🚀 Cryptonomics — your weekly blockchain & crypto readings
23rd August — 29th August
📰 Let‘s dive into the news of the week
Over 10 percent of Americans are investing into crypto. Something over 10% of people living in the U.S. have invested in cryptocurrencies a recent survey from CNBC revealed. Crypto investors are more likely to be men, and younger people thought crypto was less risky than older ones. 📰 Decrypt
Visa buys an NFT for $150’000. Visa Inc. bought a CryptoPunk NFT (shown in the blog image) for $150,000 in a show of support for a burgeoning area of investment in the realm of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. 📰 Bloomberg
Substack starts accepting Bitcoin payments. The popular email publishing platform Substack (that I am also using) now lets writers accept Bitcoin via the Lightning network. Willy Woo and Dan Held are the first two authors on Substack who can start accepting Bitcoin. 📰 Decrypt
El Salvador is preparing the launch of hundreds of Bitcoin ATMs. The country is installing 200 ATMs as the new law recognizing Bitcoin as legal tender kicks in starting September 📰 Bloomberg
You can now use your .com Domain to send and receive Ethereum. Users will be able to send and receive Ether at .com and other domain names with the latest DNS and Ethereum Name Service integration. This was a long-awaited feature. 📰 Decrypt
Bored Ape Yacht Club Sells $96 Million of NFTs in Hour for Mutant Apes Launch. The NFT project sold 10,000 Mutant Apes for 3 ETH each yesterday. Now they trade for double that. 📰 Decrypt
$400 Million in ETH Now Burned by Ethereum EIP-1559 Upgrade. An upgrade that burns ETH instead of using it to pay miners has taken $400 million ETH out of circulation. EIP 1559 will long-term make Ethereum a deflationary token similar to Bitcoin. 📰 Decrypto
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