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2022-02-28 20:00:28 ​​Apple Pay to halt support for Russian banks sanctioned on war in Ukraine.

Russians cashed out over $1.3 billion from banks on the first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the largest amount since the onset of COVID-19.

Several Russian banks that have been sanctioned over Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine will no longer support major payment services like Apple Pay and Google Pay.

Russia’s second-largest bank, VTB — as well as other banks like Sovcombank, Otkritie, Novikombank and Promsvyazbank — are on the list of companies sanctioned by the United States, the Bank of Russia confirmed on Friday.

Users of debit and credit cards issued by these banks will no longer be able to use Apple Pay and Google Pay, the central bank said in the announcement, adding that contact or contactless payment will still be available in full across Russia.

Customers will also no longer be able to pay with these cards for products and services sold online from countries supporting the sanctions, the statement notes.

Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, is also among the sanctioned banks, the Bank of Russia said in a separate announcement on Friday. The sanctions specifically target Sberbank’s correspondent accounts.

Apart from some Russian cards being blocked from Apple Pay and Google Pay, some sanctioned Russian banks are also facing issues with the Apple Store and Google Store due to their involvement with decisions over Ukraine’s Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic.

Apple reportedly removed mobile applications by the sanctioned Promsvyazbank on Wednesday, with at least three apps being removed from the App Store. Google reportedly removed the bank’s main application from its store as well.

Russians have been increasingly withdrawing money from their bank accounts as some officials have warned about banks potentially seizing retail deposits in the event sanctions go too far. Users reportedly withdrew 111.3 billion rubles ($1.3 billion) from Russian banks on the first day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the biggest outflow since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic two years ago. Open / Comment

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2022-02-26 22:00:11 ​Backed by genius Blizzard artist Ken West (League of Legends, Call of Duty, Overwatch…), Elite Wolf Society has been on Twitter for 5 days and is already taking the NFT space by storm with more than 30k followers already!

With a VERY strong, fully doxed founding team, and a great number of senior investors backing the project, we can only guess how far this collection will go.

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2022-02-25 21:00:21 ​​OpenSea disables features temporarily as contract migration completes.

Bids and purchases are unavailable to ensure that listings are protected until the migration completes.

The week-long period that OpenSea gave users to migrate their nonfungible token (NFT) listings ended on Friday. Following the deadline, the platform announced that some features on the site may be unavailable temporarily due to the migration.

On Saturday, OpenSea pushed a new smart contract and urged users to start the migration of their NFT listings from the old contract to the new one. The NFT marketplace mentions that the upgrade brings new features such as bulk listings and more descriptive signatures while ensuring that all inactive listings expire.

However, hours after the announcement, the platform reported phishing attacks leading to some users losing their NFTs. After this, the OpenSea team launched an investigation to find out what happened. Devin Finzer, co-founder of OpenSea, urged affected users to contact the support team.

NFT platform Mintable made a pledge to return NFTs that were stolen in the recent OpenSea phishing exploit. The team noticed that some of the NFTs lost were listed on another marketplace called LooksRare. Mintable decided to purchase the NFTs and return them to their original owners, according to Mintable founder Zach Burks.

On Friday, the contract migration ended, with the platform informing users that active listings on the website may be invisible and that floor prices may vary. However, the platform said that this is only temporary. To protect listings, OpenSea temporarily disabled bids and purchases until the migration completes.

Meanwhile, the blockchain community has been vigilant with regard to NFTs. An alleged NFT scam believed to target $20 million worth of digital assets was stopped by YouTuber Coffeezilla and community members. An anonymous user published a detailed report bringing to light the existing claims against the team members running the alleged NFT scam. Open / Comment

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2022-02-22 20:00:49 ​Kazakh ministry halts illegal crypto mining operations.

Government efforts to identify and disconnect mining farms from the electrical networks will continue, according to the announcement.

The Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan announced that it had discovered and terminated 13 cryptocurrency mining operations. The government executed the shutdown as part of its efforts to regulate the Bitcoin (BTC) mining sector, which has grown increasingly popular in recent years.

As per the official statement, the miners were using a lot of energy, with a total power consumption of 202 megawatts. According to the Kazakh government, efforts to identify and disconnect mining farms from the electrical networks will continue. Following the discovery of illicit mining operations, authorized bodies will take operational and investigatory actions.

As the planet’s second-largest Bitcoin producer after China’s crypto crackdown, power consumption in Kazakhstan has skyrocketed. As reported by Cointelegraph, Kazakhstan was home to over 18% of the world’s Bitcoin hash rate as of August 2021, trailing only the United States. In April, before China’s mining crackdowns, the figure was just 8%.

In June 2021, the president of Kazakhstan approved the creation of a tax category for Bitcoin mining, which was perhaps motivated by China’s anti-Bitcoin attitude. In 2021, due to Chinese authorities’ hostility, Chinese BTC mining businesses such as Canaan and BTC com relocated to Kazakhstan.

Although the mining industry has been largely concentrated in the country for some time, it looks set to lose its hash rate share due to various reasons, according to several sector executives as reported by Cointelegraph. This would most likely cause Kazakhstan to depart from the top three BTC mining countries in the index update, expected next month.

Related: Kazakhstan's central bank reports results on CBDC pilot project

On Feb. 8, the Kazakh president ordered a cabinet-level investigation of cryptocurrency mining, with Kazakh First Vice Minister of Finance Marat Sultangaziyev proposing power price hikes for crypto miners. According to reports, although President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is not against mining, miners must obtain licenses, pay electricity bills on decent terms, and pay taxes. Open / Comment

2022-02-22 18:00:51 ​ HODL BABA NFT

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2022-02-22 16:00:58 Catch a great opportunity to earn on the NFT and GameFi market growth!

On February 22, the developer of the infrastructure-level solution for the GameFi market, Meta DAO Guild, is launching the first closed token sale when participants will be able to purchase the project’s tokens – MDGG – at the most attractive price of $0.048.

By the second round which will be held on March 13, the price of the coin will grow 40%. By the time of the listing on the cryptocurrencies exchanges, the Meta DAO Guild developers expect the MDGG price to reach $0.40.

That is why those who catch the coins during the first round, will get the fattest profit.

Sale Type: Direct
Token volume: 50 000 000 $MDGG
Price: 0.048$
Minimum bid: 100$
Maximum bid: 10 000$

For weeks, Meta DAO Guild has been actively discussed in the media. But in case you have not heard, the project developers have found solutions for two main GameFi problems:
High entry barrier to GameFi projects;
Gaming NFT idle time.

The project team is creating a platform for renting gaming NFT – MetaRent that will allow gamers to start earning on GameFi with minimum investments. The gaming NFT owners will get an opportunity to reach passive income.

Also, Meta DAO Guild develops a series of other sought-after products, including the following:
The educational system that teaches how to earn on GameFi projects Scholarship;
The service to exchange gaming NFTs MetaExchange.

Another product of Meta DAO Guild that deserves special attention is a decentralised venture fund DAO Launchpad. Through the fund, MDGG owners can invest in the most promising GameFi projects at early stages, and thus get access to opportunities to earn maximum. This is yet another reason to get some Meta DAO Guild tokens.

To participate in the closed token sale, it is needed to leave an email on the official Meta DAO Guild website.

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2022-02-19 21:00:31 ​Layer 2 in 2022: Get Ready for Rollups, Bridges, New Apps, Life With Ethereum 2.0, and Layer 3.

2022 is estimated to be the year when Ethereum (ETH) -- the biggest smart contract-capable blockchain in terms of total value locked in -- finally moves to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. If it’s not delayed again. For some observers, such a transition could mean that layer 2 (L2) solutions built on top of Ethereum, such as Polygon (MATIC), Loopring (LRC), Arbitrum, Optimism, and StarkWare (to name only a few) become more or less redundant, insofar as Ethereum will be able to scale for itself.

However, figures working within the sub-sector all unanimously claim that L2 platforms will not only remain relevant after Ethereum 2.0’s (which is now being rebranded to “consensus layer”) arrival, but will have a strong 2022. Demand for such platforms will grow this year in tandem with the use of Ethereum itself, as smaller transactions and business applications seek the fastest and most cost-effective mechanisms.

At the same time, particular L2 trends might emerge this year, from the growth of zero-knowledge rollups (ZK rollups) and interoperability between platforms to native L2 applications and even the emergence of ‘layer 3.’

Ethereum 2.0 = The end of L2?
Pretty much no one seems to believe that the arrival of Ethereum 2.0 (due at some point in the first half of this year) will make L2 solutions unnecessary. Instead, one of the prevailing trends for this year might be their continuing -- and growing -- relevance.

“Even if Ethereum 2.0 archives its full scaling potential of offering a 64-fold improvement, it will still likely fall short of expected demand,” said a spokesperson for Polygon.

Crypto is currently in the early stages of the adoption curve, with gaming studios, brands, financial institutions, and Web 2 players just getting started with Web 3. Enterprises are only beginning to explore this space, and for the team at Polygon, the demand is already an order of magnitude more than the expected scaling that will be achieved with Ethereum 2.0.

In other words, L2 will only become more necessary as crypto and blockchain attract substantial real-world adoption.

“The Ethereum main chain will remain the settlement layer, while scaling solutions will emerge as the execution layer for the ecosystem. All the smaller business transactions will run on the scaling solutions and submit cryptographic proofs back to Ethereum,” Polygon’s spokesperson told Cryptonews com.

As an example, the spokesperson notes that the number of Aave (AAVE) users on Polygon has grown to more than double those on the Ethereum main chain in the last few months. For them, this means “that scaling solutions and higher adoption of the Ethereum ecosystem go hand in hand.” Open / Comment