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Unfortunately, it’s still the case that most staking, whether directly under a pure proof-of-stake model or indirectly using a delegated proof-of-stake consensus, is online. This usually means handing control of your cryptocurrency to a third party or delegating to a random service. Tezos (XTZ) would be the most similar
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What makes Ethereum culture click? Maker Foundation board member Tonya Evans and former ConsenSys chief marketing officer Amanda Cassatt joined CryptoX senior reporter Leigh Cuen on Monday to discuss Ethereum’s ethos in an hourlong conversation streamed to the CryptoX homepage. “In terms of its structure and what it accomplishes in the world,
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The concept of bitcoin days destroyed (BDD) was introduced in 2011, two years after the creation of the world’s first cryptocurrency, bitcoin. People were already beginning to create blockchain metrics to measure on-chain transaction activity and value. Once the first cryptocurrency metric was created, BDD was quickly followed by a plethora of
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Decentralized file sharing is a way of storing files across multiple nodes in a network rather than on a single centralized server. As the digital era has progressed, the internet has become a vast and complex web of data and files that communicate using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or
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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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A blockchain bridge provides a connection that allows for the transfer of tokens or data between two different blockchain ecosystems. A significant challenge of blockchains to date is their lack of interoperability. Once a developer builds their decentralized application on any particular platform, they’re generally locked into that platform
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Momentum trading is based around the logic that if a predominant trend is already visible in the market, then that trend is plausibly going to continue at least until signals begin to come in that it has ended. The idea with momentum trading is that if a certain asset
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Perhaps the best way to understand how these platforms and markets work is to run through the various ways in which users can participate in them, starting from the most basic and progressing to the most advanced. Single-platform, single-asset lending This is the most basic and most commonly
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Multiparty computation, or MPC, allows different parties with their own private inputs to conduct a joint computation on their inputs. The parties learn the outcome of the computation, but each learns nothing about the other parties’ respective inputs. An algorithm created by cryptographer Adi Shamir, called Shamir’s Secret Sharing,
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Hong Kong is removing tax on businesses and giving away cash in 2020. Coronavirus crashed the tourism industry and has placed the housing market vulnerable to a correction. Hong Kong’s economy could struggle to recover over the next five years. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and the government
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