American retail chain Walmart is preparing to enter the metaverse by creating its own NFT collections and cryptocurrency. This information is based on several trademarks filed by the retail giant with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In late December, the retail chain filed several trademark applications with the United States Patent and Trademark…

Sultan Gustaf Al Ghozali, a 22-year-old Indonesian student, has joined the NFT frenzy, becoming a millionaire as a result. He listed selfies of himself as an NFT for five years on OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace, and sold them for $1,107,225 in total. Al Ghozali is a college student studying Computer Science and based in…

BitPay, one of the world’s most popular crypto payments processors, revealed that over 2021, Bitcoin’s use at merchants that use its payment services dropped to about 65%, down from 92% in 2020. Ether purchases accounted for 15% of the total, stablecoins were 13%, while Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, and Litecoin, added to BitPay in 2021, accounted…

Breaking crypto news from the last week (Jan. 8 – 14, 2022): Jan. 8: As Turkey’s economy remains in turmoil, with inflation rising to 36%, its currency has lost 44% of its value against the US dollar since this time last year. Meantime, the use of stablecoins in Turkey has skyrocketed, and today, 28.96% of…

Pakistani government and its central bank have recommended banning cryptocurrency, arguing in a document submitted in a provincial court that allowing it would cause capital flight. Reuters reported that an official report recommends declaring all cryptocurrencies illegal, citing local media. The Sindh High Court has been hearing a constitutional petition filed in 2019, which seeks…

Block, the Jack Dorsey-led payments company (formerly known as Square), wants to democratize access to Bitcoin mining by building an open mining system. This comes amidst fears that Bitcoin mining is becoming too centralized. Block is building an open Bitcoin mining system as it continues to expand beyond its core payments business and embraces CEO…