🗓 Weekly Digest: Ranking European Countries by Crypto Companies, Lawsuit Against ChatGPT by American Writers, Bitcoin HODLers Reach All-Time High, and More
✅ Poland Leads European Countries in the Number of Crypto Companies
DL News reports on the number of crypto companies registered in the EU. Out of 2,000, half of them are located in Poland (938). It's the undisputed leader among other countries. The top 5 also include Lithuania (499), Italy (124), France (95), and Spain (82).
✅ George Martin, John Grisham, and Other Writers File Lawsuit Against OpenAI
17 American writers have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the developer of the AI bot ChatGPT. They claim that the company illegally used their books to train large language models (LLMs).The lawsuit describes the case of programmer Liam Swain, who used ChatGPT to create a continuation of "A Song of Ice and Fire." Recall that the latest books in the series are still unpublished. George Martin (the author of the saga) asserts that the bot couldn't have done this without access to the full text of his other works. He did not consent to their use in training the program.
✅ ChatGPT Assisted in Creating a Memecoin
An anonymous developer utilized the AI chatbot ChatGPT to create the AstroPepeX memecoin. It's currently trading actively on the decentralized Uniswap exchange. The trading volume reached $12.9 million in the last 24 hours."GPT essentially wrote code for us based on the ERC-20 contract standards we provided to it in the script," the developer stated.
✅ The Number of Bitcoin HODLers Reaches a New High
According to Coinmarketcap, the number of addresses holding Bitcoin for over a year reached 33.8 million last week. This marks a new high since September 2022. Meanwhile, there is an outflow of Bitcoin on centralized crypto exchanges.