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Change is Constant at Coinbase
By:
Nate Urbas
6 April 2019
“We’re proud to be the first full-service, regulated, comprehensively insured, and 100% offline staking provider in crypto” Sam McIngvale, Head of Product at Coinbase Custody Coinbase is one of the longest operating and most well-known exchanges in the cryptocurrency business. Starting in 2012, the company has progressed to be among the leading exchanges. While initially starting out offering exchange services, the company has since ventured into multiple areas of business. Their latest venture is into providing staking as a service...
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Bitwise Shines Light on the Crypto Market ?
By:
Nate Urbas
4 April 2019
As part of their efforts to launch the first bitcoin ETF, Bitwise delivered a presentation to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The presentation contained extensive research carried out by key personnel in Bitwise Asset Management and delved deep into the bitcoin market to reveal several findings that have shaken the crypto world to its core. In light of their findings, leading cryptocurrency data provider CoinMarketCap has admitted that inaccuracies highlighted in their data are indeed correct. Apart from data...
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Are Cryptocurrencies Correlated? ? Binance Finds Out…
By:
Nate Urbas
1 April 2019
A recent study released by Binance Research, the research arm of the largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has delved into the question of whether the returns of the major cryptocurrencies are correlated with one another. This is a pertinent question for anyone who is in any way exposed to the prices of cryptocurrencies. The question is especially relevant to those who need to take such associations into account when exposing themselves to the prices of various cryptocurrencies. This post...
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Is Institutional Investment in Crypto Still Relevant in 2019?
By:
Nate Urbas
27 March 2019
2019 kicked off with high expectations for institutional investment entering the cryptocurrency space. Exchanges such as Bakkt and ErisX were seemingly setting up to revolutionize the industry and pave the way for huge capital inflows. We are yet to see these exchanges launch with both still awaiting regulatory approval. Furthermore, we have just seen CBOE wind down its bitcoin futures after months of dwindling volume.d Are we taking a step back instead of forward when it comes to institutional investors?...
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Does Bitmain’s $80 Million Investment Mark the Bear Market Turnaround Point?
By:
Nate Urbas
25 March 2019
CoinDesk has recently reported that according to mining farm operators in South West China, Bitmain is setting to invest hardware to the tune of $80 to $100 million for their own cryptocurrency mining operations. The company which typically derives the vast majority of its revenue from the sale of such hardware may be sensing changing conditions given its purported willingness to dedicate this hardware to its own mining. The price of cryptocurrency market leader bitcoin is down 80% from...
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Scaling Bitcoin and Blockchain – The Biggest Solutions to Scalability
By:
Nate Urbas
22 March 2019
How to make Bitcoin and blockchain scalable has long been an important point of discussion. Many see Bitcoin and the blockchain technology that it runs upon as having little value if they fail to reach the speed offered by other technologies. As it stands, it takes ten minutes for a block to be added to the Bitcoin blockchain. With many envisioning blockchains being applied to enterprise use cases, developers are constantly striving to come up with the best solution...
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JPM Coin Versus Facebook Coin
By:
Nate Urbas
20 March 2019
We have recently seen the behemoths of business take a significant interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. The big four accounting firms have all launched divisions dedicated to blockchain while firms that have previously renounced the use case for cryptocurrencies decide to launch their own. Both JP Morgan and Facebook, two companies among the largest publicly traded companies in the world, have both announced their plans to launch cryptocurrencies. In this latest Cryptolinks post, we delve into how similar the...
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Blockchain and Gaming – Can it work?
By:
Nate Urbas
17 March 2019
Gaming is a $135 billion global industry. But can blockchain have any part to play in this? The answer from Ripple is a big yes with the recent announcement of a $100 million fund to spur development of gaming applications to be built upon blockchain technology. The fund is going to be overseen by the recently forged Forte company which was just established in February. The Forte company was started by Kevin Chou who has been a prominent figure in...
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Can Binance launch the first dominant decentralized exchange (DEX)?
By:
Nate Urbas
14 March 2019
Binance quickly rose to dominate the cryptocurrency exchange business. The exchange only launched in July of 2017 despite most other major exchanges launching in 2012 or earlier. Binance completed its ICO in July 2017 raising $15 million to fund the development of its exchange. By January of 2018, it had already progressed to the point where it accounted for the largest amount of trading volume among top cryptocurrency exchanges. Binance has been expanding into several other areas of business such...
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About The #DeleteCoinbase Movement
By:
Nate Urbas
12 March 2019
Coinbase is one of the most well known and longest operating cryptocurrency exchanges. It is one of the most liquid exchanges and is often the first place that newcomers go when they are making their first cryptocurrency purchase. However, recently a social trend has been starting against Coinbase advocating that users delete their Coinbase account. Known as #DeleteCoinbase, this trend has picked up some momentum but is it a legitimate threat to the dominant position of Coinbase in or is...
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