To see eye-to-eye? Crypto industry should start embracing regulation
30.1.2021
Now it’s up to the crypto industry itself to start engaging with and accepting regulations
Regulatory sandbox and DeFi boom: How Spain pushed crypto adoption despite the pandemic
30.1.2021
A summary of the events that marked 2020 in the Spanish crypto space and opinions from different people of the industry who lived it from the inside
Non-Fungible 2021: Prepare Your NFTs For DeFi, Staking, and Sharing
30.1.2021
An NFT created by an artist known as beeple and sold for ETH 67.331 (USD 90,224 today) in December 2020 on Nifty Gateway. Cryptocurrencies are — or at least aim to be — money. This not only means that they need to function as stores of value, media of exchange, and units of account, but that they...
Battling Wall Street, Sheriff of Nottingham, High Doge and 20 Crypto Jokes
30.1.2021
What a crazy week! And vastly entertaining! As the Wallstreetbets story intensified, pushing the price of GME up, the market got a new entrant, a a ‘wrapped’ GameStop token, and then DOGE soared right into top 10! Then Robinhood halted buying of the first and trading of the second, saying they...
Run, blockchain, run! DeFi adoption needs faster block times
30.1.2021
Low-cost, low-latency and highly scalable blockchain infrastructure — that is what will lead crypto and DeFi to real mass adoption
CREAM Finance: Is This the Next Unicorn in DeFi?
30.1.2021
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Change is inevitable. Refinement takes time.
That's what traditional finance failed to do. Prioritizing systems' efficacy over user experience proves...
Indian Parliament to Consider Bill That Creates Digital Rupee While Banning Cryptocurrencies in Current Session
30.1.2021
The Indian government has finally moved forward with a cryptocurrency bill. Entitled “The Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill 2021,” the bill has been listed for consideration in the current parliamentary session of Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s...
The Small Guys Rebel Against their Big Brother Hedge Funds
30.1.2021
What the GameStop stock market chaos can teach crypto and why the Bank of International Settlements is pitching central bank digital currencies (CBDC) instead of crypto. Also the privacy concerns around China’s digital yuan
Risk it for the Bitcoin: Has BTC matured to be a safe investment play?
30.1.2021
Institutional investors have arrived at the cryptocurrency table, but does that mean that Bitcoin has now become a safe investment?
Ukraine to Set up a Large-Scale Crypto Mining Data Center in a Nuclear Power Plant
30.1.2021
Ukraine’s government-owned nuclear power plant picked a firm to build a massive data center in Rivne for cryptocurrency mining operations. After a bidding process, Energoatom chose Kyiv Energy Construction Company to handle the nuclear plant crypto mining project. Nuclear Power Plant Operator...
Coinbase Opts out of IPO Routine, Chooses Popular Direct Listing Route
30.1.2021
The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase recently announced the company plans to do a direct listing, as opposed to following the initial public offering (IPO) route. The decision means that Coinbase can float its shares on an exchange without hiring a financial institution...
Analyst says Bitcoin price sell-off may occur as Chinese New Year approaches
30.1.2021
Bitcoin is struggling to retake the $35,000 level as one analyst predicts miners will continue selling BTC ahead of the Chinese New Year holiday