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Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume for recent years, has faced lots of scrutiny from various watchdogs lately. Keeping in mind that it’s one of the most important companies in the crypto industry, as of today, it’s worth exploring what could be the impact of this threat for the entire industry, or whether it’s just a temporary FUD. The Growing List of Regulators After Binance Founded in 2017 following a successful $15-million ICO, Binance...

[Featured Content] It is not unusual for blockchain and crypto-related firms to burn off a portion of their token supply. Token supply is regulated within the crypto market according to demand and supply and firms often burn off a portion of their supply to ensure that the tokens in the market do not exceed a certain number. This, in turn, ensures a healthier and more robust ecosystem. The latest of these companies to announce a token burn is Crypterium, a prominent crypto...

[Featured Content] It’s a tale as old as blockchain technology itself – can they be successfully leveraged into an effective and transparent voting network? Elections have become a focal point of discussion, but unfortunately, one of the main points on each agenda is their legitimacy. Traditional systems are anything but transparent, and many people are left wondering if their votes actually matter. The lack of accountability and of provable verifiability has turned skeptics...

[Featured Content] It goes without saying that the past year has been particularly exciting for the entire cryptocurrency market. Last March, during the coronavirus-induced global market crash, Bitcoin’s price dropped to a low of around $3,800, and a lot of people thought it would go even lower. The market, however, saw this as the absolute bottom and started advancing parabolically. This year, BTC reached an all-time high at a whopping $65,000 – more than 3 times higher...

[Featured Content] It has been over 10 years since Bitcoin reached the open world and advanced blockchain further. So far, the technology has reached mainstream users and many businesses and government officials have already considered the benefits of using it in a long list of industries ranging from agriculture and real estate to healthcare and voting. Consequently, dozens of new projects are popping up each year, competing against each other in the somewhat futile task of...

[Featured Content] There is an estimated $256 trillion worth of real-world assets such as real estate, privately-held companies, commodities, and more. Most of them are highly illiquid and beyond the reach of small investors. Bringing them on the blockchain and enabling people to own fractional pieces of them will democratize access to such assets. It will also ensure that the asset owners have easy access to funding and buyers. For example, can you buy shares of SpaceX?...

[Sponsored Content] The third quarter of 2021 has an awesome welcome party, with Phemex launching its free crypto educational program on June 17th – Learn & Earn. This program was designed to help people overcome their lack of confidence in blockchain understanding. The more people outlive this fear, the greater the mass adoption will be – which is essential for crypto to overcome fiat. Crypto knowledge gives you Phemex rewards Everybody needs a little push to start...

Popular American rapper and actor Jayceon Terrell Taylor popularly known as The Game is currently facing $12 million charges for allegedly promoting an illegal initial coin offering (ICO). According to a recently amended official filing, he had promoted the unregistered token sale of Paragon Coin, a tech company that came under regulatory scrutiny earlier in 2017. The Paragon Coin Saga Paragon touted itself as a cryptocurrency company that would use the power of blockchain...

[Featured Content] It goes without saying that data confidentiality is one of the hottest topics of the decade. From mega scandals of leaked information to a constant stream of news about large corporations being victims of ransomware, there’s undeniably something lacking in the way data is stored traditionally. For the most part, at least. The truth is that most users rely on traditional cloud infrastructure. Unfortunately, it has many central points of failure and trust,...

[Featured Content] It goes without saying that cryptocurrencies are now far better known among the general public than they were a few years back. This is largely because of the tremendous increase in their valuation. With Bitcoin’s price reaching an all-time high of around $65,000 earlier this year, almost every traditional finance media outlet was breaking relevant news regularly. And yet, there are plenty of people that aren’t aware of the intricacies of cryptocurrencies,...