Jay Hao. Jay Hao is the CEO of crypto exchange OKEx. ____ Everybody’s talking about “Fair Launch” nowadays. So, what exactly is “Fair Launch,” and is it a better model for token distribution? Actually, Bitcoin (BTC) can be considered a typical fair launch coin; that’s to say, no Private sale, no ICO, no pre-mining. Anybody…
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Philip Liu is the Co-Founder and Chief Legal Officer of Arca, a blockchain- and crypto-focused investment advisor in Los Angeles. Uniswap overview Uniswap is the largest decentralized exchange (DEX) by trading volume and is the first DEX to really compete on a daily volume basis against some of the larger digital asset exchanges. This is…
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Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings. Dr. Bruce Ng is an educator in the field of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and has been a lead crypto-tech analyst for Weiss Cryptocurrency…
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A banknote has been sitting in my wallet for six months now. As time ticks on, it burns an ever greater hole in my pocket. At first I felt uneasy spending it, following COVID-19 warnings to pay more attention to hand hygiene and the surfaces we all touch on a daily basis. Now I have…
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Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), at the Deutsche Bundesbank online conference on banking and payments in the digital world. Frankfurt am Main, 10 September 2020. ______ Key points: Consumer preferences are changing and the pandemic has accelerated the transition towards a digital new normal.Competition to dominate Read more »Pay,…
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Jay Hao. Jay Hao is the CEO of crypto exchange OKEx. __________ We saw a lot of action over the weekend in what played out as one of those adrenaline-packed high-drama movies the likes of which crypto hasn’t witnessed in recent times. We all watched on popcorn in hand as [decentralized finance] DeFi’s new darling…
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Marie Tatibouet is the Chief Marketing Officer at crypto exchange Gate.io. ______ It was a quantum leap for Bitcoin (BTC) when its block size got close to 1 MB in 2017. However, the BTC blockchain is still only allowed to tackle seven transactions per second, many times fewer than the actual demand. The issue has…
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Cryptocurrency is a domain of jargon. ‘Blockchains,’ ‘full nodes,’ ‘miners,’ ‘nonces,’ ‘side-chains’: these are only a few of the terms in crypto that are known to cause confusion and disagreement. Not only does the ambiguity of vocab undermine the ability of people within crypto to communicate with each other, but it also arguably turns off…
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Bitcoin (BTC) is back! And so is the rest of the cryptoasset market. But their return has also heralded the comeback of market volatility. While experienced traders have been rejoicing at intraday price movements of 5% to 15%, enabling them to make substantial daily gains, not everyone is rejoicing. For less experienced traders, sharp upswings…
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The stablecoin market is booming. Since the start of the year, fiat-pegged tokens have seen an aggressive influx of funding as crypto traders continue to seek price-stable assets as a store of value. However, stablecoins are evolving past trading asset usage scenarios and are now increasingly being used as a means of transferring value. As…
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