My thoughts on various topics
8 Jan 2021 7 minute read 11 comments paragism
One of my American friends told me some years back that the US was amidst an obesity pandemic. I googled that time to learn that the rising obesity in the country was indeed a public health crisis. Why did people eat so much there? We eat when we are...
6 Jan 2021 4 minute read 7 comments paragism
Bitcoin extended its record-breaking rally and surged past $34,000 some days back. The new year brought a new ATH for Bitcoin. While a section of mainstream media is still calling Bitcoin a ‘punt’, the corporate money is flowing into the young asset...
4 Jan 2021 3 minute read 7 comments paragism
Ethereum is the most popular platform to build decentralized applications. The majority of decentralized finance or DeFi activity is happening on Ethereum only. Numerous wrapped tokens are arriving on Ethereum to take part in the thriving ecosystem...
30 Dec 2020 3 minute read 5 comments paragism
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.” – Milton Friedman The US government is going to launch another $900 billion COVID-19 relief stimulus and already there is a high demand t...
23 Dec 2020 4 minute read 6 comments paragism
[This is the second part of the article. Here you can find the first part of the article.] Before Bitcoin, we needed a trusted third party to keep an account of money transfer from one point to another point. Your bank, VISA or MasterCard are the exa...
21 Dec 2020 3 minute read 1 comment paragism
Cryptocurrency is gaining mainstream adoption very fast. Post COVID-19 global economic crisis has kick-started a renewed interest in cryptocurrency. DeFi or decentralized finance has achieved astounding success and it is growing exponentially. It is...
20 Dec 2020 4 minute read 6 comments paragism
Almost three years back, XRP reached its ATH of $3.4. I remember that I bought some XRP in December 2017 and sold at 5X price just within one month. The banker's coin was the talk of the crypto world at that time. Even the mainstream media was gettin...
17 Dec 2020 3 minute read 3 comments paragism
After three years of the bear market and various market consolidations, cryptocurrency has again become a mainstream media topic. Things have changed since the last bull run of 2017. Many new protocols are driving this renewed interest with cryptocur...
15 Dec 2020 4 minute read 8 comments paragism
Ethereum blockchain went live on 30 July 2015 and since then we’ve seen a lot of use cases. Vitalik Buterin along with other core developers created Ethereum with a goal of building decentralized applications. Vitalik argued in his whitepaper that bl...
12 Dec 2020 2 minute read 12 comments paragism
Cover Image Source Ethereum’s TPS has improved significantly in the recent time but still, it’s not equipped to handle high traffic. Ethereum 2.0 is going to address a lot of issues regarding the base layer scalability but we need to wait for a long...
