Ethan Lou shares experience of crypto conference in North Korea

Ethan Lou shares experience of crypto conference in North Korea

When North Korea announced a crypto conference back in 2018, Canadian journalist Ethan Lou jumped at the opportunity to see what the country’s crypto scene looked like. He encountered many surprises, including being introduced as a presenter to a North Korean audience.  According to Lou, he went there with eight…

Ethereum burning spikes to new high on Yuga Labs’ NFT hype

Ethereum burning spikes to new high on Yuga Labs’ NFT hype

The burning rate of Ethereum (ETH) has spiked to new all-time high (ATH) levels following the heavily anticipated sale of tokenized land plots in Yuga Labs’ upcoming Metaverse project the “Otherside.” Yuga Labs, the creators of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) sold 55,000 virtual land NFTs dubbed “Otherdeeds” on…

Go green or go home? What the NY State mining moratorium could mean for crypto industry

Go green or go home? What the NY State mining moratorium could mean for crypto industry

On April 26, the State of New York put itself at the forefront of the regulatory struggle with crypto, as its Assembly voted for a two-year moratorium on crypto mining operations that use energy generated by fossil-fuel power plants. Depending on how one looks at it, this development could either…

ETH gas price surges as Yuga Labs cashes in $300M selling Otherside NFTs

ETH gas price surges as Yuga Labs cashes in $300M selling Otherside NFTs

While the community was witness to the largest NFT mint yet, Ethereum (ETH) gas prices rose to unprecedented levels, in addition to users experiencing failed transactions due to blockchain bottlenecks. Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs launched a sale of Otherdeed non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that represents digital land deeds…

Liquidity has driven DeFi’s growth to date, so what’s the future outlook?

Liquidity has driven DeFi’s growth to date, so what’s the future outlook?

In mid-February 2020, the total value locked within decentralized finance (DeFi) applications first exceeded $1 billion. Fueled by the DeFi summer of 2020, it wouldn’t even take a year before it multiplied 20-fold to reach $20 billion and only another ten months to reach $200 billion. Given the pace of…

Smartphone text prediction guesses crypto hodler’s seed phrase

Smartphone text prediction guesses crypto hodler’s seed phrase

Seed phrases, a random combination of words from the Bitcoin Improvement Protocol (BIP) 39 list of 2048 words, act as one of the primary layers of security against unauthorized access to a user’s crypto holdings. But, what happens when your “smart” phone’s predictive typing remembers and suggests the words next…