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The first blockchain was launched more than 10 years ago and since then, it has evolved from simply being a backbone for Bitcoin (BTC) to a global technological phenomenon. In some sense, the distributed ledger became more popular than Bitcoin itself. Even the harshest cryptocurrency critics — like the government
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Samurai Jack is finally getting a new game after more than a decade. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have the best developer behind it. That may lead to the game disappointing fans when it comes out this summer. Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time got a surprise reveal on Tuesday and it’s
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In a blog post titled ‘What will happen to cryptocurrency in the 2020s’ published on January 3rd, Brian Armstrong, the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, discussed cryptocurrency and its future. Armstrong wrote in the post that he thinks one of the popular blockchain networks will see an increase in privacy
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Undoubtedly, the journey has not been all rosy for the world’s most celebrated cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. In fact, Bitcoin’s journey through the last decade was lined with many highs and lows – literally. That said, statistics also showed that the virtual currency grew by 9 million percent in the just-concluded decade.
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong published a Medium post on Jan. 2 sharing his thoughts on how the crypto space has progressed over the last ten years. Armstrong’s post, inspired by Fred Wilson’s article on technology over the past decade, begins with Bitcoin. Armstrong noted that the leading cryptocurrency hasn’t failed once
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Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo announced during a Dec. 30 CNBC news segment that “this is the golden decade of banks and technology.”Mayo explained that while the 1990’s had record bank consolidation (banking businesses merge with each other), systems were never integrated. He then explains that in the “aughts” decade
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The last five years have been a test phase for bitcoin derivatives, which began tentatively when Bitmex eased into life in 2014.
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2020 is fast approaching and the last decade will be behind us. Throughout the last ten years, the biggest unicorn firms were
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This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Michael J. Casey is CoinDesk’s chief content officer. The views expressed here are his own.Our social media-constrained attention spans make it hard to focus
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Bitcoin (BTC) has beaten gold in terms of returns by such a large amount this decade that investors have firmly dismissed recent price declines.Data from monitoring resource Blockchain shows that since 2010, Bitcoin has delivered profits of almost 9 million percent.Bitcoin profitable 89% of its lifetimePut differently, $1 invested
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