Category: Blockchain
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![The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: The Case Against Privacy Pt 2]()
The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: The Case Against Privacy Pt 2
Late last week I wrote a little something on privacy and why we need it. That was intended to be a much larger piece—the second half of which would show the other side, lay out the counterarguments from both the perspective of cryptocurrency, but also veer into wider privacy related territory. Especially in view of…
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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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![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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![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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![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 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…
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![The cryptocurrency guide for the perplexed: Shiba Inu (SHIB)]()
The cryptocurrency guide for the perplexed: Shiba Inu (SHIB)
For the conservative looking to get into crypto, Bitcoin and Ethereum are still where it’s at. They’re the coins that offer the lowest risk profile—they have enough attention, backing and third-party investment to ensure that of all the coins out there they’ll still be around in ten years. But if you’re looking to get rich,…
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![This week in crypto: slouching towards a cautiously optimistic future edition]()
This week in crypto: slouching towards a cautiously optimistic future edition
It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why confidence in Bitcoin’s future has jumped, but the likely culprit is that the Chinese bitcoin miners recently exiled from their ancestral homelands have made their way to to North America (and Russia and Kazakhstan) and set up shop. The hashrate and mining difficulty both enjoyed a bump, and now…
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![This Week in Crypto: A cryptocurrency and blockchain roundup featuring LNK.C, MARA.Q, CSTR.C, HUT.T, BTCS.OTCQB, CWRK.C, GLXY.T, APP.C, GBLC.C]()
This Week in Crypto: A cryptocurrency and blockchain roundup featuring LNK.C, MARA.Q, CSTR.C, HUT.T, BTCS.OTCQB, CWRK.C, GLXY.T, APP.C, GBLC.C
Most of the news you’re going to find on public companies in the crypto and blockchain space is going to be on mining. Sometimes you’ll see a company on the periphery of decentralized finance, or in the burgeoning sub-sector of cryptocurrency custodianship, but mostly it’s miners. This week isn’t much different. But mining itself also…
