Floyd Mayweather has announced the drop of a new NFT Project called Mayweverse. The project will consist of 5,000 NFTs and is set to launch on Wednesday. Fans on Twitter, however, are not pleased with the announcement and accused him of scams, taking people’s money, and abandoning projects. There will be five different NFT cards with a quantity of 1,000 available for each. In a tweet on the official Mayweverse account, it tweeted: “The mint price will be 0.3ETH bringing you maximum profit and value.” Floyd had previously launched a
Nestcoin, a Black-owned company founded last November with a mission to build, operate, invest in web3 applications and make crypto accessible to everyone, has raised $6.45 million pre-seed. The company’s products cut across Decentralized Finance (DeFi), media, digital art, and gaming. Described by its founder as a venture collective, it launched its media arm called Breach last year to create bite-sized and informative crypto content for the average African. It also set up Metaverse Magna (MVM), a gaming guild that introduces users to the world of play-to-earn crypto-powered games like Axie
NGOs looking to provide emergency aid to Afghanistan are turning to cryptocurrency and one of those organizations is Code to Inspire, a safe space for young Afghan women to learn computer programming. It was launched by Fereshteh Forough. But when the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August of last year, Forough feared that the group would close her school in Herat, the country’s third-largest city. The school is still ongoing with most classes online but her coding camp has now turned from a class for computing into one about survival.
Floyd Mayweather is being sued for his alleged involvement in an investor cryptocurrency scam, which claims these celebrities misled followers in a scheme. But he’s not the only one – Paul Pierce and Kim Kardashian are also being slammed with a lawsuit. The lawsuit, which accuses the stars of misleading their followers in what has been described as a pump-and-dump scheme, claims the celebrities convinced their fans to buy EthereumMax tokens, only to sell them once their value was inflated. According to the Hollywood reporter – they were allegedly paid in
Singer-songwriter Mariah Carey has teamed up with cryptocurrency platform Gemini to inspire more women to get into investing. The app founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss helps people buy, sell, and store their bitcoin and cryptocurrency. The star will be gifting fans $20 in the form of bitcoin when users sign up with the code “MARIAH.” A portion of the trades will be allocated toward Black Girls CODE, a nonprofit on a mission to train one million Black girls on coding to increase their involvement in the digital arena by 2040. “It’s
Coinbase and UnitedMasters, a company that distributes music, have signed a deal to allow artists to receive their payments in cryptocurrencies. The Black-owned company, founded by Steve Stoutes, is now one of the first to offer, according to a report by Bloomberg. The partnership’s goal is to “empower independent artists by giving them transparency, equity, and control over their earnings.” Payments are set to be made through Coinbase’s payroll product. UnitedMasters stressed that with this new means of receiving payments, the music artists can now participate in a more equitable
Ejara, a one-year-old company founded by Nelly Chatue-Diop, has raised $2 million to pioneer the use of crypto and investment services in Cameroon. CoinShares Ventures and Anthemis Group led the round. They are joined by Mercy Corps Ventures, Lateral Capital, LoftyInc Capital, and NetX Fund. In addition, two angel investors — Pascal Gauthier of Ledger and Jason Yanowitz of Blockworks — and a syndicate social fund participated. Ejara has more than 8,000 users from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea, and Senegal, as well as French-speaking Africans in the diaspora (Europe, Asia, and
The Game has partnered with OneOf — a green marketplace designed for the music industry — to release his debut non-fungible token (NFT) Collection titled “Genesis.” The price point is set at $25. The drop, which landed on Wednesday, features the “Get In The Game” pack where fans will receive four randomized action figure NFTs and never-before-seen music content from an unreleased track. The Game’s passions, hobbies inspire the collection and album releases, according to the OneOf website. “I have been able to put forth my creative vision on display and show, not only the growth
Techish is back with a brand new episode! Abadesi and Michael discuss the volatile crypto world, investor influencers and a new generation of Black wealth, embracing crypto to ‘catch up’ (18:00) They also break down:– Andreessen Horowitz’s big payout and his Clubhouse predictions (0:51) – Are we monetising our hobbies at the expense of our happiness? (8:11)– The rise and fall of crypto (14:00)– Spy threats on social media (22:22)– Vulnerability, trauma and sharing our stories online for engagement, but at what cost? (28:32) Sponsors Moveable Ink is hiring: www.pocitjobs.com/company/page/11192Flatiron Health is
The price of Bitcoin is surging. A new all time high for BTC reaching above $50K this month has everyone talking, bitcoin, crypto and investing. Major institutional investors, celebrity endorsements and payments firms like Mastercard and PayPal are investing in the cryptocurrency. Since the creation of Bitcoin 11 years ago, a growing number of people are turning to a new monetary system, one that is not controlled by any single authority. Cryptocurrency is a decentralized system run by a network of computers. In what some call a financial revolution, the rise in popularity of
