From the international stage at Davos to the soccer fields of Bedford, the Decentralize with Cointelegraph podcast dives into the nuances of crypto and blockchain, and how they intersect with everyday life. One promising technology that has emerged in the blockchain space is zero-knowledge proofs (ZK-proofs), which many claim can be a game-changer for blockchain
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This week’s Bitcoin (BTC) options expiry on Friday, July 21, could solidify the $30,000 resistance level and give the bears the upper hand for the first time since the 21% rally between June 14 and June 21. Bitcoin options expiries coincide with volatility A review of Bitcoin’s recent price action shows that three out of the
Scott Melker is the host of The Wolf Of All Streets Podcast and author of The Wolf Den newsletter. “If I tweeted about a small cap [crypto] of some sort right now, the price would probably change by like 50%,” says Scott Melker, better known to his 904,800 Twitter followers as The Wolf Of All
What began in Miami three years ago as a pandemic-era effort to indulge in as much outdoor recreation as possible soon gave way to an enormous upsurge in the number of well-heeled Miamians owning boats. But as big-ticket expenditures tend to do, that luxurious indulgence soon generated the need for yet another creature comfort. After
Yvette Christine Shields, longtime Bond Buyer reporter who spent decades building a stellar career as one of Chicago’s finest and well-known financial reporters with a national reputation in the public finance industry, died unexpectedly this week. She was 57. Shields died early Wednesday at a Chicago hospital after a brief illness. “Yvette was everything a
The UK’s largest asset manager has been buying bonds and selling equities in preparation for a “significant” economic downturn, warning that the Bank of England will be forced to tip the economy into a recession despite signs of cooling inflation. Sonja Laud, chief investment officer at Legal & General Investment Management, which manages £1.3tn of
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Amid the growing popularity of zero-knowledge (ZK) proof based layer-2 scalable solution, decentralized finance liquidity protocol Symbiosis has added support for Linea, a zkEVM-based Consensys-developed scalable solution for cross-chain swaps. Symbiosis said in a statement that Linea is a developer-ready zkEVM roll-up type, which means it is Ethereum-compatible and thus lets developers reuse a lot
Austin, as the country’s fastest growing city and now the tenth largest city in the country, is at the forefront of housing challenges, and taking the opportunity to explore innovative solutions. Bryan Glasshagel is senior vice president at housing data and consultancy firm Zonda, and tracks Texas markets. He points out that as some of
The UK competition watchdog has warned supermarkets that it will examine any attempts to rebuild profit margins after the recent fall in inflation and called on the government to reform pricing policies to help consumers. The Competition and Markets Authority said in a report on Thursday that it had found high food price inflation was
Within a month, two spec homes — one at a record-setting $30 million-plus and one at $20 million — sold in what promises to be one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Paradise Valley, Arizona. The estimated value of the completed top-selling home would set a record for the state. In a highly desirable luxury
An executive from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) believes that Web3 has the solutions to the headaches and problems found on Web2-based social media platforms. During a keynote speech at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC), a16z partner Sriram Krishnan shared a presentation explaining how Web3 can fix social media and consumer applications. Krishnan stressed
Digital currency investment product, Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), was one of the best performers at Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest in the second quarter of 2023. According to ARK’s latest quarterly ETF report published on July 19, GBTC was one of the top contributors to the success of its ARK Next Generation Internet exchange-traded fund (ARKW)
The United Kingdom government has rejected a proposal made by the U.K. Treasury Committee to regulate crypto retail trading in the same way it oversees gambling, stressing that it “firmly disagrees” with the Committee’s stance. A panel of British lawmakers called for regulating the crypto market in the country similar to gambling in a May 17
The world’s biggest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, has warned of a deepening semiconductor slump, as the boom in artificial intelligence fails to offset global economic woes and China’s delayed recovery. TSMC now expects its 2023 revenue to drop by 10 per cent, rather than the less than 5 per cent it forecast three
Offering the same service at higher prices suggests a paucity of ideas. Netflix is eliminating free password sharing in a bid to force freeloading viewers to pay up. The result was a 5.9mn bump in subscriber numbers in this year’s second quarter that was hailed as a show of strength by some analysts. But this
The latest version of Web3 social layer Lens Protocol has been released, introducing improved functionality to support new use cases and shared monetization for its growing Web3 user base. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) firm Aave Companies announced Lens Protocol v2 on July 17 during EthCC in Paris, with the code powering the protocol reworked to enable
There are broadly three views of the future. One view — held by Marxists, Whigs and followers of the psychologist Steven Pinker — is that humanity progresses. Other people believe that history is patternless, with no set direction of travel. But the view that’s becoming the norm is that we are heading for apocalypse. In
Boris Johnson, a late convert to the green agenda, promised “the most ambitious environmental programme of any country on earth” in his party’s 2019 election manifesto — just four years later the UK’s position as a global climate leader is slipping. In the run-up to the UN COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in late 2021,
Bitcoin (BTC) is gearing up for its next bull run in classic style, say traders eyeing two key trend lines. In some of their latest social media analysis, popular traders Moustache and Titan of Crypto revealed a BTC price breakout in the making. Bitcoin “bull market line” eyes classic crossover Bitcoin is closely copying prior
One of the UK’s biggest offshore wind farm projects has been halted due to rising costs, a major blow to the UK government as it tries to encourage more investment in renewable power to meet net zero targets. Swedish energy group Vattenfall said it had halted development of its planned Norfolk Boreas wind farm after costs