Author: dfmines

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A Vision of Ethereum (2025)

Please consider this as a work of hard science fiction. I had written present tense prose (from 2025's perspective), but had to rework this post to add in some past tense (i.e. 2021 perspective) for context so it has turned out to be a bit of a mess! So, it's a poor work of fiction,…
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ADA price hits $3 for the first time as Cardano, Ethereum lead crypto 'super bull cycle'

There’s a firm sense of “altseason” across crypto markets Thursday, with one analyst calling the next phase of a “super bull cycle.”

I’m going to be forced to sell and it’s pissing me off so much

I’m sitting in the emergency with a suspected torn Achilles and I’m being told that surgery will probably come with a lengthy recovery period. I feel I did everything right and bought at good times , just found out about DCA done right , invested with only what I could afford to lose etc .…
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Cardano founder says crypto will be vital to Afghani fight against Taliban

Afghans will leverage crypto assets as a store of value and to preserve financial privacy amid the Taliban’s dramatic insurgence, predicts Charles Hoskinson.

Offchain Labs Launches Arbitrum One Mainnet — Startup Raises $120 Million

On August 31, 2021, Offchain Labs announced the official launch of Arbitrum One mainnet and further detailed that the company has raised $120 million in funding. The Series B financing led by Lightspeed Venture Partners gives the firm a $1.2 billion valuation. Arbitrum One Mainnet Is Now Live, Offchain Labs Raises $120 Million in Funding […]

The total market cap of public crypto stocks has quadrupled since January

The combined capitalization of publicly-traded crypto stocks surged from roughly $25 billion in January to around $100B today.

American millennials will adopt blockchain as soon as they realize it’s trustless

As an American millennial, I've been lied to by "trustworthy" institutions my whole life. I think that's why I love blockchain so much…the thought of a trustless system makes me feel hopeful for the future. I grew up trusting the government, only to learn that they were fighting a false war. I grew up trusting…
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Browser extension of the Blocknative Ethereum Gas Estimator now available

Blocknative, a blockchain infrastructure platform to work with mempool data, announced the immediate availability of the Blocknative Ethereum Gas Estimator as a browser extension tool on Chrome and Brave. Now any ecosystem participant can access Blocknaive’s Gas Estimator right from their browser. How Gas Platform Works The Gas Estimator is powered by Blocknative’s Gas Platform API.…
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VeChain Thor mainnet reaches 10 million blocks milestone with no downtime

Supply chain management platform hits blockchain milestone as major consensus upgrade nears.