Category: Cryptocurrency
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![Today’s Idea: Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) offers tomorrow’s markets today]()
Today’s Idea: Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) offers tomorrow’s markets today
Tomorrow’s markets are going to be easier to navigate, or so we’re told by anyone close to decentralized finance (DeFi). The essential promise of DeFi is that it could lead to an altogether more efficient, more democratic form of finance. It promises a system that’s cheaper, faster, more transparent and less prone to manipulation by…
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![The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Ripple (XRP)]()
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Ripple (XRP)
Ripple is the key product of San-Francisco based Ripple Labs. It acts simultaneously as a currency exchange, remittance network and settlement system, and was introduced to the market in 2012 on a distributed, open source protocol that supported fiat currency, cryptocurrency, commodities and other value stores, including mobile minutes and frequent flyer miles. Its cryptocurrency…
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![If I had a billion dollars: Crypto and Monkey Business Edition]()
If I had a billion dollars: Crypto and Monkey Business Edition
If I had a billion dollars the first thing I’d do is buy a monkey. Not a howler monkey or a languor monkey, or one of those that gets creative with how they say hello, but a regular capuchin monkey—one that hasn’t reached puberty yet so he doesn’t get aggressive. His name would be Jocko,…
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![The Cryptocurrency Guide to the Perplexed: USD Coin (USDC)]()
The Cryptocurrency Guide to the Perplexed: USD Coin (USDC)
USD Coin (USDC) is a digital stablecoin pegged to the United States dollar and runs on Ethereum, Stellar, Algorand, Solana, Tron and the Hedera Hashgraph system. It’s managed by a group called Centre, which was founded by the company and includes members from Coinbase (COIN.Q) and the Bitcoin mining giant, Bitmain, as investors. For the…
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![Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) goes public, brings wave of DeFi interest with it]()
Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) goes public, brings wave of DeFi interest with it
The final stage of a long acquire-and-go-public process reached completion for Wellfield Technologies (WFLD.V) Tuesday, as the de-fi roll up that has been attracting financial heavy hitters behind the scenes this past year received its go-ahead go-public nod. The recent grouping of Israeli firms Seamless Logic and Moneyclip Inc, with 1290447 BC Ltd, is now…
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![The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Polkadot (DOT)]()
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Polkadot (DOT)
Polkadot is a blockchain-based distributed computing platform that lets the blockchains built on top of it, which are called parachains and something we’ll get into indepth in a bit, conduct transactions between themselves. This creates what they call a interconnected internet of blockchains. It comes with two goals: providing shared security among all of their…
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![Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Monero (XMR)]()
Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Monero (XMR)
Cryptocurrency has a number of different problems and one of them is that it’s not even remotely private. Transparency is baked into the system for most coins. Anyone can see what’s happening right now on Bitcoin’s blockchain by going to https://www.blockchain.com/explorer and after a search and a few clicks, you can find out what’s going…
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![Today’s Idea: DMG Blockchain Solutions (DMGI.V) is a frontrunner in the race for crypto regulations]()
Today’s Idea: DMG Blockchain Solutions (DMGI.V) is a frontrunner in the race for crypto regulations
Despite his brilliance, Satoshi Nakamoto couldn’t possibly have imagined what his simply written white paper would have opened up within the next decade. The Bitcoin Protocol has revealed an entire world of decentralization options free from government regulations, interference and intervention, where a truly democratic force out of the reach of the instruments of power…
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![The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Tether (USDT)]()
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: Tether (USDT)
Today we’re talking about Tether (or USDT, they’re used interchangeably). They’re presently the fifth largest cryptocurrency by market cap and the first among stablecoins by dint of being the oldest, but not necessarily the best. We will probably never see another stablecoin rise to take its place, and if we do it’ll be dirtier than…
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![The Crypto Climate Accord and a carbon free future for cryptocurrency]()
The Crypto Climate Accord and a carbon free future for cryptocurrency
We need to talk about cryptocurrency’s carbon problem. Right now the Bitcoin network alone gobbles up more power than the entire nation of Sweden. That’s a big network. It spits a new block reward of 6.25 bitcoin every ten minutes, each worth approximately $61,568.60 at the time of writing, and Bitcoin is presently down a…
