💻💻Microsoft Edge Hops on the NFT Bandwagon with Built-In Wallet

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• Microsoft Edge Hops on the NFT Bandwagon with Built-In Wallet

• Bitcoin Inscriptions Reach Half a Million, Miners Rake in Millions

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Microsoft Edge Hops on the NFT Bandwagon with Built-In Wallet

In surprising news, Microsoft’s ‘Edge’ browser will soon include a built-in crypto and NFT wallet. This news comes from ‘Albacore’, an insider who leaked screenshots of this new development on Twitter.

Thanks Albacore, you’re the real MVP.

So Microsoft is adding a wallet - but why? The answer is simple - to make life easier for its customers. No more will Microsoft Edge users have to sign in to third party apps, as your crypto funds will be held in the already existing interface for stored credit cards.

This will certainly make things easier and help onboard crypto-noobs, but we have to wonder, what will happen to MetaMask and Coinbase when we no longer need them?

The sneaky screenshots show us a few details. Firstly, that the wallet is non-custodial. After the recent drama with exchanges, this is great to hear (remember - not your keys, not your crypto). Secondly, the landing page SS shows an overview of crypto holdings, a tab for transactions, and a page with links to Web3 breaking news. Also, there is a page dedicated to NFTs - and sleuthing degens have noted that it looks like a multiple marketplace aggregator.

Microsoft has yet to make an official announcement, but this news definitely has us on the edge of our seats.

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Bitcoin Inscriptions Reach Half a Million, Miners Rake in Millions

It’s official: Bitcoin Inscriptions via the Ordinals protocol have surpassed the 500,000 mark. This is a huge milestone for the tech, and also for BTC miners, who have earned an extra $2.66 MILLION in fees since the inscription boom.

Perhaps it's time for a career change

So there are now approx 539,000 Bitcoin inscriptions made via Ordinals. Dune Analytics data reveals that the half-a-mil threshold was crossed on March 17th. Most of the inscriptions (over 40%) are text based, with PNG inscriptions accounting for 32.3%, WEBP 14.3% and JPEG 6.8%.

With Ordinal Punks having huge success and Yuga Labs making moves in the BTC space via TwelveFold, it’s no surprise that Bitcoin NFTs continue to surge.

Now, Ordinals are even coming to the Litecoin blockchain, with one crypto developer successfully minting the first-ever Litecoin Ordinals after forking the Bitcoin Ordinals protocol.

It’s hot-bitcoin-summer, and with Bitcoin-based ordinal inscription NFTs predicted to represent a $4.5 billion market by 2025, it's only going to get hotter.

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Half Moons 🌓

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