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Reconsidering the first cryptocurrency’s slow-and-steady approach to development, as Ethereum’s “Merge” nears – writes Chris Castiglione on CoinDesk. Bitcoin is slow to change. Transaction speeds are too slow for a global payment system. The community is reluctant to embrace novelty. And the rate of new innovation, in comparison to nearly every other blockchain, is tortoise-like….

Easing monetary policies, the decline of inflation, the change in Bitcoin’s mining difficulty, and growing confidence in DeFi are factors that point to a renewed surge for crypto prices, writes Cronos managing director Ken Timsit on Cointelegraph. Decentralized finance (DeFi) has seen tremendous growth since its inception, expanding by more than 1,200% in 2021 in…

Ethereum’s Bellatrix upgrade was successful Ethereum’s Merge came closer last week with its Bellatrix upgrade going live on Sept. 6. Bellatrix is the final step before the Ethereum blockchain switches to a proof-of-stake consensus model from its current proof-of-work model. The Bellatrix upgrade prepares Ethereum’s proof-of-stake Beacon Chain for The Merge with its mainnet Execution…

LUNA, the collapsed token of the Terra ecosystem, saw a price spike Friday morning. With more than tripled in price, its market cap jumped 210% within 24 hours. Spike could be tied to the ATOM ecosystem pump earlier, The Block’s researcher suggests. LUNA, a governance token of the recently collapsed Terra ecosystem, has more than…

Written off by some as a big bubble, non-fungible tokens represent a step change for forgery management, royalty payments, and identity, Ari Juels, professor at Cornell Tech says on CoinDesk. If you stop people on the street and ask what they think non-fungible tokens (NFT) are all about, what will you hear? Something about outlandish…

The Ethereum Merge could flood the crypto industry with out-of-work miners, impacting not only Ethereum but all PoW coins. This is likely to force many crypto miners to give up and abandon their expensive mining rigs amid plunging profits. As Cointelegraph reported, the transition of the Ethereum blockchain from a proof-of-work (PoW) consensus is likely…