“I felt like I wanna do things my way for once,” says solo developer Nour Haridy. Consisting of 24 Tweets over a 48-hour period, Inverse.Finance’s social media presence reads like a decentralized finance (DeFi) startup story in hyperdrive. Over the course of its short life the fledgling protocol has already attracted $4.3 million in total […]
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As a developing tech power, China is one of the fastest countries in adopting blockchain technology. 2020 has been a year full of challenges for the world, but for a country like China with such a large population base and rapid development, it has also been a year of opportunities. On Oct. 24, 2019, China […]
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Many have called the long-rumored rules an existential threat to peer-to-peer transactions. The Treasury has released its long-awaited proposal to restrict money services businesses, including U.S.-registered crypto exchanges, from dealing with self-hosted wallets. In a Friday evening announcement, the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, announced proposed rules requiring registered crypto exchanges to verify […]
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Crypto is no stranger to weirdos, so here’s a few times the space got strange in 2020. Every industry, group, clique and conclave has its own share of weirdos — cryptocurrency and blockchain are no exception. Considering that cryptocurrency is the so-called “native” currency of the internet — the repository of the sum of human […]
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“A DAO is merely a formalizing of very deep and instinctive human bonds that I think have been suppressed.” One morning in July of 2019, Kain Warwick awoke at 6:30 to a grim phone call from his co-founder and CTO, Justin Moses. We have a problem, said Moses. Synthetix, the synthetic asset protocol that Warwick, […]
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The working group sends a strong signal that cryptocurrencies are becoming a permanent fixture in the global financial system. The World Economic Forum’s cryptocurrency working group published its inaugural review on Thursday — its first step in communicating the application of digital assets in finance and beyond. In a 38-page report, the Forum’s Global Future […]
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More people use Bitcoin now, but transaction fees are much lower than during the 2017 bull run. As Bitcoin (BTC) keeps hitting new all-time highs past $20,000, its network fundamentals paint a different picture compared to the previous 2017 bull run. Three years ago, on this very day, Bitcoin reached its first major all-time high […]
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With Bitcoin futures continuing to surge in popularity, trading bots can help users keep on top of the markets 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The crypto industry has matured substantially in recent years — so much so that it’s practically unrecognizable when compared to the bull run of 2017. And one of […]
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The new Ethereum 2.0 roadmap review: What updates have been added, and how soon can they be implemented? On Dec. 2, shortly after the long-awaited release of Ethereum 2.0, platform founder Vitalik Buterin announced an updated roadmap. At first glance, it does not differ much from the previous version from March. However, it brought some […]
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The price of Bitcoin just hit $20,000 for the first time ever in a historic milestone for the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has reached $20,000 for the first time in history on Dec. 16. The historic milestone comes just over two weeks after breaking its previous all-time high. BTC/USD weekly […]
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