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Fintech in the Front, DeFi in the Back—Crypto's Quiet Revolution Is Underway
PayPal’s stablecoin rollout highlights a revived trend in the crypto industry. It’s one that captured Wall Street’s imagination since 2016, promising speedy settlement times and lower backroom overhead. The so-called blockchain revolution: newer, cheaper rails for the financial system. That line of argument stopped making headlines amid a long and cold crypto winter followed by an uptick in meme coins, yield farming, and the sector’s equally powerful memetic force of getting rich quickly. With B...
Jun 25, 2021
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What Will Happen to Ethereum Miners After ETH 2.0?
Ethereum, like Bitcoin, currently uses an energy-intensive process called “mining” to create and distribute new cryptocurrency. The thousands of people globally who help make that happen, known as miners, operate millions of dollars worth of machinery in a race to solve computational problems and earn ETH, the network’s native cryptocurrency. But at some point within the next year, Ethereum will undergo a major upgrade that will fundamentally change how the network operates and how new ETH is cr...
Apr 20, 2021
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What Will Happen to Bitcoin After All 21 Million are Mined?
There will only ever be 21 million Bitcoins. That’s it. Once they’re all mined, which should occur in around 2140, no new Bitcoins will enter circulation. The Bitcoin blockchain was designed around the principle of controlled supply, which means only a fixed number of newly minted Bitcoin can be mined each year until a total of 21 million coins have been minted. Once all 21 million BTC have been mined, the network will largely operate the same as it does now, but with one crucial difference for...
Apr 10, 2021
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The Next Big Thing in NFTs: Breaking Them Apart
How can regular investors afford the eye-watering sums NFT (non-fungible token) artworks and other collectibles are commanding? And how can they ever hope to profit from them? By teaming up. Investors are increasingly forming Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) to pool their funds and gain exposure to the priciest NFTs through fractionalization. In essence, NFT fractions, also known as “shards,” are derivatives of the underlying asset. They are created when a token representing the a...
Apr 3, 2021
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'We Can DAO It': How a New Wave of CypherPunks Is Disrupting Venture Capital
A group of crypto art collectors made global headlines last month by placing a $525,000 winning bid for a promotional video about the crypto platform Uniswap created by the fast-rising digital artist Pplpleasr. The artwork came in the form of the art-meets-tech medium du jour, the NFT, and the funds from the winning bid went to charity. But while the purchase garnered plenty of publicity, few media outlets mentioned the novel social arrangement that made it possible: a decentralized autonomous...
Mar 17, 2020
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How to build a remote team
The global crisis prompted by the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in governments taking unprecedented measures to curb the spread of the virus. Individuals have been encouraged to self-isolate, and entire countries have been placed in lockdown. The coronavirus has acted as a catalyst, accelerating trends that are changing the way we live and work; from streaming entertainment to food deliveries, to remote working. Bitcoin and coronavirus: The good, the bad and the ugly In many ways, the crypto...