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BTC December futures reach $73,500 — Is everyone flipping ultra bullish?

Bitcoin’s three-month futures premium reached a record-high of 50%, signaling market inefficiencies.

ETH gas fees have been reduced almost 50% due to flash bots.

Gas fees on Ethereum blockchain have reduced by almost 50% due to adoption of flashbots by traders in place of PGA bots. In the last 24 hours, the average gas fees for transactions has come down from around 120 gwei to around 65 gwei currently. Right now over 58% of the hashrate is achieved on…
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Akon City 2: Akon Unveils Plan to Build Second Futuristic Cryptocurrency City in Africa

Another futuristic cryptocurrency city will be built in Africa, Senegalese-American star Akon has announced. The government of Uganda will make land available to him for the construction of the new crypto city. The akoin cryptocurrency will be used in the city, similar to how it will be in Akon City, the $6 billion “real-life Wakanda” […]

Bitcoin mining company follows Tesla by setting up shop in Austin

Tech companies like Oracle, Tesla, Hewlett Packard, and now Blockcap are moving to Austin, causing many to call the state capital the Silicon Hills.

Bought my first 1.0 of ETH today

So a few weeks ago I got a bunch of Ethereum to start what is effectively a very stupid and unsuccessful prank. At the end of the day it left me with a spare $7 worth of ETH which I figured I would just never see again. Well, I've been keeping an eye on it…
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FOMO is more than money. It’s also time.

I've been in the crypto game since 2017, and I've acquired a different perspective of FOMO since then. I feel it's best to explain this by sharing a little bit of my story. In 2017, I landed a great internship opportunity along with continuing college to finish my BSEE. Between then and now, I left…
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Seems that like Cuban, the respected Tyler Cowen thinks Ethereum has more chance of becoming “money” than Bitcoin.

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What’s New in Eth2 – 10 April 2021 — Edition 66

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if there was a service that would notify you when there is a new eth/erc20 deposit on any address you own, would you use it?

i’ve seen a lot of users/companies complaining about how hard is to monitor new transactions on their addresses when there are a lot of addresses to track (thousands/ hundreds of thousands) not even talking about transactions from new smart contracts that appear every day, tokens, etc so if there was a service that you could…
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The discussion is no longer one of whether cryptocurrency will survive, but rather how it will evolve, and when it will reach maturity.

Interesting paper by PwC (Accounting firm), it is from 2015 but still applies. I would recommend the read, here are some of the highlights: Cryptocurrencies carry groundbreaking potential to allow consumers access to a global payment system—anywhere, anytime—in which participation is restricted only by access to technology, rather than by factors such as having a…
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