Distributed ledger technology has the potential to solve a lot of economic and social problems, but there are some that we have to solve ourselves. The crypto community was rightly aghast at the “Bitcoin Will Save Us” poster donned by a protester against racial injustice in Dallas last week. Christ pic.twitter.com/BmRmlZnMWa — Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) […]
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The Ethereum co-founder says the crypto community needs to get with the times. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin says the current financial crisis is very different to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis that Bitcoin emerged from — and that the crypto community needs to adjust its thinking accordingly. Writing in a Twitter thread on June 2, […]
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Pixelmatic hopes to use the support of major crypto players for mainstream gamer adoption of digital currency with its INF token. Prominent Bitcoin figures are working together to ensure the alpha release of Pixelmatic’s Infinite Fleet space adventure game is launched by the end of 2020. Infinite Fleet, under the leadership of Blockstream Chief Strategy […]
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The crypto industry has the best historical moment to change the discourse about crypto and its reputation into a successful innovative tech sector. Blockchains reached a feverish level of hype following the ICO mania of 2017. Peddled as the panacea to the world’s ills, many of such promises ill-intentioned, initial coin offerings raised enormous sums […]
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Here’s why Goldman’s approach to Bitcoin is ‘stale’ and ‘hasn’t evolved much.’ A leaked slide from a client meeting shows Goldman Sachs does not believe Bitcoin is an asset class. Coinbase angel investor Seth Ginns and Fundstrat analyst David Grider explain why Goldman continues to hold this antiquated position. Ginns and Grider joined Cointelegraph’s weekly […]
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The world’s existing economies are suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has revealed the main benefits of decentralized tech and crypto. The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the economies of countries all around the world and is showing no signs of stopping. The overwhelming response from global governments has been to place their countries under […]
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The price of Bitcoin dropped to $8,600 and is now fluctuating just above $9,000, showing high volatility as several factors make its next step unclear. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) dropped to as low as $8,600 on May 25 as retail investors on Coinbase led an abrupt short-term downtrend. The price has since fluctuated between […]
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The price of Bitcoin surges above $9,000 ahead of a Goldman Sachs client call about gold and BTC. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) surged above $9,000, demonstrating a decent recovery in the last 24 hours. Market data shows a further upsurge to the $9,300 to $9,400 range is likely in the near-term. Three key reasons […]
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The new Bitcoin era, now in full swing after the last halving, has the potential to usher in a whole new financial order. Following the recent, third halving, Bitcoin (BTC) is now in its fourth block reward era. Leading up to the event, pundits launched into varied predictions that ranged from miner capitulation to hash […]
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Blockstream seems to be taking a page out of Ethereum’s book as it sponsored a game that uses Liquid to issue non-fungible tokens, despite earlier criticism of the platform. At Consensus Distributed on May 12, Blockstream presented Lightnite, a Fortnite-like game that uses the Liquid Network for storing non-fungible tokens (NFT) representing game items. While […]
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