In brief Coinbase’s QR code ad proved popular enough to crash the site Despite the glitch, the ad was well received on social media Coinbase made the first big crypto splash during this year’s Super Bowl after the company aired a bold commercial that consisted of nothing but a QR code floating up and down the screen. The ad also…
Popular trading app Robinhood has revealed that its international expansion will be “crypto first.” The company said from the regulatory standpoint, crypto is “probably the easiest way to go global.” The trading platform is also looking for compliant ways to list more cryptocurrencies. Robinhood Becoming ‘Crypto-First’ Company Steve Quirk, Robinhood’s chief brokerage officer, talked about the firm’s turnaround strategy and…
Cryptocurrency has become one of the most widely discussed topics of 2022. As such, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that mentioning “crypto” in an online dating profile may generate additional attention. A new study from brokerage firm eToro found that 33% of Americans who were surveyed would be more likely to go on a date with someone who mentioned…
Super Bowl LVI could be a lot of things. It could be the Cincinnati Bengals winning the city’s first NFL title, after San Francisco’s Joe Montana beat them twice in the 1980s. Or it could be the Los Angeles Rams becoming the first team to win a Super Bowl in their home stadium since… well, last year, when Tom Brady’s…
The average transaction fee on the Ethereum network has dropped to the lowest level in four months, according to statistics on February 13, 2022. Mid-September 2021 was the last time gas fees on Ethereum were this low, as average fees have dropped to roughly $15.13 per transfer. Ethereum Fees Slide Lower It costs less to transact on Ethereum today, than…
Trading perpetual futures contracts in decentralized apps is a crypto sub-sector ripe for growth, especially as discussions of regulation, taxation and mandatory KYC at centralized exchanges continue to take place. One DEX platform that has begun to gain traction is Injective (INJ), an interoperable layer-one protocol designed to facilitate the creation of cross-chain Web3 decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. Data from…
Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt Crypto prices mostly fell over the past week, but there were a few promising signs of mainstream crypto acceptance around the globe: India and the European Union are preparing their own central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and Russia is drafting legislation to incorporate crypto into the same regulatory framework as foreign currencies. Over on…
LeBron James on Saturday released behind-the-scenes footage from his Crypto.com Super Bowl LVI ad via Instagram. In the ad, dubbed “Fortune Favors the Brave,” a teenage LeBron James—played by the actor Bentley Green—gets the chance to ask his older self about the future. (The ad shares a tagline with the recent ad featuring Matt Damon that’s been widely criticized; the…
Read “A Look At The Game Theory Of Bitcoin,” the first part of this series, here. In this article I will suggest potential routes for Bitcoin’s game theory to play out. So, what is game theory? In layman’s terms, if you are playing any game of strategy, whether it be chess, basketball, football, Battleship, Monopoly or checkers, any move you…
Bitcoin (BTC) has given back some of its recent gains, but on-chain data resource Ecoinometrics said that whales are accumulating because they believe the price is attractive from a long-term perspective. On the downside, analyst Willy Woo believes that $33,000 is a strong bottom for Bitcoin. Popular Twitter trader Credible Crypto citing data from PlanC said that the odds of Bitcoin…
