Tag: Mogo
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![Two Risk Mitigation Strategies for Getting Into Decentralized Finance]()
Two Risk Mitigation Strategies for Getting Into Decentralized Finance
The promise of decentralized finance is a new way to complete financial transactions using applications. It promises to cut out traditional financial institutions and other intermediaries and be conducted entirely over the blockchain. Essentially, its promise is the elimination of exchanges, banks, brokerages and other middle-men from the equation. Folks deep into DeFi will tell…
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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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![This week in crypto: The China Side-Eye Edition]()
This week in crypto: The China Side-Eye Edition
The biggest spate of news actually happened last Friday and it’s China again. Now all cryptocurrency related transactions are effectively banned in China. The effects were immediate: Coinbase Global (COIN.Q) and Robinhood took a 3.5% dive, while MicroStrategy (MSTR.Q) lost 6.7%. Marathon Digital Holdings (MARA.Q) lost %8.1. It didn’t stop there, though. The commentary from…
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Welcome to the Big Show, DMG Blockchain (DMGI.V): Up 23% in second day of trading
Back in the 45 days of deep 2017 when the entire world thought everything blockchainy would be a billion dollar deal by Christmas, which ended on the day HIVE Blockchain (HIVE.V) let founders stock trade early, thereby (and properly) stepping on an insane tulipmania run, all that was needed to make a pubco double were…
