The biggest names and strongest voices cheering on crypto throughout 2020. For much of 2020, it wasn’t exactly a hard year to be a cheerleader for cryptocurrency. Emerging from a brutal macro bear market, the space once again proved doubters wrong and attracted a new batch of converts as money-printing efforts across the globe turned […]
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2020 has been an epic year for crypto and blockchain, but some did more than most to help spur adoption. In future years, it’s possible that 2020 will be seen as a watershed moment for cryptocurrencies. When Black Thursday hit in March, it wiped billions off the markets in a matter of hours. Anyone would […]
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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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Terra Protocol’s successful DeFi and stablecoin launch were followed by a 66% rally that brought LUNA’s market cap to $200 million. Throughout 2020 a handful of new stablecoins launched and many analysts have suggested that stablecoin growth is the backbone of the crypto sector and partially responsible for the current Bitcoin rally. For many traders, […]
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The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — one week on Cointelegraph in one link! Coming every Saturday, Hodlers Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much […]
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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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Elrond is quietly becoming one of the best-performing altcoins in the current bull market. With Bitcoin (BTC) largely in the spotlight after hitting a new all-time high of nearly $24,000, other projects are starting to ride BTC’s coattails as well. One of the latest standouts is Elrond (EGLD), which is up 20% over the past […]
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Potential listing could provide a valuation anchor, not only for future crypto IPOs but also for crypto-native exchange tokens. Following cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase filing a draft registration for a public offering with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday, research company Messari has valued the company at $28 billion. Messari’s model examined the company’s […]
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Kim Dotcom sees BCH as “great for payments” compared with BTC as “great for asset storage.” Internet entrepreneur and digital rights activist Kim Dotcom has been enthusiastically promoting Bitcoin Cash as a medium of exchange, but still remains bullish on Bitcoin. According to a tweet to his 711,700 followers today, Dotcom predicted the price of […]
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