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Interesting Times

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Time Stamp: September 22, 2022 1:50 PM - Modified On: September 22, 2022 - Published By:
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A few months ago the markets were confident we were approaching the end of big interest rate hikes and that after the summer central banks such as the US Federal Reserve would begin to ease their monetary policy. However, due to persistently high inflation, especially core inflation, the markets have adjusted their view which goes some way to explaining the recent crypto market volatility. As cryptocurrency is touted as an inflation hedge and an alternative form of money, users are often confused or surprised to discover that over the short

The Solution to Scalability

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Time Stamp: September 16, 2022 12:51 AM - Modified On: September 16, 2022 - Published By:
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The narrative which pervaded much of the last bull run centered around scalability issues as both Ethereum and Bitcoin experienced congestion as their popularity increased. The main problems were the speed and cost of transactions. Without addressing scalability, the concept of mass adoption was dead in the water for cryptocurrency. Solutions such as the development of the Lightning Network for Bitcoin helped its rollout as legal tender in El Salvador. For Ethereum, it was a combination of roll-ups, sidechains, and sharding that helped to maintain its growth. Whereas Bitcoin’s surge

Mainnet Update

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Time Stamp: September 2, 2022 1:30 PM - Modified On: September 2, 2022 - Published By:
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One of the silver linings, indeed perhaps the only silver lining, from the bear market disasters of the past few months has been the opportunity it afforded the Paribus development team to deploy our MVP via testnet. Even this however wasn’t free from challenges, so in this article, we dive a little deeper into what the next few weeks and months hold for Paribus. Our primary focus is to be able to transition from the testnet to the mainnet, but at the same time, we’ve also been limited by some