CBDCs are one of the major topics in crypto this year, and the experts that Cointelegraph spoke to have a lot to say about it. It is hard to imagine that just two years ago, the general discourse around central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, was mainly focused on the potential and possibility of issuing […]
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Such regulation by enforcement does indeed run the risk of stifling important and valuable innovation in the crypto space. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has not been kind to crypto in the past year. In March 2020, in the SEC v. Telegram case, the Commission won a worldwide injunction against the proposed issuance of […]
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The D.C.-based think tank doesn’t view XRP in the same light as Bitcoin or Ethereum. In its coming fight against the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ripple won’t see support from some of the mainstays of the crypto lobby. Jerry Brito, the executive director of Coin Center, made it clear on Tuesday that his organization won’t […]
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“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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Blockchain platforms enable a fundamentally new approach to enterprise architecture where economic incentives are front and center. In my two-decade career at Microsoft, leading .NET platform architecture, visual studio .NET development, application platform, enterprise strategy and Microsoft Digital, I have been part of building technologies for multiple waves of platforms: the early web, service-oriented architectures, […]
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With insane interest rates and yield farmers endlessly jumping from one protocol to another, fears are growing that DeFi isn’t sustainable — and change is needed. In the space of 12 months, DeFi has become a $15 billion industry — spawning governance tokens that are now worth even more than Bitcoin. But the rapid explosion […]
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Improving fundamentals and fresh product rollouts are attracting new investors to Kusama, Decred and Qtum. Since breaking through the critical psychological resistance at $20,000, Bitcoin (BTC) price has moved even higher. In the early trading hours, the top-ranked digital asset pushed as high as $23,800 before pulling back to $23,000 but the trend of investors purchasing […]
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The price of Bitcoin just hit a new all-time high of $21,569 — but do crypto holders who got out early have any regrets? The Bitcoin price passed $21,000 for the first time in history on Dec. 16, not long after the crypto asset broke the psychological $20,000 threshold. BTC/USD weekly chart. Source: Tradingview The […]
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Bitcoin price may have broken above $20,000 but the 40% decrease in volume shows bears are watching BTC closely. Today Bitcoin (BTC) price blasted through the $20,000 level and in the process, a record $7.9 billion in futures open interest was set. Although the price increased by 74% over the past two months, the total […]
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Ethereum reclaims $600 price levels as the CME announces Ether futures citing “client demand.” Ether (ETH) has followed the breakout above $20,000 for Bitcoin (BTC) on Dec. 17, boosted by some big news from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME). The CME just announced that they’d be launching Ether futures in 2021. “Based on increasing client demand and […]
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