipedia stops accepting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency donations With 232 against 94 votes, the verdict of the Request for Comment (or RfC), in which members of the Wikipedia community contributed following a proposal by the Wikimedia Foundation, was to stop accepting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency donations. The RfC lasted from 10 January 2022 to 12 April 2022 and saw just under 400 users take part in the vote. Among the…

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There is no end to the rumours surrounding the highly anticipated launch of the new Merge update that will move ETH towards a cheaper sustainable and scalable PoS system instead of the current energy-intensive PoW. The Merge update will not meet the June date While a developer of the highly-anticipated new update had said in the past few days that the end date of late June for its release would be respected, now a developer on Twitter has stated that it is highly unlikely that the end of June will be the date of Merge‘s release. It won't be June,…

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Ripple scores an important point in its favour in the long lawsuit brought by the SEC Ripple beats the SEC in never-ending lawsuit  Ripple, the developer of the XRP blockchain, has reportedly secured a major victory in its long-running lawsuit with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in recent days. The lawsuit was filed by the SEC against developer Ripple Lab a year and a half ago for issuing unregistered securities worth $1.3 billion. The lawsuit has been on and off all this time and may be coming to an end, as the CEO of the Ripple company had claimed…

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According to a study by Coin Insider, Dogecoin is the most sought-after cryptocurrency in most US states. Coin Insider’s study on Dogecoin, the favorite cryptocurrency in the US Dogecoin (DOGE) is the most sought after cryptocurrency in the United States According to a report by Coin Insider based on an analysis of Google trend data, Dogecoin is the most searched cryptocurrency in 23 US states, including Illinois, Hawaii Florida, Montana, Michigan, Arizona and New Jersey, making it the most searched in most states.  Bitcoin would be the most sought-after in 10 states, placing it second in this special ranking. Ethereum…

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Mining activities are not very popular in Italy and still represent a niche sector. The tax legislation does not yet provide a clear overall picture.  What tax obligations are miners subject to in Italy?  The Italian tax system on cryptocurrency mining and trading activities This is a recurring question, because in our country, in the face of a chronic lack of tax rules that afflict the crypto sector in general, mining is one of the activities least considered and, until now, never even addressed in our tax documents. It is commonly believed that, due to high energy costs, mining in…

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