The march toward blockchain and cryptocurrency mass adoption has made significant strides in 2021 as the growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) and nonfungible tokens (NFT) thrust crypto into the mainstream media spotlight on a daily basis. From the rise of meme coins such as Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) to the breakout popularity of the play-to-earn gaming model and…
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. That’s the recent acquiescent stance of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) after the chairman of the board of directors, Jelena McWilliams, expressed a few weeks ago, “If we don’t bring this activity [Bitcoin] inside the banks, it is going to develop outside of the banks. … The federal regulators won’t be able…
The annual Sports Illustrated (SI) Awards have just revealed the line-up for the firm’s 2021 awards show that will broadcast live from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. This year, fans will be able to win a whole bitcoin from FTX as the crypto exchange has partnered with the SI Awards ultimate sports sweepstakes. This Year’s…
The below is a direct excerpt of Marty’s Bent Issue #1114: “Multisig option are expanding.” Sign up for the newsletter here. via Twitter via Twitter via Twitter Here’s some exciting news from Hugo Nguyen, the announcement of Nunchuck 2.0 which aims to “take bitcoin self-custody to the next level via the power of multi-user multisig”. Nunchuk is a desktop and…
Jack Dorsey, co-founder, and CEO of both Square and Twitter, released a white paper Friday detailing plans for Square’s decentralized Bitcoin (BTC) exchange tbDEX. Unlike most decentralized exchanges, or DEXs, tbDEX will not utilize a trustless model, and therefore will not feature its own governance token. Instead, it is a message protocol designed to facilitate trust relationships without relying on…
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Watch This Episode on YouTube Watch/Listen To This Episode: Read The Full Transcript Below: [00:01:29] AG: I based my essay, in large, part on a book called Super Imperialism, written in 1972, one year after the US went off the gold standard and defaulted on its debt. It was written by a guy named Michael Hudson. He used to work on…
In an email quoted by Reddit users, Kraken, the world’s eight largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, announced it would be delisting privacy coin Monero (XMR) in compliance with regulations in the United Kingdom. The platform will cease all XMR trading activities, set XMR wallets to withdraw-only, and force-liquidate any existing XMR margin positions after the 26th of November. Through…
Square’s decentralized bitcoin exchange proposal has been announced.tbDEX is a protocol that seeks to improve the on-ramp rails into bitcoin.The protocol’s whitepaper has also been released. Square’s Bitcoin business TBD today released the whitepaper of its decentralized bitcoin exchange proposal, tbDEX, according to a statement posted on its website. “We believe that the economy should be inclusive. We need to…
Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent foray back below $56,000 sparked a wide-ranging sell-off across the cryptocurrency ecosystem and talks of the price hitting $100,000 by the end of the year quickly morphed into concerns about an impending bear market that could thrust prices into the doldrums for a year or longer. While there appeared to be absolute carnage in the markets judging by…
