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9 Feb 2022 4 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor
Over the weekend, Ethereum whales loaded up on Axie Infinity. It was the most traded token among the 1,000 largest ETH wallets in a 24-hour period. Some of the bigger whales purchased millions of dollars worth of AXS. Maybe we’ve got another rising s...
7 Feb 2022 3 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor
Kenneth Rapoza asks, “Is Bitcoin becoming just another tech stock?” Whether it is or isn’t, Senator Ted Cruz recently bought the dip. On top of that, MicroStrategy made a huge splash as whales are wont to do and CoinDesk explains the corporate argume...
5 Feb 2022 1 minute read 3 comments Allen Taylor
Bitcoin broke the $40,000 barrier again. But is that any consolation when payment processing time is still 10 minutes? If you still want to buy bitcoin on one of your mobile apps, CoinDesk will make sure you know how. CoinBase is giving users an oppo...
4 Feb 2022 6 minute read 13 comments Allen Taylor
This year I’m going to start something new. I’m going to start reporting, on the first Friday of each month, my earnings from cryptosocial media of the previous month. This will be my first report. The cryptosocial platforms and protocols I’ve been p...
2 Feb 2022 2 minute read 1 comment Allen Taylor
Bitcoin is off to its worst calendar year start in eight years. ConsenSys acquires MyCrypto wallet, plans to merge it with MetaMask. Good news for everyone who’s tired of looking at Tether: USDC is closing the gap on the leading stablecoin and now co...
31 Jan 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
Fidelity has filed an application with the SEC for a metaverse-related exchange-traded fund. The fund will focus on companies that develop, manufacture, distribute, and sell products and services supporting the metaverse—whatever that actually ends u...
29 Jan 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
As the market moves down, Ethereum hit a new all-time high on its hash rate. Not only that, but the number of ETH holders with at least 1 ETH has also hit a new all-time high. Does that sound like a bad week for crypto? In a single day this week, mo...
28 Jan 2022 2 minute read 6 comments Allen Taylor
The heirs of Pablo Picasso are getting in on NFTs. It turns out the famed 20th-century artist has some ceramic artwork that has never been seen publicly. His granddaughter and great-grandson are planning to release 1,010 digital art pieces of his cer...
26 Jan 2022 1 minute read 3 comments Allen Taylor
Traveling can be a joy. Or it can be a drudgery. This past week, my wife and I drove to Pennsylvania to attend her grandmother’s funeral. The funeral was Thursday. Saturday morning, we woke up with cold-like symptoms. Sunday afternoon, we left Pennsy...
22 Jan 2022 1 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor
Crypto exchange Binance has been operating in secrecy, preventing government regulators from knowing what they need to know to effectively regulate exchanges like Binance. One can understand why. If they declared a headquarters in any country, they’d...
