Are modern markets open markets? Markets are part of our lives in unimaginable ways yet have never been more mysterious. Today, trading is a game of warring algos and enigmatic finance, addicted to obfuscating collateral and hiding system risk. Crypto promised to get us a step closer to open markets, gifting us perfect and incorruptible …
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Buy My House
In 2017 I bought a condo apartment in Kiev, Ukraine. This wasn’t a normal purchase – I used the then-nascent Propy protocol to make the purchase and have the property title recorded, for the first time ever, to a blockchain. I also paid for the condo in Ether. These days, property title transfers on Propy …
Highly Anticipated Airdrop for XRP Holders May Not Go As Planned – Here’s Why
Flare Network’s highly anticipated airdrop for XRP holders is facing a crucial fork in the road just ahead of launch. Flare, which plans on distributing billions of Spark tokens to XRP holders, is announcing they are rethinking the airdrop due to complications with tax issues. ADVERTISEMENT Flare’s original plan was to send eligible XRP …
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A RUNE with a view: How smart crypto traders caught a 48% price pump
THORChain and Kyber provide the perfect examples of how quant analysis and breaking news can help cryptocurrency investors to capitalize on volatile markets. Disparities in information access and data analytics tech are what give institutional players an edge over regular retail investors in the digital asset space. The core idea behind Markets Pro, Cointelegraph’s crypto …
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Ethereum faces largest ever options expiry as bears appear to dominate
Ether (ETH) faces its largest options expiry ever on June 25 as nearly $1.5 billion out of $3.3 billion notional open interest (OI) in ETH options will expire. June’s expiry has over 638,000 ETH options contracts in its purview, accounting for 45% of the total open interest in these options. Although it’s the largest options …
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Smart contracts and the law: Tech developments challenge legal community
Regulators will be challenged to respond to and address smart contracts, as they represent a cross section of law and technology. Smart contracts are an important element of the blockchain revolution, although they predate blockchain. According to most sources, it was Nick Szabo who coined the term “smart contract” in the 1990s. The mechanism of …
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Bitcoin may lose $30K price level if stocks tank, analysts warn
Downside risks for BTC price are also heightened due to the recent dollar bounce. The ghost of stock market crash is back again to haunt Bitcoin (BTC). It happened last in March 2020. Back then, the prospect of the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic led to lockdowns across developed and emerging economies. In turn, global stocks crashed …
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Bitcoin Whale Details Crypto Game Plan, Says He’s Loading Up on One Altcoin and Rotating Profits to Ethereum
A long-time crypto trader known as Flood is revealing that he is conducting a reorganization of his digital asset portfolio. In a new tweet, Flood says that he is moving the profits he has generated from trading Bitcoin (BTC) to the leading smart contract platform. “Rotating some BTC profits into ETH. [I] think it …
This Little-Known Altcoin Could Be Next To Debut on Coinbase, According to Crypto Trader Tyler Swope
Popular cryptocurrency trader and influencer Tyler Swope is tracking the launch of new coins on the US-based crypto exchange Coinbase. Swope is praising Coinbase for recently listing privacy layer Keep Network (KEEP), after the top crypto exchange abruptly added support for four crypto assets. “With Coinbase’s last Pro additions, including Shiba Inu, there was …
Beyond the hype: NFTs’ actual value is still to be determined
NFTs present a revolutionary and innovative technology, but their real value has been obscured by hype. It’s 2021. Super Bowl champion Tom Brady is starting an NFT company, Christie’s is explaining CryptoPunks to everyone, Saturday Night Live is creating jams about NFTs, Beeple and Mark Cuban are advocating NFTs’ use case — yet, here I …
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Perlin (PERL) price gains 100% as the focus on green energy solutions intensifies
PERL price defied the marketwide downturn with a 100% rally following the release of an environmentally friendly focused platform that provides users with carbon credits. Generating momentum and attracting investor attention can be a challenge during the best of times in the cryptocurrency market and it is an even bigger challenge when the markets are …
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Hawkish Fed comments push Bitcoin price and stocks lower again
Bitcoin price drops a leg lower and stocks slump after St. Lous Federal Reserve President James Bullard signals that interest rates could rise by the end of this year. Bitcoin (BTC) and the wider financial markets faced a new wave of selling on June 18 following comments from James Bullard, the president of the United …
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Cardano, Polkadot and Three Altcoins Are Technologically Superior to Ethereum, According to Weiss Ratings
Five cryptocurrency projects are more technologically advanced than Ethereum, according to veteran financial ratings agency. The latest update from Weiss Crypto Ratings shows Cardano (ADA), Polkadot (DOT), Tezos (XTZ), Cosmos (ATOM) and Fantom (FTM) have “excellent” technology ratings. Ethereum (ETH) lags behind with a “good” rating, alongside Holo (HOT), Iota (IOTA), Grin (GRIN), Bitshares …
Bitcoin Whales Quietly Accumulate $3,380,000,000 in BTC in Less Than One Month: Report
Whales are busy buying Bitcoin (BTC) now that the price of the top crypto has dropped from an all-time high of nearly $65,000 to below $40,000. According to the crypto analytics firm Santiment, Bitcoin addresses holding 100 to 10,000 BTC added a total of 90,000 BTC in the last 25 days – currently valued at …
Bulls hesitate to buy the dip after Bitcoin price falls close to $35K
Bitcoin’s drop to $35,130 has bulls hesitant to buy the current dip but on-chain data shows long-term holders continue to accumulate. On June 18, Bitcoin (BTC) and traditional markets faced another day of downward pressure comments from the United States Federal Reserve about the possibility of raising interest rates sooner than expected has led to …
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