Fighting for human rights and equality for a better future for humanity: From academia to crypto and the tech that stands behind it. After more than a decade of Bitcoin’s existence, Satoshi Nakamoto, author of Bitcoin’s white paper back in 2008, remains the most mysterious person within the crypto community. Despite who he, she or…
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Joe Lubin’s long path from managing a lab in Princeton to building the technology serving as “an organizing principle for earth, the world, the planet.” Canadian entrepreneur and software engineer Joseph Lubin helped spearhead the development of the open-source smart contract blockchain platform that came to be known as Ethereum. Lubin has long believed that…
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How Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong ensured his position in Cointelegraph’s Top 100 At the helm of Coinbase since founding it with Fred Ehrsam in 2012, Brian Armstrong has weathered rough storms of compliance law to operate the largest crypto exchange active in the United States. Both Coinbase’s stature within the industry and Armstrong’s extracurricular activities moving…
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As the cryptocurrency world entered the year 2020, Cointelegraph takes a look at the top 10 influencers in the cryptocurrency space. Earlier this year, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse responded to controversy surrounding XRP movements by saying that Ripple cannot control the price of its associated token any more than Bitcoin (BTC) whales control the price…
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With Bitcoin’s fall below $10,000, the top performers of this week are witnessing profit booking. Bitcoin dropped below the psychologically important level of $10,000 on Feb. 15. This has dragged the crypto markets lower, whose market capitalization has dropped below $300 billion. Though Bitcoin has declined, its market dominance has risen from below 61% on…
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Bitcoin price suddenly dived below $10K on Saturday leading many to speculate that a well-known Bitfinex whale trader could be the reason for the pullback. Late Saturday night on Feb. 15, Bitcoin (BTC) price briefly reclaimed the $10K mark after a tumultuous day of trading that saw the price drop 5.35% to $9,853. The possibility…
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What sort of metrics can you use when you are trying to determine the health of a crypto project? Perhaps one of the most intuitive yardsticks – particularly in a bear market – is developer activity. So let us take a look at the major crypto projects that have shown the highest amount of developer…
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MoneyGram launched a real-time remittance service, but firm’s COO told Cointelegraph its blockchain partner Ripple is not involved. Remittances giant MoneyGram announced a new service allowing real-time money sending, but the solutions of its blockchain partner Ripple are not involved. MoneyGram recently announced FastSend, a new service that allows its customers to send money in…
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For those of us who have been around since before the great crypto boom of 2017, having to undergo KYC (know your customer) procedures at digital asset exchanges was somewhat of an anomaly. “Back in the day” you were able to register to most crypto trading platforms using an email address and that was it.…
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While banks in emerging markets are moving more rapidly toward issuing CBDCs, other countries appear to be taking a more cautious stance. The recent survey results published by the Bank of International Settlements produced bullish and bearish sentiments with regard to Central Bank Digital Currency adoption. While banks in Emerging Market Economies (EME) are moving…
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