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Blockchain Africa Conference 2021: Beyond the Hype, Goes Online
20.1.2021
Blockchain Africa Conference 2021 organizers, Bitcoin Events, have announced that due to the global coronavirus pandemic and restrictions on travel and the uncertainty of the current environment, the 7th annual conference, will be hosted online this year. The event comes as collective sentiment...
Plus: Everspace 2 & space game Hype hits Steam
15.1.2021
Bye-bye, planet Earth
Plus: why do games overperform their Hype score?
8.1.2021
Part of a packed paid subscriber-only newsletter this week
The 2020 altcoin Hype-to-Activity index
5.1.2021
Tracking the hype and price action of several of your favorite cryptocurrencies
Expert: Defi Could Be a Common Term in the Financial Industry in 2021
26.12.2020
The founder of defi-related fintech Yield believes 2021 will be the year that decentralized finance (defi) becomes a “common term” in the financial industry, as the sector is now taking it seriously and building R&D labs. The Financial Industry Is Now Taking Defi Seriously, Says...
Plus: Steam Hype analysis - the aftermath of Cyberpunk week...
19.12.2020
Yep, nothing really competed with the 'punk
DeFi hype and upcoming mainnet upgrade back Zilliqa’s (ZIL) 69% rally
17.12.2020
New partnerships, network upgrades, and a surge in DeFi activity sent Zilliqa price on a strong month-long rally
Plus: new Steam Hype features, December's Hype winners so far
12.12.2020
Who made out like a bandit?
The Cyberpunk 2077 Hype Is Just Too Much
4.12.2020
In less than one week, everybody in cyberpunk future year 2020 will be playing Cyberpunk 2077. Or at least, that’s the impression I get, based on the fact that it’s all anybody is talking about. Such is the nature of the hype surrounding the robo-armed role-playing sensation: Hardly anybody...
Plus exclusive: Steam Hype & the Cyberpunk avoidance zone
4.12.2020
Get out of the way of the 'punk!
Chinese State-Run Media Believe BTC Price Surge Is Just ‘Hype’ While Praising Blockchain
3.12.2020
Two Chinese state-run media outlets have published a brief news item urging citizens to focus more on blockchain technology than on the “hype” of the recent surging Bitcoin prices across the board. China’s Government to Focus on Blockchain Both Sina and Xinhuanet have stated that...
Chinese State Media: Ignore Bitcoin Hype, Stay on the Blockchain Path
2.12.2020
China’s state-run press agency Xinhuanet has published a short piece urging citizens in the country to ignore the hype of surging bitcoin (BTC) prices – and instead keep faith in the state’s pro-blockchain policies.
In the piece, which was carried by media outlets such a Sina, two Tianjin-based...
Plus: Steam Hype charts for week of Nov 30th, 2020
27.11.2020
Some great games sneaking out after the Steam sale
Už vás štve hype kolem Cyberpunku 2077? Smůla, reklamní kampaň přitvrdí
27.11.2020
Vydání Cyberpunku 2077 je za dveřmi a oblíbené polské studio CD Projekt až nyní naplno rozjede svoji reklamní kampaň. Vyplývá to z oficiální prezentace pro hlavní investory firmy
The Core Web Vitals hype train
24.11.2020
Some baby bear thinking from Katie Sylor-Miller:
my excitement for Core Web Vitals is tempered with a healthy skepticism. I’m not yet convinced that Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), First Input Delay (FID), and Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) are the right metrics that all sites should...
Plus: A deep dive inside the Steam Hype rankings
19.11.2020
It's a whole new world
PayPal’s baby steps into crypto isn’t dampening the hype for adoption
27.10.2020
While crypto firms have been trying to build the crypto equivalent of PayPal, the company itself will soon enter the industry
Filecoin Miners Start a Strike – FIL Validators Claim the Project’s Economic Model Is Not Working
19.10.2020
The Filecoin project has surely seen a lot of hype but during the last few weeks before the launch, the cooperative digital storage crypto project has been criticized a great deal. This weekend a few Filecoin miners have been on strike and claim the economic model is not working out for them. Just...
12 Defi Con Artists Exposed – Are Rug Pulling Incidents Threatening the Future of Defi ?
12.10.2020
The ongoing hype about the abnormally high returns from Defi tokens has naturally seen many more investors moving funds to decentralized protocols. As of October 10, total value locked in Defi protocols was nearly $11 billion. However, despite this apparent endorsement of Defi, rug pulling...
Q3 Crypto Volumes up by $155 Billion as Defi Hype Drives DEX Growth by 197%
11.10.2020
The latest data from Coingecko shows that the combined trading volumes of cryptocurrency exchanges went up by $155 billion between July and September, from $175.7 billion to $330.6 billion. The new total volume represents a 88% increase which Coingecko attributes to the decentralized finance (defi)...