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The ICO boom of 2018 was an absolute disaster. It was a Wild West that saw venture capital (VC) funds throwing money at the wall to see what stuck with little regard for due diligence. More than $7 billion was funneled into ICOs in 2018, often based on little more than a drunken conversation at…

The level of interest in the ‘Bitcoin halving’ on Google has soared to its highest point of all time, with predicted data pegging it at more than double that of the last halving in 2020. Search interest for the term ‘Bitcoin halving’ has already reached a score of 45, according to Google Trends data — with Google…

Yat Siu, the founder of Animoca Brands, spoke at WebSummit Rio on April 16 on a panel titled “Bitcoin’s Revenge: Is Web3 Making a Comeback?” At the panel, Siu said he has no doubt that Bitcoin will reach $1 million: “I do believe that Bitcoin could reach over a million dollars-plus over time. But, I believe,…

Bitcoin’s growing dominance over the last 15 years signifies the importance of the mechanisms creator Satoshi Nakamoto devised to overcome the shortcomings of the fiat ecosystem — one of them being halving. Nakamoto invented the Bitcoin halving mechanism, which reduces the BTC rewards for mining over time to slow down the issuance of the limited 21 million…

After a dormant 2022 and much-muted 2023, GameFi projects are making a comeback as the bull market rages. This week, move-to-earn protocol StepN announced it would partner with Adidas for a 1,000 Genesis Edition nonfungible tokens (NFT) drop on Solana. The launch is part of an ongoing one-year partnership between the two firms that will…

The top five identified crypto whales with publicly known wallet addresses hold around $3.5 billion in crypto, according to a dashboard from blockchain intelligence firm Arkham. However, due to lost passwords and private keys, a large chunk of it is inaccessible. On April 15, the on-chain intelligence platform announced the updated dashboard revealing the holdings of some…