‘One currency change every generation,’ how monetary skepticism spearheaded cryptocurrency adoption in Czechia
Czechia, a country of 10.7 million people in Central Europe, is known for its beautiful capital (Prague), rich history and good beer. Within the last decade, however, one can now add cryptocurrency adoption to that list. In fact, the Trezor wallet, the first cryptocurrency hardware wallet in the world, was invented here in 2014 and […]
I was wrong, we need crypto
To say I’ve been skeptical about Bitcoin and the rest of the crypto universe would be an understatement of epic proportions. Since the early 2010s, some of my most ferocious Twitter battles have been against the HODL army with the laser eyes.There’s just so much to oppose: Bitcoin’s grotesque energy consumption, the ridiculous transaction fees, […]
Fidelity: Bitcoin is a ‘superior form of money’
Fidelity argued Bitcoin should be considered separately from the rest of the digital asset market as no other altcoin comes close to its properties Fidelity, the multinational brokerage giant, released a paper on Bitcoin (BTC) titled Bitcoin First. The financial services provider calls for BTC to be treated separately from the rest of the digital […]
$1B worth of ETH burned in the past 30 days due to record high OpenSea NFT transactions
Despite the large burn value, the network is still inflationary until its PoS transition scheduled for Q2 or Q3. According to blockchain data from Nansen Analytics on Tuesday, over $1.096 billion worth of Ethereum (ETH) has been burned in the past month. With the introduction of the EIP-1559 last August, a portion of fees is […]