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8 Benefits of Decentralization for Businesses

5 Aug 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor

Different kinds of businesses can benefit in different ways from decentralization. In an age of decentralization, however, all businesses have more power, freedom, and leverage to conduct business anywhere they want. Here are 8 benefits to decentrali...

How Ethereum Celebrated Its 6th Birthday This Week

31 Jul 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor

The word cryptocurrency elicits ideas of deceitful characters stealing real life money and turning it into monopoly money somewhere deep in the dark web. But what is it actually? And how should it be dealt with in an insolvent estate? Over time, and...

Crypto: Is It Mooning, Or Is It All Doom and Gloom?

24 Jul 2021 3 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor

MoonPay has created a global onramp to Polygon, the first of its kind, that allows the purchase of MATIC assets with fiat currencies. First, I’ve got to say the name MoonPay is stellar. It brings to mind high tides and romance, rocket ships and werew...

Binance Quits Digital Stocks, Ethereum Co-Founder Quits Crypto

17 Jul 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor

Binance stopped selling digital versions of Tesla and Apple stocks, among others. The move follows such jurisdictions as Hong Kong and Lithuania saying the crypto exchange isn’t licensed to sell in those locations. Okay, so picture your favorite red...

The Countries Most Prepared to Accept Cryptocurrencies

10 Jul 2021 2 minute read 7 comments Allen Taylor

Crypto Head says the U.S. is the country most prepared to accept cryptocurrrencies. How much will one bitcoin be worth in 20 years? Hell if I know, but I know that Square, the payments company owned by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, wants to build a ha...

Son of Dogecoin Has Encounter With The Police

3 Jul 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor

Sweets for the Sweet Digital monetary system Kinesis is offering investors a yield on precious metals, a history-making event. If you’re looking for a knock out, there’s going to be on in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The world’s first boxing match wi...

10 Cryptosocial Media Platforms Friendly Toward Businesses

1 Jul 2021 4 minute read 4 comments Allen Taylor

Social media has become a big business. All kinds of enterprises, large and small, use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more to reach new customers, engage with current customers, and brand themselves in ways never before imaginable. The social medi...

Bitcoin Dips, Ethereum Trips, and Trybe Flips EOS the Bird

26 Jun 2021 2 minute read 0 comments Allen Taylor

In case you haven’t heard, antivirus icon and cryptocurrency pioneer John McAfee was found dead earlier this week. First, let me just say this: McAfee was a legend. Despite being a controversial whack job, his antivirus software—the one that bears hi...

How Decentralization Changes Social Media for Businesses

25 Jun 2021 4 minute read 2 comments Allen Taylor

The benefits of decentralization for business operations have been overblown in some quarters. Decentralization itself has become such a buzzword that some people seem to want to decentralize everything on the planet, but that would impractical. Desp...

Mark Cuban is Crying After Titanium Sinks

19 Jun 2021 2 minute read 7 comments Allen Taylor

Just to prove how fast things can change in decentralized finance (DeFi), TITAN, aka Iron Titanium Token, dropped from $2 billion to zippa-dee-do-da in a few short hours. Some people blame Mark Cuban because his whale hole was too big. Cuban says he...