THE HASH: Headlines - Top Stories of the Week 02-18-23
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🗓️ 18 February 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
A roundup of the week’s most valuable crypto stories for Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023.
Missed any episodes of “The Hash” this week? Today’s recap episode will get you caught up.
“Hash Headlines” rounds up this week’s headline stories, including:
- Mt. Gox Payout Update
- Binance's CZ Distances Himself from BUSD Stablecoin
- After Super Bowl Ad, DigiDaigaku NFTs’ Price Rises
Links to the headlines:
Mt. Gox’s 2 Largest Creditors Pick Payout Option That Won’t Force Bitcoin Sell-Off: Sources
Binance Hires Former Gemini-Exec as Chief Compliance Officer: Bloomberg
DigiDaigaku NFTs' Price Rises After $6.5M Super Bowl Ad
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the HASH headlines on the CoinDisk podcast network. |
| 0:09.1 | Get caught up on this week's top stories from the HASH crew. |
| 0:14.8 | And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a new source and does not provide investment advice. |
| 0:24.4 | Monday's top story. |
| 0:27.2 | I don't scan stuff at all. |
| 0:29.7 | Like, I didn't have my burner phone with me and I didn't want to scan it because you never can tell. |
| 0:33.5 | But anyways, as you guys saw that it featured a QR code to scan to mint, one of 10,000 free |
| 0:38.2 | Dragon Eggs, which are part of the game's Ethereum NFT project. And it's a Web3 gaming startup |
| 0:43.8 | limit break and they paid $6.5 million for the ad. And some of the viewers say the QR code took |
| 0:48.5 | them to the Twitter instead of the Mint, which I believe it wasn't even the company. It was |
| 0:53.4 | somebody that was affiliated with |
| 0:54.8 | the project. But I think I saw Christy's hand up if you want to go ahead and tackle this one. |
| 1:01.1 | That's funny. It wasn't even so much a hand up as I was like, you know, agreeing with you. |
| 1:05.8 | Oh, okay, good. Oh my gosh. Please, please, please don't be scanning random QR codes that show up on a TV or on |
| 1:13.9 | Twitter because people repost it because you don't know where that's going. |
| 1:17.3 | You don't know what that's going to do to your device. |
| 1:19.6 | That is a horrible, horrible thing to do. |
| 1:21.9 | And as evidenced by this, okay, I just want to point out that on Sunday, George Kalidis wrote an article about how |
| 1:28.6 | happy he was. There wasn't going to be any crypto ads. And it's going to be excerpted for the Node |
| 1:34.1 | today newsletter. And you should all read it because part of it is about crypto hubris and |
| 1:40.5 | executives and how these companies are buying these crypto ads and they are actually doing it |
| 1:49.4 | more for their own ego probably than for anything else. |
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