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South African Professor Accuses US Regulators of Attempting to ‘Assassinate Crypto’
6.4.2023
The United States’ attempts to “assassinate crypto” are illegal and unlikely to succeed because “crypto is global,” Steven Boykey Sidley, a South African professor and author, has argued. According to Sidley, many formerly U.S.-based companies and innovators have...
Crypto Investors: Why You Need to Understand Layer 1 Protocols
5.4.2023
There’s value in crypto, even if regulators and politicians don’t dig enough to see it
Web3 Experiential Tokens and Asset Pricing
5.4.2023
Web3 consumer engagement models are still in their infancy, but could have the potential to unlock incremental value and enable price discovery for creators and investors alike
ECB Member Fabio Panetta Claims Rising Profit Margins Could Be Fueling Inflation
5.4.2023
Fabio Panetta, a member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB), has stated that companies increasing their profit margins could be helping to fuel inflation. In an interview with the New York Times, Panetta warned about the effect that companies increasing such margins could have...
The Short-Sightedness of Run-Amok Regulators
29.3.2023
Ric Edelman, founder of the Digital Assets Council of Financial Professionals, talks about a key reason why crypto’s future looks bleaker: an apparent effort to cut it off from U.S. banks
Cryptos Gained in Q1 Despite Weakened Asset Class Perceptions
29.3.2023
Glenn Williams Jr. discusses the confounding first quarter, which delivered massive gains to crypto investors even as the industry’s prospects appeared to worsen
Ethereum Core Developers Announce Date for Long-Awaited Shapella Upgrade – Here's What You Need to Know
29.3.2023
"It's happening," said an Ethereum (ETH) core developer, announcing the launch of the network's much-anticipated Shapella update in two weeks.
The Shanghai and Capella upgrades, aka Shapella, are scheduled for April 12, said developer Tim Beiko in a Tuesday tweet. "If you're a validator,...
Analyst Predicts Gold Prices Might Exceed $8,000 in the Next Decade as Central Banks Lose Confidence in Foreign Currency
27.3.2023
Jan Nieuwenhuijs, a gold market analyst, has predicted that gold might exceed prices of $8,000 during the next decade, as the current Ukraine-Russia war, and the worldwide battle against inflation, shift the preference of central banks for foreign currencies to gold. The proposed long-term price...
Long Liquidations Spike Bitcoin Suffers “Sell the Fact” Reaction to Dovish Fed, But BTC Dip-Buyers Will Probably Pounce
22.3.2023
Despite the fact that most market participants interpreted the latest Fed policy announcement as more dovish than expected, hence the drop in the US dollar and US yields, Bitcoin markets saw a “sell the fact” reaction, with the BTC price pulling back sharply and long liquidations spiking.
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PC & console games: predictions for 2023
22.3.2023
What took us so long? Also: lots of GDC news & more
Federal Reserve Hikes Rate by 25bps to Keep Inflation at Bay, Aims for 2% Inflation Rate by 2025
22.3.2023
Following the fallout over the past two weeks in the U.S. banking industry, the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by 25 basis points (bps) on Wednesday, citing the need for the inflation rate to return to 2% over the long run. Fed Raises Rate Despite Calamity in the U.S. Banking Sector...
Bitcoin Emerges as Safe Haven as Traditional Finance Faces Turmoil
22.3.2023
Conflicting data creates the question of how the Fed will react to both rising inflation and failing banks - and whether bitcoin will be a lifeboat
‘Smart Money’ Tools Reveal Where Crypto Capital Is Moving
22.3.2023
Tools that track “whale activity” can provide real-time insight into how capital is moving in digital assets such as bitcoin and liquid staked ether and can inform investing decisions
Bitcoin $30K bets greet FOMC as analyst warns over long liquidations
22.3.2023
Bitcoin may celebrate no matter what the Fed decides on interest rates, but the extent of longs that would be liquidated below $20,000 has one analyst worried
Flagstar Bank Acquires Signature Bank’s Assets and Branches, Excluding Cryptocurrency Operations
20.3.2023
On Monday, about a week after the collapse of Signature Bank, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced that Flagstar Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of New York Community Bancorp, acquired 40 former branches of Signature and its assets. Flagstar assumed nearly all...
Creators Behind Web3 Game Aavegotchi Raise $30M in Multi-Year Long Token Sale
20.3.2023
The sale, which began September 2020, ended Monday over concerns of the stability of the DAI stablecoin
The Sims 4 Glitch Turns Infants Into Horrifying, Long-Legged Monsters
16.3.2023
Unless you consider watching people get up and go to work every morning to be a horrifying sight, you probably wouldn’t classify The Sims 4 as a horror game. However, its latest update brings infants to the game for the first time ever, and while they may look cute when you first load up your save...
Crypto Observers Believe U.S. Banking Crisis Could Strengthen Crypto Ecosystem in the Long Term
16.3.2023
Robust banking solutions for crypto companies and investor interest in the resilience of the ecosystem could serve as key features in the coming months, one developer opined
Crypto Long & Short: Finding Alpha in AI-Related Crypto
15.3.2023
Glenn Williams Jr. explains how his process of researching small and microcap oil and gas companies compares to that of digital assets and AI. Then, Joe Orsini shares how two on-chain metrics, realized capitalization and holding trends, demonstrate belief in bitcoin as a store of value (SoV)
Agoras Leads the Way in AI-Based User-Controlled Cryptocurrency
15.3.2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere these days. With the rise of ChatGPT and other trending AI applications, many cryptocurrencies have been rushing to adopt it as well. However, not all AI is created equal. Logical-AI, an approach adopted by Tau, has been an integral part of Agoras...