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The legal status of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies differs substantially from country to country, while in some, the status remains undefined or is constantly changing. As more people turn to cryptos as an investment, there are issues manifest as an array of restrictions on their usage. While in the majority of countries, Bitcoin is not…

Ethereum has some competition. What you need to know about the skyrocketing cryptocurrency writes Stan Schroeder on Mashable. Solana, a cryptocurrency that launched to relatively little fanfare in April 2020, has recently been on a tear. Its price rose from roughly $1.50 in January 2021 to more than $208 at writing time, making it the…

There’s Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, and Litecoin, whose prices are dependent on the volatile cryptocurrency market. And then there’s Tether (USDT), whose price will never float too far away from $1. While this stablecoin is the most popular in the world, it isn’t the only option, writes Jie Yee Ong on MakeUseOf. So, read on to…

The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector of the crypto industry has seen possibly the most progress in 2021, with the launch of a series of innovative platforms and protocols that help users avoid the need to rely on centralized financial infrastructure. Here is the view of three new leading platforms exposing the wider potential of cryptocurrencies….

What is blockchain, and what does it have to do with cryptocurrency, writes Thomas Hum on Yahoo Finance. Blockchain is a type of database composed of a growing list of records, individually known as blocks, that are chained together through computer cryptography. The goal of blockchain is to allow for the recording and distribution of…

A statistician and investor, Zhiyuan Sun, explains the pros and cons of this innovative digital coin. Ripple (XRP) has returned a respectable 12,758.41% to investors since its inception in 2012, turning a $10,000 principal into $1,265,841 within nine years. That’s pretty much, noted Zhiyuan Sun, but only decent relative to the crypto world. For example,…