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// 全球最大NFT市場OpenSea，每日交易金額顯著下降，甚至暴跌至年度低位。這反映近幾個月以來，區塊鏈的數碼收藏品價值及買家的興趣也大不如前 http://startupbeat.hkej.com/?p=123407 //

// A majority of 4,653 active Ethereum nodes are being run through centralized web providers like Amazon Web Services, which experts believe could become a central point of failure. https://coinspectator.com/cointelegraph/2022/08/26/ethereum-dev-addresses-node-centralization-concerns-in-runup-to-the-merge/ //

// In a proof of work system, miners spend significant sums of money to run large energy-intensive compute facilities to secure the chain. They are rewarded with tokens (in Ethereum’s case, these are Ethereum tokens) and they must sell most of these tokens to pay their electric bills and hardware costs https://avc.com/2022/08/the-merge/ //

// 轉用權益證明後，以太坊的改變就將由一個代幣供應通脹的環境變成通縮。工作證明的以太坊激勵代幣包括挖工的獎勵，權益證明的以太坊挖工獎勵就會取消，獎勵只會給予權益證明抵押加密貨幣的投資者，所以之後每年以太坊供應量可能有1%至5%的跌幅 http://startupbeat.hkej.com/?p=122731 //

// Ethereum developers have been making swift progress with respect to the Merge upgrade on the Ethereum mainnet. As per the Ethereum developers, the Merge upgrade might happen beforehand the scheduled date of September 19. https://www.coinspeaker.com/ethereum-mainnet-merge-earlier/ //

// 伊朗使用的是什麼加密貨幣，而目標國家是指什麼國家，都未有進一步公佈，不過明顯地伊朗為了避開國際制裁，在無法使用美金自由貿易的情況下，加密貨幣會是一個新方式，要實施制裁將變得更複雜 https://unwire.pro/2022/08/11/iran-cheerfully-admits-using-cryptocurrency-to-pay-for-imports/blockchain/crytocurrency/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=iran-cheerfully-admits-using-cryptocurrency-to-pay-for-imports //

// 由古天樂創辦的影視公司天下一集團，夥拍品牌科技公司Gusto Collective，推出OneCool Collective非同質化代幣（NFT）項目。第一款NFT的設計，參考本月25日正式上映的本港科幻動作片《明日戰記》的動力裝甲造型，首批共2000個NFT剛於周日（7日）起發售 http://startupbeat.hkej.com/?p=122421 //

// The central bank will be cooperating with the private sector and said it has no plans to issue a retail CBDC at the moment, reported Fintech Singapore. https://www.techinasia.com/thai-central-bank-pilot-cdbc-2022 //