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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Run, Uniswap’s Hemorrhaging Value, Anchorage’s Banking Bid
Bitcoin is nearing all-time highs in price and market cap last set three years ago. Anchorage has applied with the OCC for a national bank charter. Community members have proposed a vote to reinstate Unsiwap’s liquidity mining program.Top…
Blockchain Startup Raises $12M Series A to Turn Brands Into Cellular Networks
OXIO wants to use blockchain to make “Telecom-as-a-Service” as common as SaaS.To that end, the New York-based startup is announcing Tuesday a $12 million Series A funding round, led by Brazilian VC monashees and Atlantico Capital, with…
The Smart Money Economy
Over the last several weeks, crypto asset prices have climbed to new heights. Bitcoin alone has broken the $300 billion market capitalization barrier, equivalent to the M1 money supply of a number of countries – from Poland, to Belgium or…
Airbnb’s IPO Prospectus Says Firm May Consider Crypto and Blockchain
Airbnb may have had a change of heart on cryptocurrencies, according to the prospectus for its planned initial public offering (IPO).Filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Monday, the prospectus says the company’s “future…
First Mover: Bitcoin Tops $17K as Scaramucci Makes Entrée, Ethereum Meets Rival
Bitcoin climbed above topped $17,000 early Tuesday for the first time since January 2018, pushing this year’s remarkable rally to 137% on a year-to-date basis. That’s 10 times more than the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index of large…
Balaji Srinivasan, HashKey Back $2M Round in Twitter Privacy Tool Mask Network
Mask Network, the protocol that allows users to send encrypted messages, cryptocurrencies and even dapps over Twitter and Facebook, announced a $2 million funding round Tuesday co-led by HashKey and Hash Global. Other participants…
New Mac Update Leaves Users No Room to Escape Data Collection
Apple’s most recent update, Big Sur, makes a feature that logs device activity for offline (and online) applications practically impossible for privacy solutions to bypass. The monitoring is yet another example of Apple’s…
Gold Lags Far Behind Bitcoin as Vaccine Optimism Buoys Markets
Bitcoin is outshining gold by a significant margin in price terms as expectations soar of a swift global economic recovery enabled by promising coronavirus vaccines.While the top cryptocurrency by market value has risen 22% to cross $17,000…
Ethereum to surge to $530 if bulls break above parallel channel
If Ethereum bulls clear resistance near $485, the next barrier will be around $530
Ethereum (ETH) price is up by about 4.5% in the past 24 hours to change hands around $465 at the time of writing.
If ETH continues to rise short term, the…
Some loans on Maker are never liquidated, prompting debt auction overhaul
Small loans for $100 are uninteresting to liquidators, and they’re cheap to stack up. The Maker community is looking for solutions after an analysis by B.Protocol suggests that it is possible to exploit the liquidation system to create…
