Vitalik Buterin is a famous cryptocurrency and blockchain developer, programmer, entrepreneur, and co-founder of the Ethereum network. He is a notable speaker in the cryptocurrency industry advocating for many blockchain-based projects and participating in numerous crypto-related events around the globe....

Have you ever thought of buying shares in a tech company to enjoy a passive income? This kind of getting revenue is one of the numerous spheres democratized by blockchain. Nowadays, it's not a hard task to buy some blockchain ETFs (exchange-traded funds). These assets are stocks of the companies employing...

Those who want to simply exchange one cryptocurrency for another as soon as possible will barely be satisfied with what the regular cryptocurrency exchange offers. The one will have to sign up, probably get through the KYC procedure, the difference between KYC and AML, pay trading fees, most likely...

Cryptocurrencies are changing the landscape of financial opportunities. Some of the good ideas had quite poor embodiment but they can flourish now with the help of cryptocurrencies. One of the best-known examples is international transactions that became much cheaper and faster with blockchain-based...

Cryptocurrencies can be a store of value, a cross-border payment means, a trading instrument, and so on, and so forth. But a poor choice of wallet can easily ruin the entire journey. Despite the international hype, cryptocurrencies are still at the early stage of adoption. Unlike national currencies,...

There are obvious obstacles that delay the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies and blockchain-based platforms in general, namely price volatility (in the case of cryptocurrencies), and poor scalability (low capacity of the networks also known as the bottleneck problem). Nevertheless, scalability is set...

Have you ever asked yourself why blockchain is still not a regular part of our lives? Big companies are investing money in blockchain research, they implement blockchain solutions, smart and successful people talk about DLT (distributed ledger technologies) as something revolutionary, we hear that the...

Have you ever heard of "smart cities"? That's what blockchain technology applied in the urbanism sphere is going to give us. The light bulbs won't waste energy when no one is around. The drivers won't waste time on the search for a vacant parking space, as the system will provide available options to...

As the current pandemic reveals, hospitals are not prepared properly for emergencies. It seems that the national healthcare systems are not prepared for any extraordinary situations. Wall Street Journal has pointed at the way blockchain platforms could improve the situation so the hospitals would receive...

In the days when millions of people have to communicate with colleagues, friends, and family members distantly via video conferences apps, cybercriminals are looking for new opportunities. Some people in need of socialization found their devices blocked by the villains demanding to pay a ransom in BTC....

Today we will speak of downsides of centralized human-ran services in the context of recent Ticketmaster scandalous refund policy changes. What Happened? Why Do We Need Blockchain Solutions? Existing Blockchain Ticket Sellers Conclusion What Happened? As public events could be dangerous due...

As we have written earlier, cryptocurrencies seem to grow stronger in the wake of the financial crisis. Now that the market is strong it uses this strength to help people. Bitcoin was created as a remedy for the ill post-crisis economy. These days the diverse cryptocurrency market is already providing...

The developers created the most creepy cryptocurrency in the world - CoronaCoin, and its price directly depends on human lives. The faster the coronavirus spreads and the more people get sick and die from the disease, the faster the cost of the token takes off. However, the goal of creating crypto is...

Back in 2017, stable cryptocurrencies (stablecoins) seemed exotic against the background of volatile cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, then in 2019 they were at the center of world political events: the defeat of the Libra project by the US government, the international condemnation of non-government...

All cryptocurrency assets can be divided into 2 types based on their operating principle: Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS). The concept of Proof of Stake (PoS) involves a type of mining, where instead of the computing power of the participants, you just need to store crypto assets in your...

Any currency, whether fiat or crypto, can be considered as a means of exchange, transfer or preservation of capital only if it is fungible. The fungibility of cryptocurrencies can be a key factor in their adoption at the global level. However, a new kind of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) has recently appeared,...

With the introduction of new rules for regulating cryptocurrencies, the so-called “Virgin Bitcoins” are growing in price. Many institutional investors and other funds are willing to pay 20% more than the market price for them. What is the reason for such an overpayment? According to the new rules developed...

The largest by capitalization altcoin came out on top in stablecoin reserves, ahead of the Omni system on which it was originally based. Tether transferred 300 million USDT tokens from Omni to the Ethereum blockchain. Token migration was carried out with the participation of an unnamed third party....

Davy Rudt, one of the specialists of the Efficient Group, said that cryptocurrency will soon displace traditional currency from circulatiofin and destroy banks. Is it truly so? In fact, such a scenario has a right to exist. Changes in the financial system are inevitable, and all because of the mismatch...

American financial regulators announced their readiness to approve a new cryptocurrency derivative. Will Ethereum reach its historical maximum or the price will dramatically drop? Let’s take a look now. Ethereum Futures Heath Tarbert, Chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC),...