LensLinks: Issue 110

Twitter to be "World's Largest Financial Institution?", brought to you by Regiment LLC

Author

Len Pacek
March 09, 2023

Today in LensLinks:

  • Elon Musk has ambitions of making Twitter the world's biggest financial institution

  • Fed Chair Ponders Potential for Digital Dollar to Send Bitcoin to Zero

  • Meta Quest Leaks Potential Subscription Service

  • Bitcoin investors turn to smart tokens

  • Big rebound on $BTC? Carl From The Moon thinks so.

  • Apple's First XR Headset may be able to introduce a new level of excitement into a market that declined 21% in 2022 under Meta's Leadership

  • How NFT Ticketing will Promote Web3 Mass Adoption

  • Death in the metaverse: Web3 aims to offer new answers to old questions

  • And Much, Much, More…

QUOTABLE

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“I'm worried about a lot of these stablecoins and other cryptocurrencies. Do they go to zero when we come up with a CBDC that has the full faith and credit of the United States behind it?”

- U.S. Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA)

NOTABLE

Fed Chair Ponders Potential for Digital Dollar to Send Bitcoin to Zero - Decrypt

U.S. Congressman Stephen Lynch told Fed chair Jerome Powell he is "worried" that a CBDC could wipe out the crypto market.

decrypt.co/122997/fed-chair-digital-dollar-send-bitcoin-to-zero

Elon Musk has ambitions of making Twitter the world's biggest financial institution

Twitter owner Elon Musk said today that the social media company can become a major payments network during a conference on March 7.

cryptoslate.com/elon-musk-has-ambitions-of-making-twitter-the-worlds-biggest-financial-institution

Metaverse & Gaming

Meta Quest Leaks Potential Subscription Service - SVG

A leak suggests that Meta Quest might soon launch a subscription system similar to Xbox Game Pass.

www.svg.com/1221676/meta-quest-leaks-potential-subscription-service

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi

Bitcoin investors turn to smart tokens

BENGALURU: For investors living on the digital edge, bitcoin is starting to look a little old-fashioned. Hooked on...

www.dawn.com/news/1741032/bitcoin-investors-turn-to-smart-tokens

Crypto Trading

Metaverse & Gaming - a little more…

Metaverse frenzy cools as ChatGPT gains steam

The frenzy over metaverse, a tech buzzword that promises a future where virtual and physical worlds are inextricably interconnected, is cooling as major tech heavyweights are downsizing workforces in metaverse-related businesses and banking on the fast-growing artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) sector, experts said.

global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202303/08/WS6407c23aa31057c47ebb2ef8.html

Apple's First XR Headset may be able to introduce a new level of excitement into a market that declined 21% in 2022 under Meta's Leadership

In mid-February, Patently Apple posted a report titled "China's largest video game publisher has bowed out of their 'Metaverse' project just as Apple is preparing to introduce their first XR Headset." Today, IDC confirmed that in 2022, AR/VR headsets shipment declined sharply by close to 21% under Meta's leadership. Apple's headset ...

www.patentlyapple.com/2023/03/apples-first-xr-headset-may-be-able-to-introduce-a-new-level-of-excitement-into-a-market-that-declined-21-in-2022-under-met.html

Blockchain, Tokens and DeFi - a little more…

How NFT Ticketing will Promote Web3 Mass Adoption - Spiceworks

Hunter Abramson, co-Founder & CEO of Relic Tickets, shares how NFT ticketing can help solve frauds in web2 digital tickets.

www.spiceworks.com/tech/innovation/guest-article/how-nft-ticketing-will-promote-web3-mass-adoption

Death in the metaverse: Web3 aims to offer new answers to old questions

As contemporary society continues to digitize, life in the metaverse raises the same timeless questions about what happens after death.

cointelegraph.com/news/death-in-the-metaverse-web3-aims-to-offer-new-answers-to-old-questions

Hooked on growth, bitcoin investors turn to smart tokens

For investors living on the digital edge, bitcoin is starting to look a little old-fashioned. Hooked on high growth, some are turning away from the origina...

malaya.com.ph/news_business/hooked-on-growth-bitcoin-investors-turn-to-smart-tokens

when Retro:
A look back at how far we’ve come

'My title was non-negotiable': A Q&A with Cathy Hackl, chief metaverse officer at Journey

Hackl's most convincing qualification for the role might be her bona fide connection to metaverse users: she’s the mother of three metaverse-native kids, including a 10-year-old who runs his own Roblox business.

digiday.com/marketing/my-title-was-non-negotiable-a-qa-with-cathy-hackl-chief-metaverse-officer-at-journey

ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance)

Meet the rising female founders building the Metaverse

This non-exhaustive list of female founders working on building the Metaverse in Europe was compiled and originally published by FOV Ventures. It has been modified and published by Tech.eu with full permission.

tech.eu/2023/03/08/meet-the-rising-female-founders-building-the-metaverse

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