Police also arrested and charged a 45-year-old man from North Batemans Bay with a number of offences related to illegal firearms, ammunition and possessing a gaming machine that isn’t approved.

He was also granted a conditional bail.

The prevailing sentiment was that the market crash was a good thing. «I’m glad the bubble has burst, I’m glad we’re in a bear market,» said Colin Brady, a former Pixar animator, whose AMGI Studios is behind an NFT collection called My Pet Hooligan. I spoke to Brady as he demoed The Rabbit Hole, a My Pet Hooligan PC and console game the team is developing. «There’s so much deadwood on the tree, we need a giant wind to blow 95% of it away.» 

Mr Gotterson has recommended casinos introduce gambling cards with a person’s identity as well as $1000 cash transaction limits to reduce the likelihood of money laundering and to help gambling addicts.

The company says it has taken «significant and urgent remedial steps, including increased risk, compliance, and security staff, approval of upgrades to surveillance technology as well as permanently exiting junkets and closing the Marquee nightclub».

Jenkins’ Writer’s Room party was the first of many hosted by NFT creators throughout the week. These are typically open-bar events for holders, who are entitled to bring guests. The biggest is Ape Fest, a three-day extravaganza for Bored Ape owners that featured guests like LCD Soundsystem, The Roots and Amy Schumer. On the final day, Eminem and Snoop Dogg appeared to debut a new music video clip that features their Bored Apes. Other NFT groups put on shows with the likes of Madonna, Tame Impala and Quavo. 

Star managing director Matt Beiker resigned inside the third week of hearings after an auditor said he’d been berated by the casino boss for reporting the organisation was not doing enough to comply with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.

Star Entertainment could have its gaming licences torn up at two of its Queensland Casinos with an inquiry set to hand down a damning report on Thursday alleging money laundering, tax fraud and offering gifts for suspected criminals.

«We submit that the appropriate action NICC should take is to allow TSEG to continue to operate the licence, under strict supervision and being held accountable to the milestones on the remediation plan.»

The report from the Queensland inquiry comes a month after the report by the NSW gaming regulator found Star had repeatedly breached the law, misled banks and was infiltrated by criminal elements for years (pictured, Star Casino in Sydney) 

In response to those criticisms, NFT.NYC co-founder Cameron Bale said the show’s schedule was intentionally published a week prior to accommodate last-minute changes. Bale added speakers come from countries around the world, and that many of the pullouts were due to COVID travel restrictions. «Our first core value is to give the community a voice by putting as many passionate thought leaders on stage as possible,» Bale said of the inclusion of 1,500 speakers.

«The pie-in-the-sky [plan] is a theme park. We don’t know when or how, but we’re figuring it out,» said Luza. He added that stores along the lines of Build-a-Bear are another goal, and that they’ve been in talks for a TV show. 

The government said four Maasai villages are located within the boundaries of the Serengeti National Park, which was originally demarcated under British military rule for gaming but redrawn for conservation by subsequent administrations.

The scheme is focused on making it ultra-convenient for Australian consumers to recycle batteries and drastically reduce the estimated 90 per cent of batteries that wound up in landfill before the scheme began.

The Star Entertainment Group (TSEG) says it has a plan for «a multi-year transformation of the governance, accountability and capabilities, culture and risk, and compliance management practices of the organisation».

Rights groups and the Maasai community say the villages are outside the park’s boundaries, and that villagers were the victims of a violent police crackdown aimed at forcing them off their traditional lands to make way for trophy hunting by tourists and conservation.

Cooltopia, an activation created by NFT company Cool Cats. It featured several Pkv games, including this «Fur Is Lava» timed obstacle course. Like every other room in Cooltopia, this was built around a rare Cool Cat NFT — the devil Cool Cat. 

They allegedly recovered seven firearms, gel blasters, a replica handgun, a kilogram of tobacco, steroids, cannabis, a crystalised substance believed to be MDMA, a prohibited laser pointer and $1,600 cash.

Bored and Dangerous embodies much of what proponents claim as benefits of Web3. It’s not just that a character was created out of NFT art. Jenkins has his own NFT collection called the Writer’s Room, where each of the 6,942 NFTs act as keys to a Discord group. People in the Writer’s Room were able to cast votes on which way Strauss took the story. One of the first votes was on what Jenkins’ motivation for telling his story was. Options included owing bad debt to financiers, fear of losing his job, potential trouble with the law or — the winning option — that he’d become convinced that the fate of the Yacht Club was in his hands.