Smart Contracts – Are They The Future Of Digital Currency?
Since then, they have been responsible for the creation of pretty much every blockchain product that we know and love today, including DeFi protocols, popular dApps, NFTs, and more. But what are they exactly, and why are they so crucial for the future of crypto?...
COVID Vaccine Passports Attract Interesting Thoughts from Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson
Meanwhile, the authorities are eager to return to life as normal, which is why they are strongly encouraging vaccination which could save lives simply by making people more resistant to the troublesome disease. Weighing in on the so-called COVID passports, Cardano’s creator, Charles Hoskinson, had...
Top 5 Cryptocurrencies that have Smart Contracts – But Don’t See Much Use
But, while ETH may have started it all, it is by no means the only one offering smart contracts and their countless applications in this day and age. Here are 5 other projects that also feature smart contracts, but don’t see nearly as much use....
Hybrid Smart Contracts Will Replace The Legal System
While many were considered revolutionary, most — if not all of them — are based on smart contracts. Smart contracts are, therefore, the first and biggest blockchain product that allowed all others to come to be. Smart Contracts - A Major Disruptor Smart contracts started...
Binance Smart Chain Claims DeFi Attacks ‘Organized And Targeted’
The new chain was created specifically for DeFi, and today, it is Ethereum’s biggest rival for the DeFi sector. Advantages of BSC Don’t get me wrong — BSC is definitely worth it. Ethereum may be the birthplace of DeFi, but BSC offers faster transactions, lower...
New Use Case for Doge a ‘Great Idea’ According To Musk
However, China is becoming less and less crypto-friendly with every passing year, so it might only be a matter of time before it kicks the miners out altogether. While this was usually a background issue, it suddenly resurfaced a few weeks ago, when Elon Musk...
Bitcoin Keeps Crashing – Time To Be Nervous?
Fortunately, however, the price recovered to $40k for about a week, and then it dropped back down to a support level at $33.5k. Support Level Seems Strong Over the past few days, however, the price has seen a bit of a recovery to $37,000, currently...
Belgian Bank Considers Launching Token
The bank, known as KBC, aims to launch the so-called KBC Coin, which would serve as a reward token. More than that, it would allow the bank to create interaction strategies with its customers, attract more users, promote its platform, and more. KBC Coin With...
Crypto Adoption: How Will We Know We Are There?
The goal is to be accepted by merchants, financial institutions, regular people, and pretty much every business, government, and individual out there. From Niche Concept to Major Disruptive Force 12 years ago, when Bitcoin first emerged, people doubted that it would ever be used by...
Nebraska May Allow Banks To Offer Crypto Services
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, in Nebraska, a new bill will do quite the opposite, allowing banks to start providing crypto services. A Positive Move A few days ago, I saw a tweet published by Senator Julie Slama that noted that the...
Justin Sun Unveils $1Million NFT Fund
Not only did crypto prices skyrocket to entirely new heights, but the DeFi boom continued, and let’s not forget the fact that crypto got another massive, parallel trend in the NFT sector. In fact, NFTs continued to explode even over the past several weeks while...
Another Day, Another Chinese Crypto Ban
In fact, accepting cryptocurrencies as payment is illegal in the country. China is Forever Banning Crypto Personally, I don’t find this particularly surprising. After all, China has announced that crypto payments were illegal a long time ago, and its financial institutions were forbidden from offering...
Crypto Makes TIMES ‘Most Influential Companies List’ – Twice!
After that, it made a list of the top 100 Most Influential Companies, and it allowed two crypto firms to make the list, showing that it considers them to be legitimate businesses and equal to traditional companies. Cryptos Companies I see this as another example...
Time Magazine Planning NFT Subscriptions
Even so, it did come as a bit of a surprise to me to hear that TIME Magazine is planning to introduce NFTs as part of its subscription plans. It’s Official This is also not some simple rumor — it was said by the TIME...
UK Explores CBDC Options
CBDCs Are Not Going Away I, for one, am glad to see that the development of CBDCs has continued, parallel with all the other crypto developments. Even though CBDCs are not considered to be “real” cryptocurrencies, I still believe that they will do the job...
Is Dogecoin the TikTok Coin or a Whale Manipulation?
What made these pumpers quite peculiar is the level of honesty they convey, which is quite rare among individuals who do this type of activity. Altcoin pumpers usually talk about the complex technologies that underpin a given cryptocurrency using buzz words like “smart contracts”, “blockchain”,...
Is Uniswap V3 A Game-Changer
Uniswap V3 - Problems from the Beginning Hours after its launch, several users have already made some complaints, especially about its higher gas fees. According to one Twitter user, “even more expensive to make mistakes now. Tried to migrate my UNI/ETH liquidity to V3, failed,...
Is The Perfect Entry Price Important With Cardano?
It is customary for buyers to take advantage of the dip, which allows them to buy the asset at a lower price with hopes of selling for a profit when the price is right. Was the recent drop a perfect opportunity to buy more Cardano?...
Dogecoin Amongst the Top-Performing Cryptos in Q1 2021
A significant amount of capital flooded the cryptocurrency industry, pushing the total market capitalization to new record highs. Surprisingly, one of the cryptocurrencies that benefited the most was Dogecoin. The meme token skyrocketed by a whopping 1,800% within the first 29 days of the year,...
Ethereum Will Scale 100x Before Eth2 Is Deployed
Vitalik Buterin, the writer of the Ethereum whitepaper, recently stated that Ethereum could grow by 100 times in the coming months. He revealed these details in an interview with Tim Ferriss podcast, where he also said that the Eth2 was already running as a proof-of-stake...
Ripple To Eliminate XRP Giveaway Scams
This announcement came after Ripple and Garlinghouse dropped a lawsuit they had filed against YouTube for not monitoring accounts and not protecting users from falling victim to fraudsters running false XRP giveaways. Scammers on YouTube were fooling crypto investors into sharing the details of their...
Visa Moves To Allow Payment Settlement Using Cryptocurrency
The pilot phase that Visa has launched will be in partnership with crypto.com, which is a crypto and payment platform. Visa announced that they would allow the use of USD Coin (USDC) on their payment systems. USDC is a form of cryptocurrency that is offered...
What Is Blockchain And Why It Matters
What is Blockchain? Blockchain is a term used to refer to a transaction ledger that is secure and shareable to all participants on the platform. The blockchain network records all transactions and stores them in the network and this eliminates the need for intermediaries who...
Cardano (ADA) Is Better Than Ethereum (ETH)
What is Cardano (ADA)? Cardano’s technology ranks superior among its peers, and it has strong backing from its community. Cardano focuses on decentralization and alleviating the problems that this system causes to the existing financial systems. ADA coin is the cryptocurrency found on the Cardano...
Can Blockchain Technology Foster Disaster Relief Management?
Blockchain specifically helps data, which can be of any sort on a distributed ledger, with provisions that make it immutable, thus guaranteeing transparency and authenticity. The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic ushered in a major need to employ a superior technology that can help manage...
Three Key Fundamentals That Drive Bitcoin's Growth
Bitcoin has been pushed throughout its almost 12 years of existence by its core believers while its underlying technology and fundamentals, including its inherent scarcity over time, helps pull it onto new heights. In the past decade, the narrative about Bitcoin has changed in all...
DeFi and the Rise of Ethereum Killers: BSC and Polkadot
With the emergence of blockchain technology more than a decade ago, new innovations including decentralized finance (DeFi) have permeated the space, with novel projects seeking to revolutionize the monetary and financial provisions of the existing financial institutions. With DeFi, users can depend on blockchain-backed smart...
Bitcoin vs. Ethereum: What's The Difference?
The crypto market is witnessing explosive trading volumes and all-time highs in market capitalization thanks to the massive influx of both retail and institutional traders.But the top two cryptocurrencies are still Bitcoin and Ethereum. While both are called cryptocurrencies, there are major differences between them...
Best Ways to Earn With the Ethereum Network: Reviewing the Prospects of HODLing, Staking, and Lending
Through the history of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, new projects are continually being churned into the cryptospace and new opportunities present themselves every other day. However, the diversity made possible by open-source blockchain such as the Ethereum network through which decentralized finance (DeFi) products abound...
What Is The Best Cryptocurrency To Invest In 2021?
With a plethora of options available for investments in cryptocurrencies, it may become a bit difficult to select the best cryptocurrency to invest in 2021. But we have you covered. Based on present performance and other indices, the following are the top crypto assets to...
How to Unstuck Unconfirmed Blockchain Transaction
The following are ways to help you unstuck unconfirmed blockchain transactions. Wait It Out Sometimes it takes little to no effort but trying to wait for the transactions to go through. More often, there will be free capacity in the network after some hours, days,...
Blockchain In IoT: A Vital Transformation
With the number of connected devices growing exponentially every year, data security has become very complicated. But blockchain technology can come in handy. Blockchain technology was initially introduced for cryptocurrency, especially Bitcoin. But the technology is gaining more popularity across other areas. Blockchain and IoT...
AMD Now Offers Dedicated GPU Specifically For Crypto Mining
The announcement also listed the update for specific fixes for the Linux environment. As a mining-based GPU, it doesn’t offer support for Video Core Next (VCN), which is expected. This means the card does not have any ability to output, making it perfect for crypto...