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If you’ve ventured on to Crypto Twitter this year, you may have seen a tweet from the meme account WTF Happened in 1971?Created in March, the account posts numerous times a week to its fast growing fanbase of 10,500 followers. A typical post features a graph that shows...

Students enrolled in the class “Introduction to Cryptocurrencies” at Turkey’s Kadir Has University were the unexpected winners of Uniswap’s UNI token distribution on Sept. 17. İsmail Hakkı Polat, one of two lecturers of the class, told Cointelegraph Turkey that all students who, as part of a class project,...

Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest tracks every important crypto news story from the previous week. Essential reading for all Hodlers! Top Stories This Week Frenzy as Uniswap launches new governance tokenUniswap stole the show this week when it announced it was launching UNI, its very own governance token. A total...

Programmable money (PM) is in the air. It may be the next stage in the evolution of money. And it could be as disruptive as any financial technology in development today.Yes, China is close to launching the first central bank digital currency (CBDC) at scale — perhaps within...

Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest tracks every important crypto news story from the previous week. Essential reading for all Hodlers! Top Stories This Week DeFi goes boom as top tokens crash by 50% — But enjoy a sudden reboundIt was an industry that looked like it was overheating for some...

The high-risk environment around the decentralized finance space and hype for one of its latest offerings, SushiSwap, raises an analogy with a Japanese delicacy called fugu, or pufferfish, which is said to be more deadly than cyanide.Highly trained chefs have been serving up fugu in Japan’s top restaurants...

Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest tracks every important crypto news story from the previous week. Essential reading for all Hodlers! Top Stories This Week Three reasons why Bitcoin suddenly dipped under $10K — and recoveredIt’s been a bad end to an already trying week for Bitcoin. At one point, prices...

Cointelegraph reported last week about the latest findings of Sergio Dermain Lerner, who is known for his discovery of the so-called "Patoshi pattern." His latest research suggests that Satoshi Nakamoto likely used a single PC to mine approximately 1.1 million Bitcoin (BTC). However, it appears that there was something of even...

Hacktivist Bitcoin developer Amir Taaki took aim at Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin on Twitter recently for essentially writing off smart contracts inventor Nick Szabo as a right-wing crank.Taaki wrote that this sort of attitude was typical of an “Eth culture which is about sparkling burner parties, privileged digital...

The past few months have seen a number of major crypto companies facilitate some serious big-money acquisitions. For example, on Aug. 25, blockchain software firm ConsenSys bought out JP Morgan’s enterprise-variant of the Ethereum blockchain Quorum. Similarly, earlier this year, global cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced that it was...