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BarterTrade V2 Launches With Advanced Social Trading, Auto KYC and Institutional Grade Liquidity
11.6.2021
BarterTrade, is a cryptocurrency trading ecosystem that upgraded to more advanced V2 on 6th May, 2021, implementing significant benefits and new features for traders. Understanding crypto traders’ needs is a key ingredient of the relaunch, which includes features such as a 0% trading...
Understanding What Turned El Salvador’s President Bukele on to Bitcoin
10.6.2021
Nayib Bukele. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/nayibbukele
It’s February 3, 2019, and the world’s media is reporting that Nayib Bukele, “the Latin American Donald Trump,” has just swept to power in El Salvador’s presidential elections. Turns out this is some pretty lazy reporting: Yes, Bukele is...
Rogue states dodge economic sanctions, but is crypto in the wrong?
8.6.2021
Crypto Industry's Lobbying Power Grows As Former Officials Change Sides
6.6.2021
Crypto firms have been increasingly appointing former regulators and lawmakers in recent months. While the officially stated aim of such appointments is to help crypto industry better understand the regulatory landscape, it’s just as likely that the appointees have been enlisted to help firms lobby...
'Fiat-Like' Proof-of-Stake Chains Favor Centralization & Rich Players
5.6.2021
In crypto, consensus often results in controversy. Sure, consensus mechanisms themselves obviously result in agreement concerning transactions, yet when it comes to picking the ideal mechanism for a particular chain or cryptoasset, the crypto community as a whole is very often in disagreement.
One...
Digital Copper, Volume Explosions, Paradigm Shifts and 20 Crypto Jokes
5.6.2021
This past cryptoweek, while five coins led the market over the week prior, bitcoin was stuck in a "digital copper" phase as gold was rallying, and DEX and CEX trading volume exploded in May surpassing USD 2trn. There was talk that crypto markets may be seeing a paradigm shift from pure...
Counter-Terrorists Win: Valve Just Nuked Most Of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’s F2P Features
4.6.2021
Since 2018, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players could enjoy the entire game, more or less, without paying a cent. That’s now come to an end as Valve just announced the end of many CS:GO free-to-play (F2P) features in a blog post on the official CS:GO website.Read more
We tracked down the original Bitcoin Lambo guy
4.6.2021
Community members integrate play-to-earn features into Dark Forest game
1.6.2021
Players can now earn xDAI by broadcasting planet locations in the space strategy game
Marathon’s Bitcoin Mining Pool Will ‘No Longer Filter Transactions’ — Marapool Begins Signaling for Taproot
1.6.2021
On Monday, the publicly-listed enterprise mining firm Marathon Digital Holdings announced the company has adopted the latest codebase offered by Bitcoin Core developers that features Taproot. Marathon is now signaling for Taproot according to the announcement. The North American bitcoin miner...
Taproot, CoinSwap, Mercury Wallet, and the State of Bitcoin Privacy in 2021
30.5.2021
Privacy is a bit of a complicated topic in Bitcoin (BTC). While the mainstream media have often referred to the cryptoasset as a form of anonymous currency for the internet, the reality is that every Bitcoin transaction made on the base blockchain layer is completely public and stored on thousands...
Ethereum Needs to Try Harder To Keep Its Dominance in a Multichain Future
29.5.2021
Ethereum (ETH) is not the only smart contract platform in town. While it certainly has a first-mover advantage in its quest to become a decentralized universal computer, there are a growing number of other chains also offering the infrastructure for running decentralized apps (dapps), and some...
More Dominance, Less Mining, Handful of Regulations and 20 Crypto Jokes
29.5.2021
This week in crypto, it was reported that BTC could’ve been in for a fresh battering as analysts noted a 'seismic shift' in mining amid the Chinese 'crackdown', BTC’s dominance was up amid a selloff as funds were buying the dip and, while there was another debate over EIP-1559 this week, Vitalik...
How Pocketnet & Pocketcoin (PKOIN) Are Set to Change the Internet Forever With Crypto & P2P Tech
28.5.2021
Pocketnet is a fundamentally new way to build a social media platform powered by the cryptocurrency Pocketcoin (PKOIN). It is a mix of traditional social media platforms and Bitcoin with some cutting-edge new features, such as the ability to auction off your content through NFT-Scarce. Pocketcoin...
NBA Legend Paul Pierce and Poker Hall of Famer Phil Ivey to Join Joe Lubin of Consensys for a Virtue Poker Charity Tournament
28.5.2021
Virtue Poker revealed plans to organize a high-stakes 12-player celebrity poker tournament on its platform, live-streamed on Twitch, with the winner donating the event’s proceeds to their preferred charitable organization. Celebrity Charity Tournament Features NFTs & Giveaways Virtue...
A Thorough Analysis of CSS-in-JS
26.5.2021
Wondering what’s even more challenging than choosing a JavaScript framework? You guessed it: choosing a CSS-in-JS solution. Why? Because there are more than 50 libraries out there, each of them offering a unique set of features.
We tested 10 different …
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DeFi Yield Protocol (DYP) Launches Decentralized Tools Dashboard
24.5.2021
Yield Farming protocol DYP has launched its long-awaited DYP Tools. DYP Tools V1 is a decentralized tools dashboard built with features that will increase the use cases for DYP Token and the entire DeFi ecosystem. The tool dashboard serves as a liquidity locker for any DeFi project and protects...
What EIP 1559 Brings to the Ethereum Table
22.5.2021
Source: Adobe/H_Ko
Ethereum (ETH) is changing. Not only is it undertaking the gradual process of transitioning to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism, but it’s only a couple of months away from significantly revamping its monetary system, via Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP)...
Much Red, Very Down, Super Panic and 20 Crypto Jokes
22.5.2021
What a week! Even more so than weeks prior. As the Cryptoverse was hard at work debunking Elon Musk's BTC criticism, with many accusing him of market manipulation, markets turned super-red in a flash crash, for which insiders gave several reasons, and BTC nearly tested USD 30K. And while many...
Green Investments Help Bitcoin Miners Amid Possible Regulatory Crackdown
20.5.2021
Regulators have been moving into multiple areas of the crypto industry, and they will – in one way or another – come after crypto mining powered by non-renewables, according to two miners that talked with Cryptonews.com.
However, as the concerns, facts, and misinformation over Bitcoin (BTC)’s...