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6 Oct 2022 1 minute read 9 comments Allen Taylor
Hive is a fork from pioneering Web3 social media platform Steemit, built by Ned Scott and Dan Larimer. In today’s episode of Defluenced, Unkle Bonehead (@unklebonehead) and I delve into the Hive platform and discuss what we like about it, and what we...
5 Oct 2022 3 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor
Bitcoin hash rate hits a high of 158 exahash per second. Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson said bitcoin mining should come to an end. Bitcoin, gold hit 12-month correlation high. There are a lot of external factors depressing bitcoin’s price right no...
3 Oct 2022 4 minute read 12 comments Allen Taylor
Good morning! I’m pleased to announce that my book Cryptosocial: How Cryptocurrencies Are Changing Social Media has won an award: First Place in the Technology category in the NYC Big Book Awards. Please, no autographs. :-) Enter the No Shill Zone...
1 Oct 2022 3 minute read 4 comments Allen Taylor
If you haven’t discovered Cent Pages yet, I’d like to invite you to look at my page and collect issues of Cryptocracy as NFTs. The last issue, “What Could Make BTC’s Price Double?”, still has five mints left. You could be one of the five! The first C...
30 Sep 2022 3 minute read 8 comments Allen Taylor
Professional traders don’t expect bitcoin to stay over $20K any time soon. Bitcoin’s climate impact could be bigger than gold mining’s. CFTC Chair Rostin Benham says regulation could double bitcon’s price. Did you know you can buy bitcoin with SWIFT?...
29 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
In case you missed it, the third episode of Defluenced dropped yesterday. Unkle Bonehead and I discuss decentralization. What it is and why it’s necessary in our over-centralized world. Before I embed the video, I’d like to share the 90-day growth tr...
28 Sep 2022 3 minute read 15 comments Allen Taylor
Bitcoin outperforms major fiat currencies. A little more on the British pound’s collapse and impact on cryptocurrencies. Ethereum blows Bitcoin’s net inflation rate out of the water. The path forward for former Ethereum miners is unclear. Post-Merge,...
26 Sep 2022 2 minute read 4 comments Allen Taylor
ETH issuance has fallen 98 percent since the Merge. Is Ethereum POS a threat to Bitcoin dominance? Cardano Founder Charles Hoskinson tweeted that Ethereum would have completed Merge faster by using the Snow White upgrade. The SEC claims all ETH trans...
24 Sep 2022 4 minute read 10 comments Allen Taylor
stakefish, one of Ethereum’s largest validators, is in a state of turmoil after 25 percent of its employees depart. How to run an Ethereum validator. The Merge was a day of excitement in more than one way, as the stakefish story shows. An Amazon ha...
23 Sep 2022 8 minute read 7 comments Allen Taylor
One of the biggest concerns regarding the recently published Treasury Department report on CBDCs, titled The Future of Money and Payments, is that a central bank digital currency (CBDC) could easily be used to track private citizens. And because it c...
