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What Went Wrong With The “Bitcoin Is Generational Wealth” Short Film?

Directed by Matt Hornick and written and narrated by Tomer Strolight, huge companies produced the “Bitcoin is Generational Wealth” short film. The audiovisual division of Swan Bitcoin, Bitcoin Magazine, Mimesis Capital, Shy Kids, and Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy. Besides that, Tomer Strolight’s essays and articles are a staple of the Bitcoin community. With those high-quality ingredients, we were expecting a fabulous meal. We didn’t get it. What went wrong? Were our expectations too high? That’s what we’re here to explore.  Related Reading | Hollywood Goes Crypto? Coppola Family Leads Project To

Could ‘perverted’ CBDCs stop you from buying candy

NSA whistleblower and journalist Edward Snowden is known to comment on Bitcoin and crypto-adoption. However, in the latest issue of his newsletter, Continuing Ed, Snowden cited an article discussing whether the U.S could mint a platinum coin worth $1 trillion. In doing so, Snowden also spurred a discussion on centralized money, CBDCs, and their possible use case as surveillance tools. On banking, bitcoin, and the future of money: a response to a governor of the Federal Reserve, Christopher J. Waller.https://t.co/720SYvqzZM — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 9, 2021 To be or not to

White hat hacker paid DeFi’s largest reported bounty fee

Belt Finance, an automated market maker (AMM) protocol operating a yield optimization strategy on Binance Smart Chain (BSC), claims to have paid the largest bounty in the history of decentralized finance (DeFi) to a whitehat hacker who averted a $10 million bug crisis. Industry whitehat programmer Alexander Schlindwein discovered the vulnerability in Belt Finance’s protocol this week and reported the news to the team. For his efforts, Schlindwein received a generous compensation of $1.05 million, the majority of which ($1 million) was granted by Immunefi, with the additional $50,000 offered by

The A to Z on if and when Bitcoin can flip Apple

For a long time, Bitcoin has been subjected to a lot of criticism, unnecessary skepticism, and scrutiny. Ranging from its use in illegal transactions to energy concerns and price volatility, the king coin has seen it all over the last decade. However, the crypto’s trajectory from a market cap of $1 million in 2011 to almost $1.1 trillion this year has placed it seventh on the list of the world’s biggest assets. In spite of all the FUDs and criticism, the fact remains that Bitcoin managed to reach $1 trillion

This time it’s different: When DeFi meets NFTs

With decentralized finance and nonfungible tokens seeing a meteoric, rise it’s easy to believe crypto apps are finally breaking through. But is there actually real user growth, or is it just the same influencers moving from one hyped market to the next? We sought to answer this puzzle and identify what it means for the future of innovation. So, let’s take a closer look at the growth of DeFi and NFTs.DeFi is arguably the most prevalent application of smart contracts today. Automated market makers, algorithmic stablecoins and yield farming strategies

Bitcoin & Ethereum: which asset will cross this benchmark first in the next 2 weeks

Bitcoin and Ethereum both tested their initial targets of $40,000 and $2400 over the past day, after consistently rallying over the last week. The market sentiment is currently improving for both assets. While Bitcoin has been the driving force for the majority of the bull markets, smaller altcoins have rallied behind Ether’s bullish period as well. In 2021 itself, Bitcoin reached its all-time high during April 15th-20th, reaching a valuation of $64,000. Other assets followed suit, but when Ethereum touched its ATH of $4375 during the 1st of May, assets

China Situation Not as Bad, Bitcoin to Reclaim $60K In 2021: Interview with OKEx

CryptoPotato had the opportunity to host a discussion with Lennix Lai – the Financial Markets Director at OKEx. Established in 2017, OKEx is one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the world by means of trading volume and is also a big player in China. We took the opportunity to discuss, first hand, what’s currently going on in the market from both a retail and institutional perspective, as well as what’s actually happening in China. [embedded content] $60K Bitcoin In 2021 After Bitcoin lost around 50% from its all-time high

Message by LEDGER’s CEO – Update on the July data breach. Despite the leak, your crypto assets are safe.

12/21/2020 | Blog posts, Security Dear Ledger clients, As you know, Ledger was targeted by a cyberattack that led to a data breach in July 2020. Yesterday, we were informed about the dump of the content of a Ledger customer database on Raidforum. We believe this to be the contents of our e-commerce database from June 2020. At the time of the incident, in July, we engaged an external security organisation to conduct a forensic review of the logs available. This review of the logs enabled us to confirm that

Tether Sets New Records With $20bn+ Market Cap

USDT is now also the fourth largest crypto by market cap. The news was announced in a Tweet from the company. At the time this article was written, Tether had a market cap of slightly over $20.03 billion. This is down about $10 million from its peak today, according to CoinMarketCap.  Tether has just surpassed a $20B market capitalization! This fantastic milestone is another confirmation for Tether maintaining its number one spot as the most liquid, stable and trusted currency! pic.twitter.com/sorWjzChIo— Tether (@Tether_to) December 18, 2020 Accelerate! Tether’s market cap has