Crypto Pulse # 57-Musk wants Twitter to support Crypto Payments Friday, 3rd Feb 2023 | Powered by GenShards 🌍 Here's all you need to know about what's been up in the Web3-sphere lately 👉 Read the issue | 🐧 Read tweet thread |👇Read highlights below ⛰ Macro Landscape 📌 Elon Musk wants Twitter payments to accomodate crypto (source) 📌 Leading South African retailer Pick n Pay now accepts Bitcoin payments on the Lightning Network, in 1600 stores across the country (source) 📌 The US has blackslisted BTC and ETH addresses related to evading Russian sanctions (source) 📈 Markets and Ecosystem 📌 After the Fed's rate hike, BTC soared to a 5-month high above $24k (source) 📌 As crypto interest in Brazil grows, Binance and Mastercard are issuing prepaid cards in the country (source) 📌 Lebanon is devaluing its currency by 90%, Edward Snowden believes BTC is the answer to such instances (source) 🀄️ NFTs, Metaverse & Gaming 📌 Zuckerberg calls AR a "research problem", as Meta’s metaverse division lost $4.3 billion in the fourth quarter (source) 📌 Here's how AI can make the metaverse a more "interactive" space (source) 📌 BAYC investors are left with less than a week to join a class action lawsuit against Yuga Labs (source) 👉 Read the newsletter for the latest in the Web3 and NFT world (and for some of the choicest memes 😉). Subscribe to get it directly in your inbox ! Next issue drops coming Tuesday- stay tuned ! 📺 🐧 Spread the word - retweet !