Cryptocurrency Wars
I am part of the generation often called the Baby Boomers. We are heading into our retirement years now in large numbers. Baby Boomers for the most part are not familiar with concepts like Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. They have heard these terms, but it all sounds kind of "crypto" to them. While there are exceptions for sure, the new technologies....
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Ethereum (ETH) stands poised to reign supreme in what analysts are calling the “upcoming stablecoin wars.” Bloomberg Intelligence crypto market analyst, Jamie Coutts, has confidently predicted the cryptocurrency’s victory, citing its expansive ecosystem and notable performance across crucial network-adoption metrics. Coutts, an authoritative voice in the crypto landscape, conveyed his insights on the matter through […]
Star Wars tops entertainment headlines as the perennial favorite gets a thumbs-up from audiences around the world. As a cultural phenomenon with an international audience its record-breaking ticket sales comes at a time of diverging global social mood. Bitcoin’s prospects amid the current mood trend are examined. At the time of writing (Dec 25), Star Wars: The Force Awakens has generated $765mil revenue from worldwide tickets sales after a two-week run in theaters. Although worldwide sales are not setting any record, the movie will release in China during January 2016, and combined with....
StarColl set to list a private Star Wars nonfungible token collection on its marketplace. StarColl, an NFT marketplace and collection exclusively dedicated to one of the largest private Star Wars memorabilia collections, is set to list digital twins of its catalog.According to an announcement on Tuesday, early registration will begin on May 4 — “Star Wars Day.”The Star Wars collection will feature over 800 limited edition collectibles from the iconic sci-fi movie franchise released as nonfungible tokens on the StarColl marketplace. Each StarColl NFT is a digital twin of an actual physical....
If nation-states held their reserves in Bitcoin, instead of fiat, they would be less incentivized to go to war, says chief strategy officer at the Human Rights Foundation, Alex Gladstein. Alex Gladstein, the chief strategy officer at the Human Rights Foundation, says that if Bitcoin was adopted as a global reserve currency, nation-states would be less incentivized to start wars. According to Gladstein, the United States was able to sustain its "forever wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan mainly by borrowing capital. That was possible largely because of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy,....
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