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In open-source development, where there's little privileged intellectual property, intangibles like brand and community matter more.(Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg)Feb 9, 2021 at 6:39 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 9, 2021 at 6:45 p.m. UTCThe Intangible Reasons Ethereum and Bitcoin LeadDecentralized finance (DeFi) is exploding. The amount of capital locked in DeFi, an imperfect yet useful measure of traction, recently…

Benchmark has raised its price target for MicroStrategy to $2,150 even as the company posted a revenue miss on Thursday. The broker's analyst noted the company's share price outperformance since adoption of bitcoin as its primary treasury reserve asset in August 2020. Since then, the stock's performance was significantly better than other assets like bitcoin

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If your elected representative to the U.S. Congress has never heard of cryptocurrencies, how do you start telling them about it? Hoping to raise awareness, blockchain advocacy group Chamber of Digital Commerce’s Political Action Committee (PAC) wants to start by contributing $50 worth of bitcoin to the campaign of each congressperson. Announced Monday, the advocacy group…

Deribit's BTC DVOL index, a measure of volatility expectations, has slipped to its lowest since early February. Continued volatility meltdown alongside price drop suggests an absence of demand for options. A renewed upswing in BTC's price to $70,000 may lift DVOL. Seasoned stock traders are likely attuned to the observation that market corrections are typically

The Graph is an open-sourced indexing protocol used to collect, process and store data from various blockchain applications. It removes the need for data consumers like app developers to expand complex infrastructure for gathering on-chain data. The Graph currently supports indexing data from 26 different blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Near, Arbitrium, Optimism, Polygon, Avalanche, Celo,…

I’m drawn to crypto because I’m drawn to stories. The space is packed with characters who are doing weird and surprising things -- sometimes brilliant, sometimes cringe, sometimes sketchy, sometimes inspiring.And then there’s the world of Doge. This is a different neighborhood of Web3: The goofy corner. A world of jokes and memes and random…

Fees are a function of transaction size and network volumes (how congested the network is). Transactions are processed in blocks, storing up to 1MB of data. Hence, a sudden spike in activity often leads to network congestion – transactions waiting to get verified. In such situations, miners target transactions with higher fees first. In other…

Sep 25, 2020 at 09:26 UTCUpdated Sep 25, 2020 at 09:28 UTCAnt Group has launched a cross-border trading blockchain platform as it prepares for what could be the largest stock market flotation of all time. Ant said Friday that its new trade platform, called "Trusple," will make it easier for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)…