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Cryptocurrency Market Nosedives Amid Reports of Indian Government Ban

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  Cryptocurrency crash: Bitcoin, Ether, and other popular cryptocurrencies saw their prices drop steeply on Tuesday night. The crypto market price charts were drenched in red on Wednesday, November 24 following reports that the Indian government might  ban cryptocurrency . With a drop of 25.51 percent, Bitcoin's value currently stands reduced to $46,601 (roughly Rs. 34 lakh) on Indian exchange CoinSwitch Kuber. On an international level, the world's oldest crypto has managed to maintain values above $50,000 (roughly Rs. 37.2 lakh), where usually the India prices are higher than global ones. On CoinMarketCap, Bitcoin is presently trading at a dipped value of $56,377 (roughly Rs. 42 lakh). This is the first time in recent times that Bitcoin prices have moved so further away from its all-time high, which as of November 9, was $68,327.99 (roughly Rs. 50.5 lakh). Given the stressed market mood,  Ether  also registered a drop of 20.83 percent in its trading value. Each tok...

Minecraft

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 is a  sandbox  construction game created by  Mojang AB  founder  Markus "Notch" Persson , inspired by  Infiniminer ,  Dwarf Fortress ,  Dungeon Keeper , and Notch's past games  Legend of the Chambered  and  RubyDung . Gameplay involves  players  interacting with the game world by placing and breaking various types of  blocks  in a  three-dimensional environment . In this environment, players can build creative structures, creations, and artwork on  multiplayer  servers and singleplayer worlds across multiple  game modes . Minecraft: Java Edition  is available for  € 23.95 ( US$ 26.95,  £ 17.95). When purchased, singleplayer and multiplayer game modes can be played using the downloadable stand-alone  launcher . The official  demo  is free, but has a time limit.  Minecraft  development started around May 10, 2009, and pre-orders for the full gam...

Blogger (service)

History On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by  Pyra Labs . As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by  Google  under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features (for which Pyra had charged) to become free. In October 2004, Pyra Labs' co-founder,  Evan Williams , left Google. In 2004, Google purchased  Picasa ; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility  Hello  into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs. On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as  web standards -compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email. On August 14, 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in  beta , codenamed "Invader", alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Google servers and had some new features, including interface lang...

YOU TUBE HISTROY

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Company history Main article:  History of YouTube From left to right:  Chad Hurley ,  Steve Chen  and  Jawed Karim , the founders of YouTube YouTube was founded by  Chad Hurley ,  Steve Chen , and  Jawed Karim , who were all early employees of  PayPal .Hurley had studied design at  Indiana University of Pennsylvania , and Chen and Karim studied  computer science  together at the  University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign . According to a story that has often been repeated in the media, Hurley and Chen developed the idea for YouTube during the early months of 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco. Karim did not attend the party and denied that it had occurred, but Chen commented that the idea that YouTube was founded after a dinner party "was probably very strengthened by marketing ideas around creating a stor...