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The venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz has officially announced the launch of a $2.2 billion fund focused on the crypto industry. The Silicon Valley venture firm, founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz in 2019, announced the new $2.2 billion cryptocurrency-focused fund, said in a blog post on Thursday. Crypto Fund III, co-led by Andreessen…

Nassim Taleb, the “Black Swan” author and past Bitcoin fan, published his view degrading it. In his words, the coin “can be neither a long or short term store of value (its expected value is no higher than 0).” The author of the “Black Swan” and several bestsellers on finance and risk, as well as…

Seem Musk’s tweets, either they are serious or goofy, always have some impact on the price of cryptocurrencies. However, while cryptocurrency becomes more mainstream, the market gradually calms. As Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin predicts that the crypto market will develop an “immune system” against such social media impacts, jaded crypto investors hope that it will…

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have hyped the art market and adjacent industries this year, but their extreme volatility makes it still too early to say on the future of NFT.  According to one of the earliest crypto pioneers, Fred Ehrsam, most of NFTs in the market might lose their value in a few years. In an…

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor expressed his support for cryptocurrencies and called Bitcoin the most dominant digital property network. In the interview with CNBC on Tuesday evening, he compared Bitcoin to digital gold on a big technology network. Commenting about the performance over the last 12 months the recent surge in inflation, and the role of…

Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist and internet pioneer, is auctioning the source code for the World Wide Web as a nonfungible token (NFT) for charity. Bidding — entitled “This Changed Everything” — will start at Sotheby’s in London on June 23rd at 7:00 pm GMT at $1,000 and end on June 30th. Although a…