Why is it better mining in a pool rather than individually? The answer is simple — when mining on a pool, your income will be more stable, because you will receive a certain part of the rewards of the entire…
Zero-knowledge proofs are revolutionising blockchain. The two major standards SNARKs and STARKs are competing with each other, offering diverse scaling possibilities. However, everything comes at a price. Zero-knowledge proofs, explained in detail in my previous publication, may eliminate the infamous…
With several ZK-based projects announcing their milestones, it looks like we may finally be on the verge of a real blockchain revolution. It’s common knowledge that blockchains don’t scale. As much as we’d love to see them used massively, it’s…
Wash trading and similar practices still run rampant. Don’t trust trading volume without using the right tools to verify it. Coin Metrics is doing our industry a much needed service. Two days ago, the Boston-based crypto data provider announced their…
**Spoiler alert** We will be going over the plots of some movies. So if you still haven’t seen one of the titles, don’t read that section! You have been warned. The examples go from harmless to hitting deep and make…
What is Stablecoin? Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies whose value is pegged to stable (less volatile) financial assets, such as US Dollar, Euro, Gold, etc. for example – 1 USDT (Tether stablecoin) = 1 USD The company created stablecoin is responsible to maintain…
What is crypto arbitrage? Cryptocurrency arbitrage is a type of trading that exploits differences in prices to make a profit. These price differences commonly referred to as “arbitrage spreads”, can be used to buy a cryptocurrency at a lower price…
One of the key selling points of cryptocurrencies is that they are decentralized. That is, they have no central authority. Instead, a large, distributed community controls the currency collectively. The thing is, no cryptocurrency is entirely decentralized. There’s always some tradeoff between security, scalability, and decentralization. So, which are the most decentralized?
If you have been following crypto space for a while, you must have come across Non-Fungible Token (NFT). Projects like Cryptokitties, Decentraland made NFT standard popular among the developers. In this article, we are going to talk about NFT.