Taking blockchain tech from buzzword to essential technology should have a singular focus: Making it useful for people’s everyday lives. A perennial question surrounding blockchain technology is: When will it make a mainstream impact? Understandably, enthusiasts in the industry are anxious to see this technology live up to its promise of empowering consumers, accelerating cross-border […]
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Daily closes for BTC/USD have been above $10,000 since July 27, and that’s a new record, data shows. Bitcoin (BTC) has hit a new price record — but this time, it’s stamina which is delighting the bulls. As various analysts and well-known Bitcoiners noted this week, the Bitcoin price has stayed above $10,000 longer than […]
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The blockchain can now see its environment. The Polkadot team released on Wednesday a major milestone for its Substrate blockchain framework, which now provides a way for blockchain applications to interface with the outside world without relying on external oracle providers. Substrate is the name used for Polkadot’s blockchain building framework. It provides developers with […]
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‘We can liquidate it any day of the week, any hour of the day,’ said Michael Saylor. Michael Saylor has said that all $400 million of business intelligence firm MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin reserve holdings could be liquidated at any time. In a Sept. 22 interview, Saylor told Bloomberg that although “volatility isn’t really a reason to […]
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Jay Hao did not mince words in disparaging Binance for strategies he referred to as “irresponsible.” OKEx CEO Jay Hao called out Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao for their recent support of certain DeFi projects. He also claimed that Binance Smart Chain, or BSC, is highly centralized, noting that it is wholly controlled by a […]
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Binance has already announced it will list the UNI token. Unfazed by the controversy over its Sushiswap listing, Binance announced support for Uniswap’s new UNI token around 90 minutes after the DeFi platform’s governance token went live on Ethereum. Over the next four years, one billion UNI tokens will be distributed, with 15% being immediately […]
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The original stock-to-flow model is calling time on Bitcoin’s phase at around $10,000, and it’s not been wrong so far. It’s high time for Bitcoin (BTC) to begin its next significant price rise, the creator of one of the best-known BTC price models says. In a tweet on Sep. 14, quant analyst PlanB highlighted increasing […]
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Binance Coin has been one of the few altcoins in September that has surged in price, but breaking $35 will be a major challenge for BNB. In recent weeks, most of the cryptocurrency market has been doing poorly except for a few select altcoins. One of them is Yearn.finance (YFI), which was discussed in an […]
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Brian Armstrong has taken Apple to task over its allegedly exclusionary policies towards crypto app developers. Brian Armstrong, the CEO of United States cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, alleges that Apple is stifling innovation in crypto and sidelining DeFi to protect itself from competition. In a Twitter thread published on Sept. 11, Armstrong doubled down on his […]
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A new Bitcoin backed yield dollar from Ren and UMA enables liquidity mining for BTC holders. Trustless cross-chain bridge Ren and permissionless synthetic asset platform UMA have teamed up to launch a Bitcoin-backed yield dollar called uUSD, in addition to a joint liquidity mining reward program. The partnership will result in a product that allows […]
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