Tightening Monetary Policy Threatens Decentralized Finance and Crypto

Central banks are plotting to taper their balance sheets by as much as $410 billion for the rest of 2022 to deal with worsening inflation. The post Tightening Monetary Policy Threatens Decentralized Finance and Crypto appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Brinc.fi makes record airdrop on ETH L2

Brinc. fi launched the biggest airdrop campaign ever done over an Ethereum layer 2 network (ETH/USD) on March 28, 2022. It amounts to as much as 1,200,000 gBRC tokens over time for users. BRC stablecoin is immune to inflation The platform’s disruptive stablecoin $BRC increases in price.

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Bitcoin Sideways on Resistance as Inflation Joggles with the Crypto Super Bowl

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Ether’s New Highs Driven by Rising Inflation Can Be A Starting Point of An “Accelerating Rally,” says Goldman Sachs

Crypto assets have been trading in line with inflation breakeven since 2019, said Goldman Sachs in a recent note to its investors. Much like all the assets, inflation is driving the crypto market upwards, wrote the bank's Global Markets managing director Bernhard Rzymelka.

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With So Much Liquidity on the Sidelines, Bitcoin could Hit $100k This Year: Mike Novogratz

Both Bitcoin and gold will go higher, said billionaire Mike Novogratz, the chief executive officer at Galaxy Investment. Amidst the ongoing inflation expectations and other uncertainties in this market, “both gold and Bitcoin are going a lot higher, but gold could easily go up 30% this year,” said Novogratz in his interview with Bloomberg.

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How much Bitcoin is left for retail traders; who pays the price of Bitcoin that institutions control? 

Bitcoin may be a store of value for a few, a hedge against inflation, or digital gold for many. The asset’s institutionalization has made one thing clear, Bitcoin is not for weak hands and it may meThe post How much Bitcoin is left for retail traders; who pays the price of Bitcoin that institutions control?  appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Wall Street Veteran Kickstarts Own Bitcoin Fund With $25m Investment

Wall Street has been all over Bitcoin over the past few months due to the growth in the need for an inflation hedge and a relative stagnation in the price of gold relative to other asset classes. This much was confirmed just recently when a Wall Street veteran and former White House staffer launched a […]

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Jeff Currie Talks Bitcoin, Risk, Inflation Hedge

Risk On, Risk Off Goldman Sachs Head of Commodities Research Jeffrey Currie told Bloomberg TV on Dec. 17 that he sees Bitcoin as a risk-on growth proxy. He compared it to copper and said that overlaying their pricing charts shows that they act in much the same way.

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This Bitcoin Rally Is Much ‘Quieter’ than Previous Cycles

Bitcoin was on the rise before the start of the pandemic, but these global issues, mixed with government inflation from a variety of governments across the world, highlights the necessity of a decentralized and deflationary currency like BTC.

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Mad Money’s Jim Cramer ‘Fixated’ on Buying Bitcoin, Fears Massive Inflation

Jim Cramer, the Mad Money host and The Street co-founder, said he is “fixated” on needing to own bitcoin because he fears a “massive amount of inflation. ” While he owns “so much gold,” he is adamant about leaving a bitcoin inheritance to his children.

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How Much Should We Fear Post-Crisis Debt or Inflation? Feat. Adam Tooze

An economic historian and one of Foreign Policy’s “Top Global Thinkers of the Decade” discusses post-COVID-19 global economics and politics.

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Fed’s Inflation Efforts ‘Likely to End Disastrously’ Says Pomp

Anthony Pompliano said Bitcoin, stocks, gold, and real estate will run ‘much, much higher’ as the Fed inadvertently ramps up inflation.

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Bitcoin Is More Than an Inflation Hedge

While fears of a “great monetary inflation” have driven the recent bitcoin narrative, other aspects like censorship resistance and peaceful protest matter just as much.

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Zilliqa Clarifies Inflation, Proof of Work, and Much Else of Their Blockchain Workings

Following a significant rise in Zilliqa’s value, we recently had another look at this fairly new project. Zilliqa’s team has kindly taken the time to clarify many aspects. We publish.

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Bitcoin’s Annual Inflation Rate to Be Half of World Average in 15 Days

After the halving event, Bitcoin will enjoy an inflation rate much smaller than the world average for fiat currencies. Could Bitcoin’s drop in annual inflation create an increase in demand? After its halving event, the leading cryptocurrency will be much scarcer.

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World Economy More Likely to Suffer Deflationary Shock Than Inflation

The shrinking global economy has all the elements of a deflationary shock—one which hasn’t been seen in decades. There has been much press about the incessant printing of fresh USD happening at the Federal Reserve.

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BTC Isn’t a Hedge Against Stock Market’s Poor Returns or Coronavirus But US Dollar & Inflation: BitGo CEO

In 2020, Bitcoin has been following stock markets religiously, so much so that their correlation went to a new high. But now, the flagship cryptocurrency seems to be making a shift from that. Talking about this, the CEO of Bitcoin custodian BitGo, Mike Belshe explained how the first wave we saw was a lot of […]

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With So Much Debt Around, Investors Need Bitcoin as a Reflation Hedge

Market prices don't reflect rational decisions and central banks can hardly manage inflation. That's where bitcoin comes in.

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Deflationary Coins: Can These Tokens Explode In Price, Or Just Burn Out?

Inflation is a favorite antagonist in the cryptocurrency community. Most investors are probably familiar with the graphs showing how much value the U. S. dollar has lost since 1933, when the Federal Reserve left the gold standard.

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Debunking Bitcoin Myths: "It’s Only for Criminals"

A series of op eds by Kyle Torpey addressing some of the oft-repeated arguments against BitcoinBitcoin’s core value proposition is that it is an uncontrolled, apolitical money.

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Op Ed: We Just Launched the First Cryptocurrency-to-Tax Payment Partnership

Andrei Poliakov is the CEO and co-founder of Coinberry, one of Canada’s premier digital currency platforms. His company is the first in Canada to partner with a government municipality.

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Bitcoin, The Alternative to the Modern Monetary Theory

The problem is not too much money printing, the problem is too little debasement because inflation remains very low. So argued Nouriel Roubini, a left leaning economist who effectively in... The post Bitcoin, The Alternative to the Modern Monetary Theory appeared first on Trustnodes.

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What Is DeFi and Where Does It Leave Bitcoin?

The Bitcoin bull and bear market cycles are a pattern that produces significant developments — when the market is cold, people tend to focus on building the next wave of groundbreaking technology.

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AhrvoDEEX ICO

AhrvoDEEX is a peer-to-peer decentralized equity exchange that enables profitable trading by using multifactor ranking systems and deep learning algorithms that create smart equity scores and price targets to streamline the decision-making process.

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Levblockchain ICO

Our Organization Levblockchain LVE, will help many new, young, passionate people who are trying to work on new technology projects, blockchain projects and products. Many of Greek Developers abandoning because of the country’s educational erroneous infrastructure and frozen economic growth.

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Forget Forbes Billionaires List, Here Are The Real World’s Richest People

A list of the world’s richest people has been released by Forbes again (yawn), and what a surprise it’s a mix of the usual suspects. While I enjoy gazing at weird close-ups of Mr. Bezos and Mr.

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Is It Time to Take an Initiative to Decrease Bitcoin’s Block Size Seriously?

Whilst debate raged throughout the Bitcoin community over whether the block size limit should be increased and how, Luke-jr for years stood out for arguing the exact opposite position.

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Zcash Plans To Reduce Inflation With Harmony Mining

Zcash, a prominent privacy coin, has announced plans to reduce its rapid inflation rate. Currently, the coin is experiencing inflation at a rate of 0.1% per day. This may not sound like much, but the rate compounds dramatically over the course of a year, and in absolute terms, the network is issuing miners $400,000 worth… The post Zcash Plans To Reduce Inflation With Harmony Mining appeared first on UNHASHED.

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Op Ed: Bitcoin’s Energy Consumption Is Neither Frivolous Nor Excessive

As the CEO of Hut 8, one of North America’s largest cryptocurrency miners and the world’s largest publicly traded cryptocurrency miner, I’m often asked questions about energy consumption in the mining of cryptocurrency.

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Op Ed: In Defense of Bitcoin: A Response to Nouriel Roubini

Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.

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Op Ed: The Adoption Fallacy of Decentralized Applications

It’s no secret that DApps have struggled to achieve adoption; in fact, according to stateofthedapps. com, the most popular DApp currently has just 1,811 daily active users (DAUs).

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Battle of the Privacycoins: Zcash Is Groundbreaking (If You Trust It)

Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these system to work, it comes with a significant downside: privacy is often quite limited.

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Details of One of Bitcoin’s Nastiest Bugs Yet

For well over a year, versions of Bitcoin Core — Bitcoin’s leading software implementation — contained a severe software bug. The bug was fixed with Bitcoin Core 0.

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Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad

Coin holder voting, both for governance of technical features, and for more extensive use cases like deciding who runs validator nodes and who receives money from development bounty funds, is unfortunately continuing to be popular, and so it seems worthwhile for me to write another post explaining why I (and Vlad Zamfir and others) do not consider it wise for Ethereum (or really, any base-layer blockchain) to start adopting these kinds of mechanisms in a tightly coupled form in any significant way.

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The Genesis Files: With Bit Gold, Szabo Was Inches Away From Inventing Bitcoin

As his Hungarian parents had fled post-war Soviet regime to settle in the United States, Nick Szabo came to call the Californian Bay area of the 1990s his home. Here, he was among the first to frequent the in-person “Cypherpunk” meetings organized by Timothy May, Eric Hughes and other founding members of the collective of cryptographers, programmers and privacy activists centered around the ’90s mailing list of the same name.

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Jeff Garzik on His Newest Venture and Keeping Time With an Evolving Space

Jeff Garzik first tuned the world into his latest venture in the fall of 2017. The Bloq co-founder unveiled Metronome (MET), a cryptocurrency he founded alongside Matthew Roszak, at the Las Vegas Money 20/20 conference in late October, and the project caught the attention of Bloomberg and Fortune at the time.

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The Genesis Files: If Bitcoin Had a First Draft, Wei Dai’s B-Money Was It

All Cypherpunks value privacy; it’s basically the founding principle of the collective of cryptographers, academics, developers and activists grouped around the 1990s mailing list by the same name.

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