Category: Cryptocurrency
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![What are the hidden costs of Riot Blockchain’s (RIOT.Q) Texas expansion?]()
What are the hidden costs of Riot Blockchain’s (RIOT.Q) Texas expansion?
Riot Blockchain’s (RIOT.Q) latest addition to their Bitcoin mining and hosting empire, to the tune of 1 gigawatt in Texas, isn’t good for either Bitcoin or the environment, or you. Granted, not everything Riot’s doing is horrible. They’ve managed to offset a good chunk of their electrical bill by adding immersion cooling to their equipment,…
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![Neptune Digital Assets (NDA.C) bucks the specialization trend]()
Neptune Digital Assets (NDA.C) bucks the specialization trend
Usually trying to be all things for all people is a bad business strategy. Mostly it stretches your operation too thin. You might be really good at one or two things, and only so-so on others, but if you spread out to include all the operations you can manage, you can usually expect mediocrity across…
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![The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Central Bank Digital Currency and the death of privacy]()
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Central Bank Digital Currency and the death of privacy
President Joe Biden sent out an executive order to his people to learn all they could about crypto and determine if it was a threat to national security, and the news flew under the radar when they finally came back. It wasn’t anything anyone in the crypto space wasn’t expecting already—regulations required at all levels…
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![Today’s Idea: How to Buy Cryptocurrency in Canada]()
Today’s Idea: How to Buy Cryptocurrency in Canada
So you want to know about cryptocurrency, do you? If you’re here reading this now odds are good you don’t have the complete roadmap to get involved. You’ve maybe seen some ads online for Wealthsimple Crypto and thought you’d maybe like to get some crypto for yourself, but don’t know where to start. You’re in…
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![The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: The Fringe, The Weird, and the WTF]()
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: The Fringe, The Weird, and the WTF
Normally we cover the top 100 crypto by market cap on Perplexed, but today we’re covering four strange and disparate cryptocurrencies, ranging from the peculiar but theoretically useful Augur to the downright weird Cthulhu Offerings. Why? Because there’s some weird shit out there and you should probably know about it—especially if you’re going to look…
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![It’s time for another nifty sector roundup featuring NFT]()
It’s time for another nifty sector roundup featuring NFT
Blockchain and its ancillary products has a hype problem. We saw it in 2017 when the tech blew up and public companies started putting blockchain in their name to take advantage of the buzz, only to drop it (well, most of them anyway) when the bubble burst. The problem? It was a revolutionary technology that…
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![The DeFi Mini-Roundup You Didn’t Know You Needed Till Now]()
The DeFi Mini-Roundup You Didn’t Know You Needed Till Now
For most people decentralized finance (DeFi) is a mystifying concept. The world of finance itself is full of strange definitions and shenanigans, but it’s been around long enough that the entire sphere of financial life is taken for granted. It’s always been there and it’s always going to be there. It’s the world of Warren…
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![The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: The Case for Privacy Part 1.]()
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: The Case for Privacy Part 1.
Earlier this week the Biden administration took aim at cryptocurrency by announcing they’re preparing an executive order for release early next month outlining the U.S. government strategy on cryptocurrency. Here’s a handy bullet point list: The directive would place the White House in a central role overseeing efforts to set policies and regulate digital assets,…
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![Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Litecoin]()
Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Litecoin
Litecoin is one of the original cryptocurrencies. We could call it a First Generation cryptocurrency alongside Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, XRP and if you want to stretch it some, maybe Dash and Bitcoin Cash. It’s been around since 2011 when Bitcoin mining was mostly done from your mother’s basement on a series of networked computers, each…
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![The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: XRP and the SEC- Is XRP a security?]()
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: XRP and the SEC- Is XRP a security?
The court proceedings between Ripple Labs and the Securities and Exchange Commission haven’t come to a conclusion, and we won’t be able to provide any definitive answers to what we as here today, but we can speculate based on the existing information. Determining whether or not the XRP cryptocurrency is a security is really beyond…
