In your winter update, one of the things you said was that scaling was one of the biggest challenges that Steemit faced over the last year. It took a lot more resources than you thought. So how do you feel about the state of scaling now? Can you give us an […]
Bitcoin went mainstream as an investment asset class in 2017. In response to this, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced considerations for investors who are looking to enter the digital currency space. In its announcement titled “Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Trading Digital Assets,” the SEC […]
Everyone craves instant gratification and has become accustomed to going to an ATM to get instant cash or simply opening an app and transferring money to personal accounts instantly. Gone are the days when you had to arrange your schedule around banker’s hours, balance your checkbook manually, keep track of […]
The bitcoin price is down a little over 50 percent so far this year, and everyone wants to know what has caused this massive sell-off up to this point. While it’s often a near-impossible task to pinpoint a single reason for a price decline, there are at least three concrete […]
The life of Pavel Durov, creator of encrypted messaging service Telegram, has been nothing if not interesting. Born in Leningrad, which is now Saint Petersburg, he learned how to code at a young age, according to The New York Times. With his older brother Nikolai as a teacher, Pavel was […]
With any industry or even just a new asset, there are those who get in on the ground floor. Whether they are far-seeing visionaries, hobbyists who just get lucky, or investors who take a gamble and get surprised when it pays off, they wind up very rich and running that […]
Stocks are one of the most popular asset classes in the world. However, how do stock returns – measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index – fare against the returns of the new digital asset class bitcoin? The Dow Jones Industrial Average Index, which tracks the prices of the […]
It’s been another bad seven days for the bitcoin price (and even worse for most altcoins), but plenty of development work is still going on behind the scenes. Technical developments, such as Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, tend to be better indicators of long-term trends in the market than short-term price swings, […]
Even casual investors are aware of the term market cap, short for “market capitalization.” It’s a simple formula: the number of shares of stock, multiplied by the current stock price, tells you just how valuable that company is, at least in the eyes of Wall Street. It has the same […]
The popularity of cryptocurrency mining has increased substantially since bitcoin went mainstream in 2017. Today, graphics cards needed for CPU mining are sold out at many online retailers and bitcoin mining hardware producers can barely keep up with the demand for mining equipment. In this guide, you will discover how […]
