UK Judge dismisses $770M Bitcoin landfill hard drive case
James Howells has lost his legal case to recover a $770 million Bitcoin hard drive from a landfill as a judge cites no realistic chance of success.
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Binance VC arm leads $1.3M raise for decentralized streaming protocol
Decentralized music sharing service Audius has raised nearly $10 million so far. 1568 Total views 19 Total shares Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is funding a major decentralized audio streaming service through its investment and incubation arm.According to an Oct. 23 announcement, Binance Labs led a $1.25 million extension round for Audius, a blockchain-enabled…

Keith Comito on the benefits of blockchain tech and decentralization in longevity research
Lifespan.io President and co-founder Keith Comito was into longevity before longevity was cool.“We started our nonprofit back in 2014,” Comito said. “Back then, few credible researchers would be caught dead saying they were working on aging. It was still kind of a scientific backwater. So, we wanted to emulate what the cancer research advocates did,…

4 new BTC price targets see Bitcoin over $124K by New Year
Bitcoin is due to end 2024 even higher than its current levels, consensus says — with BTC price targets toward $150,000 in play.

Final Fantasy creators join Oasys blockchain, gamers whine about it
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Beaxy Launches Crypto Trading Platform Despite Hack Last Month
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Bitcoin forecast to hit $200k by end of 2025: Bernstein
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Taxman gets the boot: Bitcoin Cash Node emerges as victor of hard fork
The Bitcoin Cash network just went through yet another fork after originally being created as a hard fork from the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain in August 2017. The hard fork on Nov. 15 split the Bitcoin Cash network into two new blockchains, Bitcoin Cash ABC (BCHA) and Bitcoin Cash Node (BCHN). The main difference between the…