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DeFi Punches Above Its Weight As it Targets Bitcoin’s Thunder
26.7.2020
Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Max Holloway
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is seemingly stealing Bitcoin (BTC)’s thunder. Aside from some minor movements, BTC has been noticeably un-volatile in recent weeks, while the total value locked into DeFi platforms has risen from USD 1bn at the beginning...
Legend of Mir Developer Plays For Success In Blockchain Gaming Market
26.7.2020
Shane Kim, Wemade Tree’s CEO. When it comes to fast-growing businesses, very few can hold a candle to the gaming industry.
Per data compiled by Newzoo, there were over 2.5 billion video gamers in the world in 2016. Just what four years and the coronavirus pandemic have done to these figures...
Bitcoin Brokers In 'Very Important' Race For Big Investors - BitGo Prime CEO
25.7.2020
As prime brokerage has become an integral part of traditional financial markets, crypto industry players are racing to bring these services into this nascent market too. This would increase efficiency and encourage more institutional investors to allocate more of their funds to cryptoassets...
Very-Much Altseasons, Hard-Learned Lessons and 20 Crypto Jokes
25.7.2020
This week in crypto, bitcoin finally made a move, CZ said we’re very much in altseason now, mStable learned communication the hard way, LEND was up by 8,000% against bitcoin in 12 months, while research found that BTC hashrate could rise 120% in a year, but the price of the coin needs to follow....
Crypto Insider Traders Run Free, Hurting Unregulated Market
19.7.2020
Source: Adobe/Евгений Вершинин
The crypto industry has an insider trading problem. While no official laws or regulations explicitly prohibit insider trading within crypto, industry observers suspect that it happens more often than you think.
Few crypto exchanges and companies are actually listed...
Is There A World Beyond YouTube for Crypto?
19.7.2020
The relationship between the communications giant Google and the cryptoasset industry can be characterized as somewhat antagonistic.
Now, its video-sharing platform, YouTube seems to be on the offensive, de-platforming some crypto-related content creators, leaving them looking for viable...
Expect More M&A As New Type of Buyers to Compete With 'Crypto Octopuses'
18.7.2020
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the crypto industry are likely to increase in the second half of 2020, despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This is the opinion of industry players working in crypto and blockchain, who believe that the bigger companies are likely to step up their mergers...
Twitter Hack, Unmovable Bitcoin and 20 Crypto Jokes
18.7.2020
There is never a dull week in the cryptoverse and this week was no exception (except BTC price). Bitcoin miners now have to sweat more as mining difficulty reached a new all-time high, while Twitter had serious security issues that led to more than 13 BTC being stolen. Meanwhile, PayPal has been...
Bitcoin Pioneer LN Markets Raises Capital, Builds 'Liquidation Killer'
17.7.2020
LN Markets, the first bitcoin (BTC) derivatives exchange built on top of the Lightning Network (LN), reached USD 6m in total aggregate trading volume and is now raising capital in order to accelerate its growth.
The platform was launched in December 2019 in Beta, while their Alpha version went...
The Twitter Hacks and Battles of Plato, Socrates and Aristotle
16.7.2020
Keld van Schreven is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of KR1 plc, the London listed cryptoasset and blockchain investment company.
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Over the years we’ve seen Twitter celebrities get their accounts hacked. But this recent hack goes way beyond anything we’ve seen before. This latest security...
Next 500m Bitcoin Users ‘Could Be a Simpler UX Away’
12.7.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) is now over a decade old. In a little over ten years, the cryptocurrency pioneer went from a fringe phenomenon to a globally-accepted alternative asset class with millions of holders across the globe. While this is impressive by all means for new technology, bitcoin is still far away...
Coronavirus Recovery – The New Economic Thinking We Need
12.7.2020
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is calling the coronavirus-induced economic crisis “the Great Lockdown”. The phrase mimics the Great Depression of the 1920s and the Great Recession that followed the 2007-08 global financial crisis. But, while it is tempting to maintain linguistic consistency...
DeFi Faces Multiple Challenges On Its Way To Dominate Crypto
11.7.2020
While Bitcoin (BTC) maximalists remain skeptical, many other industry players believe that DeFi, or decentralized finance, is set to become the dominant sector within the cryptoasset industry. Decentralized finance has already been one of the fastest-growing sectors for a couple of years now, while...
DOGETok Jumps, Playgrounds, Presidential Runs and 20 Crypto Jokes
11.7.2020
This week in the Cryptosphere, BTC miners were not selling them coins, and Venezuelan military intercepted a truck full of mining rigs. Chainlink hit an all-time high, and Dogecoin soared as TikTokers attempted to pump it, with Justin Sun joining the scene too, followed by a few exchanges. Cardano...
Bottlepay Returns by September with Fiat Integration and Bitcoin Tweets
10.7.2020
Upon its planned comeback by September, the fully compliant, revamped Bottlepay app will feature fiat integration, enabling users to spend bitcoin (BTC) from their national currency, Pete Cheyne, founder of this UK-based BTC wallet provider, told Cryptonews.com.
As reported, the first version...
How Close Are Russians to Getting Paid in Crypto?
10.7.2020
A business leader and political adviser says that the idea of getting paid in cryptocurrencies is still a long way off in Russia – although other insiders say some “off the record” crypto payments are being paid to employees in the country. And there may be signs that one group of Russian workers...
COVID-19 Is Changing Our Relationship With Money
8.7.2020
The coronavirus pandemic has prompted retailers to ask customers to wear masks, maintain physical distancing and avoid the use of cash when possible. Despite scientific evidence indicating that currency doesn’t transmit COVID-19, there continues to be an unprecedented weariness around the use...
Stocks Are Soaring, Time to Short Bitcoin?
7.7.2020
Jay Hao. Jay Hao is the CEO of crypto exchange OKEx.
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When I woke up this morning, I received many messages from my friends, who told me, "Stocks have skyrocketed. Can we short bitcoin (BTC)?" Then I opened my Bloomberg and saw the following chart. The Shanghai Shenzhen CSI...
Stablecoins Might Be Better Than Bitcoin For Payments, But Maybe Not For Long
5.7.2020
Stablecoins offer most of the benefits of bitcoin (BTC), but without any of the volatility. This is the opinion of a wide number of industry figures and experts, all of whom affirm that removing volatility is the key to making cryptocurrencies viable as a means of payment.
Does this mean that...
US Founding Fathers Would Make Bitcoin Primary Legal Tender
5.7.2020
Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a massive sculpture carved into Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. The sculpture's roughly 60-ft.-high granite faces depict US presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Juan Villaverde is...