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"It exists everywhere." That's how Athens-based crypto enthusiast named "Sporos" describes faircoin – a tiny, $0.22 asset that in terms of daily trading volume, is barely a glitch on global cryptocurrency exchanges. Although it's listed at number 1,134 on CoinMarketCap, faircoin users aren't phased by the market's disinterest. Instead, they pride themselves on faircoin's utility…

The meme coin sector rose by 12% on Tuesday, outperforming crypto majors, while the CoinDesk 20 Index is up by 2.3% in the same period. Meme coins have historically performed well when BTC, ETH and SOL are trading in a range near local highs. Lower liquidity trading pairs mean that meme coins experience exaggerated peaks

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"You can buy a gift on Venmo and send it out. You can invite people and send it to another Venmo user, you can send it to a PayPal user. You can send it to an external wallet, you can send it to the hardware wallet, which we think is something fundamentally important," da Ponte…

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Sep 28, 2020 at 13:32 UTCUpdated Sep 28, 2020 at 13:33 UTC(FOTO:FORTEPAN / Korenchy László / Wikimedia Commons)Ebang has said the knock-on effects of the coronavirus outbreak caused revenue to fall by half in the first six months of 2020.Total net revenue for the Nasdaq-listed mining equipment manufacturer slumped to $11 million in H1 2020,…

DraftKings tapped Polygon for its marquee non-fungible token (NFT) release with Tom Brady’s Autograph back in August.Now the sports betting giant is going all-in on the Ethereum layer-2 solution with a partnership that could make it one of the blockchain’s largest governors.DraftKings, valued at nearly $20 billion on the public market, is planning to use…

Dec 2, 2020 at 12:30 p.m. UTCEth 2.0 is off the launch pad with Tuesday's release of the Beacon Chain.(Shutterstock)Valid Points: The Risks and Rewards of Staking on Eth 2.0It’s alive! Welcome, everyone, to the first issue of Valid Points. Today, we’re commemorating the historic launch of Ethereum 2.0, which marks the beginning of Ethereum’s live…

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