In episode 13 of Cointelegraph’s Hashing It Out podcast, Elisha Owusu Akyaw sits down with Metis co-founder Elena Sinelnikova. Metis is an Optimistic Rollup built on Ethereum to explore the world of layer-2 blockchain technology, and its potential impact on decentralization, scalability and real-world applications. Sinelnikova shares her unique insights and experiences in the rapidly evolving blockchain
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Bitcoin (BTC) set new nine-month highs overnight on March 30 as traders continued to stay cautious. “Deviation” takes BTC price closer to $30,0 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD spiking to $29,170 on Bitstamp. A rejection entered almost immediately, sending the pair back to its starting point and causing already suspicious market
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Bybit has said it is inviting African youths that wish to attend a blockchain education training program to submit their applications. The training and educational program is expected to help the participating individuals learn the fundamentals of blockchain technology. Understanding the Blockchain Bybit, one of the world’s leading global crypto exchanges, has partnered with Innovation
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First things first: in last week’s Free Lunch I unforgivably got my European royal houses mixed up; my apologies. It was of course the Bourbons and not the Habsburgs of whom Talleyrand supposedly said they had learnt nothing and forgotten nothing. It may still be that our financial regulators are worse than the Bourbons, as
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The recent banking failures involving the fall of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Signature Bank, and Silvergate Bank, have high-profile government individuals trying to find a culprit. U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have publicly blamed each other’s policies for the outcome, but according to some analysts, the problem might be ignorance in
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Back in 2018, two economists made a £1,000 bet about future child poverty figures for the UK and I had the job of deciding who would win. Jonathan Portes of King’s College London wagered that harsh social security policies would raise the headline poverty rate from 30 per cent of children in 2016-17 to more
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Unlike AI applications such as Chatgpt, cryptocurrencies do not bring “anything useful,” a top executive of U.S. chip maker Nvidia is convinced. The comment comes despite his company making significant sales in the space where its powerful processors are widely used to mint digital coins. Developing Chatbots More Worthwhile Than Crypto Mining, Nvidia Exec Claims
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The British government has watered down its new mandate for electric vehicles by allowing carmakers to defer a proportion of their production targets for several years, according to a government consultation announced on Thursday. The consultation on electric cars is one of a flurry of announcements published on Thursday morning updating the government’s approach to
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Crypto exchange Binance has announced the opening of a blockchain hub in Georgia which will promote cryptocurrency adoption in the region. The move comes on the backdrop of a number of partnerships, initiatives, and events the company is involved in in the country. Digital Asset Exchange Binance Establishes ‘Web3 Outpost’ in Georgia Binance, the world’s
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