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While looking back on August’s London hard fork, it is easy to focus on the millions of ether burnt via transaction fees. While important, just looking at the burn mechanism would be shortsighted and overly focused on “number go up.”This article originally appea

Uno de los objetivos y beneficios más importantes de la revolución de la Web 3.0 es que los ecosistemas informáticos del mundo se vuelvan a descentralizar. Internet, cuando nació, era un sistema altamente descentralizado. Pero con el paso del tiempo lo

Who will dump my bags now? Yesterday, it was reported that Igor Bogdanoff, twin of Grichka, passed away due to complications of the coronavirus, six days after his brother’s untimely death of the same disease. The two were known for their flamboyance, outlandish scientific

Anyone who has conducted their own trades in any asset should be aware of slippage. However, this issue becomes even more of a problem in trading some cryptocurrencies.

After a yearslong saga of accusations, investigations and angry denial, erstwhile business media darling Elizabeth Holmes has reached the final stage of investor grief: conviction. A jury late Monday found that she defrauded investors in Theranos, the health-testing startup she f

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have slowly emerged from the fringes of the cryptosphere, and the art and music industries welcomed the blockchain-based technology with open arms.

Polymarket will pay a $1.4 million fine and wind down some prediction markets after a CFTC investigation found it was offering illicit options contracts in the U.S. This is very likely just a beginning for DeFi projects facing the regulatory gauntlet.You’re reading Sta

Editor’s note: With Web 3 the center of a lively debate, it’s worth revisiting the following post, originally published in 2014 and now a seminal piece in the crypto canon, by Gavin Wood, a co-founder of Ethereum who went on to found the Web3 Foundation and create Pol

Early Black crypto advocates want to maintain a seat at the table they helped to set, as Wall Street eyes big opportunities in the digital currency sector.

Garry Kasparov knows math. He knows logic, strategy and decision-making. Widely regarded as the greatest chess player in the history of mankind, the Russian grandmaster – ranked No. 1 from 1984 to 2005 – sees the world with a certain clarity.So it will delight many in

Last week, an NFT trader named Todd Kramer made a simple plea on Twitter.“I been hacked,” he wrote. “All my apes gone. This just sold please help me.”

One of the most important goals and benefits of the Web 3.0 revolution is for the world’s information technology ecosystems to re-decentralize. The internet, when it started, was a highly decentralized system. Centralized systems have, in time, layered themselves very succe

Remittances are small transfers, usually $1,000 or less, that people living in diaspora make to loved ones back home. These payments have become a vital form of survival not only for families left behind, but also for the developing countries themselves, which over the years have

In today’s interconnected economy, money likes to travel. Global cross-border transfers are expected to reach $156 trillion in 2022, a volume exceeding the U.S. GDP by about seven times.

Happy New Year! Last week’s holiday edition of Money Reimagined offered a look back at the year that was and explored five ways in which our idea of money was challenged during those insanely busy, news-packed 12 months. This week, we look to the year ahead and consider way

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2021 has been the cryptocurrency industry’s biggest year ever. Not just because token prices went up, which some did by thousands of percentage points, proving that epic crypto gainz are still very much on the table. More importantly, crypto growth this year came in the for

Whilst cryptocurrencies and NFTs have taken center stage in 2021 with Bitcoin repeatedly breaking all-time highs and a non-fungible token taking $91.8 million in auction, blockchain technology continued to evolve away from the limelight.

The biggest regulatory question for advisors concerning digital assets today is: Are they securities or not?Digital assets are still quite new, having only really burst into the mainstream over the past two to four years, while the central rules governing most financial advisors