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That moment appears to have come thanks to a new partnership between the World Poker Tour and Theta Labs, operators of the Theta Network, which will support the NFTs. Select WPT moments will first go on sale April 18 during the premiere of a four-episode cash game series, as poker becomes the latest industry to dive into the popular new blockchain frontier. (Edit: The WPT has clarified the launch date is "TBD.") The WPT billed the sale as "the world’s first real-time NFT marketplace" in...

Last month, hours before news of Beeple’s $69 million NFT sale grabbed the front pages of newspapers across the country, a pair of 24 x 24 pixel portraits of aliens wearing little hats sold separately for around $7.5 million each. The sales, which occurred within 20 hours of each other, didn’t garner the same headlines that the Beeple auction received, but there was a bit of coverage in the tech press, mostly because one of the aliens was sold by Dylan Field, the CEO of design software star...

As part of our  Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) Day coverage on March 18, our own chief growth officer, Anand Chokkavelu, sat down for a chat with cryptocurrency expert and venture capitalist Nic Carter on Fool Live. In this interview, Nic shares his thoughts on Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies, the future of money and finance, the NFT investment trend, and much more.  Anand Chokkavelu: Hi. Im Anand Chokkavelu, and our next guest on Bitcoin Day here on Motley Fool Live is Nic Carter. His crypto waters...

Is this new investment trend for real?

One of the hottest trends in the cryptocurrency market has been the subject of non-fungible tokens, or 

USA TODAY Pull up YouTube and type the words “LeBron James Nemanja Bjelica” in the search bar. The page will load with clips – one titled “LeBron James Wanna Murder Nemanja Bjelica With Dunk Then Stare Down” – of James firing down the lane and dunking over Bjelica. Watch it free of charge. Replay it as often as desired. On Monday, a NBA Top Shot user named “jesse” paid $208,000 for that highlight.   Except in this case, highlight might be the wrong word. So what was purchased? ...

Steven Branscombe-USA TODAY Sports Two old Big East foes were reunited Tuesday night, as Georgetown and Connecticut met for the first time since the latter rejoined the conference from the basketball hinterlands of Aresco. The game was at times ugly and fierce, and for long stretches nip-and-tuck, but ultimately the Huskies’ second-half firepower gave the visitors the victory going away. The first half was basically a basketball snuff film. Georgetown shot 7 of 27 from the field, managing mo...

Welcome to the future of sports cards, where theyre no longer stored in the closet of the room you grew up in at your parents house but instead on the internet, like everything else. Youre welcome, Mom! While the rest of us were focused on everything but digital trading cards during the first year of COVID, the NBA was teaming up with a company called Dapper Labs to create a platform called NBA Top Shot. After officially launching last week, Dapper Labs CEO Roham Gharegozlou referred to the pr...

Would you pay $11,000 for a three-second clip of Bam Adebayo blocking an Atlanta Hawks player in a random regular-season game? What about dropping $40,000 on a clip of Jimmy Butler hitting a three-pointer? May I interest you in a $100,000 highlight of a LeBron James dunk? No? Seems crazy, right? Nobody would ever do that, would they? But they would, and they are. Tens of thousands of people, to be exact, are doing just that thing on a new platform called NBA Top Shot, a blockchain-based platf...

“Difficult to Fix it in Our Calendar”: Rafael Nadal Opens up on Tokyo Olympics 2021 Participation By February 1, 2021 4:00 pm Tennis superstar Rafael Nadal has said that he wants to represent his homeland in the forthcoming Tokyo Summer Olympics. The Spaniard, who is currently tied with Roger Federer for the most number of Grand Slam titles at 20 apiece, will carry his nation’s hopes in the ATP Cup which is set to get rolling in Brisbane on Tuesday. Nadal will open his campaign at the t...