Is Toxic Bitcoin Maximalism Getting Less Toxic?
As BTC gets Wall Street approval and developers build new applications on the network, Bitcoiners are ditching some of their previous siege mentality.
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As BTC gets Wall Street approval and developers build new applications on the network, Bitcoiners are ditching some of their previous siege mentality.
Institutions like Franklin Templeton are taking meme coins increasingly seriously this cycle. But will these joke-y projects run afoul of regulators?
The tokenization of industrial processes will produce a revolution in competition between companies of different sizes, says Paul Brody, head of blockchain at EY.
“It hasn’t always been easy, but I’m very happy that I stood my ground,” says Hodlonaut of his long legal fight with Craig Wright, who claimed, falsely, to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
Regulators are permitting banks to tokenize financial assets such as bank deposits, U.S. Treasuries and corporate debt. But they want institutions to use permissioned networks rather than the decentralized blockchains that keep assets safe from hackers.
With the dual tailwind of bitcoin ETF flows and the upcoming halving, is bitcoin the best bet? Not so fast. Ethereum, the next biggest crypto asset by market cap, has a case of its own to make.
The social media giant’s $60 million real-time data deal with Google is latest example of internet companies selling out their users who have nominally “consented” to share their personal information but have no control. Blockchains and ZK-proofs could help prevent corporate overreach, Nym CEO and privacy advocate Harry Halpin writes.
Access to on-chain data confers collective benefits, beyond fulfilling the promise of blockchain. (Marco Bianchetti/Unsplash)
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