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Could Facebook Name Change Prelude A Move Into Crypto?

Could Facebook Name Change Prelude A Move Into Crypto?

In his last founder's letter, Zuckenberg briefly mentions cryptocurrency and NFTs: "Privacy and safety need to be built into the metaverse from day one. So do open standards and interoperability. This will require not just

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Putin:  One day Crypto Could Become A Means Of Accumulation

Putin: One day Crypto Could Become A Means Of Accumulation

"Cryptocurrencies may be be used as a unit of account, but they are very unstable.To transfer money to some other place maybe but it's too early to talk about the trade of energy resources in

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DarkFi: An Introduction

DarkFi: An Introduction

DeFi (Decentralized Finance) platforms are more decentralized than traditional exchanges, however calling them decentralized is sometimes a stretch. Most of them are developed and managed by centralized foundations with a figurehead. Governance tokens are usually

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Binance Establishes Corporate Presence In Ireland

Binance Establishes Corporate Presence In Ireland

The former offshore business registered three more companies in Ireland, according to an article in The Independent. It registered its first company in Ireland last year: Binance (Ireland) Holdings. The three new ones are Binance

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Bitcoin DeFi: Self-Repaying Loans Are Coming To Stacks And Sovryn

Bitcoin DeFi: Self-Repaying Loans Are Coming To Stacks And Sovryn

Self-repaying loans are not a novel concept in DeFi, there are already implemented by several projects, such as Alchemix on Ethereum. The concept is simple: you borrow a stablecoin from a smart-contract, and you provide

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El Salvador Has Started Volcano-Powered Bitcoin Mining

El Salvador Has Started Volcano-Powered Bitcoin Mining

The president of El Salvador has announced on Twitter that the Central American Country has started mining its first bitcoins, delivering on his promise to use geothermal energy from a volcano to mine the cryptocurrency.

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NFT.com Domain Name Sold For USD $2 Million

NFT.com Domain Name Sold For USD $2 Million

Freespeech.com reports that according to a Canadian securities filing the domain name NFT.com (as in Non Fungible Token) has changed hands for USD $2 million. The new owner is the company Immutable Holdings, publicly traded

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Namecheap ready to accept Bitcoin Lightning Network payments

Namecheap ready to accept Bitcoin Lightning Network payments

Domain name registrar Namecheap already accepts Bitcoin payment through their own node using BTCpayserver. CEO Richard Kirkendall recently tweeted that their Lightning setup is ready to go into production: https://twitter.com/NamecheapCEO/status/1438538497237798920 Other domain name registrars that

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US Bill to Improve Oversight of Crypto Mining in Foreign Countries

US Bill to Improve Oversight of Crypto Mining in Foreign Countries

U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan (D-NH), a member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-IA) have introduced a bipartisan legislation to improve oversight of cryptocurrency mining operations in foreign countries. The

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DeFi Exchange dYdX surpasses Coinbase in trading volume

DeFi Exchange dYdX surpasses Coinbase in trading volume

https://twitter.com/AntonioMJuliano/status/1442234625120608256 dYdX is a derivative DEX backed by Coinbase (yes, another one). It is based on StarkWare (Ethereum Layer-2). Ii and is backed by the usual suspects: Coinbase, Andreesen Horowitz, Brian Armstrong, Paradigm, Polychain Capital,