2022-1-16 08:58 |
Where does the value of NFTs come from really? Is it the 3D model? The expensive GPUs and rendering equipment used? Or the hype and clout surrounding the PFP release? Well, yes and no. But also not really.
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Aave AAVE/USD is an open-source and non-custodial liquidity protocol that allows users to earn interest on deposits or to borrow assets. AAVE is the native cryptocurrency token used in the network.
2022-1-11 19:00 | |
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Have you ever bought that one homemade craft item you really liked? Or ever used an app to call in a freelance taxi? Or book a holiday rental? If the answer is yes, you've participated in the Gig econThe post Gaming in the gig economy: CoinFantasy's DeFi approach appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-8-18 08:30 | |
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Do you really know how your data is used and monetized? If you did, you’d probably think twice about giving your personal details away so freely.
2020-12-29 17:51 | |
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The self-proclaimed “Bitcoin obsessive lawyer” Justin Winston Ono Wales takes the saying “Not your keys; not your coins” seriously. He used the recent ruling in the Archer v. Coinbase case to explain just how important the old crypto adage really is.
2020-8-24 00:01 | |
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After airdropping cryptocurrency to 60,000 users in Venezuela, AirTM survey results suggest how crypto is really used in the economically troubled nation.
2020-7-11 12:00 | |
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Special thanks to Justin Drake and Jinglan Wang for feedback In 2014, I made a post and a presentation with a list of hard problems in math, computer science and economics that I thought were important for the cryptocurrency space (as I then called it) to be able to reach maturity.
2019-11-25 04:03 | |
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Weiss Ratings surprised and divided the crypto community, by stating Cardano (ADA) is a project superior to EOS. This is a far cry from China’s belief, who still ranks EOS as #1 on its CCID ranking while Cardano sits way down at #31.
2019-11-14 18:50 | |
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Coinspeaker FAANG Stocks Seem to be Dropping the Ball, Could This Company Pick It Up?Five of the biggest stocks in the market, FAANG, aren’t performing as well as they used to and expectations by market analysts seem to be lowering consistently.
2019-9-11 14:13 | |
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Binance, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world, has recently decided to launch two new platforms that will be used to test its new products. The two platforms are set to be called Futures A and Futures B.
2019-9-3 22:54 | |
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Google’s Project Zero team revealed 14 iPhone security flaws hackers have secretly exploited for two years, questioning whether Apple’s device is really so “unhackable” as has long been claimed.
2019-8-31 19:02 | |
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Salaries paid in decentralized digital coins have become a norm across the crypto industry, but there’s really no reason why cryptocurrencies can’t be used for remuneration by businesses in other sectors as well.
2019-8-29 03:43 | |
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Samson Mow, the CSO of Blockstream, has recently affirmed that the Lightning Network solves one of the major problems of the Bitcoin network on a recent interview. According to him, the whole idea behind BTC is not really to be a currency to be used in everyday activities. The way he sees BTC, it is […]
2019-8-17 23:35 | |
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Despite wide-spread efforts and expensive advertising, Dash isn't taking off in Caracas.
2019-8-15 00:30 | |
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In a juicy little chunk of news from the Redditsphere, a user claiming to be a former IRS employee has called the agency’s new crypto compliance letters “broad and very error-prone fishing expeditions.
2019-7-30 16:45 | |
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As you may know, blockchain technology is currently being used in several industries. While some of the most well-known use cases are in the financial and logistics industry, the truth is that the health industry is another one that really uses a lot of it.
2019-7-17 01:58 | |
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Bitcoin and the rest of the cryptocurrency market have been waiting to break into the financial ecosystem for quite some time now. U. S President Donald Trump’s recent tweets have only fast-tracked the process.
2019-7-14 22:30 | |
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In a remarkable admission during his testimony to Congress, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell admitted that bitcoin is used as an alternative to gold, conceding that BTC is a store of value. He said before the Senate: "Really, almost no one uses bitcoin for payment, they use it more as an alternative to gold really.
2019-7-12 01:20 | |
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I understand why Apple doesn’t pay as much attention to its Macbooks as it used to. Its iPhone sales are strong (accounting for 53 percent of the company’s total revenue) and its services arm is on the rise.
2019-7-11 19:03 | |
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Marshall is an iconic audio brand, best known for its guitar amplifiers. But did you know that it also sells a line of Bluetooth speakers? It’s true, and they’re actually very good. I got my hands on the company’s latest venture in this area, the Marshall Stockwell II, and so far I’m really impressed.
2019-7-9 21:10 | |
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The collapse of three banks on three different continents indicates a new global crisis is brewing. But it may also show that the last one never really ended and the tools used to manage the global economy simply don’t work.
2019-7-6 19:45 | |
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Binance announced a new asset-backed token last week. Known as BTCB, it is backed by a reserve fund of Bitcoin (BTC) and will enable users to exchange the coin’s value on the Binance ecosystem.
2019-6-24 19:45 | |
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A few months ago, Taotronics’ latest noise-cancelling headphones landed on my doormat, and to my shame, they’ve since languished on my “to-do” list of product reviews. I say shame, because they’re actually really good – both in terms of performance, as well as overall value.
2019-6-21 14:02 | |
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The price of cryptocurrency is determined by two main factors. The purchase or sales flow of cryptocurrency (purchase of cryptocurrency increases price, selling lowers its price) The volume of exchange for cryptocurrency given that, for cryptocurrencies, a transaction corresponds to verification of that transaction through mining that introduces, into the market supply, new cryptocurrency units as a reward to the verifiers This suggests that the value of a cryptocurrency depends only on its users.
2019-6-21 18:26 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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About two months ago, Lightning Labs released Lightning Loop, a service that allows users to fill or empty Lightning channels without closing them, thus reducing on-chain fees.
2019-5-29 16:58 | |
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Distributed ledger systems that underpin cryptocurrencies aren’t capable of processing the number of transactions required for mass adoption — but it doesn’t matter, they’re only really used for speculation.
2019-5-29 14:30 | |
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Many people would argue that Bitcoin is already mainstream. While this is not really the most popular opinion ever, the truth is that it is simply not too far from the truth. If you disagree, you will probably change your mind when you read how much Bitcoin has been used. Kevin Rooke, a Bitcoin enthusiast, […]
2019-5-25 03:55 | |
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Untraceable Bitcoin: Are BTC Payments Anonymous and Transactions Really Private? Bitcoin (BTC), the largest and most popular digital currency in the world has been used to perform transactions that allow users to remain anonymous.
2019-5-13 22:28 | |
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Fridays are frequently used by companies to bury bad news. By announcing dismal sales figures and privacy SNAFUs when everyone has left the newsroom (either in body or in mind), they can avoid the attention and scrutiny they’d otherwise get on literally any other day of the working week.
2019-5-13 11:49 | |
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Trigger warning: specialized mathematical topic Special thanks to Karl Floersch for feedback One of the more interesting algorithms in number theory is the Fast Fourier transform (FFT).
2019-5-14 04:03 | |
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The door handles on the Tesla Model S are exceptionally terrible. Until you get used to them. Until you become an insider. Because no one really wants to wait for an actuated door handle that pops out in deference only to those who are worthy.
2019-5-11 18:00 | |
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In a handful of oil fields in the Great White North, natural gas, an otherwise wasted drilling by-product, is being put to work. But it’s not being used to well more oil; it’s being used to mine bitcoin.
2019-5-8 20:07 | |
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A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against BitcoinBitcoin’s core value proposition is that it is an uncontrolled, apolitical money.
2019-4-30 20:16 | |
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A good share of the world is not really very enthusiastic about zero-knowledge proofs protocols like the ones used in cryptos such as Monero and Zcash. This technology can be used to cloak transactions and make them impossible to track, so several people are afraid that it can be used in money laundering. However, this […]
2019-4-23 02:39 | |
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Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are one of crypto's more novel and ambitious applications — one that Bitcoin, until recently, has had nothing to do with.
2019-4-19 18:33 | |
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“A statement may be both true and dangerous. The previous sentence is such a statement. ” - David Friedman Freedom of speech is a topic that many internet communities have struggled with over the last two decades.
2019-4-19 04:03 | |
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Within the sphere of traditional finance, at least, crypto has a custody problem. The problem? Crypto is complicated, security is tricky and — if we’re being frank — the suits don’t know a bit from a byte (or a blockchain from a cloud server).
2019-4-12 22:03 | |
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New announcements around Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been coming almost nonstop lately, with new exchanges, wallets and other services popping up seemingly every day.
2019-4-8 18:21 | |
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This infographic provides a schematic overview of the main Bitcoin-related “forks” that can happen and shows the most important forks that have happened. It does not provide an overview of all forks that have happened.
2019-4-8 18:08 | |
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Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
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Depending on what country you live in, your cryptocurrency will be subject to different tax rules. The questions below address implications within the United States, specifically, but similar issues arise around the world.
2019-3-29 18:20 | |
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Given how sleek and digital modern gaming is, it’d hard to remember sometimes just how weird and arcane it used to be — and just when you’d forgotten, here comes a game like StarTropics to remind you.
2019-3-19 01:54 | |
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Twitter made its beta testing app, branded “twttr,” sound so mysterious, like accessing it would give you access to some super-secret prototype version of Twitter (or at least that’s what I was imagining).
2019-3-16 01:23 | |
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Almost Half Of The Artificial Intelligence Companies In Europe Never Actually Used AI MMC Ventures has conducted a survey recently which has shown some really incredible findings. Why are they so incredible? Because the study has revealed that 40% of the “Artificial Intelligence (AI) companies” in Europe have never actually used AI at all. If […]
2019-3-7 00:13 | |
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Coinbase’s controversial acquisition of Neutrino was motivated by a desire to ditch its existing tech partners because they ”were actually selling client data to outside sources,” the head of sales at Coinbase said on Saturday.
2019-3-4 01:58 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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The SEC isn’t messing around when it comes to investor protection. We’re getting used to subpoenas being dealt out in the cryptocurrency space. But when it comes to traditional industries, they pack a decent punch.
2019-2-23 12:59 | |
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Ember. js is a hugely popular JavaScript framework. Used across web, mobile, and desktop, it powers the likes of LinkedIn, Groupon, and even Apple Music. Behind its thousands of lines of code is a deeply human story of innovation and risk-taking, as portrayed by Ember.
2019-2-20 19:40 | |
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There are two primary reasons why storing your private crypto keys in the cloud is a bad idea. First, your cloud provider represents a centralized honeypot that could experience a security breach, allowing cyber criminals to access your data.
2019-2-19 00:19 | |
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Welcoming new official core team members into DIGITALAX is not an everyday occurrence, in fact, it’s so rare that we actively want to celebrate it with all of you when it happens. Although the protocol is always advancing decentralisation across more sectors and fields within the ecosystem, decentralisation doesn’t mean that champion nodes in the […] The post New Core Team Member Aboard! Welcome Cesh! appeared first on NFT News Today.
We are more than excited to announce that the grant proposal on Rarible DAO passed this week, awarding DIGITALAX with $100K to build out the shared orderbook + liquidity for the Web3 Fashion Economy.
On the preeminent night of NYFW weekend, DIGITALAX with the Global Designer Network and Global Models Syndicate, held the inaugural web3 fashion metaverse Realm Runway show. Bringing together over 120+ talented guests, 40+ web3 digital fashion designers, 15+ web3 IRL fashion designers, 20+ web3 IRL models, 5+ web3 digital models and a cornucopia of creativity […] The post Realm Runway #1 Recap: NY Fashion Week appeared first on NFT News Today.
Sometimes, the fit between web3 fashion and NFT marketplace protocols is so well aligned that it makes us wonder why we didn’t bring it to a vote earlier. Eric Arsenault, the Head of Ecosystem of Rarible Protocol DAO, approached me after Miami Art Basel, and we’ve had a few calls since, about some of the […] The post DIGITALAX Integration w/ Rarible Protocol 5 Day Vote Goes Live appeared first on NFT News Today.
At the height of all of the NY Fashion Week action we have gathered over 20 models from the Global Models Syndicate, are featuring over 15 IRL physical designer collections and over 40 digital fashion designer looks from the Global Designer Network and pairing this all with a very special location at the intersection of […] The post Realm Runway NY Fashion Week Ready for Take Off! appeared first on NFT News Today.
When we think about the spaces that we inhabit, the external elements that shape, direct and constrict our experience are usually noticed first; what we recognise far less is how we move through the flow of everything surrounding us and the intricate ways our unique relationships with ourselves form a totally individual fingerprint in motion.
LUME Studios is more than just a perpetual location partner for more of the web3 native events and experiences DIGITALAX is hosting throughout this year and beyond. They are also progressing into a full time DAO and transforming how we perceive digital-physical spaces with decentralised fabrication and NFT native content production.