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National digital currencies fail to fix the stablecoin problem
2019 will go down as the year when the world went digital currency crazy. Not crypto crazy (that was 2017), but crazy for issuing…
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Instilling trust in a decentralized financial infrastructure
By Vincent Chok & Glenn Woo Trust, in the traditional finance context, used to lie in the hands of people. For instance, customers would…
Analysis
Why is the UK thinking of banning crypto derivatives?
Britain’s foremost financial watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, is contemplating a blanket-ban on cryptocurrency derivatives for retail traders as early as 2020, The Economist…
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Technology
Hedera Hashgraph sacrifices decentralization for high throughput, says developer
Hedera Hashgraph could be making fundamental tradeoffs to achieve its touted 10,000+ transactions per second. These tradeoffs make it one of the most centralized…
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Mining
Is ASIC-resistant cryptocurrency even possible?
It’s about remembering the people who were there in the beginning. All the cryptocurrency in the world traces its origins to raw mathematics —…
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Crypto Twitter ‘giveaway’ scams return with a vengeance, but what’s Jack Dorsey doing about it?
The latest wave of giveaway scams has returned to Twitter and new suckers are entering the cryptocurrency sphere. Now, every meaningful crypto celebrity has…
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Stablecoins
Major brands like Amazon and T-Mobile will create their own stablecoins, predicts Stably
After Facebook's Libra, it seems likely that other major brands like Amazon, Delta, and T-Mobile will create their own stablecoins. Stablecoins of the future…
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Opinion
Bitcoin aside, should we be fearful of an institutional drive into cryptocurrency, or excited?
The past month or so has been totally overcome with news about Facebook making a play for a slice of the cryptocurrency pie with…
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Craig Wright’s misinformed attempt at scaling Bitcoin, BSV frivolously increasing block size to 2GB
In Craig Wright’s latest marketing attempt, Bitcoin SV will increase its block size cap from 128MB to 2GB. The upgrade will make BSV less…
