Author: dfmines

First of all, before explaining why I believe this, I'll explain what I mean exactly by this. In this sub, and everywhere in the crypto community, we keep hearing "Bitcoin is a store of value", "Bitcoin is digital gold" and similar things. According to Investopedia, a store of value is "an asset that maintains its…
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Hear me out. Just over a month ago, Optimism blogged that they hired all this new talent and that they would be launching mainnet instead of the public testnet this march. https://medium.com/ethereum-optimism/dope-hires-moar-mainnet-in-march-174fa8966361 Also, back in September, Optimism blogged their roadmap and informed that synthetix, uniswap, and chainlink would be integrated onto the testnet so they…
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Almost always the conversation about the future of ETH is optimistic. I’m strongly considering moving the majority of my holdings into the coin. Before I do, I wanted to get a feel for the risks and cons. It’s hard to find—almost all the conversation about ETH is optimistic, perhaps more so than any other project.…
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YouTuber Stacksmashing estimated his rig would take “a couple of quadrillion years to mine a Bitcoin.”

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Did you guys know that Netflix was filming a documentary about Bitcoin and altcoins back in 2018? It was supposed to be called "Banking on blockchain", consisting of 8 episodes. The list of episode titles is nothing short of amazing: ​ Ch 1: The rise of Bitcoin Ch 2: Bitcoin forks and blockchain for everything…
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So, every week I update a post in r/ethfinance which shows the big things upcoming in the ETHosphere. Posting here as hopefully some of you will get a kick out of it too. If you are unsure as to exactly when the long planned Eth2 or scaling upgrades are happening, this post is for you.…
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