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If you stop people on the street and ask what they think non-fungible tokens (NFT) are all about, what will you hear? Something about outlandish prices for cartoons of apes and maybe about Twitter profile pictures. Confused mumbling about cryptocurrency. A few celebrity names. Th

The inherent risk in the decentralized finance (DeFi) market has been one of the most discussed topics in the last few months in the crypto market. It feels that not a week goes by in which investors are not suffering severe losses in DeFi via technical exploits or disproportiona

We’ve spent the past several weeks of this newsletter wading into deep technical and philosophical debates around future of Ethereum – with topics ranging from maximal extractable value (MEV), to the threat of censorship on Ethereum, to what makes a ‘true’

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The FBI has issued a warning about cybercriminals increasingly exploiting weaknesses in the smart contracts of DeFi (decentralized finance) platforms to steal crypto. Save More: Back-to-School Tips To...

Ethereum’s impending Merge – the long-discussed update of the blockchain's software from a proof-of-work (PoW) to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism – could prompt a global wave of people using the blockchain, including for global payments, according to

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine is suing mega Bitcoin bull Michael Saylor, co-founder and executive chairman of MicroStrategy, for allegedly avoiding more than $25 million in...

On Monday, Binance, the largest global crypto exchange by volume, announced it is killing access to three stablecoins that compete with its own dollar vehicle, Binance USD (BUSD). Binance said it’s making the move to improve liquidity and capital efficiency on the exchange.

With one bullish and one bearish precedent starting from these price levels, what can we learn from history to understand the potential price path of the two largest cryptocurrencies after July 2022?

It’s Labor Day weekend, which means that summer is over. No, I do not care that the autumn season hasn’t officially started; summer is over when August is over.Anyway, the finance world is usually slow in August since that’s when Wall Street’s finest unwin

The collapse of big cryptocurrency lenders like Celsius Network and Voyager Digital this summer might have cooled the market, but Max Keidun says his new lending platform will be different – and has a shot at making banks love bitcoin (BTC).“My dream is to get the ban

Cryptocurrency is digital money that isn't managed by a central system, like a government. Instead, it's based on blockchain technology, with bitcoin being the most popular one.

Cryptocurrency might have started out as a Wild West of investing dominated by mavericks, but it's now firmly in the financial mainstream. Institutional investors and big banks treat it as a serious...

Kyle McDonald, an independent researcher, predicts that the Bitcoin network may be "regulated away," causing the price of bitcoin to collapse.He recommends selling bitcoin now. The reason is that after the Ethereum blockchain switches to a drastically less energy-intensive method

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Unless you’ve been living under a crypto rock, you’ll know that Ethereum’s long awaited, much discussed transition from a proof-of-work consensus mechanism to proof-of-stake is poised to happen this month.The Merge, as it’s known, is the most consequential

What is best in life?Being right about another man’s failures. Watching his allies abandon him. And hearing the lamentations of his shareholders.

Conversations on drug forums can get nerdy. People looking to push the barriers of their mental and bodily experience tend to know a lot about the vagaries of the law, organic chemistry, metaphysics and, increasingly, the ins and outs of blockchain technology. For many, the first

A research project spearheaded by Australia’s government, financial institutions and universities is a significant step for the country in determining the potential of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to a Sydney-based attorney specializing in digital law.&

The crypto space has been on a wild and difficult ride over the summer and headlines haven't been kind, reflecting the downturn. There have been collapses, layoffs, assets frozen and steep declines....