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The ‘Number Go Up’ Mentality Drives Crypto World As It Matures

19.6.2021
Is crypto all about ‘number go up’? Many of its detractors would certainly say so, while many proponents get overly excited about big price rises, betraying the possibility that they’re only in it for the money. In either case, while skeptics argue that bigger numbers are the only things that drive...

Rugged, Regulation, Flak, Inflation and 20 Crypto Jokes

19.6.2021
In yet another eventful crypto week, BTC touched USD 40K, while Elon Musk sent a positive message and Taproot activation was confirmed, and Pantera CEO said that bitcoin was this cheap only 20% of its history. MicroStrategy said it had no specific target for their BTC holdings, while its CEO raised...

Bitcoin Miner Relocation Within China and Worst Case Scenario

15.6.2021
The relocation of Bitcoin (BTC) miners within China is already underway – and should the situation worsen, they might also be moving out of the country in droves, according to Jiang Zhuoer, CEO of mining pool BTC.TOP. This, however, would lead to hashrate decentralization. The majority of miners...

DeFi Has Had a Strong 2021, Driven By New Trends & Paradigms

13.6.2021
The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector had a massive 2020, and while non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the crypto bull market may have overshadowed it so far in 2021, its performance this year has been at least as strong. Total value locked (TVL) into Ethereum (ETH)-based DeFi platforms hit a peak...

Ethereum Miners Can Transition to These Coins and Boost Their Values

12.6.2021
By now, every Ethereum (ETH) fan knows that this blockchain is in the process of switching from a proof-of-work (PoW) to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. What’s less widely known, even among those in the Ethereum community, is what will happen to the miners that help secure this network....

El Bitcoin, Supportive Lawmakers, FUDy Seizures and 20 Crypto Jokes

12.6.2021
What a week! The El Salvador President unveiled plans to give bitcoin the status of legal tender, and quickly the news shook the Cryptoverse that that will indeed officially happen in just 90 days, with lawmakers across Latin America expressing their support for bitcoin adoption, including...

Understanding What Turned El Salvador’s President Bukele on to Bitcoin

10.6.2021
Nayib Bukele. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/nayibbukele It’s February 3, 2019, and the world’s media is reporting that Nayib Bukele, “the Latin American Donald Trump,” has just swept to power in El Salvador’s presidential elections. Turns out this is some pretty lazy reporting: Yes, Bukele is...

Crypto Industry's Lobbying Power Grows As Former Officials Change Sides

6.6.2021
Crypto firms have been increasingly appointing former regulators and lawmakers in recent months. While the officially stated aim of such appointments is to help crypto industry better understand the regulatory landscape, it’s just as likely that the appointees have been enlisted to help firms lobby...

'Fiat-Like' Proof-of-Stake Chains Favor Centralization & Rich Players

5.6.2021
In crypto, consensus often results in controversy. Sure, consensus mechanisms themselves obviously result in agreement concerning transactions, yet when it comes to picking the ideal mechanism for a particular chain or cryptoasset, the crypto community as a whole is very often in disagreement. One...

Digital Copper, Volume Explosions, Paradigm Shifts and 20 Crypto Jokes

5.6.2021
This past cryptoweek, while five coins led the market over the week prior, bitcoin was stuck in a "digital copper" phase as gold was rallying, and DEX and CEX trading volume exploded in May surpassing USD 2trn. There was talk that crypto markets may be seeing a paradigm shift from pure...

Taproot, CoinSwap, Mercury Wallet, and the State of Bitcoin Privacy in 2021

30.5.2021
Privacy is a bit of a complicated topic in Bitcoin (BTC). While the mainstream media have often referred to the cryptoasset as a form of anonymous currency for the internet, the reality is that every Bitcoin transaction made on the base blockchain layer is completely public and stored on thousands...

Ethereum Needs to Try Harder To Keep Its Dominance in a Multichain Future

29.5.2021
Ethereum (ETH) is not the only smart contract platform in town. While it certainly has a first-mover advantage in its quest to become a decentralized universal computer, there are a growing number of other chains also offering the infrastructure for running decentralized apps (dapps), and some...

More Dominance, Less Mining, Handful of Regulations and 20 Crypto Jokes

29.5.2021
This week in crypto, it was reported that BTC could’ve been in for a fresh battering as analysts noted a 'seismic shift' in mining amid the Chinese 'crackdown', BTC’s dominance was up amid a selloff as funds were buying the dip and, while there was another debate over EIP-1559 this week, Vitalik...

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