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2020 has been an interesting year. To say anything else would be an understatement. The global COVID-19 pandemic took the entire world by a storm and changed the lives of millions of people.This had a direct impact on all industries and markets. Cryptocurrencies were absolutely no exception. 2020 had its lows for the nascent industry, but it’s perhaps safe to say that the highs were much more. The clearest evidence of this is Bitcoin, as well as the massive growth in the total...

Bitcoin’s eye-popping run beyond the psychological $20,000 level has turned profits for almost everyone who invested in the cryptocurrency to date. Also, BTC has appreciated by more than 500 percent this year since the March lows. It is currently among the top investable assets across all financial markets. But what exactly fuelled bitcoin’s rally past the 2017 top? What’s the force behind BTC’s parabolic spurt this year?Death Of The Dollar (Not Yet But The Writing’s On The Wall)The 1D YTD...

In the past 10 months, COVID-19 literally brought the world to its knees. But the pandemic, as it turns out, has been less of a pandemic and more of an infodemic. The internet was teeming with a deluge of news reports, stories, blog articles, and ‘guidelines’ on ‘how to stay safe out there’.And what percentage of this content is actually worth relying upon? Which source to trust, and which one to shun? Why has this global catastrophe become a breeding ground for misinformation and rumor...

COVID-19 and bitcoin’s face-melting rally above $20,000 are undoubtedly amongst the major events in 2020. And as it happens, the former has played a greatly significant role in the latter’s occurrence. Which, in turn, has clarified one thing. The 2017 rally was a result of retail FOMO and hysteria, while the ongoing 2020 bitcoin run is much more solid (due to institutional involvement). And could continue well into 2021.But with current BTC prices trending above $23,000, what’s the future...

Nigeria is the world’s second-largest Bitcoin peer-to-peer market, according to recent information curated from CoinDance and published by Quartz. Nigeria Follows The USThe data gathered from leading peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange Paxful between May 2015 and November 2020 shows that the United States ranks first with a total trading volume of 535,660 BTC ($3.76B) within the period.Nigeria takes the second position with a total of 60,215 BTC ($5П267M) traded within the last five years compared...

Occurring every four years, the US Presidential elections gain attention not only from US citizens but from the entire world. Being the largest country by nominal GDP and the US dollar serving as the global reserve currency, the consequences of elections’ results will be felt in the next (at least) four years everywhere. That “everywhere” part definitely includes the traditional financial markets and, more specifically, the US stock markets. In fact, their performance could...

Have you heard about Yearn Finance’s YFI token? It acts as a governance token for its decentralized finance platform.It broke Bitcoin’s record of the all-time high in terms of USD prices. The YFI token attained highs of over $38,000 in August and even peaked above $43,000 in mid-September 2020.Do you know what’s the difference between the YFI project and other majority governance tokens in DeFi? Scarcity! Yes, there’s a very limited supply of YFI tokens. The maximum supply can never exceed...

Yield farming is a popular topic in the DeFi space for some time now. We know you may have many questions regarding yield farming – What is it? Why is it generating so much buzz?Let’s start with a simple statistic. In 2020, the DeFi space is so far growing at a rate of 150% in terms of total value locked (TVL) in dollars. In comparison, the crypto market capitalization has so far grown at a rate of only 37%.Many experts give credit to yield farming for the astounding growth of the DeFi space...

The market for decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions has skyrocketed in the past four months as investors are happy to stake their cryptocurrency in various lending protocols to earn astronomically high returns.Back in March this year, the total value locked in protocols of the kind was just about $550 million. Now, the TVL has surged to just shy of $9.5 billion, marking an increase upwards of 1600%.The trend, commonly referred to as yield farming is only growing stronger as more and more...

OKEx has become one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the past several years. The company’s growth is continuously emphasized by the trading volume and the growing user base.CryptoPotato recently had the opportunity to do an exclusive interview with the CEO of the company – Jay Hao.Hao spoke of the challenges OKEx has to overcome, the current cryptocurrency landscape, Bitcoin’s growing adoption, the DeFi craze, and more.Back to the Roots: Before OKExOne of the first things that Hao...