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The Jokes Wear Thin as Inflation Becomes Normal
This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, KuCoin and DeFiHorse.Join hosts Adam B. Levine, Stephanie Murphy, Jonathan Mohan and Andreas M. Antonopoulos for a wide-ranging conversation about the current realities of inflation. They discuss the…
ZK-rollups step into the limelight after the quest to scale Ethereum evolves
Scalability on the Ethereum (ETH) network has been a point of contention within the cryptocurrency ecosystem for years, primarily due to high fees and network congestion during periods of peak demand.The latest solution to emerge as the…
Olympus DAO Might Be the Future of Money (or It Might Be a Ponzi)
Yes, it’s a Ponzi scheme. But who cares? So are the dollars in your pocket.If you haven’t heard about it, Olympus DAO is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol whose primary use case seems to be “making people extremely angry.” Skeptics…
Don Tapscott’s ‘Platform Revolution’ book review
Enterprise blockchain started to take shape in 2016, a time when companies like IBM began to leverage private networks for supply chain management. It was also during 2016 that author Don Tapscott wrote and published Blockchain Revolution,…
Leverage Demand, Not Leverage Itself, Down in Bitcoin
Bananarama may have sung about a cruel summer, but November is turning out to be no great shakes for cryptocurrency investors, either. There are just six weeks left in 2021 and the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (XBX) dipped nearly 20% off an…
Without quantum security, our blockchain future is uncertain
News that two teams of Chinese scientists have achieved quantum advantage — a technical term for when a computer can perform functions beyond that of a classical computer — may be the signal that we have truly entered a new era. While…
What Bitcoin and Ether’s Options Tell Us About Their Maturity
Of course, we’re still in the early stages of the crypto derivatives market. One exchange, Deribit, has the lion’s share of both bitcoin and ether’s options trades. “It’s still nascent,” Luuk Strijers, the exchange’s chief commercial…
Will Halloween NFTs be hauntingly good or too spooky for crypto?
Halloween is traditionally known for costumes, candy and trick or treating, but this year, the holiday is transitioning to the virtual world as the metaverse unfolds. As such, nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, are being created to showcase…
ProShares Seeks Waiver From CME for Position Limits on New Bitcoin Futures ETF: Report
Starting with the November front-month contract, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) will limit the amount of futures that a buyer can buy in the new ETF to 4,000, dropping to 2,000 three days before expiration. As each contract…
Next Bitcoin price crash will be ‘shallower’ than 80%, says Pantera Capital CEO
Bitcoin (BTC) market's tendency to crash by over 80% after logging strong bull runs might come to an end.That is according to a new report published by California-based hedge fund Pantera Capital. In detail, the report notes that the recent…