The government therefore needs to exploit its “head start”, Clayton argued, thanks to 95% of stablecoins being based on the U.S. dollar, meaning that it remains the preferred liquid store of value in digital asset markets. Clayton warned, however, that this could change. Source link … [Read more...] about Former Head of Crypto-Skeptical SEC Gets Blowback for Pro-Blockchain Op-Ed
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Op-ed: How Algorand is gearing up to become a contender to Ethereum
The following is a guest post from Sebastian Quinn, the co-founder of Yieldly.While some have come close, none have quite managed to overthrow the incumbent — neither in user adoption nor market share. However, as time goes on and scalability and efficiency qualms grow stronger, so too do Ethereum’s contenders.When it comes to pinpointing which networks stand a fighting chance … [Read more...] about Op-ed: How Algorand is gearing up to become a contender to Ethereum
Op-ed: Bitcoin has lost its altruism
My first real relationship with Bitcoin started when I was living in a Costa Rican indigenous village. I had found a postcard advertising Bitcoin. At that moment, I had my first epiphany about this nascent technology. Blockchain represented a novel and valuable architecture that provided mankind with, at minimum, real monetary choice in this world in the form of … [Read more...] about Op-ed: Bitcoin has lost its altruism