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As Bitcoin’s price has grown, so has its energy consumption. To keep the network secure, miners are incentivized to run nodes, and are paid in BTC. While there are many confused by Bitcoin mining as a concept, it is a massive industry, consuming the power of medium-sized countries such as Austria every year. Many in the […]

Massive amounts of capital are locked in staked crypto assets. But a relatively new platform is making those markets both tradeable and liquid. Enter StaFi StaFi, founded in 2020 and built on Polkadot, is among the first-ever decentralized protocols that help unlock the liquidity of staked assets via its own platform. This means users can […]

Alameda Research, the company behind the FTX exchange, has led a funding round that raised $50 million to create a DeFi ecosystem on Maps.me, an offline mapping application. The funding will enable a multi-currency wallet to be launched on the Maps.me platform, unlocking decentralized payments for the app’s 140 million users. Popular offline mapping app […]

Stephen Harper sees Bitcoin alongside gold and the US dollar as a viable global reserve asset. Bitcoin to the moon Bitcoin proponents must be so excited after a blockbuster year. The asset saw widespread adoption by investment funds, traditional finance participants, family offices, and tech funds, and set new all-time highs in December, a figure […]

The price of Bitcoin is hovering under $37,000 after the correction from $40,000 in the past 72 hours. Trader Peter Brandt believes BTC would either face a “complicated” correction or see a broader rally. Brandt, a long-time trader, pinpointed the daily price chart of Bitcoin to explain that the range is tightening. When the range […]

YFI soared 10% within an hour after a V2 vaults teaser was uploaded by the Yearn.finance Twitter handle. pic.twitter.com/2bcO70Ps6h — yearn.finance (@iearnfinance) January 18, 2021 A pseudonymous developer working on the v2 vaults said: “After 4 months and 8 design iterations, v2 Vaults are finally live! So proud to see this extensive redesign in action! […]

If you look at Twitter, it may appear that the crypto market is anything but bearish. Friday and Saturday were marked by extremely strong rallies in the prices of altcoins, despite consolidation in the two leading cryptocurrencies. Many small caps, medium caps, and even large-cap altcoins enjoyed gains of 10-50 percent yesterday, resulting in a […]

The majority of decentralized finance (DeFi) coins have seen extremely strong rallies since the start of 2021. Analysis by crypto-asset analyst Ceteris Paribus found that since the start of the year, like literally two weeks ago, the average DeFi large-cap has seen 75 percent gains. This includes coins such as Aave (AAVE), Compound (COMP), SushiSwap […]

A large narrative over the past few months is the introduction of institutional capital to the Bitcoin space. It began in 2020 with Paul Tudor Jones, a billionaire Wall Street investor who put a few percent of his fund into BTC futures. He did this in preparation for the May halving, writing that Bitcoin’s scarcity […]

Congestion has been a theme for Ethereum over the past few months. Not to say that this is an explicitly bad thing but during times of volatility, it can cost over $50 to trade on Uniswap, and even more to complete more complex (and often pertinent) Ethereum transactions. This comes in spite of the fact […]