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Bitcoin Baseball Team Perth Heat Fans Can Now ‘Boost’ Players With Bitcoin

Perth Heat players can now get bitcoin ‘boosts’ through a new Lightning-powered fan engagement feature launched in partnership with IBEX.Perth Heat now lets fans send micropayments to players with bitcoin through Lightning.The team last year became…

Maple Finance Lending Pool Delegate ‘Identified a Number of Key Weaknesses’ Tied to FTX’s Alameda Research

According to a report from Orthogonal Credit, a delegate of Maple Finance’s lending pools, the firm decided “earlier this year” not to lend to Alameda Research, FTX’s quantitative trading firm. Orthogonal said through “due diligence” it “ide

Binance CEO Explains Situation With FTX — Says ‘We Did Not Master Plan This’

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) has shared where his company is at on the deal with FTX. “We did not master plan this or anything related to it,” he told the Binance team, reminding them not to trade the FTX token (FTT) as the due…

Meta Announces Layoffs Affecting 13% of Workforce; More Than 11,000 Employees to Be Fired Amidst ‘Cultural Shift’

Meta, the social network company, has announced that it will cut 11,000 jobs, letting go of 13% of the employees in its workforce amidst a “cultural shift” in the company. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the company, explained this decision was…