Finally, as part of Bitcoin’s supply management system or monetary policy, the reward for mining a block isset to be cut in half, from 6.25 BTC per block mined after the most recent halving in May 2020 to 3.125 BTC around April 2024. The bullishness around mining, even in the face of...
Bitcoin's market dominance stood at 52% at the end of March, which is a seismic share of an arena that features thousands of altcoins. This means that when BTC moves, altcoins generally move to remain in its orbit. What's curious is that while Bitcoin is trading at a h...
DePIN has beautifully disrupted the web-2 paradigm of centralized dominance by seamlessly combining network utility with decentralized ownership. During one of his coffee breaks, Alex showed a friend the DePIN sector map on his phone. The map (displayed again below) visually represents the surge of...
Aptos enters the ring with some heavyweights already in the fight for high-performance layer-1 dominance. Let’s see how it compares to the current champions: Aptos vs. Solana Sponsored Sponsored Solanaholds the belt for raw speed, thanks to its parallel processing engine. However, its reign ...
Three protocols are vying for dominance of the Ethereum Layer 2 market and its$52 billionworth of so-called decentralized finance (DeFi): Arbitrum (ARB), Optimism (OP), and Base. Bullish investors even see an opportunity for layer 2s to displace some of Ethereum’s$220 billionmarket cap ...
It took Nixon to go to China and it took Trump to end white male dominance. The big change in the US is that women now feel empowered, maybe even obligated, to come forward and tell their stories. And they are telling them. And bad behavior is being outed and long overdue changes ...
Saxie, think about how DRM etc fails at limiting copies, and BTC is architected to be not copyable, only by making ownership something no govt. can title does BTC’s “ownership” of digital come close to being possible. It’s yours ONLY if someone doesn’t take it. Thats a close as...
The rise of powerful tech companies like Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook has happened so quickly that it is hard to gauge a precedent for theirdominance, particularly considering their dominance is over the Internet, a completely novel medium of communication. ...
DePIN has beautifully disrupted the web-2 paradigm of centralized dominance by seamlessly combining network utility with decentralized ownership. During one of his coffee breaks, Alex showed a friend the DePIN sector map on his phone. The map (displayed again below) visually represents the surge of...