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December 2021

Telegram’s Toncoin Partners With ‘Donate’ for Subscription Payments

Telegram’s Toncoin Partners With ‘Donate’ for Subscription Payments

Telegram’s brainchild, TON Blockchain has partnered with the social media giant’s verified payment protocol ‘Donate’ to use its native token ‘Toncoin’ for subscription payments, amongst other things. “TON Community is proud to announce that the TON blockchain and Donate, a Telegram-verified payments service, have become official partners,” the blockchain protocol said on its official Telegram handle. “Soon, […]

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Ethereum Gas Fees Are Currently 62% Cheaper Than Last Month

Ethereum Gas Fees Are Currently 62% Cheaper Than Last Month

Since November 9, 2021, or 46 days ago, transaction fees on the Ethereum network have been cut by more than half the rate they were on that day. At the time, the average fee to move ethereum was $62.84 per transfer and since then, the fees have dropped 62.85% to $23.34 per transaction. From $62

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Cardano, Polkadot Advance as Crypto Market Rallies Ahead of Christmas

Cardano, Polkadot Advance as Crypto Market Rallies Ahead of Christmas

Thin liquidity leading to the holiday season led to a brief revival of most cryptocurrencies. A “Santa rally” ahead of Christmas gripped crypto markets on Friday with most large-cap coins showing gains over 24 hours. Bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) and binance coin (BNB), three of the largest cryptocurrencies by market value, added almost 4%, setting

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REFLECTING ON THE YEAR IN BITCOIN: OUR PROGRESS AND WHAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED

REFLECTING ON THE YEAR IN BITCOIN: OUR PROGRESS AND WHAT WE TAKE FOR GRANTED

The progress that the Bitcoin community made in 2021 reminds us to take nothing for granted, and to make the changes we want to see next year. Society has been taking a lot of things for granted, and arguably this is why we’re here now. The globe is filled with overly-panicked populations, governments are conducting some

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Chinese tech giant Baidu says it could be 6 years before it can fully deliver its metaverse

Chinese tech giant Baidu says it could be 6 years before it can fully deliver its metaverse

KEY POINTS Beijing-based Baidu plans to hold its annual developers’ event Monday in the virtual world of its metaverse app, XiRang. However, at a preview event Tuesday, the executive in charge of XiRang downplayed expectations by noting how many aspects weren’t yet up to par. “The metaverse, while a buzzword in the global tech and

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Dogecoin Foundation works with Ethereum co-founder on DOGE staking

Dogecoin Foundation works with Ethereum co-founder on DOGE staking

The new DOGE PoS version aims to allow anyone to get rewards for their contribution to running the network. The Dogecoin Foundation, a non-profit organization behind the meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin (DOGE), is working on a staking mechanism in collaboration with Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. The Foundation on Thursday released its Dogecoin Trailmap or a “dog-walk” that the Dogecoin Foundation

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Accounting Firm PWC’s Hong Kong Branch Purchases Land in The Sandbox Metaverse

Accounting Firm PWC’s Hong Kong Branch Purchases Land in The Sandbox Metaverse

On Thursday, Pricewaterhouse Coopers’ (PWC) Hong Kong unit announced that it purchased a land site in The Sandbox metaverse. The PWC Hong Kong branch will be the first internationally recognized professional services brand to enter The Sandbox metaverse. PWC Hong Kong Enters the Metaverse While land located next to Snoop Dogg’s Sandbox plot has sold for

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Binance Coin to Burn Automatically Rather Than Quarterly

Binance Coin to Burn Automatically Rather Than Quarterly

Binance Coin (BNB), the digital currency of the Binance ecosystem will no longer be subjected to a quarterly burn as the exchange has introduced an automatic burning schedule to replace the former. According to the exchange, the auto-burn has the same underlying goal to help depress the circulating BNB in supply which is currently pegged at

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Turkey President Erdogan to Send Crypto Law to Parliament: Report

Turkey President Erdogan to Send Crypto Law to Parliament: Report

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told reporters that the law would be sent to the national assembly “without delay.” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will send a crypto law to the country’s parliament, two European publications, ABC Gazetesi and the Daily Sabbah reported Friday. “The law is ready, we will send it to the Parliament soon without

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BITCOIN AND BIASES: FUND MANAGERS EATING CROW AND WELCOMING HORSES IN 2021

BITCOIN AND BIASES: FUND MANAGERS EATING CROW AND WELCOMING HORSES IN 2021

The collective perspective on bitcoin has shifted, with many once naysayers flipping their opinions this year. OVERCOMING BIASES WITH A BIT OF CROW “Eating crow” is a “colloquial idiom, used in some English-speaking countries, that means humiliation by admitting having been proven wrong after taking a strong position. The crow is a carrion-eater that is presumably

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