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Uncomfortable Truths of Trading And What to Watch Out For

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Time Stamp: December 5, 2020 4:17 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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There are some uncomfortable truths about trading crypto, which many people refuse to acknowledge. For instance, everybody — no matter how they play the market — is part of an emotional scheme. That means you, too. Thierry Gilgen, CEO of MachinaTrader, takes a deeper look into how social media channels dominate information about cryptocurrencies. The market is not purely mathematics. Raw human emotions play a big role, and that includes you potentially getting played. It is easy to be carried away while trading and make an emotional-based decision that results

Ham to Improve on Yam With Latest DeFi Experiment

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Time Stamp: August 18, 2020 1:13 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The Yam yield farming frenzy that took DeFi by storm last week highlighted a number of elements that could have been improved with the launch. A new offering called Ham aims to right the wrongs and improve on Yam with a truly community-driven project. There were several flaws with the Yam launch, but the ultimate reason was that it had to be rescued by whales. This pretty much negates any progress made on the path to becoming a truly democratic and community-governed monetary system. A migration plan proposed late last

Bitcoin is Poised to Push Towards $14,000 After Posting Bullish Weekly Close

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Time Stamp: August 17, 2020 2:00 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Bitcoin has continued consolidating within the upper-$11,000 region overnight This extended period of sideways trading has come about despite it facing multiple recent rejections at $12,000 Its inability to break above this level has so far not led it to see any notable near-term downside, with $11,700 becoming a strong level of support This support level was previously a crucial resistance that it was struggling to close above Yesterday marked the first daily – and weekly – close that the cryptocurrency had been able to post above this crucial level

Two Attacks on ETC Network Leave Community Needing a Solution, Fast

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Time Stamp: August 16, 2020 9:15 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Ethereum Classic, a 2016 hard fork from Ethereum’s main blockchain, has suffered multiple concerning network attacks over the last two years. Two such attacks occurred within a seven-day span, totaling millions of dollars in losses. With the dust settling from the two 51% attacks, further details are now coming forward, as provided by a number of industry experts.“There is no debate about the attacks,” ETC Labs CEO Terry Culver told Cointelegraph on Aug. 7, answering a question on whether or not the network difficulties were in fact 51% attacks. “Community

The Importance of Developing the Decentralized Finance Space

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Time Stamp: August 16, 2020 7:00 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The rapid growth of the decentralized finance space, the rise in demand, the improvement of its protocols, and the breadth of offered services and opportunities will provide retail users with the options they are sorely lacking in the existing financial system. And it will enable institutions to move real-world assets onto the blockchain, generating untold cost-savings and improved efficiencies.But it doesn’t have to be a violent revolution. DeFi doesn’t necessarily need to overthrow the incumbent system. I believe that DeFi will complement traditional finance, force it to do better, and,

RenVM Guide: A Private and Interopable DeFi Platform

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Time Stamp: August 15, 2020 9:53 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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With the objective of solving concerns on privacy, interoperability, and liquidity in decentralized applications, the RenVM ecosystem was established. This is yet another successful DeFi project with cross-chain interoperability, only this time, with better privacy features. The Republic Protocol and its RenVM project were aimed to provide large volume and high-frequency traders the opportunity to execute trades without spooking the market with their calls. With the help of darknodes, they maintained an exchange with a hidden order book. Table of Contents Background Ren began in late 2017 under the Republic

$600M Crypto Ad Ban Class Action Filed in Australian Courts

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Time Stamp: August 13, 2020 10:54 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Law firm JPB Liberty filed a class-action lawsuit in the Federal Court of New South Wales earlier today, targeting Facebook and Google for anti-competitive behavior for banning cryptocurrency advertising in 2018.JPB argues the ban, which was loosened in 2019, killed the initial coin offering (ICO) market and caused severe financial damage to the wider cryptocurrency industry.JPB Liberty CEO Andrew Hamilton said the tech giants had acted as a cartel in launching the crypto ad ban, in order to crush competition from the blockchain sector.The suit has garnered more than $600

Five Hours to Failure: The ‘Save Yam’ Proposal Is Falling Short

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Time Stamp: August 12, 2020 10:43 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The future of the Yam Finance yield farming protocol hangs in the balance as it awaits token deposits for a governance vote that could save the project.With less than five hours to go, Yam is only a third of the way towards the 160,000 tokens required.A code bug discovered earlier today in one of Yam Finance’s smart contracts sent the hottest thing in DeFi into a tailspin as it scrambles to find a fix through its decentralized governance system.The project posted an update outlining the issues and making a plea to

DeFi Token Serum Surges 1500% in 12 Hours After Listing

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Time Stamp: August 11, 2020 9:42 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The latest DeFi token to moon is for the decentralized derivatives exchange Serum ,which surged by four figures following its launch and exchange listings.The Serum Project is a new, non-custodial DEX that launched on August 11 and its native SRM token has since surged 1500%. The Serum Project is a collaboration between centralized derivatives trading platform FTX, and Solana, a low-fee, high-speed, interoperable smart contract blockchain. Launched less than 12 hours ago at the time of writing, the token has skyrocketed from the launch price of $0.11 to more than $1.80

Why Chinese Miners Won’t Stage a 51% Attack on Bitcoin

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Time Stamp: August 11, 2020 7:32 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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China accounts for more than half of the world’s Bitcoin mining capacity but Jameson Lopp, the co-founder and CTO of Casa, has hosed down fears that Chinese miners are a threat to Bitcoin in a blog post on Aug. 9.Although many people have raised concerns over the concentration of such much hashpower being located in China, Loop pointed out that even in the event of a 51% attack on Bitcoin, attackers are limited in what they can actually do. He explained that attackers can't steal people's Bitcoin arbitrarily, nor change the consensus

With Value Approach, Off The Chain Capital Is Changing The Bitcoin Investment Narrative

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Time Stamp: August 11, 2020 12:44 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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When viewed from a traditional investing lens, bitcoin may seem like a risky bet. The technology is still relatively new, the price is notoriously volatile and it’s not uncommon to hear investors caution newcomers not to invest more than they can afford to lose in BTC.But the performance of Off The Chain Capital, a digital currency investment firm that focuses on value investing in bitcoin, tells a different story. As one of the best-performing funds in the space, it has shown that reliable performance and BTC can go hand in

Why Grayscale’s New Digital Currency Ad Could Bring Crypto Investing To Millions

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Time Stamp: August 10, 2020 9:16 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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This morning Grayscale, the world’s largest provider of cryptocurrency investment vehicles, temporarily turned its attention away from hoovering up the supply of Bitcoin to focus on arguably the most intractable problem in all of crypto: getting your stubborn friends and family on board.  Last Friday Grayscale founder and CEO Barry Silbert teased a massive ad buy on Twitter with the intention to “brrring crypto to the masses” — and this morning he delivered, with spots on CNBC, MSNBC, FOX, and FOX Business, among others. The Grayscale blog, meanwhile, pitches the