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MEV Harms Ethereum Users And it May Be Here For Some Time
1.8.2021
One of the hottest debates in Ethereum (ETH) right now is about miner extractable value (MEV). This is the practice of miners ordering (or being paid to order) transactions in such a way as to front-run or back-run trades made by other users.
MEV was documented as early as April 2019 in a paper...
Want To Fix Financial Literacy? Focus on Billionaires & Politicians
1.8.2021
Agata Soroko, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa.
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Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic threw the global economy into a crisis in March 2020, I wrote an essay expressing my hope that the unfolding financial collapse wouldn’t be used to justify...
'Don't Be Lulled' as European Commission Mulls a Crypto KYC Trap
31.7.2021
While the European Commission (EC) says it is not targeting non-custodial crypto wallets, their new set of legislative proposals would still affect such users and the whole nascent sector.
Niklas Schmidt, a lawyer and partner with the Austrian law firm Wolf Theiss, told Cryptonews.com that “in...
Bitcoin Noobing, Asset Teasing and 20 Crypto Jokes
31.7.2021
Another fun cryptoweek is behind us. The boss of the world's biggest listed hedge fund firm made bitcoin noob mistakes again, while the boss of a major fund manager said people should have exposure to BTC. Goldman Sachs DeFi ETF became a source of confusion, while Ripple deepened its relationship...
BTC Mining Migration, Challenges & Forecasts for the Post-crackdown Industry
25.7.2021
Bitcoin (BTC) mining is on the move. Once the preserve of China and its vast stores of energy, it’s now increasingly setting up elsewhere in the world, with its migration accelerated by the recent governmental crackdown in the Asian nation.
As reported, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance...
Damien Hirst’s NFT Art Project: What We’ll Discover When It's Over
25.7.2021
Paul Dylan-Ennis, Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems, University College Dublin.
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English artist Damien Hirst’s latest project, “The Currency”, is an artwork in two forms. Its physical form is 10,000 unique hand-painted A4 sheets covered in colorful dots. In...
Elon Musk Should Listen to Cathie Wood on Bitcoin
24.7.2021
Elon Musk. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube, Bloomberg.
Part of what many observers expected to see during Wednesday's Bitcoin (BTC) discussion featuring Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, and Square and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was a debate regarding the merits...
Circling Yellens, Doubling Mellons, Dogging Coins and 20 Crypto Jokes
24.7.2021
This cryptoweek, Circle revealed their USDC reserves after three years, and its CEO thought it good that Janet Yellen called stablecoins ‘national security’ concern. Numerous dog-themed coins flooded the market with pumps and dumps, while a Dogecoin fan sued Coinbase for allegedly “misleading”...
Axie Infinity: Games Where People Earn And Transform Gaming
23.7.2021
Drew Cattanach, Lecturer in Computer Games Development, University of Westminster.
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The ultimate point of playing video games has always been to have fun. Whether it’s Space Invaders or Sonic or Red Dead Redemption, you hit the start button and do your thing until the game is over – and then...
Here's What Everyone Missed in The Dorsey, Musk, and Wood Bitcoin Talk
22.7.2021
On Wednesday, a highly-anticipated conversation regarding Bitcoin (BTC) between Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and Square and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took place online as part of The B Word initiative. While most have focused on the newsworthy aspects of the talk, such...
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21.7.2021
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John McAfee Died Broke After Spending Millions on Mansions - Author
19.7.2021
John McAfee. The late tech tycoon and crypto advocate John McAfee died broke while awaiting extradition to the US on tax evasion charges in a Spanish prison last June, according to Scottish author Mark Eglinton. McAffee had spent his fortune on lavish mansions, says the writer who collaborated with...
Ethereum, Solana, Polygon & Co Form A New Hot Market Of Blockchains
18.7.2021
Blockchains are proliferating almost at the rate of cryptoassets. There are now blockchains for decentralized finance (DeFi), decentralized exchanges, smart contracts, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), video content, for cloud computing, gaming, marketplaces, and who knows for whatever else.
The market...
How International Fiat Fund Hurts Cash-Strapped Countries (FYI, El Salvador)
18.7.2021
The IMF’s Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/the_imf
In this commentary, Bernhard Reinsberg, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Glasgow, and Thomas Stubbs, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the Royal Holloway, University...
Bitcoin Shows Resilience Amid Global Political Pushback
17.7.2021
The cryptoasset market remains in something of a funk. Having been knocked off course by Tesla’s announcement that it would no longer accept bitcoin (BTC) as payment for its cars, it has been dragged further down by a steady stream of governmental and regulatory pushback.
From China’s crackdown...
Testing Taproots, Getting Optimism and 20 Crypto Jokes
17.7.2021
This week in the Cryptoverse! While some say that BTC could surpass USD 400K in ten years, Taproot is being tested on the testnet. The “almost feeless” IOTA NFT marketplace launched in test mode, Power Ledger migrated to Solana but kept its token on Ethereum, and Uniswap saw some major governance...
Crypto Derivatives Giant Bybit Enters Spot Trading With More Products In Pipeline
15.7.2021
Ben Zhou. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/Bybit
Major crypto derivatives exchange ByBit launched a spot trading pilot today and they have more products in the pipeline amid growing competition in the sector, Ben Zhou, the CEO of the company, told Cryptonews.com.
According to him, the platform...
Bitcoin & Inflation: Maturing Into A Real Asset
14.7.2021
James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at major European digital asset investment firm CoinShares.
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Producer prices, being exposed to rising commodity prices, is where inflation is beginning to rear its ugly head. At 7.1% for the developed world, this is now in the 90th percentile...
Technically Capable Bitcoin Has Other Mass Adoption Challenges To Solve
11.7.2021
Bitcoin (BTC)’s price may be wobbling at the moment, but the most popular cryptocurrency continues to attract a steady stream of interest from the wider world. Most recently, US-based payments giant NCR and digital asset management company NYDIG partnered to let around 24m customers of 650 US banks...
Holding The World To Ransom: Top 5 Online Gangs
11.7.2021
Roberto Musotto, Research fellow, Edith Cowan University, Brianna O'Shea, Lecturer, Ethical Hacking and Defense, Edith Cowan University, and Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University.
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On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog!
These words from...