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Admit it, the headlines are loudly declaring that Bitcoin is going to the moon! And as tempting as it is to laugh off the latest wave as yet another short-lived crypto bubble, this time really does seem different. Why? The confluence of factors driving this change isn’t all hype. This...

Cryptocurrency is an incredibly dynamic market. With $600 billion run just by public pension plans, by 2025 liquidity pool providers will be extremely powerful players in driving the investment strategy. These platforms have let individuals earn high returns by making their crypto assets available for trade, including Bitcoin convertible to...

The promise is seductive, isn’t it? Earn automatic dough even in your dreams. Let AI help you get returns increased ten times over and make those Wall Street fat cats green with envy. AI-powered cloud mining and liquidity pools offer regular investors the opportunity to become Bitcoin millionaires. They are...

Curve Finance, a prominent decentralized exchange (DEX), has been targeted yet again by cybercriminals. This time, the decentralized platform was a victim of a Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking attack that redirected its flagship website, “curve.fi.” This incident highlights a critical vulnerability in the DeFi space: the reliance on traditional...

We in DeFi like to finger-wag, we like to congratulate ourselves on immutable smart contracts and decentralized governance. We sweat the details down to the last line of code. With every audit, we are made increasingly sure that the decisive security battle is not lost nor won in that place....

Curve Finance, a decentralized exchange, is still deeply investigating an apparent DNS exploit. Though a temporary glitch, this exploit would have forced users to an attack site. The breach, found Monday afternoon, necessarily led to urgent action from the site. Just as Curve Finance experienced a DNS hijack last year...

You’ve likely seen this catchphrase make the rounds, perhaps read one of the many posts on Twitter/X. What the heck is it, and why should you, an entirely normal person with a life beyond the crypto world, pay any mind to it? Take it from me, it’s much more than...

Bitcoin halving events are an essential aspect of the cryptocurrency’s design, directly affecting the asset’s scarcity and long-term value proposition. These digitally coded occurrences lower the pace at which new bitcoins are mined, affecting everyone from miners to long-term investors. Here’s a breakdown of how Bitcoin halving works, what it...

The Bitcoin halving. We've all heard about it. Reduce the payouts, reduce the circulating amount, and see the value skyrocket, isn’t that how it goes? That’s the headline. What if the truth is actually much more complicated, even kind of creepy? What if this not-so-simple mechanism is insidiously paving the...

Bitcoin halvings are one of the most important and well-known events on the cryptocurrency calendar, often obscured by hype and excitement and dreams of bucketloads of cash. Can these conferences and festivals actually get you loaded? MetaBlock X goes beyond the signal to noise ratio and provides a straightforward perspective....