Apr, 27
2023
Business, Free News Articles, Product Launches, Sports and Activities

Stack Sports Launches Innovative StackNFT Platform For Youth Athletes

DALLAS, Texas -- Stack Sports - the global technology leader in sports software solutions, announces the launch of StackNFT, a groundbreaking NFT platform designed specifically for athletes to create, decorate, and mint their own NFTs in a secure and straightforward manner. This first-of-its-kind platform offers youth sports families the unique opportunity to engage with the world of NFTs, just like the professional athletes they admire.

To deliver this platform, StackNFT is leveraging the power of NEAR, a high-performance, carbon-neutral, open source blockchain that is designed to be super-fast, incredibly secure, and infinitely scalable.

With NEAR, StackNFT is ensuring a safe and reliable environment for athletes to participate in the rapidly growing NFT market. NEAR also guarantees seamless integration, allowing users to focus on their creativity and the platform's easy-to-use features.

At Stack Sports, the mission has always been to increase participation in sports and transform the overall sports experience. With the launch of StackNFT, the company is taking a step towards achieving that goal by providing a new and exciting avenue for athletes and sports enthusiasts to connect with their favorite pastime.

This innovative platform not only brings the world of NFTs closer to youth athletes and their families but also provides an avenue for them to create and share their own digital collectibles, capturing precious memories and celebrating their accomplishments.

Brandon Shangraw, SVP of Innovation at Stack Sports, shared their enthusiasm about the platform, stating, "We are incredibly excited to introduce StackNFT to the world. Our partnership with the NEAR Foundation enables us to bring the emerging realm of NFTs to youth sports families and athletes, allowing them to create and collect digital memories in a fun, safe, and accessible way."

With the launch of StackNFT, Stack Sports is once again showcasing its commitment to innovation, empowering athletes and sports enthusiasts to engage with the rapidly evolving digital landscape in a safe and user-friendly environment.

For more information about StackNFT and how to get started, please visit https://www.stacknft.com/.

About NEAR:

NEAR is a high-performance blockchain that is designed to be super-fast, incredibly secure, and infinitely scalable. NEAR's vision is to create a network that enables people to re-imagine finance, creativity, and community in new and inclusive ways.

NEAR is built by an award-winning team of engineers and entrepreneurs to be simple to use, inclusive and good for the environment. NEAR is backed by top VCs such as A16Z, Pantera Capital, Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Blockchain.com, and Baidu Ventures.

About Stack Sports:

With nearly 50 million users in 35 countries, Stack Sports is a global technology leader in SaaS platform offerings for the sports industry. The company provides world-class software and services to support national governing bodies, youth sports associations, leagues, clubs, parents, coaches, and athletes. Some of the largest and most prominent sports organizations, including the U.S. Soccer Federation, Little League Baseball and Softball, and Pop Warner Little Scholars, rely on Stack Sports technology to run and manage their organizations.

Stack Sports is headquartered in Dallas and is leading the industry one team at a time focusing on four key pillars -- Grassroots Engagement, Participation Growth, Recruiting Pathways, and Elite Player Development.

To learn more about how Stack Sports is transforming the sports experience, please visit https://stacksports.com/.

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May, 11
2022
Business, Free News Articles, Software

CleverFiles Becomes the First Company to Offer Software Licenses as NFTs

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs for short, have already enabled many innovative use cases, from digital collectibles to private membership experiences. Today, CleverFiles, a software company based in Alexandria, VA, announced its collection of 100 full-featured transferable lifetime licenses for its world-famous data recovery software, Disk Drill, sold as NFTs on OpenSea.

CleverFiles is the first software developer in the world to explore this pioneering NFT use case, which could revolutionize how software licenses are distributed, stored, and authenticated. The collection, called Disk Drill - Essential Data Recovery, is available for purchase on OpenSea, the first and largest digital marketplace for crypto collectibles and NFTs.

Each of the 100 full-featured lifetime licenses costs the equivalent of $79 in USD Coin, a digital stablecoin that is pegged to the United States dollar to maintain a stable value. In comparison, a standard Disk Drill PRO license costs $89, while the lifetime one is $118, making the NFT licenses more than 30% cheaper. What's more, all NFT licenses can be used to unlock both the Mac and Windows version of Disk Drill.

Besides being more affordable, NFT licenses for Disk Drill offer several attractive benefits thanks to the underlying blockchain technology:

* They can be easily resold or transferred as unique gifts.

* Only a cryptocurrency wallet address is required to purchase a license.

* Each license comes with a unique piece of NFT art that provides additional value as an attractive digital collectible.

* To maintain proper price and gas estimates, the collection exists and is sold on Polygon.

* There are more than 10 traits in the Disk Drill's NFT collection.

Despite taking advantage of some of the most innovative technologies in the world, the NFT licenses are just as easy to use as regular ones, requiring no technical knowledge besides the ability to maintain a cryptocurrency wallet.

To see the entire collection of 100 full-featured transferable lifetime NFT licenses for Disk Drill PRO, visit this OpenSea collection.

Learn more: https://opensea.io/collection/essentialdata

About NFTs

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are units of data stored on a blockchain, a decentralized database that makes it possible for transactions to be organized without a central authority. NFTs are not mutually interchangeable, which makes it possible for them to uniquely identify digital files such as photos, videos, audio, or text.

About CleverFiles

CleverFiles is a US-based software development company specializing in data recovery solutions. Its flagship data recovery application, Disk Drill, has been available since 2010, helping thousands of Windows and Mac users achieve professional results when recovering lost data, all while being exceptionally easy to use and costing a small fraction of what professional data recovery centers charge for their services. Learn more: https://www.cleverfiles.com/.

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Apr, 27
2022
Awards and Honors, Business, Free News Articles, Product Launches

Stack Sports Partners with NEAR Foundation to Make NFTs more Accessible to Sports

PLANO, Texas -- Stack Sports - the global technology leader in sports software announced today that it will be partnering with the NEAR Foundation, a Swiss non-profit that oversees the NEAR blockchain ecosystem, to launch an athlete-focused NFT platform. The new Stack NFT platform will give all athletes an opportunity to create and mint their own NFTs on NEAR's blockchain.

"We are continually looking for new ways to serve our partners and sports families," said Brandon Shangraw VP of Marketing and Innovation at Stack Sports. "This athlete-focused NFT platform will allow our partners to access cutting edge innovation that was previously unavailable to our market. We see this as a huge value add for sports organizations and families."

Momentum continues to build around Stack Sports and its ecosystem as they add value for sports organizations. The largest ecosystem of value-add services now boasts over 50 products and services designed to help organizations grow participation while transforming the experience for athletes.

"NEAR is the perfect partner to help us bring this product to market," said Kyle Lundon, VP of Product at Stack Sports. "With their focus on scalability, security, and a consumer-friendly user experience they are a layer one blockchain technology that can support sports at scale. Their leadership in this space has given us confidence they can support the ten million plus sports families we serve."

The NEAR blockchain is faster than the world's most used blockchain and capable of 100,000s of transactions per second, with lower transaction fees. This allows the Stack NFT platform to give athletes a chance to mint their own NFTs at a very low cost and on a carbon-neutral blockchain. For Stack Sports users, the first NFTs they create will be free as an added benefit of being in the largest sports ecosystem. That means users of products like Sports Connect, CaptainU, Skyhawks, and Stack Team App will all have the opportunity to jump into creating an NFT at no cost.

NEAR runs in concert with Ethereum, along with other blockchains, allowing for the free flow of assets and communication between networks for the betterment of all. This means that the NFTs created on the NEAR blockchain are best-in-class and come without these portability restrictions that exist elsewhere in the NFT ecosystem.

"Sports is a clear space for innovation within the NEAR ecosystem," said Josh Daniels Head of Funding at the NEAR Foundation. "We are excited to partner with Stack Sports who has the vision and depth of experience to develop an NFT platform for all athletes."

The NEAR Foundation aims to help evangelize, raise awareness, support, and grow their ecosystem by allocating funding, including non-equity grants. To date, the foundation has allocated over $12M to nearly 600 grantees.

About NEAR:

NEAR is a high-performance blockchain that is designed to be super-fast, incredibly secure, and infinitely scalable. NEAR's vision is to create a network that enables people to re-imagine finance, creativity, and community in new and inclusive ways.

NEAR is built by an award-winning team of engineers and entrepreneurs to be simple to use, inclusive and good for the environment. NEAR is backed by top VCs such as A16Z, Pantera Capital, Electric Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Blockchain.com, and Baidu Ventures.

About Stack Sports:

With nearly 50 million users in 35 countries, Stack Sports is a global technology leader in SaaS platform offerings for the sports industry. The company provides world-class software and services to support national governing bodies, youth sports associations, leagues, clubs, parents, coaches, and athletes. Some of the largest and most prominent sports organizations including the U.S. Soccer Federation, Little League Baseball and Softball, and Pop Warner Little Scholars rely on Stack Sports technology to run and manage their organizations. Stack Sports is headquartered in Dallas and is leading the industry one team at a time focusing on four key pillars -- Grassroots Engagement, Participation Growth, Recruiting Pathways, and Elite Player Development. To learn more about how Stack Sports is transforming the sports experience, please visit: https://stacksports.com/.

Related link: https://stacksports.com/

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Apr, 15
2022
Business, Free News Articles, Product Launches

Apocalyptic Apes Launches: Bringing Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 One NFT at a Time

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- The non-fungible token (NFT) market is changing the way some big companies and major products get exposure. And, Apocalyptic Apes is a unique collection of 8,800 post-apocalypse themed chimp NFTs on the Ethereum platform. They're available on the company's website, and OpenSea, the world's first and largest NFT marketplace.

As a member of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC), Apocalyptic Apes' founder, Bill Starkov, goes by Fity.eth (BAYC #4487). He also holds other BAYC and Mutant Ape Yacht Club (MAYC) numbers. The BAYC is an elite NFT project where hundreds of sports personalities and celebrities such as Madonna and Tom Brady are members.

"NFTs are about community building. It's like a club where like-minded people can exchange ideas and realize new opportunities. We're changing how communities are formed, sustained and operated," Fity.eth says.

Apocalyptic Ape NFTs quickly sell out. They're focused on the planet's future and ape portraits depict what a post-apocalyptic world will look like in an era where food is scarce and the air is difficult to breathe.

Fity.eth's team collaborates and partners with companies such as Golden State Hemp and Other World, Inc. - companies that replace plastics with hemp and other biodegradable material - to build a better and safer world. It also collaborates with CLICK, a brand that's partnered with Mike Tyson's 2.0 spray.

Down the road, Apocalyptic Apes may introduce ApeCoin into its ecosystem. ApeCoin is a utility token empowering a decentralized community building at the forefront of web3.

Fity's apocalyptic collection holders include soccer celebrity, John Terry; American media personality, Paris Hilton; NBA superstar, Michael Carter Williams; and many more.

The Queen Ape collection launches on April 28, 2022.

About Bill Starkov

Born in Odessa, Ukraine, Starkov was raised in Los Angeles. He's provided casting services for hundreds of different media outlets and worked with top international brands. He invests in and builds high end residential and commercial real estate and has used his community build skills to bring a community to Apocalyptic Apes.

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https://apocalypticapes.com/

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Mar, 25
2022
Advertising and Marketing, Business, Free News Articles

Digitl Mediums Marks Women’s History Month in Partnership with Fame Lady Squad and NFTignition by Co-Hosting Woman-Centric NFT Events

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Outernational Holdings, LLC (dba Digitl Mediums) is proud to recognize and celebrate women and girls this month around the world in celebration of Women's History Month. Digitl Mediums is committed to continuing its efforts to promote gender equality with meaningful partnerships, celebratory packaging and global storytelling efforts.

To mark the milestone, Digitl Mediums is announcing that it is working with the Fame Lady Squad and NFTignition to host a booth at the Los Angeles NFT.LA event (March 28-31). Immediately following NFT.LA, Digitl Mediums, Fame Lady Squad and NFTIgnition will host Women.NFT -- the first all-female NFT panel, NFT gallery event and a "From the Blockchain" podcast event to be held at various Los Angeles locations on April 1st & 2nd. The events serve to celebrate the impact that women and girls have made and continue to make and encourages female education and empowerment in the NFT, crypto and Web3.0 space.

"I am really proud to be a part of the movement we see happening in NFTs right now, and events like Women.NFT that amplify all the work being done to bring more women into the space," said NFTignition, co-Owner of Fame Lady Squad. "For the first time, women have a chance to be at the forefront of new technology, and we are working hard to make sure that's exactly what happens."

Women.NFT will feature special appearances from the following influencers who are deeply vested in the NFT and crypto space: NFTignition (co-Owner of Fame Lady Squad and co-Host of the "From the Blockchain" podcast); Bored Becky (co-Owner of Fame Lady Squad and co-Host of the "From the Blockchain" podcast); Crypto WendyO (a crypto expert that provides marketing and media solutions for crypto companies globally and founder of the "O Show"); Toni Payne (founder of Champayner Social Club and the Host of the NFT Talk Show); Brooke J Lacey (a NFT project tech advisor, blockchain developer, crypto TikTok creator, speaker & educator, and Web3.0 tech recruiter); and Iris Ichishita (a filmmaker, executive, producer, digital engagement expert and entrepreneur with hands-on experience in creative development, content programming and physical production.

"Digitl Mediums is pleased to host the first NFT gallery event and panel to feature women in the NFT industry," said Jay Estrella, CTO of Digitl Mediums. "The event serves to celebrate the impact that women and girls have made and will continue to make in the burgeoning NFT space."

Attendance at NFT.LA and the Women.NFT events could not be possible without the sponsorship of Year of the Woman (a series of dynamic, one-of-a kind NFTs created by artist Yasmin Shima); Mine the Future (the first NFT that mines you Bitcoin - owners of MTF become profit partners in an industrial-grade BTC mining facility); DigitalSelf, Inc. (a leader in the metaverse space); TokenProof (lets you prove ownership of your digital assets without compromising safety or privacy, both online and IRL); Defintasy (a play-to-earn metaverse platform); and Macroverse.world (digital comics, collections and story-telling on the Blockchain).

About Digitl Mediums

Beverly Hills-based Digitl Mediums is a purpose-built team of strategists, digital marketing experts, creatives, and influencers passionate about building, evolving, and amplifying the reach, voice, people, and product offerings of the brands we represent. Our team's collective experience is heavily rooted in sports, art, entertainment, emerging culture and creative marketing in the crypto industry to create the kind of advertising people want to experience, witness, hear, feel, promote, and pay for. Our team has been in the industry for over 40 years with experience working with some of the best in the industry, such as Nike, Sprite, Gatorade, Verizon, ADIDAS, and Spark Communications. For more information, please visit our Website: https://digitlmediums.com/

About Fame Lady Squad and NFTignition

Fame Lady Squad is not only the first generative female avatar NFT project but also the first community-led project, and its community exists to provide opportunities and support to women of all backgrounds in the crypto/NFT space. Fame Lady Squad is led by pioneering members of the woman's NFT space: Bored Becky, Data Lady (Now Data) & NFTignition (known outside the NFT world as Danielle Davis). NFTignition is the Co-Owner of Fame Lady Squad. Some might know her as the Host of the Podcast series "From the Blockchain" or from her appearance on Bloomberg TV. For more information, please visit: https://nftignition.com/ and https://www.fameladysquad.com/our-story

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Feb, 15
2022
Business, Free News Articles

NOOFT Project to create the NFT Search Engine

SHERIDAN, Wyo. -- NOOFT project is a one-stop-platform for the NFT market, with a unique AI-based ecosystem designed to filter and index millions of NFTs from marketplaces around the web so that NFTs' enthusiasts can get everything they need about the NFT world in no time. In an NFT world with various marketplaces and NFTs minted on different blockchains that make it hard for the end user (both creators and owners) to navigate them all, the NFT enthusiasts have now access to the entire NFT world through just one platform: NOOFT.

NOOFT project - NFTs integrated ecosystems

NOOFT project aims at integrating the NFT marketplaces, by creating:

* NOOFT search engine: integrating marketplaces across the world, NOOFT is the one-stop-platform to search and discover NFTs so users can find what they are looking for easier and faster. Also, the ads will help the NFTs creators & marketplaces to promote their assets.

* NOOFT for creators: as there is no evolution without constant learning, NOOFT brings a comprehensive NFT academy designed for both NFTs beginners and experts.

* NOOFT terminal: where NFT experts will have access to a high level analytics platform where they can dive deeper into the NFT world.

NOOFT token

The partnership the Nooft Project has with the NOOFT token will grant users access to special discounts for services on the NOOFT platform. As a loyalty utility token, NOOFT token will enable holders to explore and enjoy all the perks of the NOOFT project's features.

NOOFT search engine - next stop

When creating or buying an NFT, the user faces the challenge of multiple marketplaces and systems that require time and energy to get used to them, to get all the information needed. Here is where the NOOFT platform steps in with its NFTs search engine that will help the users to navigate the NFT world faster and easier. Therefore, the next stop in the NOOFT project will be the MVP version of the NFT search engine, starting from Q2 in 2022.

Learn more at: https://nooft.io/

Nooft Technologies Inc. is the source of this content. This Press Release is for informational purposes only. The information does not constitute investment advice or an offer to invest.

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Nov, 19
2021
Business, Fine Art and Artists, Free News Articles

Brilliant Chess Game Finale by World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen Has Been Added to ‘Chess Board Rapture’ NFT Collection

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- A Magnus Carlsen chess brilliancy that wrapped up his successful 2016 World Chess Championship match defense has been minted by Citrusw00d Productions on the OpenSea non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace.

The latest addition to the Chess Board Rapture NFT collection depicts the concluding phase of Carlsen's final playoff game win over challenger Sergei Karjakin five years ago - culminating with a shocking queen sacrifice that has been called the most dramatic final move of any World Chess Championship since the institution originated some 135 years ago.

The 94-seconds-long film can be viewed at:

https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/63367472966475522338762630114326136861224857079812512247593168992986552336388

Like previous entries in the collection, the featured move sequence is rendered by means of sophisticated videographic technology and is accompanied by text and graphic elements that evoke the time and place where the game occurred, and by branded music synchronized to reinforce the impact of the viewing experience. Each of these practices is unique -- making Chess Board Rapture a pathbreaking project in the nascent chess NFT universe.

"Everything in this film and in the two previous ones is 100% comprehensible to any viewer who knows nothing more than the rules of play," says Coordie64, the chess playing visual artist behind the Chess Board Rapture project. "The on-board action is explained without use of chess notation or special terminology, but in under 100 everyday words that illuminate both the game's aesthetic beauty and appealing tidbits about its history."

Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, who will defend his title again this month in a match against Russian challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi in Dubai that begins November 24, is viewed by many as the greatest chess player ever. The 2016 championship match took place in New York City some three years after he first wrested the world title from Vishy Anand.

Although neither contestant in the latest Chess Board Rapture NFT game was American, the 2016 match was the first one-on-one battle for the world chess title held in America since 1995, and only the third since 1907. Extending this collection's tradition of designing displays that bridge chess culture with the wider world, the text page colors and typefaces that appear in the latest NFT were associated with the most visible and consequential non-chess event that coincided with the Carlsen-Karjakin chess match.

The next item slated to join the collection later in November will also extend a Chess Board Rapture tradition of honoring women's contributions to high-level chess past and present. It will feature a brilliancy by Vera Menchik, the first Women's World Chess Champion. Menchik competed against most of the world's top male players while holding the women's championship title from 1927 until 1944 when she and her family died in a German bombing raid on London.

Each Chess Board Rapture film presents a short sequence of moves that decided a historically important game, followed by a text vignette describing the context and the players. Designed for the general public and art collectors, the content contains no chess notation. Each NFT will be produced in a pre-set number of editions that carry a unique digital certificate of authenticity recorded on the Ethereum blockchain.

The collection is housed at https://opensea.io/collection/chess-board-rapture.

The project is managed by Citrusw00d Productions, a start-up enterprise that is working with members of the chess community to develop curated experiences meant to deepen public appreciation of the aesthetic beauty and historic traditions of the Royal Game.

Unlike other e-sports, chess is widely recognized as an art form as well as a competitive struggle. It is not uncommon for chess tournaments to award "brilliancy prizes" for exceptional creativity at the board. Frank Marshall, an American champion of the early 20th century, once made a move of such beauty that spectators reportedly showered him with gold coins. Marcel Duchamp, a professional-level chess player and a world-class artist, famously declared that "all chess players are artists."

Citrusw00d Productions website: https://citrusw00d.com

For technical and other details of the Chess Board Rapture project and its people, please refer to the background fact sheet linked here (PDF):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bLc1aGt9Rt1KABKhucTlgyARV010Ym13/view?usp=sharing

Please note that the company name, Citrusw00d, is spelled with zeros ("0") in place of the letter "o."

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Citrusw00d Productions is in the business of production and distribution of multimedia content targeting specialized audiences, including collectors of chess art with historical significance.

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Nov, 05
2021
Business, Entertainment, Fine Art and Artists, Free News Articles

‘Chess Board Rapture’ NFT Collection Presents Digital Art Inspired by The Game of Chess

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Art collectors and chess lovers will soon have a chance to own high-quality depictions of historically important chess battles in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) issued through Citrusw00d Productions. Citrusw00d has minted an initial pair of multimedia chess films on the OpenSea NFT marketplace that will list for sale on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021.

Each approximately two-minute-long film presents in striking visual detail a short sequence of moves that decided a historically important game, followed by a text vignette describing the context and the players. Designed for the general public and art collectors, the content contains no chess notation.

Each NFT will be produced in a pre-set number of editions, each carrying a unique digital certificate of authenticity recorded on the Ethereum blockchain. The films appear within an OpenSea collection named "Chess Board Rapture," viewable at https://opensea.io/collection/chess-board-rapture.

Coming additions to the collection will build on the theme of honoring chess history by showcasing critical moves that decided important games of the distant and recent past.

The project is managed by Citrusw00d Productions, a start-up enterprise that is working with members of the chess community to develop curated experiences meant to deepen public appreciation of the aesthetic beauty and historic traditions of the Royal Game.

Chess games, moves, and players occupy a growing niche within the emerging digital art market. A further impetus for creation and trading of chess-inspired NFTs will arrive later in November when the first World Chess Championship match in three years gets under way in Dubai. NBC will cover the match for an hour each day on its specialized sports TV network, NBCSN.

Chess itself is enjoying an explosion in both participation and viewership, vaulting into the ranks of the world's fastest-growing e-sports. The top playing site, Chess.com, hosts several million chess games daily. It claimed 74 million members as of October, up 40% year-to-date and up 150% since January 2020. A 2-week amateur chess tournament among gaming stars and celebrities this February drew 7.5 million viewers; a September sequel was sponsored by Coinbase, the cryptocurrency giant.

"This surging visibility has spawned a proliferation of chess brand names whose market influence extends far beyond the chess world," says Coordie64, the chess playing visual artist behind the Chess Board Rapture NFT concept. "Nothing similar ever happened before - not even during the 1970s Bobby Fischer chess boom."

Mastercard recently signed World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen as a global brand ambassador -- part of a select group that includes Lionel Messi and Naomi Osaka. Carlsen was the world's highest-earning e-sports professional in 2020, while the Netflix chess drama The Queen's Gambit was the year's third most-watched TV series. Several e-sports organizations have ongoing sponsorship contracts with professional and amateur chess players whose Twitch streams have hundreds of thousands of followers each.

Unlike other e-sports, chess is widely recognized as an art form as well as a competitive struggle. It is not uncommon for chess tournaments to award "brilliancy prizes" for exceptional creativity at the board. Frank Marshall, an American champion of the early 20th century, once made a move of such beauty that spectators reportedly showered him with gold coins. Marcel Duchamp, a professional-level chess player and a world-class artist, famously declared that "all chess players are artists."

Citrusw00d Productions website: https://citrusw00d.com/

For technical and other details of the Chess Board Rapture project and its people, please refer to the background fact sheet linked here (PDF): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iTFs_QjKQ2dohqpXTTd1MMCAyfEWil-s/view?usp=sharing

Please note that the company name, Citrusw00d, is spelled with zeros ("0") in place of the letter "o."

Related link: https://citrusw00d.com/

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Oct, 20
2021
Free News Articles, Religion and Churches

America’s Crypto Church giving away 1,500 pounds of cannabis to boost membership (where legal)

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- This isn't your normal church bake sale, more like "Baked Sale." Temple420.org tries a unique membership drive method. Hoping that people would gravitate towards their message of hope in the End Times and join the organization less than 100 people subscribed to their YouTube channel. The for-profit church has yet to sell many NFTs as hoped. Now, they are trying gifting cannabis to new members.

"Our Membership NFTs are on the ETH (Ethereum) ledger, the one the SEC has already pronounced is not a security unlike XRP, so the price of ETH to the US Dollar went up so quickly that our NFT prices were crazy high and that is not because we are a cannabis church," the congregation's leader Pastor Craig X said jokingly.

"We decided to lower the cost to $100 for one of our NFTs and to add more value we're including 10 individually packed ounces of cannabis hemp with the $100 membership. The retail price is $200 on the hemp alone, plus you get an NFT, the hottest digital asset on the market, so we think joining our congregation is a great idea and a good deal! Even if you resell the NFT you keep the hemp."

There are three levels of membership for the church each that comes with a different NFT image and a higher reward of cannabis to the new member. A simple search on YouTube will show many videos of church members burning cannabis in a prayerful ceremony like Native America smudging. The church leader says he learned to use cannabis in a medicinal and spiritual way from Havasupai Elder, Roland Manakaja, featured in High Times magazine, pop culture songs, books and spiritual videos.

With only two weeks left in Temple 420's seven weeks ministry they have decided to step up their game by making their NFT offer that comes with membership include the very sacrament they are burning online. Each day the Bible class starts with a prayer and the burning of cannabis hemp. "We are on Rumble and YouTube with our online non-traditional ministry teaching people not to hate each other whether or not they smoke cannabis. Although we think cannabis helps people get along and a bong."

The Pastor goes on to describe a few of his unique sermons. For example, in one 'service' there were two people dressed in street clothes drinking watching the news, "One night Mario and I drank a beer recording ourselves with 3 camera and lights watching the news like everyday Americans, however, we stopped and pointed out how both CNN and Fox News Corp have the same top investors and those investors are paying to divide us, everyday Americans. Meanwhile, God's love doesn't distinguish between the vaccinated and unvaccinated and neither do we. God doesn't distinguish between the races. In his eyes, He created the human race and that is what we teach."

The church believes the media is being used as propaganda against the American people to divide them. Whether it is late night entertainers like John Oliver claiming that natural immunity doesn't exist or Stephen Colbert doing a song and dance with needles promoting the mandates there seems to be a myriad of examples that support their belief. "News anchors and politicians have become salespeople for the pharmaceutical industry," claims the Pastor. "In the Book of Revelation Jesus wared against people using 'pharmakea' (where the modern word pharmacy comes from) to control the masses (Rev 18:23)." The church uses humor and videos clips to make their points in their videos.

Temple 420 tries to prove that the first two seals of Revelation have been opened and to prepare their followers for the Third Seal, The Rider on the Black Horse. Temple 420 says this seal brings judgement to the world with famine and inflation. In another episode "the Cholo and the White Guy," the two Bible teachers, sans beer, explain how crypto currency has helped them to beat rising prices. They also show samples of silver and gold. The show is mix between the spiritual and the financial with Temple 420 telling their followers to prepare for the Biblical Apocalypse by diversifying their assets. Hemp is an asset followers should have because it is food, fuel, fiber, medicine and the center of a spiritual life, so the church is giving 1,500 pounds to members that join by purchasing an NFT.

Mario Perez, operations director and editor of videos for Temple 420 says, "We bought the cannabis and designed the NFTs to get people excited about joining the Temple. This crazy low price for an NFT is more than reasonable, and we think it will only rise. The most expensive NFT is $420 and comes with two pounds of premium California organic hemp and 30 minutes of Biblical counseling from Pastor Craig X."

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Oct, 13
2021
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America’s First Church of Crypto Currency – Temple 420 in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- "I think it is the church's job to look out for our follower's spiritual and financial well-being during this challenging time of global upheaval and Let's Go Brandon! Temple 420 shares what we sincerely think and hopefully, the lives of people who listen to us are better for it," says Temple 420 founder Craig X Rubin.

Temple 420 - http://www.temple420.org/ - has chosen to support their ministry by accepting donations in crypto currencies and by selling 3 humorous NFTs that are available at https://bit.ly/3oo8EeF, https://bit.ly/3mbQbza, https://bit.ly/39ZaZUT.

This pro-cannabis temple accepts donations in crypto currencies, such as Bitcoin, XRP and Shiba Inu even though these new forms of payment are controversial, Forbes magazine declared that crypto currencies were making racist and white supremacists wealthy, the church is promoting them because of their belief that we live in apocalyptic times.

Temple420.org is doing a 49-day ministry that launched on the Jewish holiday Yom Teruah, the Day of Shouts or Day of Trumpets. Temple 420 has launched twice before only to be stopped by law enforcement in Los Angeles. The leader of the church was given nearly 20 years in the justice system because his dispensary provided less than half the weight of one nickel, 2.5 grams of marijuana, to an undercover police officer with a doctor's note allowing them to use medical marijuana.

The third temple was purchased during the COVID crisis. It is online focusing on End Times prophecy, but that focus has led to them being censored on social media. "The Temple teaches that the First Seal of Revelation was opened with the Crown virus. The 'bow' is the Greek word, 'Tocson,' (pronounced toxon), which means common cloth, such as a face mask." The pastor admits that he could be wrong about his interpretation, but he says he is sincere in his belief. "The rider on the white horse is a medical professional acting as Christ, the healer, but in fact they are a false-Christ or pseudo-Christ."

Temple 420 teaches that the Red Horse, the Second Seal of the Apocalypse, is a global secret war. "The world is in a storm. Society knows something is wrong. We are obviously not shooting people, but a red country is at war with the world. The Red Horse is taking the peace from the world. Nations are allowing themselves to be divided-within households and between the leaders and the people. That is why the Rider on the Red Horse carries a large sword to take the peace."

Temple 420 is the "Crypto Church" because of the Black Horse who rides out at the opening of the Third Seal. The temple's leader says these seals are coming faster now like a birth contraction,

"Almost all Biblical scholars agree the Black Horse represents famine and inflation and judgement upon a wicked people, so we are recommending to our followers, all 25 of them, that they buy XRP, SHIB, or Bitcoin to protect their wealth heading into the period of higher inflation and the potential for some food scarcity as the Bible predicts. We saw it happen with toilet paper last year."

Temple 420 teaches from the Bible: "We are believers and Jesus said that He would not leave us unknowing in this time of Tribulation. I think Gold and Silver is God's money just like Robert Kiyosaki says. Crypto is the People's money because the central banks can't print it into worthlessness. So, we encourage our followers to buy some."

The Temple claims that there are negative sides of crypto too, "I think cash is freedom and I pray it does not go away," says the Pastor, "but the Federal Reserve is abusing their power to create money. Like Ron Paul, I want to see them audited and to have some competition. Monopolies abuse their power. Crypto currencies are competition, a counter to the Federal Reserve's monopoly." Some Fed officers quit recently when it was revealed they were profiting in the market from insider information.

The Pastor continued, "I love Shiba Inu because I can send tiny payments to my daughter in college, Bitcoin as digital gold, a store of wealth and XRP because it is a global payment network with real world utility. So, I am not shy about saying that the people who follow us on you YouTube should put some of their assets into crypto currencies as a hedge against inflation. If you bought $500 in Shiba Inu last year, you're more than good this year, a millionaire maybe? Peter Schiff is right about gold, but what are you going to do carry it around to go shopping? Mark Dice could not give away a $2,000 silver bar, but I can use my Coinbase card at the supermarket and spend my cryptos. We want our followers to be protected financially."

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