Can Fedimints Help Bitcoin Scale To The World?
A developer and an entrepreneur hope to bring community-based custody for Bitcoin to billions of people around the world through Fedimints.I. E-Cash Strikes BackThirty three years ago, the computer scientist David Chaum launched e-cash, a new way for people to spend digital dollars without revealing their personal information.Users plugged their bank card into a terminal to deposit traditional digital dollars into Chaum’s bank — called DigiCash — which issued in return e-cash IOU tokens called “cyberbucks.” These tokens were bearer instruments, and could be traded privately across the....
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On March 16, the protocol engineer at Makerdao and co-founder of the software and design firm Bellwood Studios, Hexonaut, announced a proposal to use real world assets (RWAs) in order to scale the decentralized finance (defi) protocol Makerdao. Hexonaut insists the bull market was good, but “the time is passing” and he believes Makerdao needs “to take the next step and begin integrating with the real world at scale.”
Makerdao Community Proposal Discusses Integrating Real World Assets Into the CDP Equation
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Bitcoin Price remains in a narrow trading range. CCN presents 2014's final Bitcoin price technical analysis report after a gruelling year of decline. Bitcoin Price Analysis. Time of analysis: 10h00 UTC. Bitstamp 4-Hour Chart. Bitstamp made a slight ascent to the 4-hour 20MA before falling away - again in a slight manner. BTC-China 4-Hour Chart. Like Bitstamp log-scale, like BTC-China arithmetic-scale. Nothing to see here, folks, let's move on... BTC-China 4-Hour Chart - Long-Term Log-Scale. The 20MA and 50MA are annotated to emphasize price wave articulation in this 4-hour log-scale chart.....
The Iron Titanium token (TITAN) value has quaked a great deal after the project suffered from what the team called “the world’s first large-scale crypto bank run.” After touching a high of $64 per token on Wednesday, the project slid to near zero and remained worthless on Thursday afternoon. Iron Finance Claims Project Suffered from a ‘Bank Run’ The world of decentralized finance (defi) is exciting but it also comes with major risks stemming from smart contract exploits, flash loans, and alleged bank runs. That was the case for the Iron Finance project, as the....
A CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) NFT is an NFT with a copyright in which the owner permits anyone to use the NFT for commercial gain. What are the future possibilities with CC0 NFTs?The world of NFTs is in its infancy. As artists and creators explore ways to create and monetize their content, products and platforms are emerging to offer frameworks for creators to operate and build their brands, and monetize them.It is still the early days for the nonfungible token world. The last couple of years have seen an economic model emerge for artists and creators. With every new business model, there....