Russia has begun testing its own CBDC, the digital ruble. And the possibilities we have seen are truly frightening. If that is the future of currency, the word “freedom” may soon be only relegated to dictionaries. We have been watching developed democracies endlessly examine the prospect of introducing central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), consider various…
The ongoing “crypto winter” (sort of) may surprisingly coincide with a major tide of cryptocurrency mass adoption. There is no contradiction, only laws of economics and the understanding that inflation can no longer be solved by simply halting the money printers. The financial business is already anticipating a surge in the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies….
The Ethereum blockchain transitioning from the PoW consensus algorithm to PoS is the most anticipated event of the crypto world in 2022. It is supposed to give the platform a “second wind” and allow it to maintain its leadership in DeFi. The big question is, can Vitalik Buterin’s team do everything as they planned? The…
The NEAR Protocol blockchain is not as flashed out in the crypto news as many other platforms. However, its impact on the market and its role in the development of DeFi is becoming more and more noticeable. The NEAR blockchain platform is an infrastructure layer similar to many other comparable platforms. Developers deploy decentralized applications,…
China is using the Olympic Games they’re hosting to bring its CBDC, the digital yuan, to a qualitatively new level. The methods of achieving this goal are consistently impressive, although far from always pleasant. Just ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the People’s Bank of China (the country’s central bank) confirmed that it…
There is perhaps nothing in this world as pointless as making predictions for the blockchain business. Prognoses that “BTC will reach $ 100,000 by the end of … 2018 … 2019 … 2020 … 2021” seem unending. So we will try to simply point to a few of the most important things to look forward…