
Modern Consensus
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Digital currency news site covering technology, people, and culture of the cryptocurrency and blockchain world.
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Joined December 2017
A hearty thank you to Satoshi Nakamoto, as well as those whose commemorative thoughts we highlighted on the 15th anniversary of the Bitcoin white paper. @BitcoinMagazine @LynAldenContact @nic__carter @ercwl @pete_rizzo_ @DocumentingBTC @JoelLightbound (guess who's included but.
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RT @APompliano: Taxing unrealized gains would mean Americans would owe taxes on the appreciation of their home every year. This would ban….
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RT @bgarlinghouse: The SEC asked for $2B, and the Court reduced their demand by ~94% recognizing that they had overplayed their hand. We re….
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There's a new hedge in town! @DeFiTechGlobal subsidiary @ValourFunds offers new ETP that provides convenient way to establish inverse position for Bitcoin, explains @Russ_N_Starr.
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New ETP provides convenient way to establish inverse position Bitcoin investors looking for ways to lock in their gains without having to sell their beloved HODL stash have a new option. DeFi...
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RT @bgarlinghouse: Covered a lot of ground with @MorningsMaria today – the BTC halving, my predictions for the crypto market by EOY, how pr….
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RT @chrislarsensf: Gensler’s SEC has become unhinged. This will not, and should not, go unnoticed in an election year, as the SEC singlehan….
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RT @bgarlinghouse: Jon and Mariel haven’t just had a profound impact during their tenures at Ripple – they both raise the bar on what it me….
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Crypto lawyer @JohnEDeaton1 is challenging @SenWarren in Massachusetts. She is crypto's leading opponent on Capitol Hill and he is one of it's fiercest defenders. Should be an interesting November.
Odd that @jaycaspiankang omitted @SenWarren from his comprehensive @NewYorker story on academics who benefited from a forged Native American identity. She is the best known "pretendian" - hard to imagine @JohnEDeaton1 will show similar deference.
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Ever wonder why our paychecks typically come twice a month or bi-weekly, in some cases weekly? . In Web3 context, this seems quite anachronistic. And startups like @Superfluid_HQ are showing that it is, allowing payments that flow continuously across the economy at the speed of.
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For his part, CZ reports that he's reading about biotech in his retirement - and taking inspiration from Stoicism. Here's our favorite of @RyanHoliday's many classics, @cz_binance: .
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Eight years in, Brendan Eich’s Brave remains the most crypto-aligned browser. A look at two enhanced features improving the security and user experience of signing messages with the wallet: “Sign-in With Ethereum” and CoW Swap.
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Eight years in, Brendan Eich's creation remains the most crypto-aligned browser Here's a thought exercise: what is the most impactful thing you could make in just 10 days? Thirty years before...
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Part 2 of @The_Colbosky's look at the threats quantum computing poses for crypto, with a focus on ECDSA.
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Part 2 of a look at the threats quantum computing poses for crypto In the first installment of this series, we introduced the concept of "quantum computing" and how, while still experimental, its...
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We add our voice to the chorus appealing to the.@WSJ to correct their harmful misinterpretations of the.@elliptic research on Hamas and crypto. Also kudos to @nic__carter for his dogged determination here and sponsoring bounties for analytics & real reporting.
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Even if the centralization risks of liquid staking can be mitigated, wider concerns related to periods of extreme market volatility remain.
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There are efforts to mitigate centralization, but extreme market volatility risks contagion In our recent article Staking and Liquid Staking: a Primer we covered the fact that staking is rapidly...
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As we head toward winter (and hopefully out of crypto winter), Modern Consensus writer @The_Colbosky ruminates on a quote by the inimitable @saylor (hint: bitcoin makes everything better) to envision a future where investors choose to "thaw" some BTC.
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Putting some BTC to work in DeFi while keeping the rest offline With a market capitalization of $660 billion as of this writing, bitcoin is not only the first and oldest cryptocurrency, it’s the...
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