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It’s Earth Day. How Can Ethereum Achieve Carbon Neutrality in the Future?

Unlike many other blockchains, the Ethereum community has been proactive about its carbon footprint by moving to a Proof of Stake model. While this is a necessary step, the ultimate goal needs to be carbon neutrality. The logical solution for long-term scalability in this aspect would be to implement carbon credits into the cost of…
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What happened to the token I tried to swap? (Uniswap)

Hello, I was going to use Uniswap to swap from DAI to FEGtoken today. I connected my metamask to uniwswap, and swapped the tokens using ledger. The transaction have the status "Success", but I have neither recieved no FEGtoken, nor have any of my DAI disappeared. The only thing that has happened is that I…
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Crypto YouTuber Draws Parallels Between SafeMoon and Bitconnect

Popular crypto YouTuber Lark Davies tweeted a warning over the new Binance Smart Chain project SafeMoon. He likened its rising popularity to the now-defunct Bitconnect scam, saying the euphoria of gains is blinding users to “the obvious.” Bitconnect arrived on the scene in 2016, promising high returns for holding, trading, lending, and mining its BCC […]

Online digital music retailer Beatport accepts Bitcoin for songs

Beatport will accept Bitcoin as a payment method starting this July and is launching an NFT range in the meantime.

64% of US adults are interested in crypto, new survey shows

The number of U.S. crypto investors is set to almost double in 2021, according to a new survey by Gemini.

Simple steps to safeguard your wallet from unlimited ERC-20 allowance risks

The funds in your ERC-20 wallet could be at risk if you continue to grant unlimited approvals to decentralized applications.

STOP posting how much you have invested!

There's a heap of new people joining this sub, a lot of whom are just starting out with crypto. I don't like being the person to tell people what to do, it is your money in the end, but the one bit of advice I have for EVERYONE is don't share how much you have…
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Is the Ethereum protocol exhibiting predatory behavior? A Wednesday morning hype thread.

It’s 1996. Google is two years from founding. Amazon is reselling books. Video streaming is possible, if you own a 56k modem, live in a major city, are rich, and possess the technical know how to complete the several steps. President Clinton is “[B]uilding that bridge to the year two-thasand.” Good old ‘96, Tupac has…
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Truly decentralized?

The insanity that happened this weekend when Chinese mining went offline is concerning to me. I believe fully in the decentralization aspect of crypto, but am genuinely worried about the influence a communist/authoritarian govt has on the crypto ecosystem. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Is decentralization just a mirage? submitted by …
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ETH and BTC supply shortages on crypto exchanges

According to viewbase.com we have the following supply changes in the exchange wallets for the last 30 days: Price Supply delta [crypto] Supply delta [Bn USD] Supply delta as % of market cap BTC 55687.98 -44633 -2.49 -0.24% ETH 2310.55 -1953120 -4.51 -1.70% Take-aways: Both BTC and ETH exchange outflows far exceed inflows. If you…
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