MicroStrategy is betting big on the Lightning Network

September 30, 2022

CFTC chairman believes that Bitcoin could double in price

September 29, 2022

OpenSea adds support for Optimism

September 29, 2022

Bank of England capitulates and starts buying up bonds

September 29, 2022

Last week, stress in the currency and bond markets ran so high that analysts expected a breaking point to be nearby. That came yesterday in the United Kingdom. To save the bond market, the Bank of England decided to buy 65 billion pounds of government bonds. It is the first country to turn the money press back on. Who will follow?

Mashinsky steps down at Celsius: hope for depositors

September 28, 2022

The CEO of embattled crypto lending platform Celsius has stepped down from his role. This clears the way for a restructuring of the company and makes it more likely that duped customers will see their money back.

Researchers suggest new token standards to reverse Ethereum transactions

September 27, 2022

An open and public blockchain is censorship resistant. This is the case with Bitcoin and Ethereum as well as many others. Some blockchains don’t need censorship resistance since they are kept private which often means that they run in a corporate environment and serve a different purpose. Censorship resistance is what makes blockchain technology so disruptive. No authority on this planet, not even nation-states can interfere with transactions. This makes each network that is considered to be censorship resistant immune to dictators and the persecution of innocent people. What is the downside of censorship resistance and what are three researchers from Stanford proposing to change that?

Currency and bond markets are panicking, crypto chills

September 27, 2022

Since the U.S. Central Bank raised interest rates and gave a stern speech last week, financial markets have gone completely off the rails. Not only equity markets but especially bond and currency markets. Remarkably, crypto markets have remained relaxed.

World Economic Forum is taking a closer look at cryptocurrencies and Web3

September 26, 2022

The World Economic Forum started last year to take crypto more seriously and made it a topic of its own. It seems that the WEF got the hang of it and realized that crypto is here to stay and will most likely play an important role in the foreseeable future. The impact of blockchain technology is still up for debate and with Ethereum shifting to proof of stake, once again the discussion about Bitcoin being far from carbon-neutral is incinerated. Why is Web3 particularly interesting to the WEF and how is the organization planning to explore this topic?

Polkadot: Leading stablecoin USDT is starting on its blockchain

September 26, 2022

Polkadot is all about Web3 and the interoperability of blockchains. A unique consensus layer called the relay chain that connects several other blockchains called parachains. Each parachain can serve a specific task and provide tailored blockchain solutions to developers as well as users and investors. Polkadot also aims to connect other blockchains that are not part of its native ecosystem. Its vision is to become the central piece in a multi-blockchain world, where dApps are working across several chains. When did USDT become available on Polkadot and why is this mission-critical to what Polkadot is trying to achieve?

The state of crypto in 2022

September 26, 2022

Chainalysis released a report on September 14 on the state of crypto markets worldwide. What about adoption by country? The index measures which countries have the most people putting most of their money into crypto.

Was Bitcoin almost called Netcoin?

September 26, 2022

A day before the domain bitcoin.org was registered in August 2008, someone registered netcoin.org through the same registrar. That can hardly be a coincidence. It's another fun new fact from the early history of the father of all crypto currencies.

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