Day: February 8, 2023

ConsenSys founder ‘bullish’ on Ethereum following crypto winter performance

With Ethereum showing resilience through the latest cryptocurrency winter, Consensus founder Joe Lubin says he’s ‘bullish’ over Ether’s (ETH) relative stability through compounding macro events.  Cointelegraph Magazine editor Andrew Fenton spoke to Lubin at the Web3 event Building Blocks 23 in Tel Aviv, Israel, for an all-encompassing interview around the current state and future of the Ethereum ecosystem landscape. The co-founder of the preeminent smart contract blockchain protocol touched on a number of subjects, including ETH’s market performance over the past year. A myriad of macro events, including the collapse of…

Happy Bitcoin anniversary, Tesla — Elon Musk firm still hodls 9.7K BTC

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Bitcoin (BTC) held by Tesla is still worth 33% less than its 2021 purchase price, the latest data shows. Two years to the day that Elon Musk’s firm added BTC to its balance sheet, most gains continue to evade the auto manufacturer. Tesla and Bitcoin: From $1.5 billion to $225 million Bitcoin and Tesla have proven an explosive combination since Musk announced that it would buy $1.5 billion in BTC. The move in February 2021 came as BTC/USD was on its way to its first all-time high of the year,…

Bitcoin Price in the Red for Fifth Straight Day

Chiliz, the blockchain-based sports token that allows fans to own tokens tied to respective teams, has validated the genesis block of its new layer-1 blockchain, according to a blog post. The Chiliz blockchain is EVM-compatible (Ethereum Virtual Machine) and will focus on non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Play2Earn games, and Watch2Earn sports events as well as live event ticketing payments. The Chiliz token (CHZ), which currently has a market capitalization of $1.13 billion, is said to be the “fuel” for the newly-released blockchain. Token holders will receive rewards for staking (delegating) on…

The war among blockchains should stop to speed up adoption

We all remember what the 2008 subprime mortgage debacle was like. The situation was so destructive and almost brought down the global banking system that words like subprime mortgages, credit default swaps and collateralized debt obligations — which are normally part of investment banker’s jargon — became part of the general vocabulary. Because of this in 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto released the very first Bitcoin genesis block, or block zero. Embedded in it was a quote, “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.” This was roughly at…

Crypto Classification Seeks to Make Industry More Welcoming to TradFi Participants

The Global Crypto Classification Standard, for example, categorizes assets on three levels. The first deals with networks and protocols, be they cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Monero, etc), smart contract platforms (for example, Ethereum, Solana), decentralized apps (such as Aave, Uniswap) and so on. The second groups assets by industry and sector, including centralized finance, decentralized finance (DeFi), metaverse, identity and infrastructure. And the third level deals identifies the nature of the assets: a cryptocurrency, a native currency of a particular network, a stablecoin, a derivative token, or a governance or utility token,…

CoinGecko and 21Shares propose global crypto classification standard

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Major cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinGecko and crypto investment firm 21Shares have joined forces to launch a global standard for classifying various types of cryptocurrencies. On Feb. 8, CoinGecko and 21Shares released The Global Crypto Classification Standard report, proposing a uniform method to categorize crypto assets. The effort aims to help investors and regulators better understand the specifics of each asset class in crypto, including potential failures like those seen by the industry in 2022. “Since Bitcoin’s inception around 13 years ago, thousands of unique crypto assets and protocols have emerged,…

Crypto VC Firm A16z’s Role in Uniswap Vote Sparks Debate Over Concentration of Voting Power

According to a tweet from Lazzarin, a16z’s head of engineering, “We delegate ~40m votes to outside groups (with no conditions on how they vote).” Lazzarin did not specify the full size of a16z’s UNI holdings and neither did the representative that spoke to CoinDesk. But based on Lazzarin’s tweets, a16z owns at least 55 million UNI altogether, counting the tokens it has delegated. The a16z representative told CoinDesk, moreover, that its agreements with delegates theoretically allow the firm to re-claim its delegated tokens should it so choose. Source

Musk’s Twitter Payment Vision in Tune With Fiat-Crypto Gateway Alchemy Pay – Sponsored Bitcoin News

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sponsored Elon Musk’s Twitter has fallen into revenue difficulties, hoping to find new sources of revenue outside the original $5 billion a year advertising business model. According to a recent Financial Times report, Musk is betting this ambition for revenue growth on the payments business. He has said he wants Twitter to become a “universal app” that combines information, payments and commerce. As part of the plan, Twitter intends to provide fintech services, such as peer-to-peer transactions, savings accounts and debit cards. Previously, Twitter has been testing the payment business…

Russia’s Gazprombank recommends slow CBDC rollout fearing loss of income

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Gazprombank, a subsidiary of the leading Russian government-owned gas company, Gazprom, publicly proposed giving banks more time before implementing the digital ruble. The country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) project has been accelerating due to global financial sanctions amid geopolitical tensions.  As reported by local media on Feb. 7, Gazprombank, one of the 15 banks participating in the CBDC pilot, issued a public statement with a suggestion to proceed with caution regarding traditional banks’ interests: “It is imperative that banks take measures to mitigate potential losses. Hence, it is crucial to recognize…