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A view to a death spiral: the LUNA and TerraUSD story

By now you’re probably well aware that Terra (LUNA) and its attendant algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD are dead in the water. LUNA’s blockchain has been halted directly with its price propped up a little above zero by people who haven’t gotten the memo, and TerraUSD is now trading at $0.12, having depegged from the US dollar… Read More »A view to a death spiral: the LUNA and TerraUSD story

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The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: XRP and the SEC- Is XRP a security?

The court proceedings between Ripple Labs and the Securities and Exchange Commission haven’t come to a conclusion, and we won’t be able to provide any definitive answers to what we as here today, but we can speculate based on the existing information. Determining whether or not the XRP cryptocurrency is a security is really beyond… Read More »The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: XRP and the SEC- Is XRP a security?

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The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: XRP and the SEC- Is XRP a security?

The court proceedings between Ripple Labs and the Securities and Exchange Commission haven’t come to a conclusion, and we won’t be able to provide any definitive answers to what we as here today, but we can speculate based on the existing information. Determining whether or not the XRP cryptocurrency is a security is really beyond… Read More »The Cryptocurrency Guide for the Perplexed: XRP and the SEC- Is XRP a security?

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The Cryptocurrency Guide to the Perplexed: USD Coin (USDC)

USD Coin (USDC) is a digital stablecoin pegged to the United States dollar and runs on Ethereum, Stellar, Algorand, Solana, Tron and the Hedera Hashgraph system. It’s managed by a group called Centre, which was founded by the company and includes members from Coinbase (COIN.Q) and the Bitcoin mining giant, Bitmain, as investors. For the… Read More »The Cryptocurrency Guide to the Perplexed: USD Coin (USDC)

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The Cryptocurrency Guide to the Perplexed: USD Coin (USDC)

USD Coin (USDC) is a digital stablecoin pegged to the United States dollar and runs on Ethereum, Stellar, Algorand, Solana, Tron and the Hedera Hashgraph system. It’s managed by a group called Centre, which was founded by the company and includes members from Coinbase (COIN.Q) and the Bitcoin mining giant, Bitmain, as investors. For the… Read More »The Cryptocurrency Guide to the Perplexed: USD Coin (USDC)

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This Week in Crypto: Hyperreality is the new Real Edition

Jean Baudrillard first came up with the twin ideas of accelerated culture and hyperreality while the internet was in its infancy. It’s an postmodern idea where we have an inability of consciousness to determine reality from simulation in technologically advanced postmodern societies. Hyperreality could therefore be a condition where we can’t determine what is real… Read More »This Week in Crypto: Hyperreality is the new Real Edition

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The realists guide to cryptocurrency regulation

The United States is doing everything it can to maintain its economic hegemony and that’s why they’ve been paying such attention to cryptocurrency and its adherents, and that’s a good thing we should support, because the alternative is vastly worse. At first blow, it seems an oversimplified, maybe even half-baked, explanation for the recent spate… Read More »The realists guide to cryptocurrency regulation