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DeFi Needs to Be More Accessible for Greater Adoption

Decentralized technologies are about to revolutionize the global financial system and its institutions. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) offers interesting potential to reduce costs and increase the speed of payments by eliminating friction in terms of technology, contracting and coordination between several parties. DeFi delivers on the promise of faster, better, and cheaper payments, but a number […]

Structure to Develop Mobile App to Drive DeFi Adoption

Global trading platform Structure, which aims to facilitate crypto-based lending and investing for mobile users, just raised $20 million from investors and from a private sale of its digital currency $STXR. The company will offer decentralized finance (DeFi) crypto-denominated lending outside of traditional banking, as well as investing in tokenized assets, digital versions of assets […]

All-Time Best-Selling Rapper Just Dropped US$462,000 On a Bored Ape NFT

In early 2022, Eminem, the 49-year old rapper, spent close to $462,000 to purchase a non-fungible token (NFT) of Bored Ape Yacht Club. He also bought the NFT that resembles him for 123.45 Ethereum, changing his Twitter avatar to a photograph of his "NFT self." Put simply, an NFT is a form of digital art […]

The Rise of Metaverse Fuels DeFi, Crypto, and Blockchain

Metaverse, a digital place where people work, play, and socialize, could soon be upon us with Facebook (now called Meta) leading the way. But like any breakthrough industry, there is rarely one party that rises to meet the future. One company, Wolf3D raised $1.3 million for Ready Player Me, a cross-game avatar platform for the […]

How to Invest in the Original Bitcoin Commodity Called Gold

People have been investing in gold for centuries. While the idea has long since been ditched, every single piece of currency in circulation at one point would have been backed by physical gold sitting in a vault somewhere. Gold is one of those investments that has proven itself to be stable, even in the midst […]

Ethereum’s History and Looking to the Future

Since the beginning of 2021, Ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization (ETH), has increased by more than 300%. It climbed from $775 on January 1 to over $3000 in late September. This recent rise is understandable given the high level of correlation between Ethereum and Bitcoin’s price histories and Bitcoin’s price swings. However, Ethereum’s […]

How Risky Is Bitcoin? What to Look Out For

What Exactly Is Bitcoin? Bitcoin, which is frequently referred to as a cryptocurrency, a virtual currency, or a digital currency, is a totally virtual form of money. It’s similar to an online equivalent of cash. You can use it to purchase goods and services. However, not many merchants accept it currently, and several nations have […]

Is Regulation in Crypto Actually an Opportunity?

A single global currency that is decentralized, and not beholden to any governing central body, might not be possible. At least that's what you'll hear/read/ingest/ignore if you turned on the internet today. Too many nations, (Such as China and Thailand) have put their foot down in terms of implementing crypto into their economies. While others […]

How I Was Robbed of 199,298 Syscoin Tokens

On March 2, 2021, I was robbed of 199,298 syscoin tokens from my Syscoin QT 4.1.3 Desktop Wallet while seeking technical help on Discord during a wallet back-up. I have been buying and accumulating syscoin since 2017. I added a large amount in April 2020 when the price had dipped to 3 cents. As I […]

Should You Be Using Your ADA to Buy Coffee?

Hey everyone—Erick here—I read a comment on a Reddit thread and it sparked my thinking mind, way too early, so I decided to share some of my thoughts on the future of Cardano and ADA. The comment was along the lines of, "I would never use my ADA to buy a Coffee," and I think […]

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It's criminal that YouTube hasn't put more effort into limiting crypto scams

This is getting out of hand. I have been in this space for over two years and learned about scams EARLY on, but just today I saw an advertised live chat between two well known crypto people and clicked it, saw 9k 'other people' watching, was like wow, sent it to my friend but then […]

Sooo how bad do we reckon this Congress hearing will be?

I’m not arguing that crypto isn’t bad for the environment, and that money should be funnelled into more eco- projects. That said, the cynic in me can’t help but feel the energy consumption thing is just another stick to try and beat crypto with, until governments can find a way to successfully regulate it, or […]

I don't know him, but I like him: Real Vision CEO predicts $100,000 Bitcoin and $10,000 ETH by the end of 2022

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Now we need to be 10x more careful of scams since Youtube removed dislikes.

As you all know, Youtube removed dislikes and it's harder to know if a video is scam or not. Before youtube removed dislikes, we could understand if a video is legit or scam by it's dislike ratio. Now it has become impossible to determine. Now you need to be 10x more careful of possible scam […]

JPMorgan Executive Says Crypto Is in the ‘Napster’ Phase of Its Life Cycle: Report - The Daily Hodl

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Intel announces that it’s entering the Bitcoin mining market

The ISCCC Conference is one of the most prestigious events in the chip industry. At this years conference Intel is set to outline a new "Bonanza Mine" processor, a new chip described as an "ultra-low-voltage energy-efficient Bitcoin mining ASIC. This means that they will soon compete with the likes of Bitmain in the market for […]

Tonga receives hundreds of bitcoin donations after volcano devastation

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I’m Kartic and for the last 18 months, I’ve been working on building PlotX - a skill-based prediction game with a vision to create earning opportunities in emerging economies. Our backers include Polygon, Hashed, Animoca, Alpha Wave Global and more. AMA!... Oh, we also have a giveaway :)

HEY Y’ALL! I’m Kartic Rakhra, co-founder of PlotX (Twitter), and I’m here to introduce PlotX, talk to you about the latest milestones and upcoming products, answer your questions, and chat with all of you in the comments section. These are the PLOTHeads who will be taking part alongside me in today’s AMA: Ish Goel, Co-Founder […]

If you don't have an enormous sum of money in crypto, you don't have to worry about most of the posts you see here.

All of the detailed minutia of crypto is fascinating. Using native wallets, staking, airdrops, cold storage, etc is all great. But if you are trading in the hundreds, or even in the thousands....you really don't need to worry about all that. Between gas fees, human error, scams, and hackers, you will likely be better off […]

Influencers who are Paid to Promote Scam-/Shitcoins deserve to be Sued by Victims, They profited of their Audience being Scammed

Influencers who are paid to promote Scam-/Shitcoins to their audience on Twitter or Instagram deserve to be sued by victims of these rugpulls/ pump and dumps. Influencers like Kim Kardashian have promoted Shitcoins like EthereumMax (has nothing to do with the actual Ethereum), which dumped hard following the promotion by said influencers, making random, often […]

Name	Price	24H (%)
Bitcoin (BTC)	$42,469.00	0.06%
Ethereum (ETH)	$3,172.11	-2.05%
XRP (XRP)	$0.75	-2.15%
Dogecoin (DOGE)	$0.165548	-4.06%
Litecoin (LTC)	$142.36	-6.73%
Bitcoin Cash (BCH)	$383.16	-2.51%