Miners

Compound liquidity miners possess less than 20% COMP tokens

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Time Stamp: November 15, 2021 7:17 PM - Modified On: November 15, 2021 - Published By:
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According to a new study, one of the industry’s largest DeFi protocols is experiencing a motivational crisis.  Alex Kroeger, an Ethereum researcher, discovered in his paper that the majority of Compound’s liquidity miners have little to no financial interest in the protocol and do not engage in its governance. The analysis looked at the top 100 accounts by accrued COMP from liquidity mining in order to show that Compound’s liquidity mining needs to be fixed. The miners at compound aren’t holders Compound was one of the first protocols to implement

What if Bitcoin Taproot follows SegWit’s path of adoption

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Time Stamp: November 14, 2021 6:30 PM - Modified On: November 14, 2021 - Published By:
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Bitcoin Taproot is finally live, a network upgrade that has been four years in the making. It was first put forward by Greg Maxwell, cryptographer and developer, in 2018 after SegWit was implemented on 24 August 2017. SegWit was the first major BTC soft fork update, which wasn’t taken all too well by the community. Now, four years later, the ecosystem has another update in store to improve the privacy, scalability, and security of the network. In this article, we will try to draw a possible adoption roadmap for Taproot

Another Leading DEX Is Choosing the Order Book Mechanism

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Time Stamp: November 5, 2021 3:57 AM - Modified On: November 5, 2021 - Published By:
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As the DeFi segment with the clearest application scenarios and the strongest demand, decentralized exchange (DEX) has always been attracting the most attention.Sponsored Sponsored It also embodies the greatest competitiveness as well as the strongest capital effect. Since its low and stable performance in the middle of last year, DEX’s total trading volume has grown rapidly, and the monthly figure peaked at $162.8 billion in May. Sponsored Sponsored Although it is still lagging behind the centralized exchange (CEX), its market size of hundreds of billions of dollars obviously can not

Paraguay Eyed as New Bitcoin Mining Destination

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Time Stamp: November 2, 2021 5:38 AM - Modified On: November 2, 2021 - Published By:
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Paraguay is one of the destinations being considered by various companies for setting up their bitcoin mining operations. Last week, Chinese company Future Fintech announced formal plans to build a bitcoin mining facility in the country, explaining they were determining the best location for the upcoming farm. In June, local media declared that there were eight Chinese economic groups interested in coming to the country. Paraguay Considered for Its Bitcoin Mining Potential Paraguay, an often overlooked country of South America, has recently been in the sights of mining institutions interested

Paraguay Eyed as New Bitcoin Mining Destination

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Time Stamp: November 2, 2021 5:30 AM - Modified On: November 2, 2021 - Published By:
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Paraguay is one of the destinations being considered by various companies for setting up their bitcoin mining operations. Last week, Chinese company Future Fintech announced formal plans to build a bitcoin mining facility in the country, explaining they were determining the best location for the upcoming farm. In June, local media declared that there were eight Chinese economic groups interested in coming to the country. Paraguay Considered for Its Bitcoin Mining Potential Paraguay, an often overlooked country of South America, has recently been in the sights of mining institutions interested

What is Dragonbite? (BITE)

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Time Stamp: October 20, 2021 9:17 AM - Modified On: October 20, 2021 - Published By:
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DragonBite is an open decentralized asset management platform for customers to store and swap all digital assets in one app. Retail customers have always been big fans of loyalty programs, not only to express their approval of a product or a service but also because of the exciting perks that come with them. The problem is, the rules of these programs are often restrictive, and their rewards are too limited resulting in slim benefits for consumers, which they cannot enjoy. Fortunately, blockchain can change all of this.  Table of Contents Background 

🔴 Bitcoin Futures ETFs Are Here?! | This Week in Crypto – Oct 18, 2021

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Time Stamp: October 18, 2021 1:00 AM - Modified On: October 18, 2021 - Published By:
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 Bitcoin Futures ETFs could come to exchanges soon, Coinbase is launching an NFT marketplace and guess which country is now the biggest crypto mining hub in the world? These stories and more this week in crypto. The price of Bitcoin surpassed the $60,000 mark following reports that the first U.S. Bitcoin futures exchange-traded funds could start trading soon. NYSE Arca certified its approval to begin listing ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF and Nasdaq confirmed that shares of Valkyrie’s Bitcoin ETF had been certified for listing on its exchange. The Bitcoin

IMF now the latest to warn against cryptos opening ‘unwanted doors’

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Time Stamp: October 2, 2021 7:30 AM - Modified On: October 2, 2021 - Published By:
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A handful of cryptocurrency exchanges have suddenly become billion-dollar companies. An explosion in Bitcoin’s popularity has supercharged previously small-time platforms into powerhouses generating millions of dollars in revenues. And, it’s not just Bitcoin either, with other altcoins recording immense surges as well. Source: IMF Crypto is “risky” and opens “unwanted doors” The same was the subject of a blog recently published by the IMF (International Monetary Fund). The report observed, “The total market value of all the crypto-assets surpassed $2 trillion as of September 2021—a 10-fold increase since early 2020.

Iran To Lift Cryptocurrency Mining Ban In September

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Time Stamp: September 27, 2021 8:15 AM - Modified On: September 27, 2021 - Published By:
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In 2019, the Iranian government announced it would regulate mining activities in the country. Interested miners were required to get a permit from the Ministry of Industries. Semnan province leads with six mining farms out of the 30 licensed companies. After legalizing bitcoin mining, the government licenced over 1000 companies in January 2022. Ban on Crypto Mining Activities The Iranian government banned bitcoin mining in the country in May 2021. The ban announced by the former president Hassan Rouhani was due to a strain on electricity power majorly caused by

Fake News Moves Market | This Week in Crypto – Sep 20, 2021

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Time Stamp: September 20, 2021 1:00 AM - Modified On: September 20, 2021 - Published By:
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 Fake Walmart news crashes the crypto market, Revolut pays for office space in Bitcoin and a statue for Satoshi. These stories and more this week in crypto. A press release claimed early this week that Walmart had partnered with popular altcoin Litecoin. The news was widely celebrated by crypto fans, and the price of Litecoin along with the rest of the crypto market surged heavily in minutes. However, within an hour, both Walmart and the Litecoin Foundation denied any relationship, that news quickly crashing the market. The cryptocurrency-infused financial