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Tether CTO Praises Company’s Own Coin, Takes A Shot At Others

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 7:23 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Earlier this month, at the CryptoCompare Digital Asset Summit that was held in London, the CTO of Tether, Paolo Ardoino, gave a public statement about the future of DeFi. According to Arduino, the DeFi industry as a whole is facing a risk to its entire system, due to the fact that it only leverages the value from the cryptocurrency industry.Low-Brow TacticsIn a move that sounds suspiciously like an attempt to slander one of Tether’s rival stablecoins, the Dai, he talked about the volatility of the crypto industry as a whole.

Bitcoin Codebase Preserved for 1,000 Years in Archive Under Arctic Ice

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 6:55 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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A snapshot of the Bitcoin codebase will be encoded onto film reels and stored for a thousand years under the arctic ice in Svalbard, Norway. The move is part of the GitHub Archive Program, with a mission to preserve open-source software, for future generations to learn about the culture of today.GitHub has partnered with institutions such as the Software Heritage Foundation, Arctic World Archive, and Oxford University’s Bodleian Library to ensure the long-term preservation of code, which could otherwise be abandoned, forgotten or lost.With the ephemeral nature of much of

Bitcoin and Visa Transactions Plunge But Pizza Deliveries Are Up

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 3:22 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Online purchases using Bitcoin (BTC), Visa, and some retail apps are down for the first quarter of 2020, spanning cryptocurrency and fiat currency transactions.With many around the world self-quarantining or otherwise recommended to stay inside to prevent the spread of COVID-19, one might assume there would be an increase in online purchases and deliveries. Yet with unemployment on the rise and an uncertain economic future, it seems consumers want to save their money rather than spend it.Bitcoin transactions rivaling those during crypto winterThe crypto market is not exempt from this

How to Trade Bitcoin Using Leverage and Not Worry About Liquidation

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Time Stamp: April 1, 2020 2:41 AM - Modified On: August 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Institutional traders have long known the benefits of derivatives trading, including leverage and hedging. By trading options markets, one can predetermine maximum gains and losses, even with volatile assets like Bitcoin (BTC). Despite being far more complex, such instruments allow traders to generate gains independent of what happens over the next weeks or even months, which is essential for traders’ peace of mind to achieve optimal performance.Retail traders have only recently begun using derivatives, although they have focused almost exclusively on futures contracts offered by BitMEX, OKEx, Binance and so many