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paragism

My thoughts on various topics


Unfolding the mystery of $2467 Grayscale Ethereum

4 Jun 2020 2 minute read 6 comments paragism

The United States based Grayscale Ethereum Trust shares were the first security solely invested in and deriving value from the price of Ethereum. It provides the investors with a traditional investment tool for investing into Ethereum. You have no ne...

What happens to your stablecoin in case of negative interest rate?

1 Jun 2020 4 minute read 16 comments paragism

Cover Image Source – Modified The negative interest rate is a very recent phenomenon. The European central bank (ECB) adopted negative interest rate in 2014 to address the eurozone crisis. They made deposit rate (-) 0.1% that time. At present, ECB ha...

This blockchain plugin for Minecraft game is inviting you to the block party

30 May 2020 2 minute read 3 comments paragism

Cover Image Source – A watermelon farm created in Minecraft Minecraft, the survival sandbox video game, was created by Markus Alexej Persson aka Notch, a Swedish programmer and designer, in 2009. He created the game in Java. The game was officially r...

Heard about the permissioned human clones in an Ethereum powered marketplace?

26 May 2020 2 minute read 2 comments paragism

Cover Image Source – Modified Alethea AI is a US-based AI startup founded in 2019. They received their first great success in the last quarter of 2019 when they created a viral deepfake meme video of CZ Binance. They replaced Jet Li’s face with the f...

Litecoin 2.0 – The MimbleWimble Litecoin

23 May 2020 2 minute read 15 comments paragism

Cover Image Source – modified Litecoin network became live in 2011. The source code was very similar to Bitcoin. The primary differences were decreased block generation time (2.5 minutes), increased supply and a different hashing algorithm. Litecoin...

Ethereum is not DeFi but DeFi is Ethereum

21 May 2020 3 minute read 1 comment paragism

Cover Image source DeFi or decentralized finance is the latest buzzword in the crypto world. DeFi was non-existent a few years back and today it is literally a revolution in making. Some defiant individuals with common mindset came up together in the...

Oh! I explored the head-turning sandbox learning tool - Eth.build!

20 May 2020 3 minute read 17 comments paragism

Cover Image Source The pattern of learning is ever-changing. I started to use Yahoo and Google search almost 20 years back and that time I never imagined that this thing would be so huge. Using a search engine was only an experiment for me. That time...

Anonrambling - The social blockchain experiment in Hive

19 May 2020 3 minute read 2 comments paragism

Cover Image Source I always feel a sense of anonymity in a crowd. I’ve been part of such a crowd very often. Thanks to the public transport system of my country which is always crowded. So many people travel daily. They come in close contacts, gaze a...

Ethereum as layer 2 solution for Bitcoin

17 May 2020 2 minute read 6 comments paragism

Cover Image Source Bitcoin’s third halving happened a few days back. Bitcoin block mining reward got reduced from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC. Bitcoin’s transaction fees are already high and with the inflation reduction, the mining fee to process the transa...

Our beloved CoinMarketCap is censored now!

15 May 2020 2 minute read 36 comments paragism

Binance recently did the acquisition of CoinMarketCap on 2nd April, 2020. The rumoured deal was $400 million. Binance is in a fast acquisition spree nowadays. In last a few years, they’ve done quite a few acquisitions. Indian exchange WazirX, JEX, Da...