For parents, the few weeks leading up to Christmas are often easier than the rest of the year.
As we grow older, the charm of Santa’s existence grows dimmer, but the concept of good and bad is an integral part of human existence.
Some cases are a blurry gray with a mix of good and bad, just like every human.
Former Twitter CEO and current CEO of Block, previously known as Square Inc., sold his first-ever tweet as an NFT for US$2.9 million.
Dorsey said that he would convert the Ether in which the NFT was sold to Bitcoin and donate the proceeds to GiveDirectly’s Africa Response fund.
Besides, Dorsey has always been generous and philanthropic.
Butcher, founder of New York-based graphic design agency Visualize Value, along with the Cooperative for American Remittances launched a non-fungible token fund in August to provide care packages to displaced Afghan families.
Butcher is, therefore, not only going to feature on Santa’s list of “nice” but also earn the gratitude of the over 2,000 Afghan families that have benefited from the fund so far.
True to its name, Metagood is an NFT platform where a portion of each NFT drop goes towards a charitable cause chosen by the creators.
For instance, Switzerland-based NFT platform DoinGud launched last month to incentivize NFT projects to donate and align themselves with charitable causes.
SavePlanetEarth is a U.K.-based global environmental initiative that is developing certified carbon-credit NFTs, a green blockchain fully powered by renewable energy and a carbon credit exchange that will use native $SPE token.
Therefore, with the discussion around climate change heating up, SavePlanetEarth is just one of the environmentally-conscious crypto projects that have come up this year.
Curiously though, the hacker, who came to be known as Mr. White Hat claimed that he only intended to expose a flaw in the Poly’s code.
In the following two weeks, after humiliating Poly Network, the hacker finally returned all stolen assets and even the US$500,000 bounty offered by the company.
But on the other hand, he claimed that he only had benevolent intentions and wanted to expose the flaw and force Poly Network to fix it.
Mr. White Hat’s entry into the “naughty” list may deserve the benefit of doubt, but the ones that got away with billions are definitely staying put in the “naughty” list.
The crypto token was supposed to be used as an entry fee and the winner was supposed to get 90% of the entry fee paid by eliminated players, according to its website, which is now defunct.
Quite a few rug pulls have taken place this year, where money was lost, but this was by far the most discussed since the wide media coverage of the token prior to the collapse had helped attract investors.
Speaking of rug pulls, the perpetrators behind two major scams, who were also featured in our Halloween “horror stories” of the year article, also deserve a mention in this list.
In June, however, in one of his streams, Ross said: “I got paid a bag to do that shit.
Ross was reportedly paid US$200,000 for the promotion and later denied being involved in any scam.
Technology has been progressing in leaps and bounds — and so have the hoodlums that want to profit out of it by illicit means.
REvil, a criminal gang, claimed responsibility for the attack and demanded US$70 million in Bitcoin, but Kaseya decided to report the crime and cooperate with the U.S.
The firm had to shut down operations at five of its U.S.-based plants while its operations in Australia and the U.K was also disrupted.
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