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Bitcoin as Legal Tender: a Look at the Pros, Cons, and Future Trends

19.11.2021
Greg Waisman, co-founder and COO of the global payment network Mercuryo. __________ Since the inception of Bitcoin (BTC) back in 2009, there has always been buzz around the topic of adopting the cryptocurrency as a nation's official legal tender.... Read More: Bitcoin as Legal Tender: a Look...

Crypto Adoption in 2022: What to Expect?

14.11.2021
The crypto market is having a strong end to 2021, with various cryptoassets -- including bitcoin (BTC) -- hitting new all-time highs. The question is: will we continue seeing increasing adoption of cryptocurrencies among investors, institutions, and even governments next year?... Read More: Crypto...

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...

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...

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...

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. _____ 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...

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