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Reddit users will be able to receive ERC-20 tokens for karma points. 

Active Reddit users will receive ERC tokens in exchange for high-quality content and popularity in the community. This was announced by a Reddit engineer under the pseudonym Rahul on Twitter. 

Karma Points is a Reddit reputation system that helps weed out low-quality content and aggressive users. Reputation balls work like likes and dislikes in any popular social network. The more people put a plus sign under your post or comment, the higher your karma score, and Reddit promotes you more often. Conversely, if a user's posts or comments have scored a lot of dislikes, then his karma score drops. Users with too low a karma score can get into a shadow or absolute ban.

According to the calculations of the Reddit team, this initiative will be able to attract up to 500 million new users. 

Earlier, in 2020, Reddit has already launched a beta version of the reward system.Two thematic forums, r/FortniteBR, and r/Cryptocurrency have created their own tokens on the air — BRICK and MOON, respectively. Participants could earn money for publishing high-quality content and being active on the forum. Tokens were used to conduct or participate in voting, encourage other users, and transfer funds. 

As a wallet, the Vault platform was created with which the user could view his balance, receive and spend coins.

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In Indonesia, cryptocurrency transactions have been recognized as a sin for Muslims.

The Indonesian Ulema Council— the country's leading religious organization, has called for a complete ban on cryptocurrencies for Muslims. One of the leaders of the SUI, Asrorun Niamh Sholeh, said that the crypto trade is sinful and does not comply with the principles of Sharia.

“Cryptocurrency is haram (sin) because it has elements of betting and uncertainty” he explained.

“Digital assets can only be accepted by a Muslim in one case. If the cryptocurrency as a commodity or a digital asset can comply with the principles of Sharia and show a clear benefit”

Although the Ulema Council is the most influential Islamic organization, its decisions are considered a recommendation rather than a decree. SUI's statement does not mean that cryptocurrency trading will be banned in the country. But Sholeh's speech may deter Muslims from investing in it.

Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world. About 88% of all citizens profess Islam. Therefore, the word of the ulema council can radically change the attitude of the population to cryptocurrencies.

The position of the religious organization does not agree with the opinion of the authorities. In Indonesia, it is officially allowed to trade cryptocurrency. Although, at the legislative level, it is equated to a commodity and not a means of payment. The rupee is the only legal currency in the country.

By the end of 2021, the country wanted to open the first cryptocurrency exchange. Also, the authorities announced work on the digital rupee project.

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More than half of game developers use blockchain technologies in their projects

The Stratis blockchain platform conducted a survey among 197 game developers from the USA and the UK. They wanted to know their opinion about blockchain technologies and their use in games.

It turned out that 58% of respondents already use blockchain in their projects, and 47% have integrated NFT technology. 56% of those who do not use blockchain yet plan to do so in the coming year.

64% believe that blockchain technology will become a trend in the gaming industry over the next two years. Another 53% agree that by then, NFTs will also be more common in games.

To the open question, "What is the use of blockchain technology for games?" 61% said it allows you to distinguish the project from the rest and make the gameplay more enjoyable. Another 55% believe that it encourages players to spend more time in the game because the blockchain allows them to earn real money on their virtual achievements.

46% of developers who already use DeFi in games have implemented it in the "play-earn" model. Another 46% have introduced unique items and artifacts in the NFT format. 42% have launched a game currency backed by a cryptocurrency or token.

Why introduce blockchain into the game?

Blockchain will solve several significant problems of the gaming industry. Namely, the insecurity of money transfers and storage of game currency, copyright infringement, the vulnerability of the development environment, exposure from cheaters, and difficulties in project maintenance.

1. Security of transfers and storage of game currency. Players will be able to make purchases using cryptocurrency. All transactions will take place quickly, without intermediaries, and safely. Also, all your in-game assets and items in the NFT format can be stored in your wallet. Today, in most projects, all purchases are stored on the developer's side. In case of closure, fatal error, or hacker attack, players can lose their money. The blockchain will not allow this to happen.
2.Copyright protection. All concepts can be uploaded to the blockchain, and sketches and art can be turned into NFT. No one will be able to steal and pass off other people's ideas as their own. Developers can very easily prove an attempt of an impudent copy paste.
3.The invulnerability of the development environment. It is almost impossible to slow down a game uploaded to the blockchain. Hacking attempts will not succeed as well.
4.Protection from cheaters. Since all transactions are visible in the blockchain, developers will be able to notice an attempt to steal other people's artifacts and in-game currency in time. It will help them to prevent it.
5. There are no difficulties in the maintenance of projects. Today, expensive data centers are needed to support popular games, which themselves may not be able to cope with the influx of users. As a result, there are hangups, connection problems in entire regions, and critical errors that hit the company's reputation. In the blockchain, the players' devices will themselves ensure the operability of the whole system.  Each new installation only expands the power of the game.

Blockchain Games:examples

1.Sandbox

Description: the game can be compared to Minecraft. This is a sandbox where players can create their own worlds and items. Both single and corporate modes are provided. 
Using blockchain technologies: players can sell and buy items and cards of others in the NFT format for the ERC SAND token.

2.Splinterlands
Description: a collectible card game where you need to collect decks with heroes and participate in battles.
Using blockchain technologies: players can sell, buy, borrow or rent their cards and decks for DEC currency. Also, for each victory, a reward is credited to the wallet in DEC.

3.Sorare

Description: a football emulator in which the player must collect football players' cards, form teams, and participate in matches.
Using blockchain technologies: for each win, the player receives a reward in cryptocurrency. Also, you can earn money by selling NFT cards for football players.

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A 14-year-old girl earned more than $1 million on NFT with belugas.

14-year-old schoolgirl Abigail, together with her older brother Adam, created a collection of 8000 NFTs with belugas. They were sold out in just 10 hours.

The girl drew various backgrounds and about 167 unique ornaments: caps, glasses, fur coats, suits, shirts, etc. Then, with the help of a script, all the elements were distributed in such a way as to repeat in a particular sequence. For example, belugas in fur coats are the most expensive because there are only 8 such tokens. 20 NFTs from the collection are unique — their details are not found in other tokens.

NFT was put up on Alpha Art, an NFT marketplace that allows users to buy and trade Solana-based tokens for free.

The initial price of the token was 0.8 SOL — about $160. But over time, the price has increased. The most popular NFTs were bought for 300 SOL (over $60 thousand). And the most expensive token with a beluga in a leopard fur coat and a sailor's cap was bought in 2021 SOL (over $400 thousand).

In just 10 hours, Abigail earned more than $1 million. The girl gave about $100 thousand from this amount to the organization for children with cancer Sunshine Kids, and another $100 thousand to non-profit organizations that help belugas.

Token holders resell their belugas, and the artist receives 5% royalties from each sale. To date, she has already earned over $76 thousand on this.

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The world's First cryptocurrency city will be built in El Salvador.

A Bitcoin City dedicated to bitcoin will be built in the country. This was announced by the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.

Its shape will resemble a vast coin, and in its center, an exhibition complex will be built in the form of a giant symbol, "B."

The city will be supplied with electricity from renewable energy sources. Therefore, it is planned to build it right at the foot of the volcano.

The President assures that Bitcoin City will have everything for a comfortable life. Shopping malls, affordable housing, educational and entertainment facilities, eco-friendly transport, necessary infrastructure, and its own port.  The city will be an ideal haven for miners who will be able to mine bitcoin using the volcano's energy.

Residents will not pay any taxes other than VAT. The first half of the amount will be used to pay bonds, and the second half will be used for infrastructure development and maintenance of the city.

The construction will be financed by tokenized bonds for $1 billion. They will be placed on the Liquid Network. The government has signed a deal with Bitfinex and Blockstream. They will jointly develop a platform for creating tokens.

All invested funds will be divided into two parts. The first half will be invested in bitcoin for 5 years, and the second — in urban infrastructure and the organization of bitcoin mining.

Not only residents of El Salvador, but everyone will be able to finance the construction. You can invest any amount, even $100.

Recall that on September 7, El Salvador officially recognized bitcoin as a means of payment.

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The largest Croatian supermarket has started accepting cryptocurrency as payment

The Croatian supermarket Konzum was the first in the country to accept cryptocurrency as payment. So far, you can pay for the goods in this way only in the online store. But in the future, this option will also be available in physical supermarkets.

In total, nine cryptocurrencies are accepted for payment - Bitcoin, Etherium, USD, BCH, Ripple, Stellar, DAY, Tether and USDCHF.

The company has provided a moment with the variability of the price of digital assets. The exchange rate will be fixed at the time of the transaction creation. The buyer will have enough time to complete the payment.

To implement the project, a partnership was concluded with the Paypal payment system. She was the first in Croatia to start accepting cryptocurrency.

Konzum is the largest retail chain in the Western Balkans. The supermarket has more than 700 outlets in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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On behalf of the Prime Minister of India, hackers wrote a tweet about the recognition of bitcoin in the country.

Last Sunday, December 12, unknown persons hacked the Twitter account of the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.

On his behalf, the scammers announced the recognition of bitcoin as a means of payment. The message said about the distribution of 500 BTC among the population.

"India has officially recognized bitcoin as a means of payment. The government has purchased 500 bitcoins and is distributing them to the population. Hurry up! The future has come today!" - said in a tweet.

The text was accompanied by a link to the supposedly official distribution site. A person had to register to qualify for free bitcoins.

The message was deleted just a few hours after it appeared. It is not yet known whether anyone was injured due to the scam. But, in theory, a vast number of people could see the fake statement because Modi is one of the most popular politicians on Twitter. More than 73 million users have subscribed to his account.

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About $12.1 billion of cryptocurrencies was stolen between 2011 and 2021 - Crystal Blockchain analysis

The analytical company Crystal Blockchain has published a report analyzing the largest crypto fraud and hacker attacks cases over the past ten years.

According to their calculations, about $12.1 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen during this time.

A total of 226 incidents were recorded. From them, 120 cases of circumvention of security systems of exchanges, 73 hacking of De-Fi protocols, and 33 fraudulent schemes.

About $5.9 was stolen by organizations of financial pyramids. The leader among them is the Chinese Plus Token project. Its organizers promised the participants huge returns for investments and attracting new people. About 4 million investors from Russia, Ukraine, China, Japan, and Germany were deceived. The attackers were able to launder almost $3 billion.

The largest theft of cryptocurrency from the exchange occurred in 2014.  At that time, the leading exchange Mt. Gox lost more than 850 thousand BTC due to the hack. Taking advantage of a security breach, the attackers gained access to users' private keys and withdrew money to third-party wallets.

Turkey—$2 billion, Japan—$1.3 billion, and China—$1.1 billion became the anti-leaders for the total stolen amount. Most scam and hack cases occurred in the United States, Great Britain, and Japan.

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27% of all BTC belongs to 0.01% owners - research

According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, 5 out of 19 million BTC are stored on 10 thousand addresses.

Finance professors Antoineta Shor and Igor Makarov analyzed all bitcoin transactions since 2008. According to their estimates, about 114 million people own BTC, which means that approximately 0.01% of bitcoin owners control 27% of circulation.

"This calls into question the whole concept of decentralization and equality. In practice, bitcoin has become highly centralized and inaccessible to most.  The bulk of transactions is conducted through exchanges that are actually intermediaries. And mining costs have become so high that only a small group of corporations can afford it"  the study says.

Also, the professors managed to find out the purpose of bitcoin transactions. About 90% of transfers have nothing to do with buying and selling. The researchers agreed that users often move their funds between several wallets to make it challenging to track them.

About 3% are related to fraud and illegal transfers. And about 7% is accounted for by trading through exchanges and trading platforms.

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Only 3% of the total Bitcoin transfers account for illegal transactions

According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, only 3% of all bitcoin transactions are somehow connected with criminal activity. This completely refutes the results of a previously published Oxford study. The share of illegal BTC transactions is 46%.

The authors of the study, finance professors Antoineta Shor and Igor Makarov, analyzed all BTC transactions since 2008. According to their estimates, 90% of transfers have nothing to do with buying and selling.

"Blockchain is a public registry, and all payment flows between addresses are perfectly visible. Therefore, many BTC owners purposely transfer their money between several wallets to make it difficult to track. This creates a large number of false volumes" the text of the study explains.

Among the remaining 10%, 75% of all transfers related to purchase and sale were made through exchanges, OTC, and trading platforms.

And only 3% of transactions are somehow connected with fraudulent schemes and the darknet. As the researchers noted, their Oxford colleagues deliberately excluded the data of cryptocurrency exchanges from the calculations, which account for the majority of volumes. The figure of 46% appeared because analysts focused only on transfers for goods and services. Therefore, the result of their research does not reflect reality.

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In 2021, people were more interested in NFT than cryptocurrencies – Google Trends.

Over the past 12 months, people have started looking for NFTs more often than cryptocurrencies, according to Google Trends.

The growing interest in collectible tokens is associated with the fact that more and more media personalities and brands are issuing their own NFTs. Also, according to the report of the analytical platform Cointelegraph, the total volume of token sales increased 25 times in just a year. If in 2020 it amounted to $ 340 million, then in 2021 sales exceeded $ 9 billion.

The most frequently googled queries for "NFT" were in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. But in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Slovenia, the term "crypto" was of interest to users much more often.

In Ukraine, "crypto" is slightly ahead of "nft".  Of the total number of searches, cryptocurrency accounts for 54%, and tokens - 46%. Among the queries related to NFT, the leading ones are "nft binance," "nft is," and "nft token". Also, most often, Ukrainians were interested in the news of the cryptosphere and were looking for an application for visualizing the cryptocurrency market named "Crypto Bubbles".

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Since 2017, North Korean hackers have stolen $1.7 billion from cryptocurrency exchanges

Over the past five years, North Korean hackers have hacked many exchanges worldwide, according to South Korean media outlets. They managed to withdraw about $ 1.7 billion in cryptocurrency.

Among the most significant cases of hacker attacks, hacking of the South Korean exchange Youbit in 2017. The cybercriminals withdrew about $ 1.5 billion. After the incident, the exchange filed for bankruptcy.

Hacks took place worldwide - in the USA, South Korea, Indonesia, Slovenia, India, Mexico, and other countries.

It is known that hackers do not withdraw stolen cryptocurrencies, storing them on wallets.

"Considering that the price of bitcoin had risen more than 60 times since 2017 when North Korean hackers began to seriously hack cryptocurrency exchanges, the country may consider cryptocurrency as a reliable long-term investment," explained Koh Myung-Hyun, a senior fellow at the Institute for Political Research in Asia. "For North Korea, cryptocurrency has become the only financial asset that can be acquired in the face of strong economic sanctions, as well as to avoid them."

Experts believe that some of the stolen cryptocurrency can be used to finance the development of ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons.

Also, according to the US Federal Attorney's Office, North Korean hackers have repeatedly colluded with criminals from other countries, supported their activities, and conducted the training.