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Evan is a die-hard crypto and blockchain supporter who has written over 400 crypto-focused content for various media companies and his blog, Crypto Skillset, in the last 3 years. His long-term mission is to help blockchain companies succeed and bring crypto adoption to the masses through informative and easy-to-digest content.
Well-known Hollywood actress and recently-turned crypto enthusiast Lindsay Lohan announced via Twitter on Feb 15 that she’s giving away $10,000 worth of Ethereum, through her fresh Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) “The Ethereum 10K”, which only have 100 pieces in existence. Lohan's $10,000 Ethereum Giveaway https://twitter.com/lindsaylohan/status/1361385743566921734 According to Lohan on Rarible,...
MicroStrategy announced in a press release on February 16 that it intends to launch a private offering of $600 million convertible senior notes for qualified institutional investors. The company said that the notes will be convertible into cash, or shares of the company’s class A common stock or even the...
The Graph protocol, which launched its mainnet on Ethereum last December 17, 2020, is looking into adding eight more L1 (Layer-one) blockchains, which will include Bitcoin, Binance Smart Chain, Polkadot, NEAR, Cosmos, Solana, Avalanche, and Celo. The Plan to Add More Layer-1 Blockchains The Graph, a decentralized protocol for indexing...
Long term Bitcoin proponent and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on the platform on Feb 5 that he’s now running a Bitcoin node and doing his part for the network. Dorsey posted a tweet with a picture of a node setup captioned “running Bitcoin”. Jack Runs A Bitcoin Node and...
Cynthia Lummis, the Bitcoin community's favorite senator, has been appointed to serve on the Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs and Senate Commerce, as announced by the senator herself in a tweet yesterday. Lummis: Regulation Should Cause More Innovation and Less Obstruction Lummis appears to be ready to share her...
The yearn.finance community has voted to mint 6,666 YFIs, which was with one-thirds allocated to key platform contributors and two-thirds to the Treasury. The minted YFI, which is to be placed on the Treasury, will be under the control of the community as well. According to the vote, the move...
USD Coin, a stablecoin platform backed by Coinbase and Circle, is now live on the Stellar blockchain, as announced by both the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) and Circle on Feb 2 in a press release. Stellar USDC Now by Stellar Dapps Stellar USDC is part of a multi-blockchain framework created...
One of the world’s richest men and Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, recently made a very interesting change in his twitter bio: he placed “#bitcoin Ƀ” in it. Shortly after this change, he tweeted: “In retrospect, it was inevitable.” This has spurred a flurry of speculations as to what the change...
Since the announcement of its merger with Yearn.Finance on Dec 1, 2020, the SushiSwap decentralized exchange has grown to become a significant competitor against the current market leader amongst DEXs, Uniswap. SushiSwap Could Become Uniswap's Main Competitor SushiSwap was integrated into the Yearn.Finance ecosystem last year, and since then, the...
Several minority mining pools on Ethereum are working together to bring down the implementation of Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559. The proposal was put forward by ETH developers to help curb the network's outrageous and highly volatile fees. In response, minority pool Flexpool has stood up against the proposal. Anti-EIP...
President Biden is expected to nominate Michael Barr for the position of Comptroller of the Currency - the independent bureau within the Department of Treasury in the US Govt, which is tasked with ensuring a safe banking system in the nation, according to a report by the WSJ. Who Is...
According to a statement by Guo Weimin, Bank of China's chief scientist, the economic turmoil caused by the pandemic is one of the reasons why Chinese corporations should urgently shift to the use of digital currencies, stating: "There will be a lot of challenges from the pandemic that will make...
Offline mapping app Maps.me has raised $50 million in a funding round led by quantitative trading firm Alameda Research. The funding was launched with the goal of creating a DeFi ecosystem within the map app. Maps.me had also corrected previous reports that stated this was a seed round, when in...
In a bid to combat the use of digital currencies as means of financing terrorism, a group of representatives from the Republican and Democratic Parties has introduced a bipartisan bill to the House on Jan 13, which seeks to create a task force focused on preventing the usage of cryptocurrencies...
With the recent nosedive in the price of EOS, it appears that Block.one now holds over twice the value of BTC than EOS, its own token, leaving some crypto proponents to question the blockchain company's true intentions. Block.one's BTC Holdings Are Well Over $5 Billion A 2019 report had articulated...
