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The Next Chapter in Yield Farming: Ethereum 2.0 and Sustainability
1.11.2020
Chyna Qu. Chyna Qu is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of DeFiner, a decentralized finance network for crypto savings, loans, and payments.
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Yield farming has evolved as a mainstream DeFi (decentralized finance) practice, involving investors, or liquidity providers, putting...
This is How Institutional Players Help Bitcoin Mining Industry Grow
31.10.2020
BitRiver's crypto mining farm. Institutional players are entering the cryptoasset mining industry, prompting the creation of enterprise-grade solutions, but also offering new solutions for existing challenges, according to Igor Runets, founder and CEO of BitRiver, a Russia-based mining services...
Investing in Bitcoin, Adopting Crypto, Launching CBDC and 20 Crypto Jokes
31.10.2020
This last week of crypto October was an interesting one. It started with crypto market sentiment dropping out of the positive zone, and then we learned that bitcoin was outperformed by several coins in the past year, but still has more holders profiting, that the pandemic crisis has been driving...
People Want Data Privacy But Don't Always Know What They're Getting
30.10.2020
Gabriel Kaptchuk , Researcher Assistant Professor in Computer Science, Boston University.
Elissa M. Redmiles, Faculty member & Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute.
Rachel Cummings, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute...
India's Crypto Ban to 'Get Thrashed', while Unocoin Gains 100s of Users Daily
29.10.2020
Sathvik Vishwanath, Co-founder and CEO of Unocoin, the operator of one of the oldest crypto exchanges in India, does not expect the much-discussed crypto ban to go through in this major market. Meanwhile, the exchange is getting hundreds of new customers per day, he told Cryptonews.com.
Head of...
Trump or Biden? It Doesn’t Matter To Crypto
28.10.2020
Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings.
Dr. Bruce Ng is an educator in the field of Distributed Ledger Technology...
The US Election: Pullback Possible, But Neither Trump Nor Biden Won’t Stop Bitcoin
25.10.2020
Bitcoin (BTC)’s strong summer has turned into a strong autumn. However, while the price of bitcoin stands above USD 13,000 (as of writing), opinions vary on how the US presidential election on November 3 might affect the crypto market.
Some commentators speaking to Cryptonews.com fear that...
The UK and US Clamping Down On Crypto Trading – It's Not Yet A Big Deal
25.10.2020
Gavin Brown is the Associate Professor in Financial Technology ant the University of Liverpool.
The sale and promotion of derivatives of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to amateur investors is being banned in the UK by the financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It is...
Corporate Treasuries Caught Between an Inflation Rock and Bitcoin
24.10.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) is gradually becoming acceptable among mainstream investors and corporations. Nowhere has this been made more evident than with MicroStrategy’s adoption of the most popular cryptocurrency as its main reserve asset.
The Virginia-based tech consultancy converted over USD 400m of...
PayPal’s Crypto Offer, BTC’s 13K Break, Bahama’s CBDC and 20 Crypto Jokes
24.10.2020
We saw some major news this crypto week, as BTC broke USD 13,000, PayPal said it will offer buying, selling and holding crypto, and the Bahamas unveiled its Sand Dollar. Following its network update, monero reigned as the best performing coin in the top 15, while Phase 0 of ETH 2.0 might be coming...
ECB Executive Board Member on European Payments in the Digital Age
24.10.2020
Speech by Fabio Panetta, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), at the ECB Conference "A new horizon for pan-European payments and digital euro." Frankfurt am Main, 22 October 2020.
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Key points:
An uncontrolled change in the payments landscape...
Governments Can't Cancel Pandemic Debt By Printing More Money
23.10.2020
Ananish Chaudhuri is the Professor of Behavioural and Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland.
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With the government borrowing heavily to fund its pandemic response and recovery, it has been suggested it could simply cancel its debt by printing more money. That sounds like...
Get Ready For Crypto Banking, DeFi & CBDC Surprises - Venture Capitalist
23.10.2020
Banks will likely open crypto accounts next to fiat accounts, decentralized finance (DeFi) will claim its trillion-dollar company, while central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will suprise many by entering our lives sooner than expected, Marc van der Chijs, entrepreneur, crypto-focused venture...
PayPal, Square, Revolut, and Robinhood: A Crypto Comparison
22.10.2020
With PayPal's latest, big crypto news, entering the crypto market officially, let's take a quick look and compare their offering to those of other large payments companies that entered the space before it: Revolut and Square, and investing app Robinhood. This allows an insight into what exactly...
Imagine Regulators Shutting Tether Down - What Happens to Bitcoin?
18.10.2020
Bitcoin (BTC), as a cryptoasset, is tethered to tether (USDT) tightly. Ever since becoming tradable in 2015, USDT has come to occupy an increasingly important part of the bitcoin and wider cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Now, USDT is the third-biggest token by market capitalization, and by virtue...
Bitcoin Is Better Than Ethereum At These Four Things
18.10.2020
Eric Meltzer is the Founding Partner of Primitive Ventures, a cryptoasset fund.
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"Ethereum (ETH) can do everything that Bitcoin (BTC) can do, plus a lot more."
I hear this often from people who are very new to crypto, and figured it would maybe be useful to make a list of the things...
UK-based Crypto Firms At 'Loaded Gun' Point as Brexit Deadline Looms
17.10.2020
Regulatory uncertainty has been a way of life for crypto exchanges since the get-go. Running a crypto-related firm is like walking through a swamp in many respects – you never know what is waiting underfoot at the next step.
But this has never been more the case, it would seem, than in the UK...
BTC Transfers, CBDC Airdrops, Regulatory Warnings and 20 Crypto Jokes
17.10.2020
It was a fun crypto week. OKEx suspended withdrawals as they couldn't get in touch with a private key holder. Also, somebody moved Satoshi era 1,000 bitcoin again, Marc van der Chijs told us that hodling bitcoin would've been a better strategy than trying to outperform it, Kraken researchers said...
DeFi Unlocked: How to Earn Crypto Investment Income on Synthetix
16.10.2020
In our DeFi Unlocked series, we discuss the most popular decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols to provide you with insight into how you can potentially earn investment income in this new market.
In this guide, we explore Synthetix (SNX), how it works, and how it can be used to earn crypto...
VCs Learned Bitcoin & ICO Lesson The Hard Way - Marc van der Chijs
15.10.2020
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Many venture capitalists (VCs) learned the hard way that just hodling bitcoin (BTC) would have been a better strategy than trying to outperform it, Marc van der Chijs, entrepreneur, crypto-focused venture capitalist, said in an interview with Cryptonews.com. However, according...