Category: Cryptocurrency
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Understanding Bitcoin’s Scarcity
Bitcoin is obviously scarce. And it seems to be becoming scarcer over time. But, perhaps due to the current bull run, doubts about both of these propositions are seemingly on the rise among bitcoin skeptics. Criticisms come in a few different flavors. The main one that I have seen argues that bitcoin cannot be scarce…
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The Hardest Trade: BitcoinTina On Bitcoin
Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Libsyn Overcast In the fifth installment of the “BitcoinTina On Bitcoin” series, CK and BitcoinTina discussed the potential bull market scenarios for bitcoin. In this podcast, they covered three different bitcoin price scenarios which are all very bullish but difficult and distinct to trade. #bitcoin has 3 potential price…
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Compute North, Foundry Digital Partner To Bring More Bitcoin Mining To North America
Compute North, one of the largest bitcoin mining companies in North America with mining farms in Big Spring, Texas; Kearney, Nebraska; and North Sioux City, South Dakota, is taking a great leap forward through a new partnership with financial services firm Foundry Digital, a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group based in Rochester, New York. Through…
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New Zealand Watchdog Issues Warning on Crypto Investments Following Bitcoin’s Latest Price Drop
New Zealand’s financial regulator issued a warning alert to local cryptocurrency investors and traders amid the recent bitcoin’s price action. The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) asks people to remain cautious because cryptos are “high risk and highly volatile assets.” FMA Warns About Unregulated Overseas Crypto Exchanges According to an official statement published in the NZ…
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xSigma DeFi Offers Lucrative Rewards for Liquidity Providers, Whitepaper Released
xSigma is an upcoming stablecoin DEX protocol developed by the first DeFi project backed by a NASDAQ-listed company. In order to attract liquidity providers to supply their stablecoins to the decentralized exchange, the protocol will feature a lucrative rewards system for liquidity mining. The project recently finalized its smart contract and today released its whitepaper…
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Crypto Prices Show Signs of Recovery, Market Analyst Says ‘Bitcoin Remains in a Healthy Place’
Bitcoin and a number of other cryptocurrencies have regained some of the percentage losses they suffered this past Monday, as various crypto assets are up today between 5-25% in value. On Monday, the crypto economy dipped under the $800 billion handle after the entire market cap fell from its trillion-dollar valuation. Today, the overall market…
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Achieving Bitcoin Anonymity Through Mixers
This is a promoted article provided by BitMix.Biz A bitcoin mixer, also known as a bitcoin blender or tumbler, is a service designed to ensure the anonymity of Bitcoin transactions using a special mixing algorithm where bitcoin from several sources are combined and mixed to rid coins of compromising traces of past transactions to hide…
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“World’s Largest” Darknet Marketplace Has Been Shut Down
Popular darknet marketplace DarkMarket, which hosted an estimated half million users, was shut down by German police authorities in a raid conducted over the weekend. Announcements from prosecutors in the cities of Koblenz and Oldenburg indicated that the operator of the marketplace was headquartered somewhere near the border between Germany and Denmark. The marketplace’s server…
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Human Rights Foundation Provides Grants To Specter, Lot49
Listen To This Episode: Apple Spotify Google Libsyn Overcast The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) has announced the latest beneficiaries of its ongoing Bitcoin Development Fund: Bitcoin developer Ben Kaufman and the team at Global Mesh Labs will each receive grants of $25,000. HRF launched its fund last year and it has supported privacy- and sovereignty-enhancing…
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Tron Is Out, Dai Is Back: CoinDesk 20 List Updates for 2021 Q1
Volume on eight trusted exchanges used by CoinDesk hit $239.98 billion in Q4 2020, up from $90.08 billion in the prior quarter.