Roblox Currency "Robux" Is Outperforming the Ruble
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: As of this writing, the Ruble is worth about 0.012 U.S. dollars. The Robux, the money people use to buy things in Roblox, is worth about 0.0125. This means that the Robux has slightly more buying.....»»
Kraken CEO Warns a Crackdown On Cryptocurrencies May Be Coming
Jess Powell, CEO of Kraken, the world's fourth-largest digital currency exchange, warns that governments around the world may start to clamp down on the use of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. CNBC reports: "I think there could be some crackdown," Jesse.....»»
HSBC Bans Customers From Buying Bitcoin-Backer MicroStrategy Shares
HSBC has banned customers of its online share-trading platform from buying or moving into their accounts MicroStrategy stock, calling it a "virtual currency product." Reuters reports: The bank will not facilitate the buying or exchange of products re.....»»
China Creates Its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy
A thousand years ago, when money meant coins, China invented paper currency. Now the Chinese government is minting cash digitally, in a re-imagination of money that could shake a pillar of American power. From a report: It might seem money is already.....»»
5 mistakes creators make building new games on Roblox
Gamefam learned to develop on Roblox the hard way -- by trial and error and by getting better at listening to the community’s unique gamer culture. Here are some common mistakes. Joe Ferencz Contributor.....»»
Rec Room raises at $1.25B valuation from Sequoia and Index as VCs push to find another Roblox
Investor FOMO following Roblox’s blockbuster public debut is pushing venture capitalists who missed out on that gaming giant to invest in competing platforms. Today, Rec Room announced it has raised $100 million from Sequoia and Index, with par.....»»
Musk: Tesla accepts bitcoin as payment, won’t convert it “to fiat currency”
Bitcoin option live on Tesla's site in US now, coming to other countries later. Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Chesnot ) Tesla has begun accepting bitcoin as payment from car buyers in the continental US, and CEO Elon Musk said the company pl.....»»
Tesla Now Accepts Bitcoin as Payment
Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, said on Wednesday that the company now accepts Bitcoin as payment for cars in the United States. From a report: Tesla will hold the digital currency, rather than convert payments to dollars, and handle the cry.....»»
Tesla cars can be bought in Bitcoin
Elon Musk announced his company would accept the virtual currency as payment for a new car......»»
Roll still doesn’t know how its hot wallet was hacked
Move fast, break things, get hacked. That’s what happened at Roll, the social currency platform that allows creators to mint and distribute their own Ethereum-based cryptocurrency known as social tokens. Last week, Roll disclosed a hacker had s.....»»
Binance-backed Xend Finance launches DeFi platform for credit unions in Africa
Nigerian startup Xend Finance uses decentralized finance (DeFi) to address currency devaluation. DeFi aims to bridge the gap between decentralized blockchains and financial services. Aronu Ugochukwu and Abafor Chima founded the startup in 2019, and U.....»»
Bitcoin ATMs Are Coming To a Gas Station Near You
A new feature has appeared at smoke shops in Montana, gas stations in the Carolinas and delis in far-flung corners of New York City: a brightly-lit bitcoin ATM, where customers can buy or sell digital currency, and sometimes extract hard cash. From a.....»»
Overwolf raises $52.5M for its platform to build, distribute and monetize in-game, user-generated content
Roblox, the gaming company that went public this month with a strong debut, changed the game (so to speak) for the role that creative input can play in making a game more loved, more engaging, and even more enterprising. Today, a startup that is taki.....»»
Overwolf raises $52.5M for its platform to build, distribute and monetize in-game user-generated content
Roblox, the gaming company that went public this month with a strong debut, changed the game (so to speak) for the role that creative input can play in making a game more loved, more engaging, and even more enterprising. Today, a startup that is taki.....»»
The best Roblox games
With thousands of creations, there's no shortage of Roblox games to enjoy. These are the most entertaining......»»
The Roblox final fantasy
Hello friends, and welcome to Week in Review. Last week, I talked a bit about NFTs and their impact on artists. If you’re inundated with NFT talk just take one quick look at this story I wrote this week about the $69 million sale of Beeple̵.....»»
Extra Crunch roundup: Coupang and Roblox debut, driving GPT-3 adoption, startup how-tos, more
Our growing library of how-to stories are aimed squarely at early-stage founders and workers trying to solve long-term problems. Extra Crunch publishes a variety of article types, but how-tos are my favorite category. For many entrepreneurs.....»»
Putting Roblox’s incredible $45 billion IPO in context
Wednesday's stock offering values the user-created game platform higher than EA. Roblox Corp.'s valuation had been rising slowly and steadily until shooting up earlier this year......»»
Coupang follows Roblox to a strong first day of trading
Coupang's IPO was a success, no matter how you slice it, even if you have valuation quibbles. And it was a huge win for SoftBank. Another day brings another pubic debut of a multibillion dollar company that performed well out of the gate......»»
Roblox"s $45 Billion IPO Values User-Created Game Platform Higher Than EA
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Yesterday, Roblox made good on its plans to go public, with employees and previous investors selling hundreds of millions of shares in a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange. In a privat.....»»
Gamefam aims to be the first big gaming company built on Roblox
Roblox went public yesterday after seeing tremendous growth in 2020, and that’s not just good news for the company’s employees and investors — there are also startups like Gamefam hoping to take advantage of the platform’s success.....»»