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Ripple's Effect on Financial Advisors

3 years 5 months ago
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against Ripple, related to the sale of the XRP token, has been one of the most controversial and hotly debated topics in the cryptocurrency industry. The lawsuit alleges Ripple conducted an unregistered securities offering by s
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Happy 48th Birthday, Satoshi Nakamoto

3 years 5 months ago
Today we celebrate the creator of Bitcoin on Satoshi Nakamoto’s birthday. Happy birthday, Satoshi!We don’t know who Satoshi is and we likely never will, but the pseudonymous founder does apparently have a birthday. Satoshi entered a birth date when they registered the
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Is Chief Twit Elon Musk Also Top DOGE?

3 years 5 months ago
So this is how mass adoption happens? Elon Musk, at least at one point the world’s richest man, replaced Twitter’s classic blue bird logo with a sprite of DOGE, the Shiba Inu dog known as much for the meme as the meme coin. Dogecoin spiked something like 40%, and hasn
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Web3 Experiential Tokens and Asset Pricing

3 years 5 months ago
Web3 consumer engagement models are still developing and only just beginning to migrate into the real economy, but some hints of what the future of transaction and asset pricing may look like are beginning to emerge. To plot this trajectory, it is important to understand how Web3
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Magdalena Kala: How I Invest in Web3

3 years 6 months ago
It started with blackjack. Magdalena Kala, aka “Crypto Mags,” used to play blackjack on the regular. She loved it. She was good at it. She even became a professional card-counter, fascinated by the game’s dynamics and strategy. “I’ve learned everythi
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Bitcoin y la cambiante definición de "seguridad"

3 years 6 months ago
Por suerte, rara vez tenemos que pensar sobre la Jerarquía de las necesidades de Maslow, esa pirámide que veíamos en la escuela que establece los requisitos claves para que las personas prosperen. Pero esto es hasta que una de las necesidades de la parte infe
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Arbitrum Governance Fracas Reopens the Question: Why DAOs?

3 years 6 months ago
What exactly does crypto want decentralized autonomous organizations to be? I remember a conversation a few years ago over a few cold ones with a former CoinDesker who waxed poetic about the possibility of DAOs. While many people are willing to be quite reductionist when describi
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The SEC's Beaxy Suit Looks Like a Coinbase Case Preview

3 years 6 months ago
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit against crypto exchange Beaxy last week, alleging it offered an unregistered securities sale through a 2018 initial coin offering, and that it operated as an unregistered securities exchange, broker-dealer and clearing a
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Bitcoin and the Changing Definition of 'Safety'

3 years 6 months ago
Fortunately, we rarely have to think about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, that triangle we saw in school that layers the key human requirements for flourishing. Until, that is, one of the needs towards the bottom isn’t being met, and then we think about it a lot.To reca
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Wondering What Web3 Means? Listen to Ethereum's First Marketer

3 years 6 months ago
The building at 49 Bogart Street: Steps away from the Morgan Avenue stop on the L train in Bushwick, Brooklyn, covered in graffiti and stickers like most of the neighborhood’s other low, converted warehouses. When I joined in 2016, this was ConsenSys' headquarters, a single
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