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Check These 4 Make-Your-Own-NFT Platforms
3.2.2021
Who's The Controller Now? by Hidden Forces. Last sold for USD 3,059.05. In the last two years, the non-fungible token (NFT) space has grown significantly, creating an entirely new asset class called crypto collectibles. Today, the NFT market is attracting established and would-be artists who want...
The Economics of the Poet Ezra Pound: What Is Money For?
31.1.2021
Ezra Pound in 1920. The American poet Ezra Pound was never short of things to say, especially with regard to economics. While his literary contributions are unmatched, his economic ideas were largely discarded by his contemporaries, especially as he began to lean towards fascism in the latter part...
Non-Fungible 2021: Prepare Your NFTs For DeFi, Staking, and Sharing
30.1.2021
An NFT created by an artist known as beeple and sold for ETH 67.331 (USD 90,224 today) in December 2020 on Nifty Gateway. Cryptocurrencies are — or at least aim to be — money. This not only means that they need to function as stores of value, media of exchange, and units of account, but that they...
Battling Wall Street, Sheriff of Nottingham, High Doge and 20 Crypto Jokes
30.1.2021
What a crazy week! And vastly entertaining! As the Wallstreetbets story intensified, pushing the price of GME up, the market got a new entrant, a a ‘wrapped’ GameStop token, and then DOGE soared right into top 10! Then Robinhood halted buying of the first and trading of the second, saying they...
Crypto in the Philippines: Necessity is the mother of adoption
29.1.2021
"People are just like, 'Whoa, mind blown — this is going to save me half a day because I don't have to go all the way to the bank during business hours and take three journeys on public transport and then wait in line for an hour ... I could do this on my phone.’”
Signal reportedly exploring crypto payment features
26.1.2021
Fast-rising messaging service Signal is rumored to be experimenting with a privacy crypto token
Stablecoins May 'Penetrate Non-Crypto Markets' & Surpass USD 100B in 2021
24.1.2021
2021 could be the year when stablecoins move deeper inside the non-crypto markets, with some expecting the total value of stablecoins almost tripling and surpassing USD 100bn this year, according to industry figures.
Market capitalization of stablecoins already jumped by around sixfold in the past...
Regulators Ponder Strategy As Bitcoin & Co Are Too Large to Ignore
23.1.2021
Source: Adobe/Jon Le-Bon
The writing is on the wall: regulation is coming for crypto. While a small handful of nations have already introduced specific cryptoasset legislation over the past few years, it looks as though the world’s major powers are gearing up to introduce substantial...
Green Markets, Red Markets, Meh Markets and 20 Crypto Jokes
23.1.2021
This was quite a week for ethereum which reached its ATH territory in USD, though it remained far from its ATH against BTC. But some mining pools banded together to try and stop the EIP 1559. Meanwhile, as the bitcoin snowball is expected to hit more institutions in 2021, JP Morgan strategists told...
Bitcoin Transaction Fee Estimators: What Are They and How Do You Use Them
22.1.2021
Whenever there’s a bitcoin (BTC) rally, bitcoin transaction fees tend to go up. If you want to know what current Bitcoin network fees are, you can take a look at bitcoin transaction fee estimators.
In this article, we will delve into what they are, what they do, the challenges they face, and...
COVID-19 Pandemic Accelerated Rollouts Of 'Game-Changing' CBDCs
22.1.2021
Hastened by the pandemic, central bank digital currency (CBDC) initiatives will roll out in the next couple of years, becoming a "game-changer," industry insiders told Cryptonews.com.
It’s the COVID-19 pandemic which we have to thank for “greatly accelerat[ing] the push for digital...
A Look Into the Trending Decentralized Social Media Experience: Mastodon
19.1.2021
Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/Mastodon
Following recent news that the outgoing US President Donald Trump was suspended on major social media platforms, or that Facebook wants to gather more data about Whatsapp users, the conversation about censorship on social media, personal data privacy...
Bitcoin gets physical: Art or digital heresy?
18.1.2021
"Physical Bitcoins are a rarity, they’re sort of like Picasso and Van Gogh paintings were back in those days. Nobody realized how rare they were."
Bitcoin Snowball Is Expected To Hit More Institutions in 2021
17.1.2021
Institutionalization, professionalization, commercialization, and inclusion of bitcoin (BTC) in portfolios of hedge funds, treasuries and others is likely to continue its upwards trajectory, providing BTC with endorsement, recognition, and validation, further leading to adoption and price...
Crypto and Tax in 2021: Be Ready to Pay More
16.1.2021
As some may be aware, there are only two things certain in life, death and taxes, and while crypto was initially able to avoid tax (to varying degrees), it would seem that the taxman is finally catching up with the industry. The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) introduced a new tax form at the...
Partial Blame, Promised Revocation, Presidential Attacks and 20 Crypto Jokes
16.1.2021
This week in the world of crypto, analysts said USD and Coinbase might be partially blamed for the Monday BTC crash, EOS prices were in a tailspin after Daniel Larimer stepped down from his role as Block.One CTO, and XRP dropped following several mixed news. Meanwhile, lawyers planed to file motion...
Three Quick Predictions For Altcoins in 2021
12.1.2021
What's in store for altcoins this year? Well, one industry insider sees death for a number of altcoins, another reminds of good signs that will help altcoins this year, while a third says we might need a change in terminology.
A bull was reigning the crypto market since the end of 2020, while this...
Not Only Bitcoin Price Is Changing During This Bull Run
10.1.2021
As the most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin (BTC), keeps scoring its new all-time highs, industry observers see important changes on the BTC adoption front too.
According to Anthony Lauriola, Chief Operating Officer at blockchain portfolio company Dan Holdings, in 2020, we saw “a significant shift...
Bitcoin Mining in 2021: Growth, Consolidation, Renewables, and Regulation
9.1.2021
Bitcoin (BTC) mining has had a couple of less profitable years. After the highs of late 2017 and early 2018, profitability declined by March 2020 to as little as USD 0.0693 per day for every 1 THash of mining power (having been USD 3.139 in January 2018).
However, with the bull market of late 2020...
High BTC Highs, Major OCC News, No XRP-SEC Deals and 20 Crypto Jokes
9.1.2021
Over the course of this week, Bitcoin jumped over USD 41K to the delight of many, setting its sight on the 50K level, with JPMorgan strategists saying its long-term target should be above USD 146,000. Bitcoin, ethereum, and stablecoin camps 'fought' over who benefits more from the major OCC news...