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Bitcoin’s (BTC) painful plunge below $30,000 on Tuesday turned into a so-called “buy the dip” opportunity for Alameda Research, a Hong Kong-based quantitative trading firm and liquidity solutions firm headed by FTX CEO and founder Sam Bankman-Fried.Quantitative trader Sam Trabucco revealed late Tuesday that the company purchased Bitcoin during its
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SPACs have been an increasingly popular option for companies looking to go public, especially during the global slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. But what are SPACs and why is everyone talking about them?A special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) is a newly created shell company formed by a group of
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In this week’s episode, CoinDesk’s Christine Kim and Consensys’ Ben Edgington discuss the security and running costs of CoinDesk’s Ethereum 2.0 staking operations with special guest, CoinDesk Director of Engineering Spencer Beggs. They also explain the main features of Eth 2.0’s first major backwards-incompatible upgrade, Altair, which is tentatively
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You might have noticed some green squares floating around Twitter. Like the laser eyes, they are part of the insider signaling that creates a sense of cause and belonging. Unlike the laser eyes, they are not directly about the price – they signal support for the proposed Taproot upgrade for
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This is not a guide of how to trade crypto. This is not about how to make money, how to invest or where to find alpha.But if you’ve dabbled in crypto trading? Then you know this one thing: It can be all-consuming. When your money is on the line, suddenly
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Will Warren and Amir Bandeali co-founded 0x in 2016 with the intention of providing a standard protocol on the Ethereum blockchain that allows any Ethereum token to be traded. 0x enables the peer-to-peer exchange of Ethereum-based tokens and is often referred to as a decentralized exchange (DEX). The 0x platform
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U.S. Dollar Coin, or USDC, is an Ethereum-based stablecoin launched in September, 2018. Its policies, including its technical and financial standards, are managed by a consortium called CENTRE, started by peer-to-peer payment company Circle and crypto exchange Coinbase. USDC represents fiat, or government money, on the blockchain. It is redeemable
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It’s effectively July 2017 in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi), and as in the heady days of the initial coin offering (ICO) boom, the numbers are only trending up.According to DeFi Pulse, there is $1.9 billion in crypto assets locked in DeFi right now. According to the CoinDesk ICO
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