Millennials and Cryptocurrencies: A Mutual Trust Issue
    28 Jul 2021
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    We have young people growing up today with experience dealing with money like no other generation before them. And while for people of the previous generation money is primarily coins, bills, and maybe also credit cards, in the minds of the youth, the word “money” has a lot more associated with it. Not the least…

    Bitcoin’s polluting the planet? Overrated!
    26 Jul 2021
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    New data from Cambridge University shows that the geography of mining has drastically changed over the last six months, and experts tell CNBC this will improve Bitcoin’s carbon footprint. By this May, China has been accounted for nearly 75% of all Bitcoin miners at its peak, according to the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. But…

    Terra [LUNA]: a stablecoin issuing ecosystem
    25 Jul 2021
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    We continue to study platforms used for creating different blockchain projects: stablecoins, DeFi, synthetic assets. Today on the agenda is Terra [LUNA]. On July 16, the Terra [LUNA] crypto project team announced that it had received $ 150 million in investments to develop its ecosystem. The investments came from a pool of 23 large funds…

    CBDC will (not) make Bitcoin obsolete
    24 Jul 2021
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    Will Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) make Bitcoin obsolete or not? – professor Sean Stein Smith reflects in the Forbes column. Recent comments by the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, highlight the need for more productive conversations around crypto competition. During testimony to both the House and Senate the topic of a central…

    Bitcoin: post-dollar and post-gold?
    24 Jul 2021
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    Every once in a while it helps to stop, get away from the hustle and bustle of exchange rates and new tokens, look around and try to understand the role of cryptocurrencies in the world today and what it will be in 10 or 20 years. After all, everyone seems to have already realized that…

    Dubai Coin: a story of cryptocurrency fraud in the Gulf countries
    22 Jul 2021
    870 Views

    DubaiCoin positioned itself as a regular cryptocurrency, specialized for the UAE market. Its DBIX tokens were traded on various exchanges, and the roadmap looked quite attractive. But it was all a scam. In May of this year, the attention of the cryptocurrency community was drawn to the DubaiCoin digital currency (DBIX token). As stated in…