Rollups alone won’t unlock blockchain’s true potential

December 2, 2024
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Ethereum’s scalability solution may create more problems than it solves. Here’s why we need to look beyond rollups.

The Metaverse as a concept is an attempt to fuse physical reality, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) into one seamless and immersive experience.The term “metaverse” was first used in Neil Stephenson’s 1982 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash. Stephenson’s metaverse was a virtual place where characters could go to escape a dreary totalitarian reality. Some…

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Sui blockchain taps radio waves to bank the offline unbanked

The Sui blockchain is innovating with alternative methods, such as radio waves, to enable offline crypto transactions for unbanked communities, even those without internet access.

The lesson of El Salvador’s failed Bitcoin experiment

The revolution is dead in El Salvador. It's a lesson for developing nations who aim to seek out economic autonomy by making crypto legal tender.

Bitcoin Gains Ground on Gold, Bolsters Claim as the Asset of Tomorrow

Is gold faltering as a safe haven? A Coinbase blog post from May 1 suggested that several months into the COVID-19 pandemic, gold’s market efficiency vis-à-vis Bitcoin (BTC) could be slipping. “Bitcoin and gold are fundamentally similar as scarce and globally accessible units of value,” the report noted, but recent “challenges” in the gold market…

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Coinbase rolls out smart wallet with no gas fees and easy onboarding

Coinbase customers can look forward to a cheaper, easier experience when they buy, sell or trade crypto.

Crypto use more common among the underbanked, says FDIC report

Last year, underbanked households more commonly used crypto than those with no banking access whatsoever, according to an FDIC survey.

Wealthy Coinbase clients are still ‘hodling’ Bitcoin since December 2020, data suggests

Institutions that reportedly purchased 10,939 BTC from Coinbase in December 2020 are not selling yet. 246 Total views 4 Total shares Bitcoin's (BTC) price dropped by more than 50% after peaking out at $69,000 six months ago but the plunge did little in forcing some of its wealthiest investors into selling.Notably, the number of Bitcoin…

Riot Blockchain Plans Launch of Regulated Cryptocurrency Exchange in the US

Publicly traded United States-based company Riot Blockchain has filed with the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) to launch a new regulated cryptocurrency exchange called RiotX in the U.S. by the end of 2019. The regulator published the documents on March 14.The company declares in the filing that its subsidiary, RiotX Holdings Inc, would operate the…

Bitcoin Rewards App Lolli Partners With Major US Pet Store Chain Petco

Lolli, an app that provides Bitcoin (BTC) rewards to users when they shop with partner stores, has teamed up with major American pet retailer Petco.The rewards deal with PetcoLolli announced the new partnership in an official blog post on Aug. 23. In the announcement, the company notes that there are two new veins of rewards…

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