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Mass Adoption Awaits: One Small Step for Vergeans, One Giant Leap for Cryptokind May 6, 2018 by Paul de Havilland If mass adoption is the holy grail for cryptocurrency, then Verge’s recently announced arrangement with MindGeek is a major milestone on the way to the widespread use of digital, non-state issued
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Stablecoins present peculiar challenges to regulators. Although there is no single, agreed-upon definition of a stablecoin, the common denominator of the commonly used definitions is that stablecoins are designed to maintain a stable value in relation to a specified currency, asset or pool of such currencies/assets. They are contrasted with
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On April 28, MercadoLibre (MELI), the largest Latin American online marketplace, launched a real estate section dedicated to cryptocurrencies. Although the company does not settle property transactions directly, it legitimizes the category as a payment system. The $81 billion retailer is the second largest company in South America and is present
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This is the year cryptocurrency finally starts to break into the mainstream. From Elon Musk and Tesla investing in and accepting Bitcoin (BTC) to the recent nonfungible token craze, the days of blockchain tech being the domain of cypherpunks and coders are behind us.Still, the technology has not quite advanced
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A report on Friday from Ethereum metrics website Dune Analytics showed that the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem now counts over 1 million unique Ethereum addresses as participants — an over tenfold increase from the 91,000 addresses on Dec. 6, 2019. But while the growth has been undeniable, some experts caution not
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Hi all, thought we’d try something different in today’s edition of Blockchain Bites. Yesterday and today saw a flurry of news that seemed disparate and unconnected but may actually tell a bigger story about changing institutional attitudes to bitcoin and crypto, generally.PayPal and BlackRock executives both said that digital assets
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BitPay CEO Stephen Pair stated that the company considers this new platform as an ideal payment solution for international companies engaged in the gig economy.Crypto payment service provider has unveiled its new payment service BitPay Send to enable all business sizes to make payments via crypto.In its official press release,
Read MoreDetermining Bitcoin's (BTC) value can be more complicated than simply looking at its current market price."Most Bitcoins already cost at least $100,000, but probably more like $10 million," said Michael Goldstein, also known as Bitstein, in an Aug. 17 tweet. While Bitcoin sits around $12,000 at press time, many folks in
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Blockchain technology has recently become a phenomenon in various areas of the economy, driving innovation, fostering growth and bringing added value. Among the most noteworthy of these sectors is the gaming industry. Gaming is a use case that drives true adoption of blockchain technology by taking the incentive for the
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Eleven years on from the launch of Bitcoin, and crypto remains as taxing as ever for noobies. The sad thing is, without the intuitive UIs and smooth interoperability, it will continue to repel the masses. And that’s even before considering the challenges from its overly technical reputation, not least the scams
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