May 2020

Featured, Opinion

Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow Model Explained

Bitcoin’s limited supply, and the consequent scarcity, is the basic foundation for its value March 23, 2019: the first online publication of Plan B’s work and its explanation April 27, 2020: the second publication of Plan B’s work and the introduction of cross-asset data to the chart The first…

Featured, Opinion

Crypto Developments During Coronavirus

As the spread of the covid-19 pandemic intensifies, contactless payment infrastructure is becoming valuable as the digital Euro is setting the pace after a successful pilot test. With South Korea and Singapore taking the lead, Asia has seized the center stage as the first continent with a clear regulation…

News

What Happened When Craig Wright Threatened Bitcoin?

Bitcoin has always been subjected to numerous predictions but there is one prediction out of all that has been a topic of conversation for all bitcoiners. Yes, I am talking about the prediction by Craig Wright. Craig, who has publicly announced that he is one of the main members…

Blog, Opinion

What is Cosmos? Diving Into the Details

As the next in our series of deep dives into tokens, Cosmos is a decentralized network of independent parallel blockchains powered by byzantine fault tolerant consensus algorithms. They want to build the Internet of Blockchains so that different chains can interoperate and allow users to transfer information of any…

Featured, News

The Last Two Bitcoin Halving Events

Bitcoin has been around since 2009, and so far, we have had two Bitcoin halving events, leading up to the one that just happened yesterday. Let’s analyze what happened the last two times the block reward was halved. Bitcoin’s proponents hail it as the soundest form of digital money…

Featured, News

The Logic of Bitcoin Halving

Bitcoin’s next halving event is set to happen in less than a week, at which point, the Bitcoin block reward is set to be cut in half from 12.5 coins per block to 6.25 coins per block. But why is this happening? Bitcoin’s coin issuance dictates that miners be…

Blog, Opinion

An Introduction to DeFi

DeFi protocol decouples central governance in the issuance of financial products. DeFi refers to all financial products issued on the blockchain. The market for DeFi does not only provide a viable alternative to the banking population but more importantly, could enable access to essential financial services to the 1.7…