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The Crypto Industry’s Growing Dependency on Centralization
By:
Nate Urbas
8 May 2020
The viability of cryptocurrency and blockchain centers on their capacity to deliver what conventional systems lack. These technologies have earned their statuses as disruptive innovations because they offer a distributed and transparent way of creating new assets, storing information, verifying the validity of data, and much more. In other words, cryptocurrency and its underlying technology owe their burgeoning popularity to the elements of decentralization that govern their operations. However, this notion is increasingly becoming redundant even as both technologies push...
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How the Coronavirus Pandemic Altered Crypto Trends
By:
Nate Urbas
29 April 2020
From what I have learned so far, it is safe to say that the situation of things in the crypto market is looking less chaotic compared to the traditional financial terrain. Even though cryptocurrencies had performed better in the first two months of 2020, the price slump of other major markets points out that the crypto industry is doing just fine. While this is a given, I can’t help but notice some trends that have emerged as a result of...
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All The Time Crypto Won And Lost Since 2020 Began
By:
Nate Urbas
21 April 2020
It is hard to imagine that we are not even halfway done with 2020, considering the influx of developments and rollercoaster moments that we have had to endure. Funny enough, this sentiment is not peculiar to the crypto industry. Every sector has had its fair share of drama in 2020. However, in this article, I will fixate on the highs and lows of the crypto industry from the beginning of 2020 till date. What Are Those Times That Crypto Faltered...
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BTC, BCH and BSV Reward Halving Attract Convoluting Expectations
By:
Nate Urbas
13 April 2020
The next 30 days is building up to be a crucial timeframe for the crypto market. This assertion stems from the uncertainties surrounding the long-term impacts of the reward halving recently implemented on the Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV blockchains and the more prominent one slated for the Bitcoin network in a month's time. As expected, experts have made known their expectations, even as market trends continue to shift in favor of crypto investors. In this article, I will explore...
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How Much Impact Can Blockchain Make to Reduce the Impact of The Coronavirus Pandemic?
By:
Nate Urbas
4 April 2020
The pandemonium trailing the uncontrolled spread of Coronavirus has opened our eyes to the state of our healthcare systems. The chaotic state of the global medical supply chain, the inaccessibility of accurate health statistics, and the influx of fake news are some of the issues stifling the fight against the novel virus. As such, it has become clear that traditional health systems are redundant and ineffective when dealing with crises of this proportion. At this junction, it is imperative to...
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The Crypto Industry Shows Great Strengths in The Face of The Shrinking Global Economy
By:
Nate Urbas
27 March 2020
The world is currently trying to come up with effective ways to reduce the spread and eventually eradicate the Covid-19 disease. Amid the elusiveness of this task, the global economy has taken a nosedive with investors and businesses opting for the exit door, in what has marked an unprecedented sell-off of assets. And while a majority of crypto optimists had hoped that digital assets would withstand this economic strain, the crypto market has shown unexpected correlation to traditional markets, which...
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The Implications of The Bitcoin Market’s Response to Oil Price War and Coronavirus
By:
Nate Urbas
21 March 2020
As a crypto participant, you must be used to the drastic price swings of cryptocurrencies. However, crypto’s current volatile price trend is peculiar as it coincides with a plethora of events that have caused economies to stumble. For one, the spread of the Covid-19 has had a devastating effect on the global market. To make matters worse, the oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia has kicked off a domino effect that has seen markets that had, to an...
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Crypto Custody Market and The Institutional Investor Narrative Are Gaining Momentum
By:
Nate Urbas
12 March 2020
The traditional financial landscape has set up different infrastructures to ensure that individuals have little say in the generation, distribution, and storage of assets. While this is the status quo in the conventional financial sector, the crypto space, on the other hand, proposes and implements a varying model. Here, every participant has a say in the creation of digital assets and has the liberty to determine the type of storage system that best suits them. In the financial sector, this...
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Coinbase Many Wins in The Mainstream Race and Other Developments Molding the Stance of Crypto In 2020
By:
Nate Urbas
4 March 2020
There are lots of factors limiting crypto’s mainstream movement. One of such is the apparent complexities associated with the technology, particularly when it comes to owning, storing, and transacting digital assets. New entrants have to get acquainted with a lot of terminologies and strange systems before they can start enjoying the benefits of participating in the crypto market. The crypto space must look for ways to simplify the processes involved in owning and spending crypto before the technology can attain...
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The Narratives Projecting Success for The Blockchain Industry In 2020
By:
Nate Urbas
25 February 2020
After the hype that followed the emergence of blockchain in the mainstream investment landscape in 2017 through 2018, the industry went back to basics in 2019 when reality dawned that the technology was far from being able to deliver on a majority of promises heralded as potential applications. However, during this somewhat bleak period, there emerged new narratives that have rekindled blockchain’s prominence in the global market and have set it up for success in 2020. In this article, I...
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