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Interest Rates: Why the Era of Cheap Money Is Finally Ending
14.11.2021
John Whittaker, Senior Teaching Fellow in Economics, Lancaster University.____
The Bank of England was widely expected to slightly increase its official bank rate on November 4, but it decided to stick to the all-time low of 0.1%. However, the bank has made it clear that a rise will soon...
The Growing Defi Market on Bitcoin: What’s Yielding Already?
13.11.2021
The burgeoning decentralized finance (DeFi) market is evolving beyond Ethereum (ETH) and onto other chains. What may be surprising to hear for some: Bitcoin (BTC) is one of them.
Read on the learn more about the growing Bitcoin DeFi ecosystem and what kind of yields you can expect to earn on your...
Lots of Soaring, Some Record Breaking, NFTing and 20 Crypto Jokes
13.11.2021
Read More: Lots of Soaring, Some Record Breaking, NFTing and 20 Crypto Jokes
Physical Must-Haves in a Digital World: 4 Essentials for Bitcoiners
12.11.2021
While the cryptocurrency community is built on a continuing legacy of leveraging software to support decentralized economic systems, hardware still has a place in the crypto universe.
In this article, we will delve into the handful of physical tools bitcoiners can use in the fast-growing...
The Ethereum Premine Debate On Fairness, Regulation, and Centralization
7.11.2021
You may not be aware of this, but back in July 2014, Ethereum (ETH) had a premine in which around ETH 60m (worth around USD 272bn now) tokens were sold for a total of USD 18.3m, while 12m was kept aside for early contributors and the Ethereum Foundation. At ETH 72m, this total accounts for around...
How Climate Change Might Heat Up Inflation Too
7.11.2021
Osman Ouattara, Reader in Development Economics, University of Manchester.____
Ahead of a day of talks on climate finance at the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow, the former Bank of England governor Mark Carney announced the launch of a coalition of financial companies committed to hitting...
Mt. Gox Payouts Nearing, But Is the Market Ready for It?
6.11.2021
Following recent news that creditors after the infamous collapse of the bitcoin (BTC) exchange Mt. Gox can finally look forward to some payouts, questions reemerged about whether the market can absorb potential selling from such a large distribution of coins....
Read More: Mt. Gox Payouts Nearing...
Testing Highs, Extending Rallies, Continuing Scams, Forking Out and 20 Crypto Jokes
6.11.2021
Read More: Testing Highs, Extending Rallies, Continuing Scams, Forking Out and 20 Crypto Jokes
Metaverse: Five Things to Know – and What It Could Mean For You
5.11.2021
Steve Benford, Professor of Collaborative Computing, University of Nottingham._______
In the wake of Facebook rebranding as Meta, reflecting its focus on the “metaverse”, Microsoft has now announced it, too, will launch into this space.
Meta has proposed that the metaverse will eventually allow...
WazirX to Launch Non-Custodial Exchange, Expects Institutional Rush
4.11.2021
A new non-custodial exchange developed by the India-based crypto company WazirX is in the final stages of development for an initial launch on Polygon (MATIC), a Layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum (ETH).
According to Siddharth Menon, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of WazirX, which...
Narratives Blur as Bitcoin and Ethereum Target Each Other's Field
3.11.2021
As Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) camps keep fighting for old and new capital in the crypto space, their value proposition narratives are becoming somewhat more complicated with each competing side trying to steal the show from each other.
According to Noelle Acheson, head of markets insights...
Crypto Scams that Rocked Asia to the Core, Part 3: iFan and Pincoin
2.11.2021
Asia has been through more than its fair share of nasty crypto scam dramas, from the Mt. Gox scandal right through to 2021 and its plethora of AI-powered fraudsters.
In part 3 of a three-part series, Cryptonews.com looks at just a few of the continent’s most infamous instances of crypto...
How and Why Crypto Suffers from Unfair Treatment by Regulators, Politicians & Media
31.10.2021
Few of us are strangers to double standards, particularly those to which Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrencies, in general, are often subjected. Whether we’re talking about environmental impacts or money laundering, crypto often appears to be held to an unfair, higher standard than the legacy...
Should We Let Facebook/Meta Rule The Metaverse Too?
31.10.2021
Marcus Carter, Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, SOAR Fellow, University of Sydney, and Ben Egliston, Postdoctoral research fellow, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology.
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has announced the company will change its name...
5 Bitcoin Forks: How They Performed Against BTC?
30.10.2021
Hard forks are a unique way to resolve disagreements on proposed protocol upgrades in cryptoasset networks. In the case where a faction within a cryptocurrency’s community disagrees with the majority of network participants, they can fork the code and operate their “own” chain.
This is what...
Unrealized Metaverse, Dogs, and 20 Crypto Jokes
30.10.2021
It’s time to wrap up yet another exciting week in crypto - and what a week it was! Crypto “dogs” have been entangled in a fierce fight which ignited yet another pump of other dog and cat-themed tokens, Shiba Inu fans could learn a lesson from Dogecoin, and Floki Inu ads flooded the city of London....
Why Crypto Needs To Be Regulated
29.10.2021
Viktor Prokopenya is a London-based fintech investor and the Founder of VP Capital, an investment vehicle focused on the technology sector.______
Could we live in a world without rules? In theory, yes - we can live with an absence of government, and indeed our early ancestors did so. At...
Crypto Scams that Rocked Asia to the Core, Part 2: PlusToken
29.10.2021
Asia has been through more than its fair share of nasty crypto scam dramas, from the Mt. Gox scandal right through to 2021 and its plethora of AI-powered fraudsters.
In part 2 of a three-part series, Cryptonews.com looks at just a few of the continent’s most infamous instances of crypto fraud....
Crypto Scams that Rocked Asia to the Core, Part 1: BitConnect
28.10.2021
The rise of crypto has brought along a pretty unpleasant and unwanted passenger. As bitcoin (BTC) and major altcoins have had their time in the sun, an unsavory customer has tagged along for the ride – the crypto scammer.
After the very early years of crypto, Asia became the first real center...
How to Yield Farm ‘on Bitcoin’ with Sovryn
28.10.2021
Yield farming was the hottest crypto trend in 2020, contributing to the decentralized finance (DeFi) craze on Ethereum (ETH) last year. What you may not be aware of, however, is that you can also yield farm “on Bitcoin (BTC).”
Read on to learn how to yield farm “on Bitcoin” with the RSK-powered...