Litecoin Foundation’s managing director shares his thoughts on decentralized money
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Teresa Bach
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September 20, 2022
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Litecoin (LTC), known as “the silver to Bitcoin’s gold,” has been around for almost 11 years — which is quite a feat considering a fair amount of cryptocurrencies go bust within 12 months of launching. Cointelegraph spoke with the Litecoin Foundation’s managing director, Alan Austin, about why he thinks Litecoin’s core utility is serving as a reliable means of payment.As …
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Ethereum completes merge, Do Kwon faces arrest warrant and Bitcoin dives after rally: Hodler’s Digest, Sept. 11-17
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Teresa Bach
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September 17, 2022
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Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This Week Breaking: Historic day for crypto as Ethereum Merge to proof-of-stake occursEthereum’s highly anticipated conversion to a proof-of-stake …
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Possession of Bitcoin still legal in China despite the ban, lawyer says
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Teresa Bach
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September 16, 2022
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Despite enforcing a major cryptocurrency ban one year ago, the Chinese government still protects local crypto investors as crypto is recognized as virtual property protected by the law.One of the world’s most hostile countries toward Bitcoin (BTC), China has not yet banned the possession of cryptocurrencies, according to David Lesperance, founder of Lesperance & Associates law firm.Crypto holders in China …
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Ethereum is eating the world — ‘You only need one internet’ – Cointelegraph Magazine
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Teresa Bach
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September 13, 2022
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There’s a version of the future that’s tantalizingly possible in which Ethereum becomes the base layer for pretty much everything.Recent advances in a technology called zero-knowledge Rollups — from StarkWare, Polygon and zkSync — enable the blockchain to move from fewer than 20 transactions per second to… well, an infinite number of TPS.In theory, it would allow the entire world’s …
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Part 1 – Cointelegraph Magazine
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Teresa Bach
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September 8, 2022
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Crypto OGs — slang for Original Gangsters — have acquired almost a mythical and godly reputation in an industry populated with libertarians, anti-government rebels, innovators, get-rich-quick scammers, hackers and degen investors with rampant gambling addictions and toxic social media behavior. Who are these OGs exactly? Unlike the rich and powerful in the traditional finance and conventional tech sector, crypto OGs are …
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Powers On… Insider trading with crypto is targeted — Finally! Part 1 – Cointelegraph Magazine
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Teresa Bach
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September 7, 2022
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It took a few years, but government crackdowns on “insider trading” involving digital assets have finally arrived. It’s about time! Insider trading occurs often in our securities markets, so it was only a matter of time before crypto and other digital assets would be exploited improperly by miscreants for financial gain.Powers On… is a monthly opinion column from Marc Powers, …
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Saylor gets sued, FBI warns about DeFi exploits, and Crypto.com drops $495M sponsorship: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 28
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Teresa Bach
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September 3, 2022
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Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This Week DC Attorney General sues Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy for tax evasionMicroStrategy co-founder Michael Saylor faces charges of …
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Billions are spent marketing crypto to sports fans — Is it worth it? – Cointelegraph Magazine
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Teresa Bach
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August 29, 2022
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Crypto advertising has been plastered across every available sporting surface since the bull run of 2021, from stadium naming deals and team’s playing kits to Formula One racing car liveries. But in the current bearish market conditions, it seems hard to calculate a return on the ubiquitous spending of 2021’s crazy big advertising. In Australia, where I’m based, there was a …
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Decentralization for the win? – Cointelegraph Magazine
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Teresa Bach
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August 25, 2022
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“The collapse of crypto shadow banks like Celsius demonstrated just how problematic centralized, opaque finance can be,” says Sunny Aggarwal of Osmosis DEX. Centralized finance platforms have taken a huge credibility hit due to poor risk controls, but decentralized finance protocols haven’t escaped unscathed either. So, is DeFi or CeFi likely to emerge stronger from this current period of turmoil, …
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Bitcoin in the heart of Europe – Cointelegraph Magazine
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Teresa Bach
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August 23, 2022
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Prague is the birthplace of the world’s first hardware wallet, the first Bitcoin mining pool, and, reportedly, even the first Bitcoin cafe. It is among the most affluent cities in Central Europe, visited by millions of tourists each year.Ranked as one of Europe’s most charming and beautiful cities, Prague is a burgeoning tech hub with a new generation of crypto-saavy …
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