The University of Tokyo will launch courses in the metaverse
The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo will offer a range of study programs in virtual worlds at the end of 2022. Asahi reports.
The initiative will make it possible to study information technology, artificial intelligence and programming regardless of gender, age, social status and place of residence.
Schoolchildren will be introduced to the Metaverses and told about career prospects in the industry. University students and existing participants in the program will be offered retraining opportunities.
Successful completion of the course entails obtaining a certificate. At the current stage, the program is not planned to be separated into a separate faculty with scientific degrees.
The main goal of the project is to eliminate the shortage of personnel in the field of digital transformation. The authors of the initiative intend to attract more women to the program due to their shortage in the industry.
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Bitcoin investors recorded a loss of $ 213 billion over the past year
For comparison, in 2018-2019, the realized loss of investors amounted to $56 billion, and the profit was 2 times more. The ratio is the same as in this cycle.
That is, on average, on a bear market, investors lose half of their real earnings during a bullish trend.
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Coinbase Urges To Convert USDT To USDC: “Switch To A Trusted And Respected Digital Dollar: USDC”
The exchange lists USDC as one of the most trusted and reputable digital dollars that is fully backed by reserves and offers zero-fee USDT to USDC conversion for customers worldwide.
Earlier it was reported that Circle, the issuer of USDC, could get access to the US Federal Reserve's reverse repo system, which would actually put the company on a par with banks.
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Who will inhabit the metaverse? AI aggregator Hugging Face created a demo in which two NPCs (bots) have an AI-generated conversation
It turned out incredibly cool!
A big advantage of AI bots over regular ones (like in GTA V) is that their conversations can go on forever and never repeat themselves.
The next stage I see is the opportunity to participate in dialogues => lonely people will never be alone. Is it much more interesting to chat with AI, which is also constantly updated, than to constantly listen to the same conversation from a character standing in one place?
For even greater realism, you need to add a neural network that will calculate the movements of the NPC and click on the "start" button. Then in the metauniverse it will be possible to constantly meet millions of virtual creatures that are difficult to distinguish from the avatars of real people.
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📈 The positivity is back. Crypt in the morning
The market shifts the responsibility for the collapse of crypto projects to the SEC - and oddly enough, this helps to grow in difficult times. The regulator is allegedly to blame for the fact that he did not carry out strict regulation of the market, did not check the projects and did not distribute prison terms to all those involved. True, the inevitable regulation is unlikely to be positive. Yes, and growth on such news is not the beginning of a reversal.
Coinbase today called for converting USDT to “safe” USDC, as well as eliminating fees for converting USDT to USDC. As you can see, the confrontation between market leaders continues.
• index of fear and greed 26 - "fear".
• market capitalization — $859.19 billion.
• Bitcoin dominance - 37.66%.
• alt season index — 33
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🔹️Chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission: "Cryptocurrencies will not last long outside the norms of public policy"
🔹️Investors in Bitcoin recorded a loss of $213 billion over the past year - For comparison, in 2018-2019, investors realized a loss of $56 billion, and a profit of 2 times more. Ratio as in this loop
🔹️Mastercard said that after the FTX crash and the market crash, there will definitely be a reboot in the crypto industry - over time, new institutional investors who enter the crypto will be more aware and prudent
🔹️Crypto investors lost a lawsuit against Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather and basketball player Paul Pierce - Trinity was accused of advertising the EthereumMax digital asset in order to artificially increase the price of coins and make a profit on their sale. They didn't say they own EMAX and mislead investors
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🗣😳 "Blockchain is a waste of time and energy" - Nobel Laureate in Economics
Paul Krugman, emeritus professor of economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and columnist for The New York Times, does not believe in bitcoin. Back in July 2018, he admitted to being a “cryptoskeptic,” and recently stated: “Many people say that we are going through a cryptowinter. But that probably understates the point." According to Krugman, it looks more and more like Fimbulwinter, the endless winter that precedes the end of the world in Norse mythology. And in this case, it means the end of the crypto world.
According to Krugman, the main question is: why did so many people buy into the belief that this idea is the future? At the same time, he notes that amid all the noise and rage around FTX, many did not seem to notice how those few “institutions” that seriously tried to use the blockchain gave up.
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Ethereum is 62% dependent on Amazon, is its decentralization at risk?
What and why?
The dependence of the Ethereum network on the Amazon corporation continues to deepen. According to the Etherenodes portal, 62.7% of all Ethereum nodes (the main component of the blockchain) are located in Amazon data centers. Can Jeff Bezos disrupt the network?
What can this lead to?
The question is philosophical. Theoretically, this is possible, but in order to disrupt the operation of the cryptocurrency, Bezos will need to disable most of the servers, which, for sure, contain hundreds of infrastructure facilities. In this scenario, shutting down Ethereum is clearly not going to be the main issue.
You can also hypothetically talk about cryptocurrency quotes at the start of a nuclear war. A piece of advice I often give is to keep funds on wallets like Ledger, even if the internet goes down for a while around the world, you can be sure that your NFTs will stay with you. Isn't that the main thing in difficult moments of life?
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▫️ UK Economy Minister: FTX collapse did not in the least affect the country's desire to become a key center of the crypto industry
UK Economics Minister Andrew Griffith said the collapse of FTX did not in the least affect the country's desire to become a key center for the crypto industry.
“We are advancing this agenda and I continue to lead the Crypto Engagement Group to get input from the industry and share progress. Yes, there are questions about the future of cryptocurrencies, but it would be foolish to ignore the potential of the underlying technology. For me, recent developments in the market confirm the need for timely, clear and effective regulation. The Financial Services and Markets Act already allows us to establish a framework for regulating crypto assets and stablecoins in the UK, we will be consulting on a world-leading regime for the rest of the crypto asset market later this year,” Griffith said.
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Sentiment Buying power is still higher than during bullrun 2021. When traders want to take advantage of this purchase of cryptocurrencies is another story. In the meantime, the average % of supply on the exchanges of the leading stablecoins over the past 4 months has increased from 32.5% to 28.4%.
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☄️ Sam Bankman-Fried supported the idea of reissuing the FTX utility token
The SBF responded positively to a proposal by Crypto Banter founder and CNBC host Crypto Trader Ran Neuner to restore confidence in the bankrupt exchange's utility token.
“That would be a productive way for the parties to explore! I hope that the current teams will implement this [Neuner's idea],” wrote Bankman-Fried.
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Ledger announces wallet for non-fungible tokens
The new Ledger Stax hardware wallet was created in collaboration with Tony Fadell (iPod designer). The device features a curved E Ink display that displays user-selected illustrations even when the device is turned off.
The company plans to release in the first quarter of 2023, and pre-order is already open on the Ledger website.
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⚡️ Goldman Sachs ready to buy back crypto after FTX crash - Reuters
The collapse of FTX has heightened the need for more trustworthy, regulated crypto players, and the big banks see an opportunity to grow this business, Matthew McDermott, Goldman's head of digital assets, told Reuters.
He added that Goldman is conducting due diligence on a number of different crypto firms, without giving details.
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The flow of funds to cryptocurrency funds experienced a catastrophic drop from $10 billion to $85 million a year
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By the way, the designer of Stax is Tony Faddell, one of the former Apple engineers who took part in the development of the very first iPod and iPhone.
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💸 Goldman Sachs to invest millions of dollars in crypto firms despite FTX collapse - Reuters
Matthew McDermott, chief executive of Goldman, said banks see opportunities in this area. According to the top manager, the technology that underlies cryptocurrencies continues to work.
Goldman and other institutions are looking to buy and invest at lower prices while the fallout from the FTX crash drives down asset values.
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Chinese court recognizes NFT as property
It turns out that tokens have property characteristics such as price, uniqueness, manageability, and tradability. This means that NFTs, under Chinese law, must have the same level of legal protection as other property.
The court in Ganzhou made such a conclusion after the case on the protection of property rights between the NFT platform and the user.
The ruling looked like this:
"The relevant contract does not violate China's laws and regulations, nor does it violate the realistic policy and regulatory orientation of China's national defense economic and financial risks, and should be protected by Chinese law."
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Pavel Durov spoke about plans to create a crypto wallet and exchange in Telegram
In his post, the head of Telegram shared his thoughts on the past collapse of FTX, decentralization and mass adoption of blockchain technologies.
Pavel also noted the success of the Fragment platform created on The Open Network and, of course, did not forget about the TON blockchain platform, which, according to him, is “fast and efficient enough to host popular applications (unlike Ethereum, which, unfortunately, remains outdated). and expensive even after recent updates).
In the near future, the messenger plans to create a set of decentralized tools: wallets and a decentralized exchange. How it will look like, and when to expect new updates is still unknown.
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OpenSea CEO Calls FTX Collapse Opportunity to Rebuild Industry
The collapse of the FTX exchange was a "tragic event" for the industry, but also opened up the possibility of reshaping it with a focus on trust and further decentralization. Devin Finzer, CEO of the OpenSea NFT marketplace, said this in an interview with Decrypt.
“We are all feeling collateral damage across the industry. There is no doubt that this is a setback for the crypto industry,” he said.
According to Finzer, the NFT platform has not interacted with FTX or related trading company Alameda Research.
However, according to Crypto Fund Research experts, the bankruptcy of the exchange affected 25-40% of industry structures. FTX and related companies owed $3.1 billion to the top 50 creditors, according to court filings.
“I think for the wider crypto ecosystem and NFTs in particular, this crisis is a real opportunity to invest in strong and ongoing user trust,” Finzer said.
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🔹️Crypto exchange BitMEX has launched the Proof of Liability feature — Now users can check the exchange's obligations to them in the total balance of exchange liabilities
🔹️Former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison spotted in NYC - Users posted photos of Caroline ordering coffee at Ground Support Cafe in Manhattan - This establishment is just a few minutes walk from the US Attorney's Office and the FBI office in New York and many are outraged that the girl freely walks around the center of New York, and is not in custody
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