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Star Ocean: The Second Story’s Killer Final Song Comes Out Of Nowhere
4.12.2020
Welcome to Morning Music, Kotaku’s daily hangout for folks who love video games and the cool-ass sounds they make. Today we’re listening to “We Form In Crystals,” an absolute banger of a credits song that is way better than it had any right to be.Read more
‘Chainlink Killer’ API3 Closes $3M Funding Round With Placeholder and Pantera
12.11.2020
API3, a firm aiming to provide an alternative to oracle service Chainlink, has raised $3 million in a private funding round led by Placeholder
Government-Backed Tokenized Gold With ‘Killer Features’
31.7.2020
A crypto consortium including Bittrex Global, Ledger, CertiK, and Uphold, has launched a gold token backed by the world’s largest refiner of newly minted gold
BTC.top Launches ‘Joint Mining’ Platform, Pitching It as a Cloud Mining Killer
25.7.2020
The Chinese mining pool is offering an alternative to cloud mining, charging fees only after their equipment starts to pay for itself
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...
Crypto Lending: The Ultimate Killer App?
27.6.2020
Using digital assets to earn yields and borrow capital became possible thanks to crypto lending, one of the fastest-growing sectors in the crypto ecosystem
Bitcoin Is Blockchain’s ‘Killer App,’ But Blockchain Is Catching Up
21.6.2020
The bitcoin (BTC) vs. blockchain debate is almost as old as BTC itself. For years now, bitcoin maximalists have argued that blockchain without a cryptocurrency is mostly a slow database, while blockchain advocates have argued that bitcoin only scratches the surface of what decentralized ledgers...
First Mover: Cardano’s No Ethereum Killer Yet, But It’s Winning in Crypto Markets
15.6.2020
Cardano's ADA token is racking up impressive gains this year, possibly over speculation the network's early adoption of a proof-of-stake blockchain might help it win a growing share of the DeFi space
Immunity Passports May Be Blockchain's Killer-App, Says Overstock CEO
22.5.2020
Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson believes that COVID-19 Immunity Passports may be the killer-app to bring blockchain tech out of Bitcoin’s shadow
Blockchain Bites: Will Enterprise Blockchain Find a ‘Killer App’ or Be Killed?
14.5.2020
IBM, We.Trade and Microsoft executives spoke about the trials and tribulations of capitalizing on enterprise-grade blockchain at Consensus: Distributed
Working With MDX Custom Elements and Shortcodes
7.5.2020
MDX is a killer feature for things like blogs, slide decks and component documentation. It allows you to write Markdown without worrying about HTML elements, their formatting and placement while sprinkling in the magic of custom React components when necessary.
Let’s harness that magic and look...
'Serial Killer' Bitcoin to Explode This Year - Pantera’s Morehead
13.4.2020
Dan Morehead. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Bloomberg Markets and Finance
Bitcoin (BTC) is a “serial killer” correlated with traditional risk assets only “when the world freaks out,” and the crypto markets are about to “explode higher,” according to one of the most prominent investors in...
Thursday’s Market Madness Strained Ethereum’s Killer App: DeFi
13.3.2020
So many people were trying to use the Ethereum blockchain during Thursday’s market meltdown that many applications simply stopped working as intended
IOTA Network Still Down: How the Next Bitcoin Killer Screeched to a Halt
14.2.2020
On February 13, the IOTA network came to a screeching halt and the IOTA Foundation reports that $1.6 million worth of the native currency was stolen. The following day, the IOTA network status page still shows the mainnet is “not operational” and the development team has found...
Is Bitcoin New Ethereum Killer?
2.2.2020
Source: iStock/Alexander Ließ
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.
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Looking for the next Bitcoin (BTC, Rated...
Why User Experience Is Crypto’s True ‘Killer App’
21.1.2020
There’s been a lot of buzz in the space recently about the importance of user experience. Kim Dotcom’s proclamation that “Mass utility is going to lead to mass adoption,” speaks to this. Peter Schiff’s bitcoin wallet fiasco, CZ’s claim that centralized exchanges...
Narrative Watch: The Hunt for Crypto’s Killer App
13.1.2020
As a Brooklyn Nets player tokenizes his contract, are income share agreements poised to break out as one of crypto’s killer apps?
ETH Killer, Private Messaging and Change in BTC - 4 Crypto Experiments
12.11.2019
From coin killers, over private messages, to stacking sats. The Cryptoverse rests on innovation and innovative technology. It’s no wonder then that we often see interesting new gadgets or digital solutions to existing problems, or the problems we didn’t even know exist. Occasionally, we’re even...
Report Says That World at Risk Due to Amazon and Microsoft’s Killer AI
22.8.2019
Over the past decades, it has been seen that the biggest tech companies in the world coming up with revolutionary technologies that eventually find use in a wide range of industries. Artificial intelligence or AI is the latest frontier as far as technology and naturally, some of the tech giants...
Bitcoin’s Youngest Millionaire Launches Crypto-Based ‘Libra Killer’
20.8.2019
Crypto payment app Metal adds first non-native cryptocurrencies