Author: Donald Munn
This week’s guest on the Cardano SPO Column is a stake pool that wants to use the margin fee to invest in the Kurdish community: Kurdopia Pool [KURD]. Last week’s guest was a stake pool operated by the creator of ADApools.org, an explorer for stake pools. This initiative is a point of reference for everything Cardano and every week or two we will invite a Stake Pool Operator (SPO) to answer some questions and give us an update directly from within the Cardano community. Considering that many of our readers are new to the crypto space, we will have a…
Prior to this new roadmap, BNB had already taken a major step in February when it decided to merge Binance Chain with Binance Smart Chain to create BNB Chain. The new network created a multi-chain infrastructure layer that supports Binance’s new ecosystem and governance mechanisms. Changes in the new BNB Chain roadmap Binance unveils new roadmap by announcing future progress The news of this new technical roadmap comes directly from the BNB Chain Revelation Summit. From what has emerged, the goals that this new technical roadmap will seek to pursue are ambitious and important for the future development of the…
This is not a new issue, but it is made topical by the flurry of statements and stances of important names in institutional finance, which followed the tsunami that swept through the Terra – LUNA ecosystem, blew up the UST peg, caused the collapse of Bitcoin’s price and, more generally, of the cryptocurrency market. Cryptocurrencies and stablecoins experience a moment of negative reputation From Christine Lagarde, Fabio Panetta (ECB) and Francois Villeroy de Galhau (governor of the Bank of France), to Scott Minerd, head of Guggenheim’s investment office and Warren Buffett, everyone has spoken out against cryptocurrencies in recent days.…
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, returns to talk about Twitter and all the problems with the social platform, this time the algorithm in particular. Elon Musk says Twitter’s algorithm manipulates user activity In one of his latest tweets, Musk urged all users to favour a chronological feed over one based on the platform’s algorithm. Musk seems to care deeply about all these small but important issues concerning the functioning of the platform and its impartiality. The CEO of Tesla goes on to explain that the service’s default feed could actually lead to the manipulation of users’ opinions and…
Mark Zuckerberg, leader of social networks with Meta, is known for being a decision-maker. After all, part of his good fortune has been knowing how to make the right decisions at the right time. This prerogative of his has led him to an important reflection this year. Looking at Meta’s accounts, he realized that he had to optimize his resources also in view of the long-awaited Facebook metaverse and therefore had to review his partnerships with newspapers. The development of Meta Platform It will be at the expense of information, not in terms of quality, but in terms of the…
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) has confirmed the arch-enemy of the cost of money, Jerome Powell, at the helm for another four years. Jerome Powell is still in charge of the Fed, what’s next? Jerome Powell will be back in power at the Fed for another four years The expansive monetary policies, the showering of billions to make up for the artificially induced halt in production due to the pandemic are now waning. A worrying inflation has been looming on the horizon for some time now, but which the central banks seem not to care much about. Inflation is perceived…
2020 was the year of suspended happiness: the Nasdaq, which is strongly influenced by Big Tech (Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Tesla, etc.), saw a very prolific period, gaining almost 30% thanks to a very favourable situation. Indeed, lockdowns have forced billions of people at home, stimulating purchases of multimedia tools, subscriptions and e-commerce in general. Transactions in crypto, and in particular Bitcoin, also grew during that period. Now, in 2022, awakened from the torpor of artificial confinement within the home, users have somewhat abandoned technology in favour of other activities, returning to pre-pandemic life, and it is this that has perhaps…
Elon Musk temporarily suspends his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, while waiting for some details. After his announcement on the social, Twitter’s shares fell 19%. Elon Musk and the temporary suspension of his Twitter acquisition A few hours ago, the notorious Elon Musk posted a tweet warning his followers that the $44 billion Twitter deal is “temporarily suspended”, to verify that fake accounts on social are actually less than 5%. Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuyn — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022 “Twitter deal temporarily…
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has decided to donate as much as $4 million in USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin to the University of New South Wales (UNSW), to help in the development of a technology to track the Covid-19 pandemic and thus prevent contagions. Vitalik Buterin contributes to the fight against Covid-19 Already on 5 May, Vitalik had published a post on Twitter in which his concern about Covid-19 and in particular about the symptoms in the long term was made clear. @patientled research into the details of Long Covid symptoms:https://t.co/a2v6CeE7Sn — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) May 5, 2022 The association to which…
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the stablecoin market is not large enough to be a concern for financial stability. Janet Yellen reassures financial markets about the “volatility” of stablecoins The comment comes exclusively from a tweet on the Watcher.Guru account. The US Treasury Secretary wants to reassure the entire crypto community, and beyond, from what has just happened. JUST IN: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the stablecoin market has not reached a scale to be a financial stability concern. — Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) May 12, 2022 From the latest statements, Janet Yellen does not seem to be worried about what…