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ForkLog 29 23.03.2021

How to issue an NFT and sell a tweet: a beginner’s guide

Alongside profitable farming in the DeFi space, one of the hottest trends in the crypto industry has become non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

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ForkLog 27 19.03.2021

Between Prohibition and Development: How Central Asia Regulates Cryptocurrencies

Central Asia sits at the crossroads of several economic and cultural spaces. The region's countries—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan—are influenced by developments in China, Europe and, of course, the post-Soviet space. This also concerns cryptocurrency regulation.

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ForkLog 58 16.03.2021

The Binance Smart Chain Case: Why Users Choose Low Fees Over Decentralisation

The hype around the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) DeFi ecosystem is gaining momentum amid record Ethereum network fees.

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ForkLog 30 11.03.2021

NFT tokens: a straightforward game among the savvy and the wealthy, or a new phase in the development of digital rights?

The non-fungible token (NFT) market is booming. By the end of 2020 its aggregate market capitalization had reached $338 million.

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ForkLog 61 05.03.2021

February 2021 in numbers: Bitcoin tops $1 trillion in market capitalization, Binance Smart Chain surges, and the NFT ecosystem booms

Bitcoin’s market capitalization crossed $1 trillion, Binance Coin joined the race for third place amid DeFi ecosystem successes on Binance Smart Chain, and the NFT sector went into overdrive.

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ForkLog 24 04.03.2021

How Much Do Bitcoin Miners Move the Market? Part II

Analyst Karim Helmi and the Coin Metrics team developed a new methodology for quantitatively assessing assets at the disposal of Bitcoin miners. Its feature is the separation of miner activity and mining pools, enabling a more precise assessment of the coins under their control.

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ForkLog 27 02.03.2021

Financial micro-matters: what lies behind MicroStrategy’s bold bet on Bitcoin

Public company MicroStrategy surged into the Bitcoin scene last year, buying 90 859 BTC first with its own funds and then with borrowed money. Some see it as a forward-looking bet on Bitcoin's scarcity and laud Michael Saylor's investment acumen. But in finance, you must read between the lines.

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ForkLog 30 01.03.2021

What is Sbercoin: a competitor to the digital ruble or a hybrid loyalty system

Sberbank first announced in August 2020 its intention to issue a stablecoin linked to the Russian ruble. The new payment instrument named Sbercoin was initially intended for acquiring various digital financial assets (DFA).

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ForkLog 51 22.02.2021

WBTC, renBTC and HBTC — What Bitcoin on Ethereum Is and Why It Matters

The tokenised Bitcoin segment is growing rapidly. Projects like WBTC and renBTC have long since secured listings on major exchanges and have become familiar to many users.

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ForkLog 46 11.02.2021

When to exit the market? Identifying the peak using patterns, news, and Livermore’s normal reaction

In 2021, Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $48,000, and Ethereum topped $1,700. What should you do with long positions: close or hold for further gains?

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ForkLog 12 11.02.2021

Who really won the trader war: Reddit vs hedge funds

What lessons can be drawn from the standoff between the WallStreetBets community and hedge funds on Wall Street, whether retail traders can fundamentally change the market in the long run, and whether decentralised exchanges would solve the problem of trading halts — for ForkLog, Exante co-founder Anatoly Knyazev answers these questions.

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ForkLog 164 11.02.2021

How SolarWinds Was Hacked: The United States’ Biggest Cyberattack and the Shadow of Russian Hackers

One of the most sophisticated and large-scale breaches of U.S. government systems in recent years. That is how the media described the hacking of several U.S. ministries, whose scale later proved far more impressive than initially thought. It was linked to SolarWinds software and, of course, Russian hackers.

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