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In Devs We Trust: Bitcoin Bugs Die in Secret, Leaving Altcoins At Risk
19.9.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) is regularly championed as the most secure cryptocurrency out there, but even it’s vulnerable to the occasional bug, also meaning that BTC forks might be suffering from the same problem.
This unavoidable fact was brought home at the beginning of September, when a research paper...
Uniswaps, Bitcoin Wraps, and 20 Crypto Jokes
19.9.2020
Unsurprisingly, the last seven days have shown us that Bitcoin whales are actively accumulating BTC throughout 2020, and MicroStrategy CEO doubled-down on the company’s bitcoin bet as “trillions are melting in treasuries.” Major crypto exchange Kraken has received a banking charter, while Kiss star...
DeFi Is Better Than Wall Street
18.9.2020
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...
DeFi Unlocked: How to Earn Crypto Investment Income on Uniswap
15.9.2020
The Uniswap logo. DeFi has continued to hold the crypto community's attention, cementing its position as the hottest crypto trend this year. The booming decentralized finance market unlocked a new milestone on September 1 when amounts locked in its protocols surpassed the USD 9bn, before correcting...
Understanding Oracles In The Blockchain World - A Not-Too-Technical Primer
14.9.2020
In the world of distributed ledgers, oracles provide a link between blockchain technology and the real world.
In this article, you will be introduced to how oracles work and why they are important for the blockchain industry.
What are oracles and why are they important?
An oracle is a tool that...
Why DeFi Isn’t Always As Decentralized As You Might Think
13.9.2020
With the word ‘decentralized’ in its name, you’d think that DeFi (decentralized finance) would be pretty decentralized. If a platform claims to be DeFi, this should mean that it isn’t under the control of any single party or entity, and that it operates as a function of a large and dispersed number...
Cashless Payment Is Booming. So Is Financial Surveillance
13.9.2020
A banknote has been sitting in my wallet for six months now. As time ticks on, it burns an ever greater hole in my pocket.
At first I felt uneasy spending it, following COVID-19 warnings to pay more attention to hand hygiene and the surfaces we all touch on a daily basis.
Now I have less and less...
DeFi’s ‘Total Value Locked In’ Metric Is A Crooked Mirror
12.9.2020
DeFi (decentralized finance) could boast of only USD 1bn in total value locked in as recently as the beginning of June. This rose by a whopping 860% in the three months to September 2, hitting USD 9.6bn.
These figures haven’t escaped their fair share of scrutiny, however. Collected by DeFi Pulse...
Cooking, Slicing, Trimming, Merging, Migrating, and 20 Crypto Jokes
12.9.2020
This crypto week, bitcoin price dropped, and so did the mining difficulty, and we learned that "exclusive mining" can also be used for tax evasion and money laundering. Then, SUSHI trimmed some of its losses after FTX CEO agreed to take over the admin keys from Chef Nomi, and then...
ECB President On Payments In A Digital World
11.9.2020
Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), at the Deutsche Bundesbank online conference on banking and payments in the digital world. Frankfurt am Main, 10 September 2020.
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Key points:
Consumer preferences are changing and the pandemic has accelerated...
DeFi Unlocked: How to Earn Crypto Investment Income on Compound
10.9.2020
DeFi (decentralized finance) has emerged as the hottest crypto trend of the year, with the total amount of US dollars locked in decentralized finance protocols surpassing USD 9bn on September 1 before correcting lower.
In our new “DeFi Unlocked” series, we will introduce you to the different ways...
If You Can't Stand the DeFi Heat - Get Out of the Sushi Chef's Kitchen
8.9.2020
Jay Hao. Jay Hao is the CEO of crypto exchange OKEx.
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We saw a lot of action over the weekend in what played out as one of those adrenaline-packed high-drama movies the likes of which crypto hasn't witnessed in recent times. We all watched on popcorn in hand as [decentralized finance]...
Balancing Security, Decentralization & Scalability in Blockchain
8.9.2020
Marie Tatibouet is the Chief Marketing Officer at crypto exchange Gate.io.
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It was a quantum leap for Bitcoin (BTC) when its block size got close to 1 MB in 2017. However, the BTC blockchain is still only allowed to tackle seven transactions per second, many times fewer than the actual...
Bitcoin And Ethereum Scale Slower Than Cryptoverse Grows
6.9.2020
Scalability is a specter that won’t stop haunting crypto. While certain (mostly newer and less decentralized) blockchains — Ripple (XRP), EOS, and Tron — boast the ability to handle thousands of transactions per second, many of the larger, established, more decentralized and secure blockchains...
The DeFi Sector Is Breaking The Law - It’s Time to Act
5.9.2020
The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector continues to boom, with over USD 8bn in total assets locked into the ecosystem’s various platforms. The bigger it gets, the more regulators are likely to take notice of it, with crypto-focused lawyers warning that now’s the time to begin considering what...
A Whole Lot of DeFi and 20 Crypto Jokes
5.9.2020
In DeFi news: the DeFi boom may be prompting the growth of a BTC-ETH bridge, a new item was served on the DeFi table - SushiSwap, Mike Novogratz said that the DeFi frenzy proves the power of bitcoin and warned of a possible correction, and after criticizing yield farming again, Vitalik Buterin...
The Most Confusing Crypto Terms and What Can Be Done to Clarify Them
30.8.2020
Cryptocurrency is a domain of jargon. ‘Blockchains,’ ‘full nodes,’ ‘miners,’ ‘nonces,’ ‘side-chains’: these are only a few of the terms in crypto that are known to cause confusion and disagreement.
Not only does the ambiguity of vocab undermine the ability of people within crypto to communicate...
Asia Dominates Crypto, But Here’s Why That Could Soon Change
30.8.2020
The crypto world’s center of gravity is Asia. Big crypto-exchanges and companies operate in Europe and North America, but the majority of users are located in the Asia Pacific region, as are most of the world’s biggest exchanges and mining pools.
There are many reasons why this is the case....
Why a State Attack on Bitcoin Is Neither Likely, nor Likely to Succeed
29.8.2020
Now that bitcoin (BTC) is establishing itself as an alternative store of value, fears are growing that governments might one day be motivated to try to take it down.
Members of the Bitcoin community have recently been brainstorming scenarios involving theoretical governmental offensives against...
Highs, Lows, Flipping, Bridging and 20 Crypto Jokes
29.8.2020
This week in the Cryptoverse, bitcoin mining difficulty hit a new all-time high and rose further, RyanAir CEO said to avoid bitcoin like a plague, deVere Group CEO said that 2020 was a breakout year for bitcoin, and Snappa joined the group of companies diversifying their cash holdings into bitcoin....