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How Fiat Money Fails: Deconstructing the Government’s Paper-Thin Promise

23.10.2019
Fiat money has a surprisingly short lifespan. The almighty U.S. dollar currently serving as world reserve currency is not exempted, in spite of all proclamation that it cannot fail. Throughout history, fiat money has failed over and over again, where sound assets like gold have survived. Ruling...

Venturing out there

22.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 22 October, 2019 Adventure “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop Hidey ho, crypto pal! Good to see you back here again! ????Hope those pesky Monday blues didn't get to you yesterday. Today in history […] The post Venturing out there...

Just a little push will do

17.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 17 October, 2019 Encourage “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ello CoinMarketCap-ers! We've got some exciting news today!!! ???? Today in history (1888), Thomas Edison patented...

Just a little push will do

Telegram’s TON Board Takes a Break, Removes All History From Channel

12.10.2019
Following a red flag from U.S. regulators, private TON channel TON Board announces a temporary halt, removing all previous posts

Tether Created ‘Largest Bubble in Human History’ Claims Lawsuit Against Bitfinex

9.10.2019
A common attack against Tether in the crypto ecosystem is that the stablecoin isn’t really backed one-to-one by the U.S. dollar. We might soon get to know if these concerns are substantial, as the matter is now going to court. A new lawsuit against the operators of USDT accuses them...

Bitcoin History Part 18: The First Bitcoin Wallet

6.10.2019
Bitcoin users today are blessed with a panoply of feature-rich software and hardware wallets. When Bitcoin launched, however, there were no wallets. It took Satoshi Nakamoto to engineer the first desktop client, and his creation proved surprisingly resilient, serving the community faithfully...

Unshackled

3.10.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 3 October, 2019 Stay free “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” – Khalil Gibran Happy Thursday, folks! Time for your daily dose of crypto news! ???? Today in history (2333BC), Dangun […] The post Unshackled appeared...

Unshackled

Bitcoin History Part 17: That Time Mt. Gox Destroyed 2,609 BTC

21.9.2019
Technically speaking, it’s impossible to destroy bitcoins. But it is possible to send coins to an unspendable address, rendering them redundant to all intents and purposes. In October 2011, that’s exactly what Mark Karpeles did when he consigned 2,609 BTC to eternal oblivion due to...

Fortune favors the bold

20.9.2019
CoinMarketCap Daily Newsletter Your daily newsletter for 20 September, 2019 Be brave “The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave." – Ronald Reagan TGIF! Great job, CoinMarketCap family! That's another week down. ???? Today in history (1848), […] The post Fortune...

Web Developer Search History

18.9.2019
Sophie Koonin blogged "Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer," which was a fascinating look into the mind of a web developer and what they need to look up during day-to-day work. We all joke that we just Google stuff (or StackOverflow stuff) we don't know off the...

(Why) Some HTML is “optional”

16.9.2019
Remy Sharp digs into the history of the web and describes why the <p> tag doesn’t need to be closed like this: <p>Paragraphs don’t need to be closed <p>Pretty weird, huh? Remy writes: Pre-DOM, pre-browsers, the world's first browser was being written by Sir...

A Short History of the World’s Largest Bitcoin Mining Pools

15.9.2019
Mining pools grow and shrink, and rise and fall altogether. Today there are more extinct mining pools than there are active ones. The hashpower of the survivors secures hundreds of PoW crypto networks, from major coins such as BTC and BCH to obscure altcoins such as monero classic...

History Favors the Bulls as Bitcoin Trades Sideways at $10K

12.9.2019
Bitcoin's price rally has stalled in the last 10 weeks, but the bullish case remains intact with prices well above historically strong price support

Privacy Network Elixxir Invites Smartphone Users to Test Private Messaging

11.9.2019
In an age where Google, Facebook and the NSA are known to be harvesting as much as our communications as they can, many people are concerned that online privacy now only exists in the history books. One project trying to address this is the metadata-shredding platform Elixxir, led by cypherpunk...

Roger Ver Shares His Story in New Video Series

10.9.2019
As someone who was there from virtually the start, Roger Ver has seen and done it all in Bitcoin. A tireless evangelist for Bitcoin since long before it was cool, Ver remains a vocal proponent of the benefits of peer-to-peer cash and its power to effect positive change in the world. Every day this...

Venezuelans Fighting Economic Hardship Discover Crypto’s True Potential

6.9.2019
For quite some time now, Venezuela has been suffering from a political crisis and a collapsing economy. Venezuelans dealing with rampant inflation continue to see their purchasing power decline. After witnessing one of the worst economic disasters in modern history, 4 million citizens have...

Reid Hoffman’s New ‘Hamilton’-Inspired Crypto Rap Video Is Straight Fire

5.9.2019
The LinkedIn co-founder teamed up with notable YouTubers to drop a battle rap between Alexander Hamilton and Satoshi Nakamoto. Who wins?

What’s Being Built – and What’s Not – on 2019’s Smart Contract Blockchains

30.8.2019
Has anyone checked in with EOS lately, to see how it’s doing? How about Tezos – any signs of life there? In mid 2017, two of the largest token sales in history birthed two smart contracting platforms that promised to topple Ethereum and usher in an era of fast and low-cost value...