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Watch the full video:<\/strong>\u00a0Hedera Governing Council Overview<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fdcDvqMexLk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","post_title":"Ubisoft Joins The Governing Council Of Blockchain, Hedera Hashgraph","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ubisoft-joins-the-governing-council-of-blockchain-hedera-hashgraph","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-04 23:13:10","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:10","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3376","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"total_page":false},"paged":1,"class":"jblog_block_13"};

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<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Watch the full video:<\/strong>\u00a0Hedera Governing Council Overview<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fdcDvqMexLk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","post_title":"Ubisoft Joins The Governing Council Of Blockchain, Hedera Hashgraph","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ubisoft-joins-the-governing-council-of-blockchain-hedera-hashgraph","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-04 23:13:10","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:10","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3376","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"total_page":false},"paged":1,"class":"jblog_block_13"};

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\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Watch the full video:<\/strong>\u00a0Hedera Governing Council Overview<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fdcDvqMexLk\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","post_title":"Ubisoft Joins The Governing Council Of Blockchain, Hedera Hashgraph","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ubisoft-joins-the-governing-council-of-blockchain-hedera-hashgraph","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-04 23:13:10","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:10","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3376","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"next":false,"total_page":false},"paged":1,"class":"jblog_block_13"};

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There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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By subscribing, you agree with our privacy and terms.

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\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Subscribe To Our Newsletter

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\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Subscribe To Our Newsletter

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\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Most Read

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

By subscribing, you agree with our privacy and terms.

Follow The Distributed

ADVERTISEMENT
\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Most Read

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

By subscribing, you agree with our privacy and terms.

Follow The Distributed

ADVERTISEMENT
\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Subscribe To Our Newsletter

By subscribing, you agree with our privacy and terms.

Follow The Distributed

ADVERTISEMENT
\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Subscribe To Our Newsletter

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\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Most Read

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

By subscribing, you agree with our privacy and terms.

Follow The Distributed

ADVERTISEMENT
\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Subscribe To Our Newsletter

By subscribing, you agree with our privacy and terms.

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ADVERTISEMENT
\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Subscribe To Our Newsletter

By subscribing, you agree with our privacy and terms.

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\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Most Read

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

By subscribing, you agree with our privacy and terms.

Follow The Distributed

ADVERTISEMENT
\n
\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Subscribe To Our Newsletter

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\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Subscribe To Our Newsletter

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ADVERTISEMENT
\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Subscribe To Our Newsletter

By subscribing, you agree with our privacy and terms.

Follow The Distributed

ADVERTISEMENT
\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Subscribe To Our Newsletter

By subscribing, you agree with our privacy and terms.

Follow The Distributed

ADVERTISEMENT
\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Subscribe To Our Newsletter

By subscribing, you agree with our privacy and terms.

Follow The Distributed

ADVERTISEMENT
\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Most Read

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

By subscribing, you agree with our privacy and terms.

Follow The Distributed

ADVERTISEMENT
\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Subscribe To Our Newsletter

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Follow The Distributed

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\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Subscribe To Our Newsletter

By subscribing, you agree with our privacy and terms.

Follow The Distributed

ADVERTISEMENT
\n
\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Most Read

Subscribe To Our Newsletter

By subscribing, you agree with our privacy and terms.

Follow The Distributed

ADVERTISEMENT
\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Follow The Distributed

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\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

eBay is considering the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a payment option according to CEO Jamie Iannone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\"It\u2019s been amazing to watch the BAYC ecosystem use their rights to collaborate and build awesome shit we never could have dreamed up. We can\u2019t wait to see the Cryptopunks and Meebits communities do the same.<\/em>\"<\/p>Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"BAYC's Yuga Labs Acquires Rights To CryptoPunks And Meebits","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"baycs-yuga-labs-acquires-rights-to-cryptopunks-and-meebits","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-14 21:05:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-14 10:05:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3890","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3695,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-02 20:06:03","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:03","post_content":"\n

eBay is considering the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a payment option according to CEO Jamie Iannone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Yuga Labs plans to grant the commercial rights to all CryptoPunk and Meebit NFTs to their owners, as has been done for BAYC owners. This still means that Yuga Labs owns the collection and will \"be building the overall brand right alongside them\", but each NFT owner can monetize their specific ape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It\u2019s been amazing to watch the BAYC ecosystem use their rights to collaborate and build awesome shit we never could have dreamed up. We can\u2019t wait to see the Cryptopunks and Meebits communities do the same.<\/em>\"<\/p>Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"BAYC's Yuga Labs Acquires Rights To CryptoPunks And Meebits","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"baycs-yuga-labs-acquires-rights-to-cryptopunks-and-meebits","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-14 21:05:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-14 10:05:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3890","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3695,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-02 20:06:03","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:03","post_content":"\n

eBay is considering the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a payment option according to CEO Jamie Iannone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Yuga Labs \"now own the brands, copyright in the art, and other IP rights for both collections, along with 423 CryptoPunks and 1711 Meebits\" according to their announcement. This means that they own both the 1st<\/a> and 2nd<\/a> most valuable NFT collections on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs plans to grant the commercial rights to all CryptoPunk and Meebit NFTs to their owners, as has been done for BAYC owners. This still means that Yuga Labs owns the collection and will \"be building the overall brand right alongside them\", but each NFT owner can monetize their specific ape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It\u2019s been amazing to watch the BAYC ecosystem use their rights to collaborate and build awesome shit we never could have dreamed up. We can\u2019t wait to see the Cryptopunks and Meebits communities do the same.<\/em>\"<\/p>Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"BAYC's Yuga Labs Acquires Rights To CryptoPunks And Meebits","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"baycs-yuga-labs-acquires-rights-to-cryptopunks-and-meebits","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-14 21:05:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-14 10:05:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3890","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3695,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-02 20:06:03","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:03","post_content":"\n

eBay is considering the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a payment option according to CEO Jamie Iannone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/yugalabs\/status\/1502420714527334406?s=20&t=IyM-KDtJPh0WaI5XPfA10A\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs \"now own the brands, copyright in the art, and other IP rights for both collections, along with 423 CryptoPunks and 1711 Meebits\" according to their announcement. This means that they own both the 1st<\/a> and 2nd<\/a> most valuable NFT collections on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs plans to grant the commercial rights to all CryptoPunk and Meebit NFTs to their owners, as has been done for BAYC owners. This still means that Yuga Labs owns the collection and will \"be building the overall brand right alongside them\", but each NFT owner can monetize their specific ape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It\u2019s been amazing to watch the BAYC ecosystem use their rights to collaborate and build awesome shit we never could have dreamed up. We can\u2019t wait to see the Cryptopunks and Meebits communities do the same.<\/em>\"<\/p>Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"BAYC's Yuga Labs Acquires Rights To CryptoPunks And Meebits","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"baycs-yuga-labs-acquires-rights-to-cryptopunks-and-meebits","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-14 21:05:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-14 10:05:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3890","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3695,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-02 20:06:03","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:03","post_content":"\n

eBay is considering the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a payment option according to CEO Jamie Iannone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

joint<\/a> announcement<\/a> was made by Larva Labs and Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a> on Friday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/yugalabs\/status\/1502420714527334406?s=20&t=IyM-KDtJPh0WaI5XPfA10A\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs \"now own the brands, copyright in the art, and other IP rights for both collections, along with 423 CryptoPunks and 1711 Meebits\" according to their announcement. This means that they own both the 1st<\/a> and 2nd<\/a> most valuable NFT collections on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs plans to grant the commercial rights to all CryptoPunk and Meebit NFTs to their owners, as has been done for BAYC owners. This still means that Yuga Labs owns the collection and will \"be building the overall brand right alongside them\", but each NFT owner can monetize their specific ape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It\u2019s been amazing to watch the BAYC ecosystem use their rights to collaborate and build awesome shit we never could have dreamed up. We can\u2019t wait to see the Cryptopunks and Meebits communities do the same.<\/em>\"<\/p>Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"BAYC's Yuga Labs Acquires Rights To CryptoPunks And Meebits","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"baycs-yuga-labs-acquires-rights-to-cryptopunks-and-meebits","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-14 21:05:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-14 10:05:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3890","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3695,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-02 20:06:03","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:03","post_content":"\n

eBay is considering the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a payment option according to CEO Jamie Iannone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n

Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, has acquired CryptoPunks and Meebits from fellow developer Larva Labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

joint<\/a> announcement<\/a> was made by Larva Labs and Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a> on Friday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/yugalabs\/status\/1502420714527334406?s=20&t=IyM-KDtJPh0WaI5XPfA10A\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs \"now own the brands, copyright in the art, and other IP rights for both collections, along with 423 CryptoPunks and 1711 Meebits\" according to their announcement. This means that they own both the 1st<\/a> and 2nd<\/a> most valuable NFT collections on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs plans to grant the commercial rights to all CryptoPunk and Meebit NFTs to their owners, as has been done for BAYC owners. This still means that Yuga Labs owns the collection and will \"be building the overall brand right alongside them\", but each NFT owner can monetize their specific ape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It\u2019s been amazing to watch the BAYC ecosystem use their rights to collaborate and build awesome shit we never could have dreamed up. We can\u2019t wait to see the Cryptopunks and Meebits communities do the same.<\/em>\"<\/p>Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"BAYC's Yuga Labs Acquires Rights To CryptoPunks And Meebits","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"baycs-yuga-labs-acquires-rights-to-cryptopunks-and-meebits","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-14 21:05:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-14 10:05:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3890","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3695,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-02 20:06:03","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:03","post_content":"\n

eBay is considering the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a payment option according to CEO Jamie Iannone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Without disclosing any serious numbers, Aptos founders told TechCrunch<\/a> they were \"well off into the unicorn territory,\" this means the company is valued at a minimum of $1 billion.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Aptos, A Blockchain Derived From Meta's Failed Diem Project Raises $200m","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"aptos-a-blockchain-derived-from-metas-failed-diem-project-raises-200m","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:23:56","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:23:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3959","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3890,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-13 19:50:24","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-13 08:50:24","post_content":"\n

Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, has acquired CryptoPunks and Meebits from fellow developer Larva Labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

joint<\/a> announcement<\/a> was made by Larva Labs and Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a> on Friday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/yugalabs\/status\/1502420714527334406?s=20&t=IyM-KDtJPh0WaI5XPfA10A\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs \"now own the brands, copyright in the art, and other IP rights for both collections, along with 423 CryptoPunks and 1711 Meebits\" according to their announcement. This means that they own both the 1st<\/a> and 2nd<\/a> most valuable NFT collections on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs plans to grant the commercial rights to all CryptoPunk and Meebit NFTs to their owners, as has been done for BAYC owners. This still means that Yuga Labs owns the collection and will \"be building the overall brand right alongside them\", but each NFT owner can monetize their specific ape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It\u2019s been amazing to watch the BAYC ecosystem use their rights to collaborate and build awesome shit we never could have dreamed up. We can\u2019t wait to see the Cryptopunks and Meebits communities do the same.<\/em>\"<\/p>Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"BAYC's Yuga Labs Acquires Rights To CryptoPunks And Meebits","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"baycs-yuga-labs-acquires-rights-to-cryptopunks-and-meebits","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-14 21:05:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-14 10:05:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3890","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3695,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-02 20:06:03","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:03","post_content":"\n

eBay is considering the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a payment option according to CEO Jamie Iannone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Aptos announced<\/a> that they have \"raised $200 million in a strategic round led by a16z crypto with participation from Multicoin Capital, Katie Haun, 3 Arrows Capital, ParaFi Capital, IRONGREY, Hashed, Variant, Tiger Global, BlockTower, FTX Ventures, Paxos, and Coinbase Ventures\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without disclosing any serious numbers, Aptos founders told TechCrunch<\/a> they were \"well off into the unicorn territory,\" this means the company is valued at a minimum of $1 billion.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Aptos, A Blockchain Derived From Meta's Failed Diem Project Raises $200m","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"aptos-a-blockchain-derived-from-metas-failed-diem-project-raises-200m","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:23:56","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:23:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3959","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3890,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-13 19:50:24","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-13 08:50:24","post_content":"\n

Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, has acquired CryptoPunks and Meebits from fellow developer Larva Labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

joint<\/a> announcement<\/a> was made by Larva Labs and Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a> on Friday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/yugalabs\/status\/1502420714527334406?s=20&t=IyM-KDtJPh0WaI5XPfA10A\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs \"now own the brands, copyright in the art, and other IP rights for both collections, along with 423 CryptoPunks and 1711 Meebits\" according to their announcement. This means that they own both the 1st<\/a> and 2nd<\/a> most valuable NFT collections on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs plans to grant the commercial rights to all CryptoPunk and Meebit NFTs to their owners, as has been done for BAYC owners. This still means that Yuga Labs owns the collection and will \"be building the overall brand right alongside them\", but each NFT owner can monetize their specific ape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It\u2019s been amazing to watch the BAYC ecosystem use their rights to collaborate and build awesome shit we never could have dreamed up. We can\u2019t wait to see the Cryptopunks and Meebits communities do the same.<\/em>\"<\/p>Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"BAYC's Yuga Labs Acquires Rights To CryptoPunks And Meebits","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"baycs-yuga-labs-acquires-rights-to-cryptopunks-and-meebits","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-14 21:05:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-14 10:05:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3890","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3695,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-02 20:06:03","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:03","post_content":"\n

eBay is considering the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a payment option according to CEO Jamie Iannone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Aptos Raising $200 Million<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Aptos announced<\/a> that they have \"raised $200 million in a strategic round led by a16z crypto with participation from Multicoin Capital, Katie Haun, 3 Arrows Capital, ParaFi Capital, IRONGREY, Hashed, Variant, Tiger Global, BlockTower, FTX Ventures, Paxos, and Coinbase Ventures\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without disclosing any serious numbers, Aptos founders told TechCrunch<\/a> they were \"well off into the unicorn territory,\" this means the company is valued at a minimum of $1 billion.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Aptos, A Blockchain Derived From Meta's Failed Diem Project Raises $200m","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"aptos-a-blockchain-derived-from-metas-failed-diem-project-raises-200m","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:23:56","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:23:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3959","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3890,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-13 19:50:24","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-13 08:50:24","post_content":"\n

Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, has acquired CryptoPunks and Meebits from fellow developer Larva Labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

joint<\/a> announcement<\/a> was made by Larva Labs and Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a> on Friday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/yugalabs\/status\/1502420714527334406?s=20&t=IyM-KDtJPh0WaI5XPfA10A\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs \"now own the brands, copyright in the art, and other IP rights for both collections, along with 423 CryptoPunks and 1711 Meebits\" according to their announcement. This means that they own both the 1st<\/a> and 2nd<\/a> most valuable NFT collections on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs plans to grant the commercial rights to all CryptoPunk and Meebit NFTs to their owners, as has been done for BAYC owners. This still means that Yuga Labs owns the collection and will \"be building the overall brand right alongside them\", but each NFT owner can monetize their specific ape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It\u2019s been amazing to watch the BAYC ecosystem use their rights to collaborate and build awesome shit we never could have dreamed up. We can\u2019t wait to see the Cryptopunks and Meebits communities do the same.<\/em>\"<\/p>Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"BAYC's Yuga Labs Acquires Rights To CryptoPunks And Meebits","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"baycs-yuga-labs-acquires-rights-to-cryptopunks-and-meebits","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-14 21:05:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-14 10:05:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3890","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3695,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-02 20:06:03","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:03","post_content":"\n

eBay is considering the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a payment option according to CEO Jamie Iannone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\"Openness is the only way to achieve credible neutrality...Come build with us.\"<\/em><\/p>Mo Shaikh<\/a>, on Medium<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Aptos Raising $200 Million<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Aptos announced<\/a> that they have \"raised $200 million in a strategic round led by a16z crypto with participation from Multicoin Capital, Katie Haun, 3 Arrows Capital, ParaFi Capital, IRONGREY, Hashed, Variant, Tiger Global, BlockTower, FTX Ventures, Paxos, and Coinbase Ventures\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without disclosing any serious numbers, Aptos founders told TechCrunch<\/a> they were \"well off into the unicorn territory,\" this means the company is valued at a minimum of $1 billion.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Aptos, A Blockchain Derived From Meta's Failed Diem Project Raises $200m","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"aptos-a-blockchain-derived-from-metas-failed-diem-project-raises-200m","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:23:56","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:23:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3959","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3890,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-13 19:50:24","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-13 08:50:24","post_content":"\n

Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, has acquired CryptoPunks and Meebits from fellow developer Larva Labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

joint<\/a> announcement<\/a> was made by Larva Labs and Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a> on Friday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/yugalabs\/status\/1502420714527334406?s=20&t=IyM-KDtJPh0WaI5XPfA10A\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs \"now own the brands, copyright in the art, and other IP rights for both collections, along with 423 CryptoPunks and 1711 Meebits\" according to their announcement. This means that they own both the 1st<\/a> and 2nd<\/a> most valuable NFT collections on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs plans to grant the commercial rights to all CryptoPunk and Meebit NFTs to their owners, as has been done for BAYC owners. This still means that Yuga Labs owns the collection and will \"be building the overall brand right alongside them\", but each NFT owner can monetize their specific ape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It\u2019s been amazing to watch the BAYC ecosystem use their rights to collaborate and build awesome shit we never could have dreamed up. We can\u2019t wait to see the Cryptopunks and Meebits communities do the same.<\/em>\"<\/p>Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"BAYC's Yuga Labs Acquires Rights To CryptoPunks And Meebits","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"baycs-yuga-labs-acquires-rights-to-cryptopunks-and-meebits","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-14 21:05:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-14 10:05:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3890","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3695,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-02 20:06:03","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:03","post_content":"\n

eBay is considering the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a payment option according to CEO Jamie Iannone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Move is an open-source programming language, which pairs with the announcement<\/a> of a \"public devnet\" for the Aptos blockchain. \"Aptos Devnet is live today. Jump in, contribute, provide feedback, help us make it better,\" says Aptos CEO, Mo Shaikh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Openness is the only way to achieve credible neutrality...Come build with us.\"<\/em><\/p>Mo Shaikh<\/a>, on Medium<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Aptos Raising $200 Million<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Aptos announced<\/a> that they have \"raised $200 million in a strategic round led by a16z crypto with participation from Multicoin Capital, Katie Haun, 3 Arrows Capital, ParaFi Capital, IRONGREY, Hashed, Variant, Tiger Global, BlockTower, FTX Ventures, Paxos, and Coinbase Ventures\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without disclosing any serious numbers, Aptos founders told TechCrunch<\/a> they were \"well off into the unicorn territory,\" this means the company is valued at a minimum of $1 billion.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Aptos, A Blockchain Derived From Meta's Failed Diem Project Raises $200m","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"aptos-a-blockchain-derived-from-metas-failed-diem-project-raises-200m","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:23:56","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:23:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3959","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3890,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-13 19:50:24","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-13 08:50:24","post_content":"\n

Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, has acquired CryptoPunks and Meebits from fellow developer Larva Labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

joint<\/a> announcement<\/a> was made by Larva Labs and Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a> on Friday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/yugalabs\/status\/1502420714527334406?s=20&t=IyM-KDtJPh0WaI5XPfA10A\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs \"now own the brands, copyright in the art, and other IP rights for both collections, along with 423 CryptoPunks and 1711 Meebits\" according to their announcement. This means that they own both the 1st<\/a> and 2nd<\/a> most valuable NFT collections on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs plans to grant the commercial rights to all CryptoPunk and Meebit NFTs to their owners, as has been done for BAYC owners. This still means that Yuga Labs owns the collection and will \"be building the overall brand right alongside them\", but each NFT owner can monetize their specific ape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It\u2019s been amazing to watch the BAYC ecosystem use their rights to collaborate and build awesome shit we never could have dreamed up. We can\u2019t wait to see the Cryptopunks and Meebits communities do the same.<\/em>\"<\/p>Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"BAYC's Yuga Labs Acquires Rights To CryptoPunks And Meebits","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"baycs-yuga-labs-acquires-rights-to-cryptopunks-and-meebits","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-14 21:05:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-14 10:05:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3890","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3695,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-02 20:06:03","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:03","post_content":"\n

eBay is considering the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a payment option according to CEO Jamie Iannone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Aptos will be based on the technology utilized by the former Diem project before it was scrapped<\/a> by Meta in January of this year. The plans to build a decentralized layer 1 blockchain will be partly based on Move<\/a>, a coding language that was developed for the Diem project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Move is an open-source programming language, which pairs with the announcement<\/a> of a \"public devnet\" for the Aptos blockchain. \"Aptos Devnet is live today. Jump in, contribute, provide feedback, help us make it better,\" says Aptos CEO, Mo Shaikh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Openness is the only way to achieve credible neutrality...Come build with us.\"<\/em><\/p>Mo Shaikh<\/a>, on Medium<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Aptos Raising $200 Million<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Aptos announced<\/a> that they have \"raised $200 million in a strategic round led by a16z crypto with participation from Multicoin Capital, Katie Haun, 3 Arrows Capital, ParaFi Capital, IRONGREY, Hashed, Variant, Tiger Global, BlockTower, FTX Ventures, Paxos, and Coinbase Ventures\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without disclosing any serious numbers, Aptos founders told TechCrunch<\/a> they were \"well off into the unicorn territory,\" this means the company is valued at a minimum of $1 billion.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Aptos, A Blockchain Derived From Meta's Failed Diem Project Raises $200m","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"aptos-a-blockchain-derived-from-metas-failed-diem-project-raises-200m","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:23:56","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:23:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3959","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3890,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-13 19:50:24","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-13 08:50:24","post_content":"\n

Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, has acquired CryptoPunks and Meebits from fellow developer Larva Labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

joint<\/a> announcement<\/a> was made by Larva Labs and Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a> on Friday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/yugalabs\/status\/1502420714527334406?s=20&t=IyM-KDtJPh0WaI5XPfA10A\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs \"now own the brands, copyright in the art, and other IP rights for both collections, along with 423 CryptoPunks and 1711 Meebits\" according to their announcement. This means that they own both the 1st<\/a> and 2nd<\/a> most valuable NFT collections on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs plans to grant the commercial rights to all CryptoPunk and Meebit NFTs to their owners, as has been done for BAYC owners. This still means that Yuga Labs owns the collection and will \"be building the overall brand right alongside them\", but each NFT owner can monetize their specific ape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It\u2019s been amazing to watch the BAYC ecosystem use their rights to collaborate and build awesome shit we never could have dreamed up. We can\u2019t wait to see the Cryptopunks and Meebits communities do the same.<\/em>\"<\/p>Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"BAYC's Yuga Labs Acquires Rights To CryptoPunks And Meebits","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"baycs-yuga-labs-acquires-rights-to-cryptopunks-and-meebits","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-14 21:05:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-14 10:05:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3890","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3695,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-02 20:06:03","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:03","post_content":"\n

eBay is considering the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a payment option according to CEO Jamie Iannone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Former employees of Meta, along with backers of the defunct Diem project, plan to expand upon the project after raising US$200 million. The new project dubbed Aptos was founded by former employees of Meta with the goal of building the \"safest and most scalable Layer 1<\/a> blockchain\" able to scale to billions of people<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aptos will be based on the technology utilized by the former Diem project before it was scrapped<\/a> by Meta in January of this year. The plans to build a decentralized layer 1 blockchain will be partly based on Move<\/a>, a coding language that was developed for the Diem project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Move is an open-source programming language, which pairs with the announcement<\/a> of a \"public devnet\" for the Aptos blockchain. \"Aptos Devnet is live today. Jump in, contribute, provide feedback, help us make it better,\" says Aptos CEO, Mo Shaikh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Openness is the only way to achieve credible neutrality...Come build with us.\"<\/em><\/p>Mo Shaikh<\/a>, on Medium<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Aptos Raising $200 Million<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Aptos announced<\/a> that they have \"raised $200 million in a strategic round led by a16z crypto with participation from Multicoin Capital, Katie Haun, 3 Arrows Capital, ParaFi Capital, IRONGREY, Hashed, Variant, Tiger Global, BlockTower, FTX Ventures, Paxos, and Coinbase Ventures\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without disclosing any serious numbers, Aptos founders told TechCrunch<\/a> they were \"well off into the unicorn territory,\" this means the company is valued at a minimum of $1 billion.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Aptos, A Blockchain Derived From Meta's Failed Diem Project Raises $200m","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"aptos-a-blockchain-derived-from-metas-failed-diem-project-raises-200m","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:23:56","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:23:56","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3959","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3890,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-13 19:50:24","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-13 08:50:24","post_content":"\n

Yuga Labs, the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT collection, has acquired CryptoPunks and Meebits from fellow developer Larva Labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

joint<\/a> announcement<\/a> was made by Larva Labs and Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a> on Friday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/yugalabs\/status\/1502420714527334406?s=20&t=IyM-KDtJPh0WaI5XPfA10A\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs \"now own the brands, copyright in the art, and other IP rights for both collections, along with 423 CryptoPunks and 1711 Meebits\" according to their announcement. This means that they own both the 1st<\/a> and 2nd<\/a> most valuable NFT collections on the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yuga Labs plans to grant the commercial rights to all CryptoPunk and Meebit NFTs to their owners, as has been done for BAYC owners. This still means that Yuga Labs owns the collection and will \"be building the overall brand right alongside them\", but each NFT owner can monetize their specific ape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"It\u2019s been amazing to watch the BAYC ecosystem use their rights to collaborate and build awesome shit we never could have dreamed up. We can\u2019t wait to see the Cryptopunks and Meebits communities do the same.<\/em>\"<\/p>Yuga Labs on Twitter<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"BAYC's Yuga Labs Acquires Rights To CryptoPunks And Meebits","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"baycs-yuga-labs-acquires-rights-to-cryptopunks-and-meebits","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-14 21:05:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-14 10:05:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3890","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3695,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-03-02 20:06:03","post_date_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:03","post_content":"\n

eBay is considering the introduction of cryptocurrencies as a payment option according to CEO Jamie Iannone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

eBay is aiming to be the go-to platform for Gen-Z and millennials. Iannone stated<\/a> in an interview that Gen-Z is a \"priority target for the platform.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iannone believes eBay is \"a place where people have something to sell and people have something buy show up.\" The rise in cryptocurrency's popularity has made several online platforms accept it as payment. With its focus on capturing millennials, eBay aims to do the same, and better align with their customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will eBay Accept Cryptocurrencies?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\"We're not accepting crypto currently...on March 10, we're going to go deeper on all of these things, payments, advertising, our focus categories.\"<\/p>Jamie Iannone on The Street<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Iannone said that eBay changed its policies last year to make their platform a place to buy and sell anything, physical or digital. \"eBay will be the place where people trade goods, whether they be physical or digital. So over time, you know, we want this to be the marketplace for sustainability.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite eBay's recent attempt to accept cryptocurrencies at payment, it isn't their first. They first tried to integrate Bitcoin payments<\/a> back in 2014. Although this attempt fell through, it seems the company did not entirely give up its goal.<\/p>\n","post_title":"eBay Interested In Crypto As A Payment Option","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"ebay-interested-in-crypto-as-a-payment-option","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-03-02 20:06:05","post_modified_gmt":"2022-03-02 09:06:05","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3695","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3564,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-23 19:11:54","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:54","post_content":"\n

A vending machine in New York has launched and it sells nothing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NFT Platform, Neon<\/a>, has launched the first NFT vending machine in the world in New York City's Financial District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The machine accepts both debit and credit cards, before dispensing a box with a QR code inside. This QR code is technically your NFT, all you have to do is scan it through Neon's App. Once scanned the NFT will show up in your digital wallet, although the wallet is not required to purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Credit: Neon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why A Vending Machine?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In order to make NFTs more accessible to the public Neon\u2019s machine doesn\u2019t require any cryptocurrency. This allows for the public to buy an NFT without having to sign up prior to doing so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Purchasing an NFT can be a daunting task to those not familiar with Web 3 and Blockchain. Neon hopes to \"bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience\". An NFT vending machine is surely one way to attract a lot of attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Birnholtz, CMO and co-founder of Neon states that \u201cwhile only 2% of Americans have digital wallets, 80% have a credit card or debit card,\u201d adding that \u201cNeon started with fiat because our mission is unique, to bring digital art and collecting to the largest possible audience,\u201d<\/p>\n","post_title":"World's First NFT Vending Machine Launched In NYC","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"worlds-first-nft-vending-machine-launched-in-nyc","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-02-23 19:11:57","post_modified_gmt":"2022-02-23 08:11:57","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3564","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3553,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-22 20:56:19","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-22 09:56:19","post_content":"\n

Sling TV has announced<\/a> that they are partnering with BitPay to accept crypto payments for their subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is a US-based streaming service owned by Dish Network. With over 2 million current subscribers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The addition of crypto payment as an option means that Litecoin<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin<\/a>,\u00a0Ethereum<\/a>,\u00a0Bitcoin Cash<\/a>,\u00a0Wrapped Bitcoin<\/a>, Dogecoin<\/a>, and\u00a0Shiba Inu<\/a> are all viable currencies. Also accepting USD-pegged stablecoins<\/a>, including\u00a0GUSD<\/a>,\u00a0USDP<\/a>,\u00a0BUSD<\/a>,\u00a0DAI<\/a>, and\u00a0USDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DISHNews\/status\/1494702599446036481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1494702599446036481%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fau.finance.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsling-tv-accept-dogecoin-other-165039935.html\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\"Beginning this week, Sling TV subscribers can use cryptocurrency to pay for their monthly subscription. Through the payment provider Bitpay, users can now select and pay for their favorite digital streaming service with their preferred digital currency \u2013 whether it\u2019s bitcoin, ethereum or dogecoin.<\/em>\"<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV is another large corporation to accept Dogecoin, following Elon Musks' announcement <\/a>last week for Tesla to accept Dogecoin at charging stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only Available To Existing Users, So Far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sling TV customers with an existing monthly subscription can pay with cryptocurrencies. New users will have to pay with a traditional payment method. The next month the crypto payment option will be made available to the monthly subscriber. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSling customers can only make one monthly, manual payment with Bitpay, but will have the choice to prepay for one to six months at a time,\u201d Sling\u2019s summary of the crypto payment system concludes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision comes after Sling TV's desire to support cryptocurrency payments to give users more flexibility with ease of use.<\/p>\n","post_title":"SlingTV Partners With BitPay To Accept Crypto For Subscriptions","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"slingtv-partners-with-bitpay-to-accept-crypto-for-subscriptions","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-04-24 23:26:28","post_modified_gmt":"2022-04-24 13:26:28","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3553","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3521,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-20 12:27:30","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-20 01:27:30","post_content":"\n

Tesla will begin accepting Dogecoin<\/a> as a payment method at Tesla Supercharging Stations as per a tweet<\/a> from Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rayan Zohoury, the founder of Tesla Console<\/a>, an app store for Tesla's tweeted<\/a> how a mere 10 minutes after the announcement they would accept Dogecoin supercharging stations were full! Elon Musk replied with plans of opening diners and drive-in cinemas at the supercharging stations, where they would also be able to make payments with Dogecoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This comes after the recent news that Tesla would begin accepting Dogecoin as payment<\/a> for their merchandise. \u201cTesla will make some merch buyable with Doge and see how it goes,\" Musk said in a tweet \u2013 a good decision looking back now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Dogecoin?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Elon Musk is an avid supporter of Dogecoin, although it was started as a \"joke\"<\/a>. It has gained a lot of traction over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may wonder why Elon Musk has decided to utilize Dogecoin over an overall better cryptocurrency like Bitcoin from a technical aspect. Here's a statement Elon made after an interview with Time Magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The transaction value of Bitcoin is low, and the cost per transaction is high. Therefore, at least at a space level, it is suitable as a store of value. But fundamentally, Bitcoin is not a good substitute for transactional currency.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"Dogecoin To Be Accepted As Payment At Tesla Superchargers","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"dogecoin-to-be-accepted-as-payment-at-tesla-superchargers","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3521","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3518,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-19 23:27:34","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-19 12:27:34","post_content":"\n

ConocoPhillips, the world's largest independent oil and natural gas production company will start selling their excess gas to Bitcoin miners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A CNBC report<\/a> states the company has started a pilot project in Bakken, North Dakota where oil reserves are rich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of burning off their excess gas, they've sold it to a Bitcoin processor for use. Although the company has not disclosed the bitcoin miner behind the business deal or terms of the project yet. The decision supports the companies objective of eliminating routine flaring by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oil and gas production companies have often been forced to burn excess gas when problems occur to the transmission pipelines, in turn revenue drops along with the fact this poses a danger to wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ConocoPhillips is predicted to save a lot of revenue from such limiting where things can go wrong, while increasing revenue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most importantly, rescue its carbon footprint in partnership with the Bitcoin miner. Bitcoin mining has been seen as a way many oil and gas companies are able to escape from the negatives of carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Oil And Gas Giant ConocoPhillips To Power Bitcoin Mining","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"oil-and-gas-giant-conocophillips-to-power-bitcoin-mining","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:54:42","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:54:42","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3518","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3480,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-16 21:20:15","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-16 10:20:15","post_content":"\n

McDonald's is the latest company to join the metaverse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, has announced the news that McDonald's had filed 10 trademarks<\/a>. The applications include \u201cvirtual food and beverage products; downloadable multimedia files containing artwork, text, audio and video files and\u00a0non-fungible tokens<\/a> (NFTs).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshGerben\/status\/1491449758967562240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1491449758967562240%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbeincrypto.com%2Fmcdonalds-filed-10-trademark-applications-for-the-metaverse%2F\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

McDonald\u2019s is additionally planning to create \u201cvirtual concerts and other virtual events\u201d and virtual restaurants \u201cfeaturing actual and virtual goods.\u201d <\/p>\n","post_title":"10 Trademarks Filed By McDonald's For The Metaverse","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"10-trademarks-filed-by-mcdonalds-for-the-metaverse","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:02","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:02","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3480","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3413,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-08 21:35:14","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-08 10:35:14","post_content":"\n

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) calls for an end to \"bogus\" NFT site HitPiece<\/a>'s infringement of artists' rights. The cease and desist was forwarded<\/a> to the attorneys of HitPiece on February 4th, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RIAA insists HitPiece stop infringing on the intellectual rights of the musicians for selling NFTs of their music without the consent of the original artists. This is nothing new, HitPiece has been criticized in the past by both artists and fans for the same reason. After an apology<\/a> from the company on February 2nd, this wasn't enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The line was crossed and the FIAA decided to step in to take legal action and show that there is no playing around in this industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHitPiece appears to be little more than a scam operation designed to trade on fans\u2019 love of music and desire to connect more closely with artists, using buzzwords and jargon to gloss over their complete failure to obtain necessary rights. Fans were led to believe they were purchasing an NFT genuinely associated with an artist and their work when that was not at all the case. While the operators appear to have taken the main HitPiece site offline for now, this move was necessary to ensure a fair accounting for the harm HitPiece and its operators have already done and to ensure that this site or copycats don\u2019t simply resume their scams under another name.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>Ken Doroshow, RIAA Chief Legal Officer<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","post_title":"NFT Platform HitPiece Receives Cease And Desist Letter From Recording Industry Association","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","post_password":"","post_name":"nft-platform-hitpiece-receives-cease-and-desist-letter-from-recording-industry-association","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-04-11 12:55:43","post_modified_gmt":"2023-04-11 02:55:43","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.thedistributed.co\/?p=3413","menu_order":0,"post_type":"post","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":3376,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-02-04 23:13:07","post_date_gmt":"2022-02-04 12:13:07","post_content":"\n

HBAR Foundation<\/a> announced today that games publisher, Ubisoft<\/a>, has become a part of their governing council for the public DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ubisoft has been exploring different avenues regarding blockchain for quite a while, and in December, it launched its first NFTs within Ghost Recon: Breakpoint. Regardless of making a special effort to deter speculators, the gaming communities reaction to its Quartz<\/a> and Digits drive has been predominantly negative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Ubisoft, we believe that the distributed ledger technology holds a key to the future of gaming by opening new opportunities for players to become true stakeholders of our games,\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

\u201cThe Hedera network offers a promising take on this technology, notably through its scalability, energy efficiency and innovative consensus mechanism.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>Didier Genevois - Blockchain Technical Director at the Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There are two main blockchain avenues for gaming: NFTs and\u00a0play-to-earn<\/a>, where the gameplay is designed to reward game players financially with tokens. So far, they\u2019ve done NFTs. Ubisoft envisages a different approach for play-to-earn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt truly needs to be built from scratch because it\u2019s a very different way to think about the game economy and the monetisation.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>Nicolas Pouard, Ubisoft<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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