COVID-19 has forced businesses around the world to adapt to new ways as crypto companies embrace the “decentralized normal.” 2020 will forever be remembered as the year of COVID-19, but there is no telling what the long-lasting effects of the pandemic will be on the global economy. Around the world, countries have been forced to […]
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DJ David Guetta goes virtual. Sensorium Galaxy, a not-yet-released virtual reality platform, has signed famous French DJ David Guetta. The platform hosts its own ERC-20 token, known as SENSO. “In a similar fashion to in-game currencies like Fortnite’s V-Bucks, SENSO is used for all value transactions within the Sensorium Galaxy,” Sensorium Corporation’s Deputy CEO of IR, blockchain […]
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The investment firm purchased 17,100 BTC in the last week. Crypto fund manager Grayscale Investments has increased the assets under management in its Bitcoin Trust by more than $180 million over the past week. According to data from information platform Bybt, Grayscale added 17,100 Bitcoin (BTC) to the firm’s Bitcoin Trust in the last seven […]
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Despite Bitcoin’s online sentiment being at a two-year low, analytics say that BTC may be on the verge of a breakout. The global economy doesn’t seem to be in a good place right now, especially with countries such as the United Kingdom, France and Spain imposing fresh, new restrictions across their borders, thereby making the […]
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Banking will not become decentralized, but with blockchain, it will become accountable for both banks and clients. Recently, European central bank executives — Thomas Moser from Swiss National Bank and Martin Diehl from Deutsche Bundesbank — stated that central bank digital currencies don’t need a blockchain. They expressed their opinions by saying that blockchains — […]
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Historically, digital art has been almost impossible to monetize. Blockchain technology can solve that problem. On Sept. 23, auction-house giant Christie’s announced plans to sell its first nonfungible token, or NFT, at an auction. This was just one week after the record-setting $100,000 sale at auction of a digital art piece that also used a […]
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He’s been dismissive of all things crypto for years, but does he have a point this time? Known for his previous comments criticizing the crypto industry, economist Nouriel Roubini recently posted fresh negativity against the digital asset sector. “DeFi was vaporware from its onset,” he said in a Sept. 24 tweet. “Now totally faltering as […]
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In order to achieve blockchain mass adoption, three fundamental problems should be solved. Let’s dive into the first one: upgradeability. This is Part 1 of a three-part series in which Andrew Levine outlines the issues facing legacy blockchains and posits solutions to these problems. Read Part 2 on the vertical scaling crisis and Part 3 […]
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While most of us will prefer to forget the horrors of 2020, DeFi may well prove to be the guarantee of a better, more liberated future. In a broad sense, 2020 has been the year of the COVID-19 pandemic. As it charges toward 1 million deaths and over 30 million infections, governments have been found […]
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What was behind my decision to leave a government position and continue down a path within the crypto and blockchain space. I thought we were the good guys when I worked in operations security for the Austrian government. After I learned how trivial it was for certain institutions or people in certain positions to fetch […]
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