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Finance

OG Status in Crypto Is a Liability

Tenure in crypto yields more respect than it should.

By Brady DaleMar 8, 2021

A castle in Spain.

Tech

Dapps Don't Care About Your Feelings

By testing the limits of what's permissible on Binance Smart Chain, anonymous developers are testing whether it's really a blockchain.

By Marc HochsteinMar 4, 2021

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests are a sensitive topic in China today

Markets

The Node: SEC Worried About Default Bitcoin ETFs

Gary Gensler could take charge of the SEC. Will he be open to more innovation, like bitcoin exchange-traded products?

By Benjamin SchillerMar 2, 2021

gensler

Tech

NFTs Aren't Art? OK, Boomer

Your grandpa probably didn't like rock. Your dad probably didn't like hip-hop. Dismissing NFT artworks out of hand reads roughly the same.

By Brady DaleMar 1, 2021

artmosh3

Markets

Blockchain Bites: Coinbase's Competition, Bitcoin ETF Inflows Slow

Coinbase's SEC filing provides insight into crypto's increasingly competitive arena.

By Daniel KuhnFeb 26, 2021

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
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Ether falls twice as hard as bitcoin and HYPE drops 10% as the chip trade unwinds
Japan's Nikkei had its worst day since March. Ether is still the only major holding a gain on the week, barely.
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This $28 million ether market bet aims to profit from pure market chaos
The mega trade aims to profit from a potential surge in ether price turbulence.
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Bitcoin Ordinals leader proposes a way to bypass data restriction efforts
While BIP 110 wants to restrict data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode client wants the opposite and requires no vote at all.

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