The first blockchain school will open in the Middle East, in the Saudi Arabian city of Riyadh, according to an announcement from the BSV Blockchain Association. The new facility will offer training and development tools to government organizations and businesses interested in adopting or experimenting with blockchain technology. According to the announcement, the Saudi Blockchain
A couple from Phoenix got married over the weekend using their digital identities. This is the first marriage, which was made in the metaverse. The ceremony took place on Decentraland on Saturday. In attendance were 2,000 virtual guests, the groomsmen and Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick. The bride and groom, Ryan and Candice Hurley, hired
According to the results of a survey on online dating, around 33% of men and women said they would be more willing to date someone who mentions crypto-assets in their online dating profile. What the situation is like in Germany in this regard is still unknown.
Cardano developers continue to work on increasing network capacity and announced the next update to the two key parameters. The team will increase the block size by another 8 KB, from 72 KB to 80 KB. The adjustment represents an increase of about 11% and is a much-needed optimisation as Cardano updates allow more transactions
The crypto ban in China prohibits crypto transactions in the most populous country on earth. Due to the additional ban on Bitcoin mining in China, the crypto industry has moved out of the country, but it has fully recovered in terms of hash power. However, the country's current action now shows that the crypto ban
NBA star LeBron James is cooperating with crypto.com to teach blockchain to children. Students at a primary school in Akron, Ohio, founded by LeBron James, are to learn about blockchain technology. LeBron James wants to teach how technology can impact their lives and future careers. He revealed the intention to teach 1,600 students at the
Since the Cardano blockchain evolved into a decentralised smart-contract platform in 2021, the development team led by Charles Hoskinson 2022 has been working on the scalability and expansion of the Cardano network as part of the Basho phase. Due to the new smart contracts on the Plutus platform, the Cardano network reached over 90%, the
A Bitcoin (BTC) miner from the Solo CK mining pool single-handedly mined a new block on the Bitcoin blockchain at block level 720,175 on Monday, earning a block reward of 6.25 BTC (over US$220,000 at the current rate). In solo mining, a single miner attempts to validate blocks without joining other miners in a mining
The Solana network was unavailable over the weekend, but this was not the first outage of the blockchain. Solana (SOL) has proven to be a real alternative to Ethereum in the past year. The price of the cryptocurrency had increased more than two hundredfold in some cases, and this was also an extraordinary increase in
They all have something to do with "Blockbuster" - the birth of DeFilm streaming. Last year, a DAO (short for Decentralised Autonomous Organisation) managed to buy a unique Wu-Tang Clan album as NFT. Now the BlockbusterDAO, which is a kind of blockchain-based cross between a startup and something like a club, has set itself the
