Major Australian Baseball League Team Perth Heat to Pay Players in Bitcoin and Hold BTC on Balance Sheet
One of the most successful baseball teams in Australia, the Perth Heat, is adopting the bitcoin standard. The team will pay players and staff in bitcoin, accept the cryptocurrency for payments, and hold bitcoin on its balance sheet. The Perth Heat Will Operate on Bitcoin Standard The Perth Heat, a major baseball team in the Australian Baseball League, announced Wednesday that it will “operate on bitcoin standard.” The team, which is...
Norway Mulls Backing Sweden’s Call for Euro Ban on Crypto Mining
The government in Norway is considering ways to limit the environmental impact of cryptocurrency mining and may support Swedish proposals to that end, including a European ban on proof-of-work mining. The European Commission has revealed it is already working to promote a transition to “more sustainable” protocols. Extensive Use of Renewable Energy for Mining Is Hard to Justify, Norway Minister Says Authorities in Norway are mulling...
Player Sizzles the Casino Floor With a $134,000 Jackpot Win on Bitcoin.com Games
Bitcoin.com Games dishes out a massive jackpot win for a lucky player who cashes out the big loot! Player Cashes out 2.25 Bitcoin After a Single Lucky Spin Turning up the heat on Bitcoin.com Games, our very own crypto casino is Wazdan’s smashing new slot game Sizzling Bells. The brand new game was just recently released back in October and features some of the most sought-after features in a game by slot lovers across the world....
SPARKS Piracy Bust: Extradited Brit Pleads Guilty to Criminal Copyright Infringement
For several decades, The Scene has been the main source of all pirated content made available on the Internet. Technically, release groups operate in a closed ecosystem, but the reality is different. The vast majority of the files published on private Scene servers eventually find their way to public pirate sites. Feds Bust SPARKS Group The secretive nature of the Scene has been a major challenge for law enforcement but last summer...
“The NFT Bay” Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of ‘Pirated’ NFTs
NFTs have been booming over the past year. People are willing to pay millions of dollars just to prove that they “own” a digital item that was worthless before. These digital entries, stored on a blockchain, allow the buyers to prove that they are legitimate owners. While it’s different from a copyright, NFTs owners are rightsholders in a sense. The NFT Bay However, that doesn’t mean that other people can’t copy the associated files,...
