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2020’s Crypto Performances: The Biggest Token Losers and This Year’s Top-Performing Cryptocurrencies
7.12.2020
Digital currency markets have climbed significantly in value all year long, despite the gloomy global economy and the aftermath of Covid-19 responses. Bitcoin prices have been hovering at values not seen since 2017, and the top crypto asset in terms of market cap has gained a whopping 159% since...
The Original Fire Emblem Is A Weird Game For The Switch To End Its Year On
7.12.2020
I’ve spent the last week, in odd moments here and there, helping Fire Emblem’s Prince Marth search for a legendary sword and defeat the forces of darkness to rescue his kingdom from an evil wizard. Throughout all of it, in good times and bad, one question kept bubbling up to the surface: why?Read...
Taproot, One Of Bitcoin's Biggest Upgrades May Be Coming Next Year
7.12.2020
Taproot, one of the most anticipated Bitcoin (BTC) upgrades, and its largest alteration since 2017, expected to improve privacy, scalability, flexibility, and speed of the network - may be coming in a matter of months.
Pierre Rochard, Bitcoin evangelist and strategist at crypto exchange Kraken...
German Stock Exchange’s Crypto Trading App Surpasses $1 Billion Volume This Year
7.12.2020
Cryptocurrency trading on the app provided by Germany’s second-largest stock exchange, Boerse Stuttgart, has hit record volumes. One billion euros in cryptocurrencies have been traded on the exchange’s crypto trading app, Bison, so far this year. 1 Billion Euros Crypto Trading Volume...
Web Performance Calendar
7.12.2020
The Web Performance Calendar just started up again this year. The first two posts so far are about, well, performance! First up, Rick Viscomi writes about the mythical “fast” web page:
How you approach measuring a web page’s performance can tell you whether it’s built for speed or whether it feels...
Nigeria’s Yellow Card Processes $165 Million in Crypto Remittances So Far This Year
7.12.2020
Nigerian crypto startup Yellow Card says it processed over $165 million in volume during the first eleven months of this year. The figure represents a growth of more than 1,840% over the amount of remittances processed in the last six months of 2019. Launched in June 2019, Yellow Card enables...
Crypto-Friendly Travel Site Travala Posts 503% Revenue Increase, 72% of Bookings Paid With Cryptocurrencies
5.12.2020
Travel booking website Travala saw an increase in revenue of over 503% in November compared to the previous year. Out of all bookings, 72% were paid with cryptocurrencies, with bitcoin being the most popular choice. A Record Month for Travala The up and coming crypto-friendly travel booking website...
Darknet Market Crypto Revenues Hit All-Time Highs in 2020
5.12.2020
A study revealed that darknet markets have astonishing figures so far in 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic, but the dynamics changed compared to the last year’s numbers. Darknet Vendors Surpassed $800 Million in Revenues Despite Covid Pandemic According to the Chainalysis report, darknet...
Binance Expects to Earn From $800M to $1 Billion This Year, CEO Says: Report
4.12.2020
That's up from about $570 million in 2019
Binance Expects Up to USD 1B In Profits This Year + More News
4.12.2020
Source: Instagram, Binance
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Binance expects to have profits of USD 800m to USD 1bn this year, up from about USD 570m last year...
DeFi Catches up to Ethereum 2.0’s Pace: Weekly Market Review by TokenInsight
4.12.2020
Markets usually show better performances around the end of the year, especially as good news tends to be released inContinue Reading
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2020 Year in Review
4.12.2020
Looking back on an entire year of one’s professional life is difficult, but when you consider everything that 2020 threw at us, where the hell do you even start? Forget just surviving the professional aspect of 2020, we all deserve a medal, both literally and figuratively, for surviving...
Financial Analysts Expect US Dollar to Soften Further, 2021 Could Be the Greenback’s ‘Worst Year Ever’
4.12.2020
Well before the coronavirus pandemic, global economists expected a grim-looking American economy and during the last ten months of the Covid-19 outbreak, the U.S. financial system looks even worse. Economists and analysts say the biggest concern is the U.S. dollar faltering into the unknown, as...
The Best Sci-Fi, Fantasy, or Horror Movies io9 Rewatched in 2020
3.12.2020
Twenty-twenty hasn’t been good for much, but it has been given us bountiful free time— time you hopefully used to finally make good on that statement “Oh, I’d love to watch that but I don’t have time.” Well, in 2020 you did. As a result, many of us revisited and once again fell in love with...
Recently Teased Division 2 Mode Won’t Happen After All, ‘A Casualty Of A Tough Year.”
3.12.2020
Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that an upcoming gameplay event in The Division 2, Codename Nightmare, has been canceled and will not be released as planned this year, Yannick Banchereau, the Associate Creative Director on the game, explained the situation in the latest State of The Game livestream....
Darknet Markets Face Headwinds After Year of Mixed Results
3.12.2020
Darknet markets are falling off the radar and watching their customer base level off
Onchain Researchers Suspect Chinese Government Sold Plustoken’s Billion-Dollar Bitcoin Hoard Last Year
2.12.2020
A number of masterminds from the Plustoken scam were sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding cryptocurrency investors. Last week, on November 19, a court ruling had shown the Chinese government said that it seized over $4 billion in crypto assets from the Plustoken scam. Meanwhile, onchain...
Bitcoin, gold to benefit as Peter Schiff predicts ‘worst year ever’ for US dollar
2.12.2020
Multiple voices forecast a weaker dollar in the long term, starting now, in a prime boost for safe havens
Genshin Impact Wins Apple And Google Play's Best Game Of 2020
2.12.2020
Huh, people seem to like massive free-to-play action role-playing games with serious The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild vibes. miHoYo’s Genshin Impact came out on top of both Google and Apple’s official game of the year lists, beating out whatever the Candy Crush people are doing and all...
Coinbase Says It Brokered Microstrategy’s Influential $425 Million Bitcoin Buy
2.12.2020
U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase said Tuesday that it brokered Microstrategy’s $425 million bitcoin purchase earlier this year. Until now, it has not been clear who facilitated the deal. Microstrategy’s first bitcoin (BTC) haul of $250 million bought in August was executed over five days...