Michael Casey is on vacation this week. The following essay was written by Marc Hochstein, CoinDesk’s executive editor. Once, I pried into a stranger’s affairs for no good reason at all. This happened almost 20 years ago, but the story offers an important lesson for those shaping the future of money today. My wife took … Read more
Standing in a spacious, white living room and sporting a black T-shirt, Alex Mashinsky, CEO and co-founder of cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network, urged his customers to ignore the naysayers. “Don’t listen to the FUD-ers, look at the facts,” Mashinsky said on the YouTube livestream on July 17, using crypto slang for “fear, uncertainty and doubt.” … Read more
Built on top of the Ethereum blockchain, Basic Attention Token (BAT) is a utility token used by digital marketers to pay for ads on the Brave browser, a privacy-focused competitor of Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox. Unlike many web browsers, Brave blocks ads and tracking by default; however, users who wish to see ads can … Read more
XTZ is the native cryptocurrency of Tezos, which is an open-source smart contract platform used to issue new digital assets and create decentralized applications, or dapps. XTZ fuels the Tezos platform and enables holders to participate in voting on Tezos protocol proposals. Tezos price Tezos raised the equivalent of $232 million in bitcoin and ethereum … Read more
Link is the native cryptocurrency of Chainlink: a software platform that connects blockchains with external data. It is known as an “oracle,” which in crypto jargon means technology that brings real-world data from an online source into a blockchain. Chainlink price Link provides the main incentive mechanism for users to participate in Chainlink’s decentralized network … Read more