There are now more active addresses than ever holding Bitcoin. After continuing to grow at a parabolic rate, the total number of non-zero Bitcoin addresses hit an all-time high of …
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Boston Fed and Massachusetts Institute of Technology To Release Digital Dollar Prototypes In July
Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will unveil prototype central bank digital currency systems as early as July, according to a new …
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Bitcoin mining shares have surpassed BTC by 455% in the past 12 months
Despite the top publicly-listed Bitcoin mining firms operating at losses, their share prices have dramatically outperformed BTC over the past 12 months. Appearing on CNBC, Fundstrat’s vice president of digital …
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Assassin’s Creed Publisher Creates Next Generation of NFT Games
The blockchain gaming world is largely populated by startups built specifically to pioneer the burgeoning industry of crypto games, whether it’s Immutable with card-battler Gods Unchained, Sorare with its popular fantasy soccer …
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Decentralized technology can help protect democracy around the world
Recent political developments in the United States demonstrate the critical challenges that centralized technology platforms pose to democracy — in stark contrast to the powerful role social media played in …
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Pandemic Year: How Argentina’s Economy Struggled While Its Crypto Ecosystem Thrived
The year 2020 will go down in history as the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and the way it affected the Argentine economy. But it is also true that Argentina …
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U.S. court authorizes Ripple co-founders to file a dismissal motion
Another development occurred in the ongoing Ripple-SEC lawsuit. Ripple co-founders Brad Garlinghouse and Chris Larsen have been allowed by the court “to file a motion to dismiss the cases against them.” According to legal …
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Bank of Thailand intends to regulate stablecoins, says bank official
This latest development was revealed by the Central Bank’s assistant governor, Siritida Panomwon Na Ayudhya on Friday. Siritida said in a briefing that the apex bank was in talks with market regulators …
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Messari Analyst: Ether will be well equipped to topple Bitcoin after ETH 2.0 upgrade
A Messari analyst specialized in Crypto Assets Investment Research has predicted the toppling of Bitcoin by Ethereum sooner rather than later especially with the launching of Ethereum’s ETH 2.0 upgrade. Ryan Watkins, in a …
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The volume of cryptocurrency transactions in India soars by 30% in a year; BTC, XRP, and TRX most popular
Amid a massive crypto bull run that saw the price of Bitcoin increasing by over 400 percent within a year, cryptocurrency transactions in India soared by 30 percent since March 2020, Business Line reports. Bitcoin …
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