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Capitalism and The Coronavirus Crisis: The Coming Transformation(s)
8.11.2020
The world economy is currently experiencing its severest contraction since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Unlike the Great Depression and the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2008-2009, this crisis cannot be directly attributed to the dysfunctional workings of capitalism. But even if it is...
US Voting Over, But Near-Zero Interest Rates, Inflation Are Here to Stay
6.11.2020
Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings.
Dr. Bruce Ng is an educator in the field of Distributed Ledger Technology...
Bitcoin’s Long-Term Evolution & US Election Impact: A Data Perspective by IntoTheBlock
4.11.2020
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Ethereum Adoption by the Numbers: Flipside Crypto
3.11.2020
Average of the past 21 days. 1. 30.5K New Contracts Are Created Daily Any developer can deploy a new smartContinue Reading
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The Next Chapter in Yield Farming: Ethereum 2.0 and Sustainability
1.11.2020
Chyna Qu. Chyna Qu is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of DeFiner, a decentralized finance network for crypto savings, loans, and payments.
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Yield farming has evolved as a mainstream DeFi (decentralized finance) practice, involving investors, or liquidity providers, putting...
People Want Data Privacy But Don't Always Know What They're Getting
30.10.2020
Gabriel Kaptchuk , Researcher Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Boston University.
Elissa M. Redmiles, Faculty member & Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute.
Rachel Cummings, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute...
Trump or Biden? It Doesn’t Matter To Crypto
28.10.2020
Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings.
Dr. Bruce Ng is an educator in the field of Distributed Ledger Technology...
The Diverging Paths of Bitcoin & DeFi: A Data Perspective by IntoTheBlock
28.10.2020
Every week, IntoTheBlock brings you on-chain analysis of top news stories in the crypto space. Leveraging blockchain’s public nature, IntoTheBlock’sContinue Reading
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Bitcoin Whales Just Split Up $5.5B Into Smaller Wallets: Flipside Crypto
27.10.2020
Clearly the recent increase in the price of Bitcoin caused accounts with a lot of BTC to do something. ButContinue Reading
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The UK and US Clamping Down On Crypto Trading – It's Not Yet A Big Deal
25.10.2020
Gavin Brown is the Associate Professor in Financial Technology ant the University of Liverpool.
The sale and promotion of derivatives of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to amateur investors is being banned in the UK by the financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It is...
ECB Executive Board Member on European Payments in the Digital Age
24.10.2020
Speech by Fabio Panetta, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), at the ECB Conference "A new horizon for pan-European payments and digital euro." Frankfurt am Main, 22 October 2020.
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Key points:
An uncontrolled change in the payments landscape...
Governments Can't Cancel Pandemic Debt By Printing More Money
23.10.2020
Ananish Chaudhuri is the Professor of Behavioural and Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland.
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With the government borrowing heavily to fund its pandemic response and recovery, it has been suggested it could simply cancel its debt by printing more money. That sounds like...
Announcing the 2020 State of CSS Survey
20.10.2020
Last year’s State of CSS Survey yielded interesting results. There’s the quick adoption of features, like calc() and CSS custom properties. There’s also the overwhelming opinion that CSS is fun to write even as we see a growing reliance on CSS-in JS. We also saw some predictable...
Bitcoin Is Better Than Ethereum At These Four Things
18.10.2020
Eric Meltzer is the Founding Partner of Primitive Ventures, a cryptoasset fund.
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"Ethereum (ETH) can do everything that Bitcoin (BTC) can do, plus a lot more."
I hear this often from people who are very new to crypto, and figured it would maybe be useful to make a list of the things...
KuCoin September 2020 Hack: Hacken Research
16.10.2020
Last week, the hottest topic in the crypto markets was the KuCoin hack. Our team highly values the need forContinue Reading
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CoinMarketCap Report: The Storage Token Ecosystem Before Filecoin
16.10.2020
CoinMarketCap recently released a new ranking of storage tokens, right ahead of Filecoin’s long awaited launch. Filecoin, a decentralized storageContinue Reading
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Bitcoin’s Macro Boost & Ethereum’s Optimism : A Data Perspective by IntoTheBlock
14.10.2020
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A Look at Bitcoin Trends by Distribution
14.10.2020
Jay Hao. Jay Hao is the CEO of crypto exchange OKEx.
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Bitcoin (BTC) is a frequently discussed topic and Blockchain Center recently released some data that allows us to have a broader view of BTC from the perspective of its distribution. Breaking it down, the data shows that the current...
Ethereum is a Casino
11.10.2020
Lane Retting is the core team member at the Spacemesh cryptocurrency project and a former Ethereum core developer.
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Ethereum (ETH) is rapidly becoming a decentralized finance (DeFi) network, and DeFi feels quite similar to traditional finance in important ways. What does this mean for...
Near-Zero Interest Rates & Resurgent Inflation Are Here to Stay, What to Do?
10.10.2020
Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings.
Dr. Bruce Ng is an educator in the field of Distributed Ledger Technology...