LensLinks: Issue 131

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Len Pacek
April 07, 2023

Today in LensLinks:

  • US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy says FedNow is first step to banning Bitcoin

  • Bitcoin whitepaper in Apple code?

  • Polygon (MATIC) Becomes Second-Largest Gaming Blockchain in March After Surge in Activity

  • US Treasury Says Decentralized Crypto Markets Threaten National Security

  • Bitcoin And Crypto Are Suddenly Braced For A $1 Billion U.S. Earthquake After Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Cardano, Dogecoin, Polygon And Solana Price Surge

  • 4 Reasons Why The Bored Ape Yacht Club Ecosystem Is Thriving In 2023

  • Forget Gaming: Why the Metaverse Has Its Real Application in B2B

  • Unleashing the Ownership-Based Open Metaverse

  • Bitcoin Edges Higher After the U.S. Jobs Report

  • The Singularity: 2 Articles: BloombergGPT & ChatGPT Jobs Impacts

  • And Much, Much, More…

QUOTABLE

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"The former cryptocurrency is stuck in local highs, above which it has been unable to consolidate since March 19. This prolonged consolidation sets the stage for the next big move. The resolution of this consolidation is likely to be linked to the market's reaction to Friday's non-farm payrolls. Technically, a pullback to the $27,000 level to correct the rally of March 10 is more likely at the moment."

- Alex Kuptsikevich, FxPro senior market analyst

NOTABLE

US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy says FedNow is first step to banning Bitcoin

Robert Kennedy Jr. says central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) could lead to financial slavery and political tyranny.

cryptoslate.com/us-presidential-candidate-robert-kennedy-says-fednow-is-first-step-to-banning-bitcoin/?amp=1

Brian Naughton on LinkedIn: #bitcoin #crypto #cryptocurrencynews #cryptonews #technology #apple… | 29 comments

This story has made my day! It turns out that the Bitcoin white paper - published by the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008 - has been hidden in every… | 29 comments on LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com/posts/bnaughton_bitcoin-crypto-cryptocurrencynews-activity-7049679291290132480-8nm_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Metaverse & Gaming

Polygon (MATIC) Becomes Second-Largest Gaming Blockchain in March After Surge in Activity: DappRadar - The Daily Hodl

Layer-2 scaling solution Polygon (MATIC) is establishing a name in the gaming sector following impressive growth in daily unique active wallets (dUAW) last month.

dailyhodl.com/2023/04/07/polygon-matic-becomes-second-largest-gaming-blockchain-in-march-after-surge-in-activity-dappradar/amp

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi

US Treasury Says Decentralized Crypto Markets Threaten National Security

US Treasury Department has released a 2023 DeFi illicit finance risk assessment report stating that crypto markets threaten national security.

watcher.guru/news/us-treasury-says-decentralized-crypto-markets-threaten-national-security

Crypto Trading

Bitcoin And Crypto Are Suddenly Braced For A $1 Billion U.S. Earthquake After Ethereum, BNB, XRP, Cardano, Dogecoin, Polygon And Solana Price Surge

After the U.S. dumped $215 million worth of seized bitcoin on the market last month, bitcoin and crypto traders are braced for another $1 billion bitcoin sale this year...

www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/04/03/bitcoin-and-crypto-are-suddenly-braced-for-a-1-billion-us-earthquake-after-ethereum-bnb-xrp-cardano-dogecoin-polygon-and-solana-price-surge/amp

Metaverse & Gaming - a little more…

4 Reasons Why The Bored Ape Yacht Club Ecosystem Is Thriving In 2023

The Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) has emerged as one of the most exciting and innovative ecosystems in the metaverse

thevrsoldier.com/4-reasons-why-the-bored-ape-yacht-club-ecosystem-is-thriving-in-2023

Forget Gaming: Why the Metaverse Has Its Real Application in B2B | By Simone Puorto

While the media focus has primarily been on the B2C space, B2B Metaverse has many potentials and offers several benefits to businesses. The B2B Metaverse differs from the B2C Metaverse in several ways, including user base, goals, services offered, revenue models, and data privacy concerns.

www.hospitalitynet.org/opinion/4115834.html

Unleashing the Ownership-Based Open Metaverse

GameFi and the Metaverse look set to reinvent the digital economy. Ownership is at its core, says Animoca's Senior Tokenomics Analyst.

beincrypto.com/gamefi-and-ownership-will-unlock-the-metaverse

Blockchain, Tokens & DeFi - a little more…

ApeCoin in 2023: An Overview of Fundamentals and Technicals

1 ApeCoin is currently trading at $4.22 (press time) with an increase of 0.62% intraday. 2 ApeCoin is a governance

www.thecoinrepublic.com/2023/04/06/apecoin-in-2023-an-overview-of-fundamentals-and-technicals

How Decentralized Governance in DeFi Can Overcome Historical Failures

Explore the burdens of decentralized governance in DeFi, lessons from high-profile incidents and vulnerabilities, and what the future holds.

beincrypto.com/burdens-decentralized-governance-defi

Bitcoin holds US$28,000 in choppy trading; Ether falls after US Treasury warns against DeFi risk

Bitcoin moved in a narrow range above the support line at US$28,000 in Friday morning trading in Asia, while most other top 10 crypto declined.

forkast.news/headlines/bitcoin-28000-ether-treasury-warns-defi

Crypto Trading - a little more…

Bitcoin Edges Higher After the U.S. Jobs Report

With stock markets closed Friday, cryptocurrencies could be a leading indicator for risk sentiment after the release of the monthly U.S. jobs report.

www.barrons.com/articles/bitcoin-crypto-markets-today-jobs-report-31ae97d1

Swiss state-owned bank PostFinance to offer Bitcoin trading

PostFinance, a retail bank fully owned by the Swiss government, has partnered with the crypto bank Sygnum to offer crypto trading to its customers.

cointelegraph.com/news/swiss-state-owned-bank-postfinance-to-offer-bitcoin-trading

Philip Hammond on CBDCs, stablecoins and crypto's place in global finance | The Crypto Mile

On this week's episode of The Crypto Mile, our host Brian McGleenon spoke to former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond about CBDCs, stablecoins and crypto's place in global finance.

finance.yahoo.com/video/philip-hammond-cbdcs-stablecoins-cryptos-070011916.html

The Singularity:
AI, Quantum Computing, Robotics, Bio-engineering & Other Stuff on the way

Meet BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model With 50 Billion Parameters That Has Been Trained on a Variety of Financial Data

The 2020 release of GPT-3 served as a compelling example of the advantages of training extremely large auto-regressive language models. The GPT-3 model has 175 billion parameters—a 100-fold increase over the GPT-2 model—performed exceptionally well on various current LLM tasks, including reading comprehension, answering open-ended questions, and code development.

www.marktechpost.com/2023/04/05/meet-bloomberggpt-a-large-language-model-with-50-billion-parameters-that-has-been-trained-on-a-variety-of-financial-data/?amp

GPT-4 Was Released 3 Weeks Ago and 48% of Surveyed Companies Have Started Replacing Workers | NextBigFuture.com

OpenAI released it March 14, 2023 but it was finished training in August, 2022. They finished testing and tuning it and aligning it for the next 7 months.

www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/04/gpt-4-was-completed-8-month-ago-but-released-3-weeks-ago.html

ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance)

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