This year’s Super Bowl was a royal affair.
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Blockverse, an unofficial NFT project for Minecraft, have gone quiet after raising £975,000 through a public mint.On January 23, Blockverse launched their public sale of 10,000 NFTs that would enable owners access to a play-to-earn Minecraft server “allowing for teamwork and competition. $DIAMONDS are generated through combat and playtime,” reads their whitepaper.Costing 0.05 Ethereum (£97) to mint, all the tokens sold out in eight minutes.
However, shortly after that, the Blockverse Discord shut down, as did their official website and their Twitter account hasn’t posted since announcing the sell out in what fans are now calling a rug pull.Taking to Twitter, illiquidassets confirmed that they helped the team behind Blockverse with their marketing, but were also left out of pocket.Starting today, I will be helping to find and hunt down these guys. I wasn’t given any names as they kept everything very anon from me.
For any inquires or info, plz message me here or on discord. Add me to your chats and I’ll see what I can do in anyway to help (end)— wgmi? (@illiquidassets) January 25, 2022According to Illiquidassets, they paid various influencers to promote Blockverse from their own pocket (“I was told I was going to get reimbursed as soon as they minted out”), got their Twitter up to 10k followers and “even advised them on ways to grow their Discord.”“They not only ghosted the Discord group, but they ghosted me.
So now I am down 11eth or around $26k. Today, they deleted their Discord and took down everything, and I am still unpaid.“Starting today, I will be helping to find and hunt down these guys.
I wasn’t given any names as they kept everything very anon from me. For any inquires or info, plz message me here or on
.This year’s Super Bowl was a royal affair.
Molly Mae Hague has come under fire after she announced she's releasing her autobiography at the tender age of 22.
A terminally ill teenager who raised over £60,000 for a six-year-old cancer sufferer who he never met has passed away at the age of 19.
Zack Sharf Three women featured in the Netflix documentary “The Tinder Swindler” have launched a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign to help them clear their debts. Cecilie Fjellhøy, Pernilla Sjoholm and Ayleen Charlotte were all victims of the eponymous swindler, an Israeli man named Shimon Hayut who allegedly conned women on Tinder out of millions of dollars by catfishing them into believing his name was “Simon Leviev” and that he was the son of Israeli diamond tycoon Lev Leviev. “The Tinder Swindler” started streaming Feb.
Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford has taken the blame for the sudden changes to the band’s line-up, which saw the firing and re-hiring of their touring guitarist within a week.Back in January, Andy Sneap – who has toured with the band since 2018, subbing in for Glenn Tipton – was removed from the band ahead of their forthcoming North American tour. Five days later, however, the band announced that their touring line-up would remain “unchanged” and that Sneap would stay on.Now, in a new interview with Billboard, Halford has spoken about the confusing saga – ultimately attributing it to “a crazy idea” of reverting to a four-piece to reflect the band’s origins as a quartet.“That all came from me, it didn’t come from the band,” he said.
Tinder Swindler stars Cecile Fjellhøy, Pernilla Sjöholm, and Ayleen Charlotte have set up a Go Fund Me page in a bid to raise £600,000.The three women star in the new hit Netflix documentary, Tinder Swindler, where they claim Simon Leviev (formerly known as Shimon Heyada Hayut) conned them out of thousands in cash.The true crime documentary shows the three women share their experiences with Simon, who claimed to be the son of diamond billionaire Lev Avnerovich Leviev, after meeting him on the dating app Tinder. Cecile, Pernilla and Ayleen claim Simon portrayed himself as a wealthy man and showered the women with gifts and took them on lavish dates.Then he later claimed he was being hunted by his enemies and therefore unable to use his bank accounts, in fear the so-called enemies would find him.
Proud family. For Chloe Kim‘s parents—father Jong Jin Kim and mother Boran Yun Kim—their daughter is the definition of the American dream.
It’s one of the hottest topics in gaming right now, as publishers and creators look to levy the NFTs (or Non Fungible Tokens) to make more money from the consumer, and it just keeps backfiring. The latest to attempt to jump on the NFT-train and then hastily put on the brakes is Team17.
A six-year-old boy braved heavy rain and chilly conditions to walk 15 miles to raise thousands to transform a school playground.
A "fit and healthy" teenager was left in a coma after he suddenly collapsed after football training.
Lil Yachty has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the NFT platform Opulous.The rapper – real name Miles Parks McCollum – claimed that the company “maliciously” used his name and likeness to raise more than $6.5million (£4.86million) in venture capital funds (via Rolling Stone).McCollum stated in the filing that he only engaged in a couple of exploratory conference calls with Opulous in May 2021, which included the Singapore-based company’s founder and Ditto Music CEO, Lee Parsons.Yachty claimed “no agreement or deal terms” were reached, and that he never saw any of the money raised.According to the lawsuit, however, Opulous announced in a press release on June 2, 2021 that a “series of unmissable NFT drops” would be “led by world-famous artists including Lil Yachty”.
A Tameside community was left in shock after an early morning knife attack left a man needing urgent help.
NME, Project Zomboid developer Chris Simpson has shared that in terms of multiplayer, The Indie Stone is taking “a lot of cues” from GTA RP, a popular mod for Grand Theft Auto 5 that lets players roleplay as a citizen of Los Santos.Simpson, who is a coder and managing director at The Indie Stone, said that the popularity of GTA RP, and the community that has formed around it, has helped to shape what he envisions Project Zomboid‘s multiplayer as offering in the future.“One big thing I’d like to see is really lean into the roleplay aspect and maybe have some kind of Dungeon Master-y type functionality to aid in storytelling and multiplayer. It’s basically to really push the creative storytelling in the game in various ways.
A post shared by Kathryn Prescott (@k.prescott77)Kathryn's incident was made public after United Kingdom-based twin sister, Megan Prescott, made a plea to get to New York. "I received the most terrifying phone call I've ever received in my life on Tuesday evening," Megan wrote on her Instagram last fall. "My twin sister Kathryn was hit by a cement truck while crossing a road in New York on the 7th September.""After fighting through complex surgery some of Kathryn's injuries include: broken pelvis in two places, both of her legs, her foot and her left hand," Megan continued. "She is incredibly lucky to be alive.