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BRC-20 tokens surpass $1B market cap as wallet providers prepare integration

On May 9, the total market capitalization of BRC-20 Bitcoin tokens surpassed $1 billion, with a total trading volume of $207.7 million in the past 24 hours. Some of the most notable deployed tokens include ORDI, NALS, VMPX, PEPE and MEME, with price variance of between +11% and -55% within the past day. According to analysts […]

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Pepe sans crypto: Mods purge crypto from the original meme subreddit

Moderators on Reddit have started taking action against crypto-related Pepe the Frog hype flooding into the meme’s original subreddits after an explosion in popularity of the Pepe (PEPE) memecoin. On May 9, a moderator for the r/pepethefrog subreddit pinned a post in which they declared that all “cryptocurrency promotion and all similar schemes such as […]

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PEPE vs. DOGE: How the memecoins performed their first time hitting a $1B market cap

Memes, internet jokes and popular culture references have become an integral part of online communities. Because of this, cryptocurrencies inevitably gave birth to a new wave of assets called “memecoins.” While some argue that these coins are just a fad, others might also believe in their potential to bring financial gain to their investors.  One […]

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DBS Bank to offer cryptocurrency trading in Hong Kong

Singapore state-owned megabank DBS Group is planning to expand its cryptocurrency services to Hong Kong as the Chinese territory pushes to become a digital asset hub. DBS Bank plans to apply for a license to allow it to offer crypto trading services to Hong Kong customers, Bloomberg reported on Feb. 13. “We are planning to […]

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US agencies recommend old risk management principles for crypto liquidity

In a joint statement released by three United States federal agencies, the banking sector was advised against creating new risk management principles to counter liquidity risks resulting from crypto-asset market vulnerabilities. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) […]

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How to buy Bitcoin with Apple Pay?

Join us on social networks Ethereum layer-2 scaling platform StarkNet has overhauled its in-house Cairo coding language to make Web3 development accessible to developers. An announcement shared with Cointelegraph outlines the upgrades to Cairo 1.0, which is touted to emulate characteristics of the popular programming language Rust. The overhaul intends to allow developers with general […]

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Here’s how much was lost to crypto hacks and exploits in Q1 2023

Hackers were able to gain access to more than $320 million in the first quarter of 2023 alone, according to on-chain data consolidated by blockchain security firm CertiK in its quarterly report. The losses were significantly lower than in 2022’s first and fourth quarters, when hackers took around $1.3 billion and $950 million, respectively. According […]

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How to host a decentralized website

Decentralized websites rely on decentralized networks rather than centralized servers to preserve and verify the data’s integrity. Decentralized websites offer a more private, secure and censorship-resistant alternative to standard websites by utilizing peer-to-peer (P2P) networking, cryptography and blockchain. This article will explain how to host a decentralized website, and the benefits and challenges of decentralized […]

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What is Google’s Bard, and how does it work?

What is Google’s Bard? Following the success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google AI chatbot Bard was released to a limited number of people in the United States and Britain.  Bard is a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) experiment based on Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA), an AI language model developed by Google in 2021 to provide […]

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How China Influences Bitcoin Price, Explained

Why has Bitcoin price become volatile again? The short answer to that question is China. On Feb. 9, 2017, Bitcoin price has plunged by more than 9%. The fall took place after an extended period of growth: Bitcoin value has been rising for more than a year – from around $230 a piece to over […]

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