Tag: pioneer
Pirating pioneer Napster sells for $207M with plans for music metaverse
Artificial intelligence startup Infinite Reality has acquired the music-pirating app turned music streaming service Napster in a $207 million deal and [...]
Stuart Spencer, Political Pioneer Who Helped Propel Reagan’s Rise, Dies at 97
One of the nation’s first campaign consultants for hire, he advised leading Republicans, including President Gerald Ford, but Reagan was his prized ca [...]
Tokenization Pioneer Centrifuge Unveils Real-World Asset (RWA) Lending Market With Morpho, Coinbase
“This RWA market with Morpho aims to give these tokens utility,” Vogelsang said in an interview. “If you hold a Treasury bill and you need a bit of US [...]
Sony, Electronics Pioneer Behind Walkman, Starts Own Blockchain ‘Soneium’
The “first year is all about onboarding Web3 people, because technology-wise and the community-wise, it is a little bit early to onboard the general u [...]
Oakland B’s Pioneer League baseball launches crowdfunding campaign
Paul Freedman, co-founder and CEO of the Oakland BallersPaul Freedman, a 45-year-old serial entrepreneur who has founded and sold five educational tec [...]
F.T.C. Clears Exxon Mobil’s Acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources
The Federal Trade Commission will bar Pioneer’s chief executive, Scott Sheffield, from joining Exxon’s board, saying he colluded with OPEC to reduce o [...]
Exxon Mobil reaches agreement with FTC, set to close $60B Pioneer deal
A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas.Jessica Rinaldi | ReutersThe Federal Trade Commission will wave through Exxon Mobil's roughly $60 [...]
Bitcoin Pioneer Hal Finney Posthumously Wins New Award Named for Him
The first four awards, including Finney’s, are meant specifically to retroactively reward those who made the biggest contributions to Bitcoin within t [...]
Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney couldn’t be Satoshi Nakamoto, new analysis suggests
Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney was competing in a 10-mile race at the exact time Satoshi Nakamoto was responding to emails and transacting on Bitcoin, new [...]
Bitcoin pioneer Hal Finney talks zk proofs in 25-year-old unearthed footage
Early Bitcoin (BTC) pioneer Hal Finney shared his vision for zero-knowledge proofs more than 25 years ago, a full decade before the launch of the firs [...]
Gideon Powell on the Pioneer Spirit Driving Bitcoin Mining
“Thinking about this from a capability standpoint, the compute cowboys are unlocking new power markets for data centers and thinking about the future [...]
St. FX Confers Honourary Degrees to Former Coady Director John Gaventa and Health Promotion Pioneer Irving Rootman
St. FX University conferred two honourary degrees at its Spring Convocation Sunday. At its
John Gaventa (St. FX University photo)
morning convoca [...]
Will you dare to be a pioneer?
Whenever you put your assets to work on the blockchain, it’s crucial to balance risk and reward. Although liquidity pools offer a potentially generati [...]
Early Bitcoin Pioneer Ian Freeman Goes to Trial in New Hampshire
Four of the Crypto 6, including Freeman’s fellow radio host Aria DiMezzo, his former girlfriend Renee Spinella and her husband Andrew Spinella, and No [...]
Early MakerDAO Developer and Stablecoin Pioneer Found Dead in Puerto Rico
Nikolai Mushegian, an early developer of MakerDAO, the largest decentralized finance protocol, as well as a contributor to multiple crypto projects, w [...]