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2 ‘Sleeping Bitcoin’ Block Rewards From 2010 Wake up After Sitting Idle for More Than a Decade
18.2.2022
During the last week bitcoin’s USD value has shed close to 9% as it slipped from $44,239 per unit two days ago, to below the $40K range on Friday. Meanwhile, in the last 24 hours, two sleeping bitcoin block rewards from 2010 woke up after more than a decade of sitting idle. The 100 bitcoins...
Terra injects 450M UST into Anchor reserve days before protocol depletion
18.2.2022
The move is designed to maintain the stablecoin savings protocol's lucrative yield of approximately 20% per annum
Spellfire: Crypto Project Older Than Crypto Starts a ‘10 Days Growth’ Sprint
18.2.2022
Spellfire has packed 30 years of history into an amazing experience and combined it with the latest trends of tomorrow. Defining the future of NFTs and adding new standards to collectible card games has become the core aims of game developers. St. Valentines day has marked an important date in...
NFT Sales Nosedive This Week as Volume Drops Close to 30%
16.2.2022
According to current metrics, non-fungible token (NFT) sales have dropped 29.35% since last week. While Ethereum and Solana are the two blockchains with the most NFT sales volume, both blockchain networks have seen NFT sales nosedive anywhere between 27% to 32% over the last seven days. Weekly...
Relatively Unknown Protocols Push TVL in Defi Above the $200 Billion Range
15.2.2022
On February 15, the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) platforms is just above the $200 billion range, after a brief slump below that region last week. Out of the entire TVL in defi today, Ethereum commands 59.22% of that value with 532 defi protocols. Metrics during the last...
SEC hits BlockFi with a $100 million penalty, gives 60 days to comply with a 1940 law
14.2.2022
The penalty comes after months of heightened regulatory attention to crypto lending platforms
Bitcoin Hashrate Surges Tapping Lifetime High, Foundry Commands Top Mining Pool Rank for 30 Days
14.2.2022
The processing power backing the Bitcoin network has tapped another all-time high (ATH) in 2022, reaching 246 exahash per second (EH/s) on February 12. After the network reached an ATH on January 15, a month later the hashrate increased by 12.43% — this despite the network’s mining...
Developers Speculating About the Long-Distant Future: 2022
10.2.2022
This is a wonderful roundup from Jeremy, who I picture circling January 1, 2022, in red marker on a giant paper calendar back in 2008 and patiently counting the days.
See, there was a little smattering of internet drama …
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The Miner Capitulation Number: A Look at When Bitcoin’s Price Crashed Below the Cost of Production
7.2.2022
Over the last 30 days, Bitcoin’s hashrate has been coasting along at the highest levels ever recorded during the network’s lifetime. Bitcoin’s price improved recently but it is still down 38% from the crypto asset’s high, making bitcoin less profitable to mine. However...
Value Locked in Defi Climbs 13% Higher Since Last Week’s Low, SOL Price Jumps 25%, AVAX TVL Spikes
5.2.2022
The total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) has jumped back above the $200 billion range, hovering around $216.49 billion on Saturday morning (EST). The TVL in defi has increased 13.60% since tapping a low of $190.57 billion 13 days ago on January 23. The decentralized exchange...
Stablecoin Economy Continues to Balloon as USDC’s Market Cap Crosses $50 Billion
4.2.2022
As the entire lot of 12,333 digital currencies hovers just above $1.8 trillion in value, the stablecoin economy has recently swelled to $178.8 billion or 9.9% of the entire crypto economy. Out of the top five stablecoins, usd coin (USDC) saw its market capitalization jump the most, increasing 18.9%...
$1B worth of ETH burned in the past 30 days due to record high OpenSea NFT transactions
1.2.2022
Despite the large burn value, the network is still inflationary until its PoS transition scheduled for Q2 or Q3
Ethereum Fees Drop 53% in 20 Days — Polygon Hermez, Loopring Offer Lowest L2 Fees
30.1.2022
Ethereum’s average network fees have dropped to the lowest value in 30 days at 0.0096 ether or $24.64 per transaction. Median-sized ethereum fees are lower today as well, as fees are between $8.37 to $10.82 per transaction as ether fees haven’t been this low since January 1. Onchain...
NFT Minecraft Project Sells $1.2 Million In Tokens, Deletes Everything A Few Days Later
29.1.2022
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: An NFT project sells a ton of tokens, making a shit ton of cash in the process for a thing that probably will exist in the future. Then the project and folks involved disappear with the money, leaving those who bought into it screwed. Well, it’s reportedly...
Weekly NFT Sales Drop 13% While Crypto Prices Rebound From Market Rout
29.1.2022
Last week, non-fungible token (NFT) sales remained unscathed while crypto asset spot markets were dismal. However, a week later, NFT sales have dropped 13% to $800 million in sales over the last seven days. During the past week, NFT sales on the Ethereum blockchain have slipped 11.78% but Ronin...
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: Bitcoin Moves Higher as Crypto Markets Rebound on Saturday
29.1.2022
Following two consecutive days of losses, bitcoin and ethereum both rebounded strongly to start the weekend. Crypto markets were trading close to 5% higher on Saturday. Bitcoin The world’s largest cryptocurrency regained some upward momentum on Saturday, as bitcoin bulls appeared to have...
78 Days: Measuring the Extended Crypto Market Downturn Against Prior Bear Markets
27.1.2022
The crypto economy has shed enormous value over the last three months and the leading crypto asset bitcoin is down more than 46% since it’s all-time high (ATH) at $69,044 per unit. The same can be said for a great number of digital currencies as the so-called crypto bear market has lasted...
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27.1.2022
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Around El Salvador in 45 days: A Bitcoin-only travel story
27.1.2022
Here are some travel tips from a couple who traveled around El Salvador for 45 days using only Bitcoin
Bitcoin, Ethereum Technical Analysis: ETH Nears 10% Gain, BTC Inches Toward $40,000
26.1.2022
Days after falling to a 6-month low, bitcoin rose for a second consecutive session, as prices slowly approached its key level of $40,000. Today’s gain in BTC comes as the global crypto market cap was 4.7% higher from yesterday’s session, as of writing. Bitcoin The world’s...