Tag: NFT
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![Crypto Lingo: The Complete Beginners Guide]()
Crypto Lingo: The Complete Beginners Guide
There are certain things in this life that I have accepted I will never understand. First things first, does anyone honestly know what “cookies” are? (The computer kind, obviously, the bakery version is self-explanatory – and far superior). For the last 10 years of my existence, whether browsing a suspect or credible website, I have…
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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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![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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![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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![This Week in Crypto: News You Can Trust Edition]()
This Week in Crypto: News You Can Trust Edition
Because we’re all about value let’s start this out with some fake news. Walmart (WMT.NYSE) decidedly did not partner with Litecoin, despite news published earlier this week that did the rounds with multiple sources. Charlie Lee, the brain behind Litecoin and leader of its peoples, said the news was fake. Walmart quickly quashed it on…
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![This week in crypto: standard regulation edition]()
This week in crypto: standard regulation edition
One of the biggest claims that hardline cryptocurrency aficionados offer is that cryptocurrency (and Bitcoin in particular) is regulation proof. It was a selling point for me back in 2014. You can’t regulate what you can’t find and decentralization comes specifically from that. The only way regulators could get at crypto is through the access…
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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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![Could GameOn Entertainment Technologies (GET.C) customer engagement model be the next stage of entertainment evolution?]()
Could GameOn Entertainment Technologies (GET.C) customer engagement model be the next stage of entertainment evolution?
Occasionally members of the Canadian telecom oligopoly will try to entice me with their cable offerings, but I haven’t had cable in over ten years. I don’t think I’ve ever actually paid a cable-bill in my life outside of the various streaming services I use. And I won’t. The reason for this is simple: I…
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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…
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![Mark Cuban and Logan Paul highlight everything about what’s shifty about NFTs]()
Mark Cuban and Logan Paul highlight everything about what’s shifty about NFTs
Today in strange blockchain news, Mark Cuban sold one of his tweets to the tune of $952.94. Here’s the tweet: The Store of Value Generation is Kicking Your Ass and You Don’t Even Know it Yet !https://t.co/7YQ7ueXFLr — Mark Cuban (@mcuban) January 31, 2021 Eighteen words comes out to $52.94 a word. Not a bad…
