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Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash… Ces cryptomonnaies encore méconnues du grand public vont bientôt être utilisées par les clients de Paypal au Royaume-Uni, à en croire une déclaration de l’entreprise, ce 23 août.

Critiquées pour leur coût écologique et leur très forte volatilité (en raison de l’absence de régulation par les banques centrales), ces monnaies numériques, qui fonctionnent grâce à un registre de transactions digital hypersécurisé appelé « blockchain », sont tout de même utilisées par plusieurs millions de personnes à travers le monde.

Digitalisation croissante

Pour Paypal, s’ouvrir à ces monnaies longtemps restées confidentielles, permet de rester concurrentiel dans un contexte de digitalisation de l’économie. « La pandémie (…) a accéléré la numérisation de l’argent et une plus grande adoption par les consommateurs des services financiers numériques », a ainsi justifié Joseph Fernandez da Ponte, responsable des monnaies digitales chez Paypal.

→ EXPLICATION. Le bitcoin, la monnaie numérique qui ne cesse de prendre de la valeur

Concrètement, dans les semaines à suivre, un nouvel onglet permettra aux clients de PayPal de connaître en temps réel le prix de ces monnaies numériques et d’obtenir des informations sur les opportunités et les risques liés à leur usage. Chaque client pourra alors acquérir, stocker ou vendre l’une de ces quatre cryptomonnaies, sans distinction par rapport aux monnaies fiduciaires.

Prendre le virage de la crypto’

En octobre 2020, le géant du télépaiement avait déjà mis en place une offre similaire d’achat-revente pour ses clients américains. Depuis mars, ces derniers peuvent même réaliser leurs achats dans des entreprises partenaires en utilisant de la monnaie digitale.

→ LES FAITS. Paypal va permettre l’usage de cryptomonnaies pour les paiements en ligne

Bien qu’elle n’ait pas été officiellement annoncée, cette deuxième option devrait en toute logique s’appliquer au marché britannique et peut-être à long terme, dans l’ensemble des pays où Paypal est actif.

« Ils ont déjà relevé le défi sur la partie trading, (c’est-à-dire sur l’achat-revente) mais ce sont les premiers à se lancer sur les crypto’ en tant que moyen de paiement, analyse Nathalie Janson, enseignante-chercheuse à la Neoma Business School. Ils estiment que c’est un mouvement de fond et que la blockchain est là pour rester »

Cette orientation peut néanmoins surprendre car les monnaies numériques sont essentiellement utilisées comme moyens de spéculation et non de paiement. À ce jour, ce deuxième usage reste « marginal » avec « moins de 10 % des activités dans le cas du bitcoin » selon les estimations de la spécialiste des cryptomonnaies.

Marché concurrentiel

Cette décision s’inscrit dans un contexte de prise de conscience généralisée d’acteurs privés comme publics de l’opportunité que représente l’émergence des cryptomonnaies. À l’image de Facebook qui, après deux ans de difficultés, vient d’annoncer le lancement imminent du « Diem » et de son portefeuille numérique.

→ RELIRE. Cryptomonnaie : après quelques hésitations, Facebook est prêt à se lancer

Dans sa filière, Paypal va bien plus loin que ses concurrents directs, comme Visa et Mastercard, qui se sont contentés, en début d’année, d’ouvrir la porte à quelques stablecoins, des monnaies numériques adossées à une monnaie fiduciaire, plus stables que les cryptomonnaies traditionnelles.

Son annonce a immédiatement tiré à la hausse le cours du bitcoin qui vient de dépasser 50 000 dollars (43 000 €). Une somme qui n’avait pas été atteinte depuis mai et qui avait été suivi par un grand effondrement : - 15 000 dollars en une quinzaine de jours.

À cette époque, la Chine avait lancé une vaste offensive contre les fermes de « minage », implantées sur son territoire. Ces chaînes d’ordinateurs sont le cœur battant des cryptomonnaies puisqu’ils sécurisent les transactions de la blockchain. Le gouvernement chinois cherchait ainsi à limiter la concurrence pour favoriser le lancement de sa propre monnaie digitale, le « yuan numérique ».

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As headlines were made last week over the Chinese Poly Network hack by the now infamous ‘Mr White Hat’, a second heist was brewing at another of Asia’s largest centralised cryptocurrency exchanges where thieves would make off with $97m in stolen digital assets.

The Japanese Liquid exchange reported the unfolding events in a series of tweets.

The following assets had been transferred to hacker's following addresses (Further investigation to come): BTC: 1Fx1bhbCwp5LU2gHxfRNiSHi1QSHwZLf7q ETH/EWT: 0x5578840aae68682a9779623fa9e8714802b59946 TRX: TSpcue3bDfZNTP1CutrRrDxRPeEvWhuXbp XRP: rfapBqj7rUkGju7oHTwBwhEyXgwkEM4yby

— Liquid Global Official (@Liquid_Global) August 19, 2021

The company revealed the wallet addresses which were used by the hacker to steal the funds, and temporarily froze all activity on the exchange while assessing the extent of the hack’s impact.

Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Tron (TRX) and Ripple (XRP) were the main assets targeted in the theft.

Coin mixers that randomly pool and clean cryptocurrencies in a non-custodial fashion have been used by the hackers to get away with almost half the stolen assets. According to chain data, 6,000 Ethereum (ETH) worth a staggering $20m has already been cycled through mixers into new anonymous wallets.

Uniswap was the decentralised platform used to swap ERC20 tokens stolen in the heist for more liquid Ether.

Authorities are working to recover the remaining 9,600 ETH which the hacker is yet to move from their wallet. The Japanese exchange remains hopeful the Ether valued at $32m can be recovered.

Progress was made over the weekend according to updates from Liquid on its corporate blog, the company further announced that it had already significantly ramped up network security to ensure protections against future robberies by crypto gangsters.

A wake up call for the industry

Paolo Ardoino, the Chief Technical Officer at the Bitfinex derivatives exchange, pointed to the latest hack as a wake up call for the industry. Using the event as an opportunity to suggest a more unified approach with exchanges and trading platforms working together to increase security measures in crypto.

“Today’s hack at the Liquid exchange is the latest security breach in the digital token space,” he said.

“This is another warning, if one were needed, to everyone.

“The ingenuity of bad actors seeking to breach the security systems of exchanges and trading platforms will not abate. It is therefore imperative that we work together as an industry with all exchanges remaining in a perpetual state of vigilance against such threats.

“While the safeguarding of customer funds is of course an exchange’s number one priority, holders of cryptocurrencies should take all steps necessary to ensure that their funds are safe.

“These include ensuring that they have a cold wallet, two factor authentication, notification messages when funds are withdrawn, and avoiding public WiFi.”

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As with any investment, it pays to do some homework before you part with your money. The prices of cryptocurrencies are volatile and go up and down quickly. This page is not recommending a particular currency or whether you should invest or not.

CropBytes has been part of the crypto gaming revolution since early 2018. The game has been through an entire market cycle, refining the economy and the gaming experience. This exposure gives the game an edge over others now that players can consistently grow their crypto portfolio despite fluctuations in the market.

CropBytes sets out to create a virtual world where anyone can buy, sell and own assets — a game of farming, business and strategy in a world that runs on crypto. Gamers love it and have built elaborate strategies and plans to gain maximum output from their investment. 

What gives CropBytes players an advantage over others?

Most crypto games are struggling to compete with traditional titles on consoles and smartphones. CropBytes is built on the Unity game engine, a popular platform for building games, which is supported by multiple platforms like Android, iOS and web.

Players can download the app, start farming and producing goods, and then visit the game marketplace to sell their produce to other players or make a lucrative purchase. Once you have enough produce from your assets, you can also convert these to game coins (GC), which can be used to purchase exclusive GC assets, such as Superhero nonfungible tokens and more.

CryptoBytes chief of marketing Sheryl Varghese commented:

“Today, some players own assets worth millions and have a huge collection of pro assets — they are already major industrialists in the game. Making it big in the crypto world can’t get any easier!”

CropBytes assets and future nonfungible tokens are unique and play an important role in the game economy and hold huge utility value. For example, Superheroes are rare, breedable and have special abilities that can be used to increase a player’s potential in the game. They can boost farm produce, thereby giving a player an advantage in the game in the long run. Soon, we will have a new generation of Superheroes, which will also be used in our upcoming player-versus-player battle game. Check out CropBytes.com for the launch of these Superhero pro assets.

Want more? You can meet other co-player farms and check out the fishing mini-game. The team has recently released a single-player fishing mini-game and will soon release a multiplayer version. Get ready for some skill-based crypto earnings.

Currently, the game uses Tron (TRX) as the in-game currency and will soon use Tether (USDT), while working to support others in the near future. CropBytes is also expanding the ecosystem by working with more games and marketplaces to ensure tokens and collectibles can be traded with ease across multiple games.

What sets CropBytes apart?

Not only is CropBytes the first crypto game to launch on Android, iOS and web, but the team also has a reputation of riding the bull run with new exciting game features and steady growth for the players.

Our vision is to build an evolving game that lasts forever and grows with time. We have carefully crafted the game’s economics, assets and tokens to make them future-proof. 

We are also focused on growing the ecosystem with a variety of in-app games so players won’t be inclined to switch to a different game. Players can sell their assets after completing a title or use the assets in the next game. With that, we are also bringing in support for regional languages so gamers all over the world can join in.

In the last six months, CropBytes has gained tremendous attraction from players worldwide. The number of players has doubled, while deposits have grown 5x. The overall market capitalization of CropBytes is only going up. 

CropBytes founder Sandeep Kumar said:

“Our players have always asked for the CropBytes token, but we were keen on building a well-rounded product before we launched. After developing and refining CropBytes for nearly three years, we are glad to announce we’re finally launching our CBX token.”

CropBytes is now backed by a few top entrepreneurs in crypto and will soon be launching its token in a public sale. The blockchain industry has continued to evolve over the past decade, with more products being developed daily.

The team is gearing up to launch the much-awaited CBX token sale soon, get ready.

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Before a company makes an initial public offering, it has to release a certain amount of information. It has to tell potential shareholders the current value of its assets, what it does, how much it earns and how much it spends. It has to give investors enough knowledge to make an intelligent decision about whether to invest. That information is regulated by law.

Companies that make initial coin offerings (ICOs) are also governed by regulations, but those regulations and their jurisdictions remain unclear. Cryptocurrencies are still new, and rulings can be inconsistent. In 2015, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission defined Bitcoin as a security. In July 2017, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission defined the DAO token as a commodity. Add in the international nature of cryptocurrencies that allow companies to launch coins and tokens in places with lighter regulations, such as Singapore, and it’s no wonder that investors looking to put their money into ICOs might struggle to make their assessments.

Forget the regulations and forget the numbers. There are four things that you need to look at when you’re assessing an ICO, and they should be available for every coin.

First, look past the coin towards the product.

A cryptocurrency isn’t meant to operate in a vacuum. It’s supposed to support a product. There’s no point in buying casino chips at a discount if no one is going to build the casino that uses them or if the casino that was built was so run-down and poorly managed that no one would want to gamble in it.

The same principle applies to a cryptocurrency. All cryptocurrencies are similar. They’re all built on the blockchain. Some, like Ripple, might be pre-mined while others, like Bitcoin, will have a set release. Some, like Tether, might be linked to a fiat currency, while most others will be allowed to float freely. But each of those coins has their own use, and it’s much easier to assess that use than it is to assess the characteristics of the coin itself.

Ask yourself if you think there’s a real need for the product the coin is supporting. Ask yourself if you would use the product the coin is supporting. Assess the product in the same way that you’d assess a company looking for investment — and avoid any coins that aren’t funding a viable project.

You’ll find information about the product in the whitepaper, which is the second thing you should examine. In an area with as much regulatory mess as ICOs, the whitepaper is the closest you’re likely to get to a proper financial report. Because companies are using ICOs at an earlier stage of funding than traditional businesses use IPOs, the whitepaper is unlikely to contain much in the way of numbers and statistics. What you will get is a description of the vision behind the venture. You’ll get an explanation of why the company needs a cryptocurrency and what it’s trying to do with it.

You’ll also get a sense of how professional the company is. Whitepapers take effort to write properly. The founding team needs to be able to explain its ideas clearly to a writer who has to express those ideas in language that can be understood. A white paper is a professional product, and a pretty low bar to meet for a company that wants to raise millions. And yet, many businesses fail to meet it. At the start of the year, TRON, one of the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, was accused of plagiarising its whitepaper. It’s a poor sign if the company has to copy another business’s ideas to justify its own existence.

While you’re looking at the whitepaper, you should also pay close attention to the bios of the team members involved in the project. When venture capitalists listen to pitches from startup founders, the page that always interests them the most is the page about the team. Ideas are a dime-a-dozen, but the people who can make those ideas happen are much harder to find. Investors want to see that the people they’re giving money to have shown that they’re capable of building something, even if they haven’t yet had a great success. They want to see that they can get things done.

Cryptocurrencies haven’t been around long enough for team members to have the same kind of long experience with the blockchain that founders might have with businesses, but they do need to meet some criteria. They should have experience in the field in which they’re operating. They should have members who have worked with blockchain technology. They should have some experience that shows they’re capable of making things happen.

Finally, one way to more accurately assess the team is to join its Telegram group. A rival to WhatsApp, Telegram is the app of choice for cryptocurrency businesses. Many of them will invite potential investors to join their group on Telegram where they’ll take questions and talk about the product. You might not be able to sit in a pitch room with the company’s founders and check out their PowerPoint, but you can sit in a digital room with them and make your own judgments.

Assessing an ICO isn’t easy. There’s a reason that Google and Facebook are both banning their advertising. But with some care, some thought and plenty of caution, it is possible to dive into an ICO and make some smart decisions.

Many people who are not even related to the industry have already heard about the success of Bitcoin. In 2021, it has already become commonplace that many large companies, banks, funds, famous people such as Elon Musk, Katie Wood, Jack Dorsey, etc., and even countries invest their funds in the first cryptocurrency. Just a year ago, no one could have imagined such a thing, Several years ago everyone insisted that bitcoin is a bubble, and it is used for bad deeds or for money laundering, but now the picture is changing dramatically.

However, in addition to the most popular method of earning the so-called HODL (hold), there are many other ways to increase capital using cryptocurrencies. Now we will tell you about them.

1) Stacking

Stacking is a way for passive earnings, in which users store coins on the Proof of Stake (PoS) algorithm and ensure the blockchain is operational. This gives them the right to make a profit. This option is only available to cryptocurrencies that run on PoS, such as EOS, Tezos, TRON and Cosmos. In the future, Ethereum — the largest altcoin in terms of capitalization plans to switch to the PoS algorithm. However, at the moment you can stake, for example, the coins of the OKEX – CRO on their platform and receive passive earnings, or make a deposit on the ETH 2.0 contract and become a validator of the future ETH on the POS algorithm.

Simply put, the point of staking is that you block a certain number of coins, but in return, you receive coins from the system with full liability for staking on the platform. Here the main disadvantage is immediately obvious – you cannot get your coins before the agreed expiration date of the contract.

Unlike mining, which is not at all sustainable, staking is very friendly in nature. In 2021, many criticized the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, precisely for its non-environmental friendliness.

2) Invest in coins early on

When diversifying your cryptocurrency portfolio, an excellent solution would be to invest a small part of it in speculative coins, before listing on Binance. Most likely, everyone has heard a lot about coins that, after listing on Binance took off by thousands of percent in a matter of hours, and many of them will not reach Binance, and a lot will generally turn out to be a hoax, but 1 successful project will pay off all your losses many times over.

But how do you find out about such projects and buy their coins before they appear on Binance?

Such projects constantly appear, for example, on CoinList, where you can read about the tokenomics, the company and the team of these projects and decide which ones you are ready to invest in.

Also, many teams simply maintain their Twitter accounts, updating users about what they have already done, what are their plans and share the news of their project. You can even write to them directly but remember about the risks.

3) Invest cryptocurrency in various projects

Many different companies and startups attract investments, including in cryptocurrency. Thanks to the widespread use of cryptocurrencies today in 2021, any company, wherever it is located, can attract investments in cryptocurrency and sell a share without unnecessary bureaucratic moments, which usually take a lot of time. However, thanks to blockchain technology and the fact that anyone can see a transaction and verify it – such an exercise is possible. Basically, this way, investments are attracted by technology startups and projects directly related to cryptocurrencies.

However, there are many different projects and companies that, for various reasons, cannot go to the IPO and publicly place their shares, and they just resort to using cryptocurrencies. For example, Flirt Invest is a project that attracts funds to the largest network of webcam studios in Europe, as for obvious reasons they cannot go to an IPO and place their shares, since webcams, as an activity, are not legalized everywhere.

Flirt Invest just raises funds in the form of cryptocurrencies with daily dividend payments to investors with a profit of 15% per month! For traditional markets, this is quite a lot. This allows the company to attract investments from any investor, wherever he is, while the webcam sites themselves, where the models work, pay money to the models also in cryptocurrency, so the company directly pays part of the earnings to investors and avoids huge bank fees and difficulties in international transfers.

We are sure that cryptocurrencies have a great future, and now there are many ways to make money thanks to them, and in the future, there will be even more of them.

Remember, don’t invest all your money in one project and diversify your portfolio!

With an increasing number of new businesses embracing blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, the idea of creating a crypto token has also gained appeal, especially since many blockchain platforms are open-source and free.

In this article, we look at crypto tokens and what you need to know as a business to develop and launch them successfully.

If you are considering developing a crypto token, then it is best to get in touch with a professional crypto token development company such as XValley Technologies who can help you establish your presence in the crypto space and generate revenue for your business.

What are crypto tokens?

Crypto tokens are units of value developed on top of existing blockchains by various crypto organisations and projects. The most common blockchain platforms used to create a crypto token are Ethereum, Tron, and Binance Smart Chain.

For example, the Ethereum blockchain’s native token is ether (ETH), but there are also many other tokens that use the Ethereum blockchain, including DAI, COMP and CryptoKitties (Each Kitty is an ERC-721 token).

Crypto tokens can be used for a wide variety of purposes from trading, buying, and selling goods, to participating in decentralised finance (DeFi) mechanisms, playing games, or accessing platform-specific services.

Usually, companies create a crypto token in order to raise funds through crowdfunding by selling their tokens in what is called a “token sale” or crowd sale.”

There are different types of crypto crowdfunding platforms including an Initial Coin Offering (ICO), Security Token Offering (STO) and Initial Exchange Offering (IEO). Two concepts that have become very popular are the Initial Liquidity Offering (ILO) and the Initial Dex Offering (IDO).

Initial Liquidity Offerings (ILOs) have emerged as the most popular option for the launch of new tokens surpassing even Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Initial Dex offerings, or IDOs are tokens hosted on a decentralised exchange (DEX) and are very attractive due to their immediate liquidity and trading, and low costs for listing.

Benefits of crypto tokens

Their unique features such as anonymity, decentralisation and increased security, and their growing use in the cryptocurrency marketplace have made crypto tokens popular among crypto users and startups.

Crypto tokens are programmable, permissionless, transparent and trustless. They are programmable as they are controlled by smart contracts which carry the inherent logic and function of the token.

In this respect, they are also characterised by transparency as the rules and the transactions are viewable and verifiable by all.

They are permissionless as everyone can participate in the system and are trustless as there is no central authority.

Popular crypto tokens in the market

There are various types of tokens depending on their use, but the main ones are: common tokens, utility tokens, security tokens (asset-backed, equity and debt tokens), and non-fungible tokens.

Some of the most popular tokens among crypto traders are Binance USD, Compound, Chain link, Maker, Wrapped bitcoin and Huobi token.

How to develop and launch a crypto token for your business?

Before you move on to choosing the blockchain platform to develop your crypto token, you will first need to select the right consensus mechanism.

A consensus mechanism will ensure that all transactions are legitimate and can be added to the blockchain.

Once you have chosen your blockchain platform you will need to ensure that you are fully satisfied with the internal architecture of the blockchain as you will be unable to make any changes to the parameters of the blockchain platform after the token is deployed.

The next step is the APIs. Since some platforms do not provide any pre-built ones, you will need to get them from third-party blockchain API providers such as ChromaWay or Bitcore, to name a few. Finally, make sure that your token complies to international cryptocurrency rules and regulations.

Developing and launching a crypto token can be a significant step for your business, as a crypto token will help you reduce operational costs and expand your customer base.

A crypto token will also transform your transactions, eliminating fraud risk, providing anonymity, transparency, and security.

Leading fintech firm XValley Technologies is the ideal partner to help you access the exciting new sphere of blockchain payments and crypto transactions.

If you are considering launching your own crypto token, then get in touch with their friendly and experienced team to help you get started.

Non-fungible tokens (NFT) are digital assets that represent a wide range of unique tangible and intangible items, from collectible sports cards to virtual real estate and even digital sneakers.

One of the main benefits of owning a digital collectible versus a physical collectible like a Pokemon card or rare minted coin is that each NFT contains distinguishing information that makes it both distinct from any other NFT and easily verifiable. This makes the creation and circulation of fake collectibles pointless because each item can be traced back to the original issuer.

Unlike regular cryptocurrencies, NFTs cannot be directly exchanged with one another. This is because no two NFTs are identical – even those that exist on the same platform, game or in the same collection. Think of them as festival tickets. Each ticket contains specific information including the purchaser’s name, the date of the event and the venue. This data makes it impossible for festival tickets to be traded with one another.

The vast majority of NFT tokens were built using one of two Ethereum token standards (ERC-721 and ERC-1155) – blueprints created by Ethereum that enable software developers to easily deploy NFTs and ensure they’re compatible with the broader ecosystem, including exchanges and wallet services like MetaMask and MyEtherWallet. Eos, Neo and Tron have also released their own NFT token standards to encourage developers to build and host NFTs on their blockchain networks.

Read more: Do You Know Where Your Digital Art Lives?

Other key characteristics of NFTs include:

A CryptoPunk cannot be used as a character on the CryptoKitties game or vice versa. This goes for collectibles such as trading cards, too; a Blockchain Heroes card cannot be played in the Gods Unchained trading-card game.Indivisible: NFTs cannot be divided into smaller denominations like bitcoin satoshis. They exist exclusively as a whole item.Indestructible: Because all NFT data is stored on the blockchain via smart contracts, each token cannot be destroyed, removed or replicated. Ownership of these tokens is also immutable, which means gamers and collectors actually possess their NFTs, not the companies that create them. This contrasts with buying things like music from the iTunes store where users don't actually own what they’re buying, they just purchase the license to listen to the music.Verifiable: Another benefit of storing historical ownership data on the blockchain is that items such as digital artwork can be traced back to the original creator, which allows pieces to be authenticated without the need for third-party verification.Why they're important

NFTs have become hugely popular with crypto users and companies alike because of the way they revolutionized the gaming and collectibles space. Since November 2017, there has been a total of $174 million spent on NFTs.

Thanks to the advent of blockchain technology, gamers and collectors can become the immutable owners of in-game items and other unique assets as well as make money from them. In some cases, players have the ability to create and monetize structures like casinos and theme parks in virtual worlds, such as The Sandbox and Decentraland. They can also sell individual digitals items they accrue during gameplay such as costumes, avatars and in-game currency on a secondary market.

For artists, being able to sell artwork in digital form directly to a global audience of buyers without using an auction house or gallery allows them to keep a significantly greater portion of the profits they make from sales. Royalties can also be programmed into digital artwork so that the creator receives a percentage of sale profits each time their artwork is sold to a new owner.

William Shatner, best known as Captain Kirk from “Star Trek,” ventured into digital collectibles in 2020 and issued 90,000 digital cards on the WAX blockchain showcasing various images of himself. Each card was initially sold for approximately $1 and now provides Shatner with passive royalty income every time one is resold.

Read more: NFT art sales reached all-time high of $8.2M in DecemberWhy do they have value?

Like all assets, supply and demand are the key market drivers for price. Due to the scarce nature of NFTs and the high demand for them from gamers, collectors and investors, people are often prepared to pay a lot of money for them.

Some NFTs also have the potential to make their owners a lot of money. For instance, one gamer on the Decentraland virtual land platform decided to purchase 64 lots and combine them into a single estate. Dubbed “The Secrets of Satoshis Tea Garden,” it sold for $80,000 purely because of its desirable location and road access. Another investor parted with $222,000 to purchase a segment of a digital Monaco racing track in the F1 Delta Time game. The NFT representing the piece of digital track allows the owner to receive 5% dividends from all races that take place on it, including entry ticket fees.

What are the most expensive NFTs?

Dragon the CryptoKitty continues to be one of the most expensive NFTs in the space, valued at 600 ETH.

The one-of-a-kind "1-1-1" race car from F1 Delta Time sold for 415.9 ETH in May 2019.

Alien #2089 sold for 605 ETH in January 2021. This NFT is part of the CryptoPunk collection, the first NFTs ever created. Overall, there are 10,000 different CryptoPunks and only nine Alien CryptoPunks.

An NBA Topshot digital collectible card of basketball star LeBron James sold for $100,000.

An Axie named Angel from the NFT-based game Axie Infinity sold for 300 ETH.

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It will take 21 years for the rest of the world to mine as much of the Chia (XCH) cryptocurrency as the company behind it will have on the day its mainnet launches next month.

"We believe that chia, a new digital currency built on our new blockchain with radically different features and security than other digital currencies, will ultimately deliver on the promises of 'magic internet money,'" the company argues in its first version of a new business white paper released on Wednesday.

The size of the pre-mine is one notable revelation from the paper, in which Chia also announced its mainnet will launch on March 17 or earlier. Farmers (the network's equivalent of bitcoin miners) will be able to begin farming immediately. The network's cache of pre-mined XCH, however, will be governed using a traditional format: Chia plans to take its company public.

Chia was founded by Bram Cohen, the creator of BitTorrent, one of the most influential protocols on the internet. The company he founded was later sold to the Tron Foundation in 2018.

Chia first announced its intention to go public via the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's so-called mini-IPO in 2018, but the decentralized web startup Blockstack won out as the pioneer there, raising $23 million under Regulation A+ in 2019. Last year, Chia raised a fresh round of $5 million in funding led by Slow Ventures.

Plans have shifted slightly since then, with the company now planning to, one way or another, take its offering to a national stock exchange where it can be traded by the public and the company will be subject to the same transparency as any publicly traded company.

One of Chia's early backers was AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant, who told CoinDesk in an email, "I backed Chia because I've known Bram for a long time and he is one of the greatest living protocol designers (BitTorrent), right up there with Satoshi and Vitalik."

Chia has previously articulated its technical vision, a consensus model called Proof of Space and Time (PoST). This new paper articulates Chia's vision for sustainability.

Chia's president and COO, Gene Hoffman, told CoinDesk that the public should control more XCH than the company much earlier than 21 years and that the token is not the critical component of the consensus model anyway. 

"Unlike most projects, coin ownership has nothing to do with the protocol – this is not Proof of Stake," Hoffman explained via email. "The chart of ownership percentages of coins in the Whitepaper is a worst case as we expect to use shareholder distribution to migrate XCH out to a broad public shareholder base."

CoinDesk went through the new Chia white paper with a fine-tooth comb.

Here are five key takeaways from Chia's new roadmap.

PoST relies on loading up unused computer storage space with strings of digits that farmers (what Chia calls blockchain validators) allow to be loaded on their computers. The more space, the more strings, the greater their chance of winning a block.

"It is super simple. Just download the Mac or Windows version and double click," Hoffman told CoinDesk. "I’m pretty sure this will be the easiest cryptocurrency to validate for normal people ever."

Other blockchains take a similar approach, such as Spacemesh. And Filecoin also seeks to capitalize on unused storage space.

In its testnet phases, Chia has reached as many as 1,700 nodes already, which is very likely to indicate something about interest in running a node when mainnet launches next month. Its public chat channel on Keybase has almost 4,000 people in it.

Bitcoin maxis fixate on the hard cap, but Chia argues that it's not a fixed amount that matters so much as a predictable amount. Chia has no cap, but it's also not going to surprise holders with unanticipated emissions.

"Being able to directly calculate a shared expectation of the total supply at any given time gives much the same financial and peace of mind benefit," the white paper argues.

As noted, the company will start the mainnet with 21 million XCH, a nod to bitcoin, and farmers can start earning it right away. While it will take 21 years for the supply to double via farming, Hoffman knows that it will be very close in only six years. Then emissions will slow down considerably under the halving schedule.

By then, it's likely that the company will have sold or airdropped a considerable amount of XCH.

"We have seen the scams and farces that have come before our project in this space and we will instead embrace the regulators," the white paper states. "It should not be controversial that investors deserve protection through public disclosure and certainly the public shouldn’t be sold investments without that legally required transparency."

By going with a public listing, Chia will essentially allow backers to treat its equity as an exchange-traded fund (ETF) for the XCH cryptocurrency. That's because the company's chief asset will be a considerable pre-mine (or pre-farm, in Chia lingo) of 21 million XCH that will be held for the company and is slated to be used for advancing the network.

"It’s owned by the company and subject to significant corporate controls that will only get more teeth as and when we go public," Hoffman said. The provisions the company is committed to require it to only use its stash of XCH in ways that benefit XCH holders.

"We can use the pre-farm to raise capital that only dilutes the shareholders and not the farmers," Hoffman noted.

Chia comes with a number of features built in from the get-go that may increase trust and safety for users.

Here are a few described in the white paper that jumped out.

Flash loans have been the key to attacks on decentralized finance projects such as bZx, Harvest and Yearn Finance.

"Their assumptions are inferior as they tend to cause centralization and are not as robust as Nakamoto consensus under international geopolitical pressure," the white paper says of proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains (after dismissing private, permissioned blockchains out of hand).

The problem with proof-of-work (PoW), Chia contends, is that it burns too much energy. Nevertheless, Chia also writes in the new white paper that its technology complements bitcoin, the largest PoW network.

But PoS, which Ethereum is moving toward, is another matter. Chia does not think the safety of this model is adequate. The white paper contends, "A considerable amount of effort is being expended attempting to solve what we believe are intractable problems with Proof of Stake as an alternate strategy to use less electricity securing public blockchains."

It cites three key issues: centralization, where tokens tend to concentrate among a few giant holders; long-range attacks, where the history of the chain can be revised more easily than in PoW because there is no, well, work (to speak of) in PoS; and the inability of PoS networks to recover from a 51% attack.

It remains to be seen until there is real value on the line, but the hope is that PoST can lower the energy footprint of "magic internet money" without sacrificing the censorship resistance and decentralization that makes cryptocurrency so appealing to the cypherpunk-inclined and those dealing with unreliable nation-state currencies.

That's the long term.

In the immediate term, Chia aims to scale what's worked about crypto so far and build on it in a way that's accessible for everyone. The white paper states:

Almost a year and a half after its mainnet beta launch in March 2020, Solana — perhaps the hottest blockchain of the moment — is soaring. It is one of the world’s first web-scale blockchains and fastest networks, thanks to its speed and claimed throughput of 50,000 TPS (transactions per second).

Its native token, SOL, experienced a 72% price surge over the past week and is now a top-10 cryptocurrency, with a market cap of US$18.3 billion and an annual growth rate of over 1,900%. 

The Solana network is known as a fourth-generation blockchain that aims to solve the blockchain trilemma — creating a fast and scalable network, without compromising on its security or decentralization. The protocol introduces eight core technologies that enable transactions to scale proportionally with the bandwidth, resulting in industry-leading transaction speed and enterprise-level security.

Thanks to its robust protocol, Solana can offer a decentralized platform for DApps with global scaling potential, without the network congestion and high gas fees of the Ethereum network. Is its latest growth in investor confidence a sign that Solana is on its way toward mass adoption? 

This Forkast.News explainer will explore:

What is Solana?Solana’s rootsSolana’s core featuresHow does Solana work?Solana’s native token – $SOLWhat makes Solana stand out?Solana’s visionWhat does the future hold for Solana?1. What is Solana?

Solana is a web-scale, open-source blockchain protocol that supports developers and institutions around the world to build decentralized applications (DApps) and marketplaces. Solana’s protocol is fast, secure, and censorship-resistant, which provides the flexibility of an open infrastructure required to build applications for mass adoption.

This high-performance blockchain provides the fully decentralized, secure, and highly scalable infrastructure necessary for tomorrow’s DApps and decentralized marketplaces. It leverages a set of breakthrough computational technologies that can support thousands of nodes, allowing for transaction throughput to proportionally scale with network bandwidth.

Solana uses a combination of proof-of-stake (PoS) and proof of history (PoH) consensus mechanisms to improve throughput and scalability. Consequently, the network claims to support 50,000 transactions per second (TPS), making it the fastest blockchain in the world.

2. Solana’s roots

Solana’s white paper was published in 2017 by Anatoly Yakovenko, who previously worked at Qualcomm and Dropbox, where he specialized in designing distributed systems and compression algorithms. The paper was the first description of proof of history — a new timekeeping method for distributed systems that could automate the transaction ordering process for blockchain networks.

Yakovenko teamed up with his former colleague at Qualcomm, Greg Fitzgerald, now Solana’s chief technology officer, to build a blockchain testnet based on proof of history, which was first released in February 2018.

The company behind Solana, initially called Loom, was founded by Yakovenko, Fitzgerald, and Stephen Akridge soon after. They rebranded the company to Solana Labs, to avoid being confused with Loom Network, the popular multichain interoperability solution. 

Solana Labs completed a $20 million series A funding round led by Multicoin Capital in July 2019. After raising another $1.76 million from its launch auction on Coinlist, Solana’s beta mainnet launched in March 2020, with basic transaction capabilities and smart contract features.

Presently, Solana Labs remains the core contributor to the network, while the Solana Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Zug, Switzerland, is dedicated to funding and developing the blockchain’s community-building initiatives.

3. Solana’s core features

To understand how Solana works, we first need to take a look at its architecture. Below are 8 core innovations that make Solana the first web-scale blockchain.

Despite its name, PoH is not a consensus mechanism, but a cryptographic clock that enables nodes to agree on the time order of the events on the chain, without having to talk to each other — since each node has its own clock.

PoH helps create more efficiency and higher throughput within the network by storing historical records of transactions and allowing the system to keep track of the order of events more easily.

2. Tower BFT (Byzantine fault tolerance)

Tower BFT is Solana’s implementation of pBFT (practical Byzantine fault tolerance), optimized for PoH. In essence, this is a consensus algorithm that takes advantage of the cryptographic clock, reaching consensus without having to go through a multitude of messages among nodes — consequently improving the transaction speed.

3. Gulf Stream — mempool-less transaction forwarding protocol

Gulf Stream is what enables Solana to reach 50,000 TPS. This is the protocol responsible for transaction caching and for forwarding them to the edge of the network. This allows network validators to execute transactions ahead of time, drastically reducing confirmation time and the memory requirements on validators from unconfirmed transaction pools. 

4. Turbine — a block propagation protocol

Turbine is a block propagation protocol that breaks data down into smaller increments — making data transfer easier among the nodes. Turbine helps Solana address bandwidth-related issues and increase the network’s overall transaction processing speed.

5. Sealevel — parallel smart contracts run-time

This is a parallelized transaction processing engine that enables Solana to scale horizontally across GPUs and SSDs. In a nutshell, Sealevel allows for concurrent transactions on the same chain, resulting in a better runtime for the network.

6. Pipelining — a transaction processing unit for validation optimization

Pipelining is a common procedure used in CPU design. It refers to the process of assigning a stream of input data to different hardware for processing. This enables quick transaction information to be replicated and validated faster across the nodes of the network.

7. Cloudbreak — horizontally-scaled accounts database

Cloudbreak is a data structure required for the network’s scalability and throughput. It organizes the database of accounts, making concurrent reads and writes between the network’s 32 threads possible.

8. Archivers — distributed ledger storage

Solana’s validators offload the data to a network of nodes known as Archivers. Archiver nodes can be basic laptops or PCs that the network leverages for data storage.

4. How does Solana work?

Solana is considered one of the most high-performance permissionless blockchain on the market, with a network of 200 distinct nodes that generate a throughput of 50,000 TPS when running with GPUs. The network achieves this due to its unique consensus architecture.

Solana uses a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus model, like Cardano and Tron, except it is reinforced by Tower BFT consensus. Tower consensus enables the network to reach consensus, despite potential attacks from malicious nodes.

Tower BFT enforces a universal source of time across the network through proof of history. This creates a common record of all the events and transactions on the blockchains, as a permanent reference for the nodes running the network.

People often mistake PoH, one of Solana’s core innovations, for a consensus protocol; however, this is a permissionless, globally available source of time on the blockchain that works before the network reaches consensus. Proof of history is not a consensus protocol or anti-Sybil mechanism. Rather, it is a decentralized clock that helps secure the blockchain.

Tower BFT leverages this permissionless clock to reduce the processing power necessary for transactions — since the timestamps of the previous transactions don’t need to be processed anymore. This is one of the features that make Solana’s leading throughput possible.

Sealevel, Solana’s transaction parallelization system, also plays a fundamental role, by enabling parallel smart contract runtime. This optimizes the network’s resource usage and enables its horizontal scaling across GPUs and SSDs.

Solana’s mempool system (contraction of memory and pool), Gulf Stream, is also different from other popular blockchains, as it forwards the transactions to validators before the previous set of transactions was even finalized. This mempool-less transaction forwarding protocol helps maximize transaction confirmation speed, as well as the concurrent and parallel transaction capacity of the network.

5. Solana’s native token – $SOL

Solana’s native token, SOL, is trading at US$65.06 at publishing time, with a maximum supply of 489 million coins and a circulating supply of 286 million tokens.

As with most smart contract platforms, SOL is used as Solana’s gas token, used to pay for all on-chain transactions and smart contracts. Investors can also use SOL to perform micropayments, also referred to as lamports within the ecosystem.

SOL token holders can also earn rewards by supporting the network with a process called staking. This involves staking a minimum of 0.01 SOL to become a node that helps validate transactions on the blockchain, in exchange for more SOL coins.

6. What makes Solana stand out?

Solana is often referred to as the most scalable and first truly web-scale blockchain in the world, as it’s among the few protocols achieving over 1,000 TPS.

Moreover, Solana claims to support over 50,000 TPS, with over 200 nodes on the current testnet — making it by far the most performant blockchain network. In comparison, proof of work-based systems like Bitcoin support approximately 5 transactions per second, while Ethereum currently averages around 13 TPS. This makes Solana around 10,000 times faster than Bitcoin and 3,800 times faster than Ethereum.

Another unique aspect about the network’s performance is that it is achieved without using off-chain or layer 2 solutions, whereas Ethereum is reliant on Polygon’s Plasma Chains and similar scaling solutions. Thus, Solana remains one of the few layer-1 blockchain protocols that isn’t exposed to the mass exit problem and other risks associated with layer-2 networks.

Solana has an average block time of 600 milliseconds, which is the time it takes to create a new block on the blockchain. As for fees, the network averages US$0.00025 per transaction, which is a fraction of a cent. To put this in perspective, a US$1 million transaction would cost about US$10 on Solana, whereas the same transaction on Ethereum would cost approximately US$300,000, as Ethereum currently averages US$6.86 per transaction.

To demonstrate how fast the network is, the team behind Solana created a break test, which enables participants to send as many transactions as possible to test the robustness of the network.

7. Solana’s vision

Solana is a web-scale, censorship-resistant blockchain, working on solving some of the most pressing issues in the industry — speed and scalability for global adoption, without sacrificing any of the inherent properties of a robust layer-1 protocol.

Solana aims to solve the scalability issue with its high-performance protocol, which implements a revolutionary time architecture, transaction processing mechanism, and more efficient consensus model compared to other blockchains, making it the world’s fastest layer-1 network.

Solana’s open infrastructure empowers developers to easily deploy scalable DApps with composable building blocks without dealing with additional friction caused by sharding and other layer-2 solutions.

Solana’s ultimate goal is solving the blockchain trilemma, which hypothesizes that a decentralized network can only satisfy two out of the three main properties — decentralization, security, and scalability. Solana claims to have solved the trilemma with its eight core innovations, but whether this is enough to inspire mass blockchain adoption remains to be seen.

8. What does the future hold for Solana?

Solana is still a relatively new project, having only launched its mainnet beta in March 2020. Yet, Solana’s native coin, SOL, has already climbed among the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization. Despite offering complete functionality to its users, the mainnet is officially still in beta, to mark that the team is still working on improving the network’s features and stability.

The network already hosts several great projects, with partners like USDC, Chainlink, Kin, BSN, Exodus, and Serum, a decentralized exchange that surged 1,500% only 12 hours after its launch. With over 250 projects in the ecosystem, increasingly more developers are choosing to build on Solana, as its blockchain offers some of the lowest latency and gas costs on the market — two of the most important considerations for decentralized applications.

The biggest Solana Season Hackathon yet was also concluded on June 7, with 13,000 registrants and more than 300 projects submitted.

“Solana is build-ready today. After seeing explosive growth in global developer uptake, we are convinced that scalability and throughput in blockchain are now a solved problem. This is an inflection point akin to the moment that PCs became widely accessible in the 1970s,” said Yakovenko, co-founder and CEO of Solana Labs, in a press release.

In June, the bullish news surrounding the network contributed to a positive market sentiment among investors, as Solana Labs completed a US$314.15 million private token sale led by Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital.

“The next phase is onboarding a billion users. Solana was built from the ground up to accommodate this scale. With this funding, Solana Labs is now positioned to bring in the right partners and capital to build products and tooling to get there,” added Yakovenko, on the future direction of the network.

With the network’s speed, low-cost transactions and industry-leading throughput, it would not be surprising if the Solana ecosystem attracts increasingly more projects in the future, fostering global blockchain adoption. The current market certainly thinks so. 

Au cœur du mois d’août écoulé, une phase de correction a eu lieu sur le marché actions, alimentant à nouveau l’argumentaire des analystes qui souhaitent un krach boursier de longue date. Mais la dimension de cette correction est restée limitée au cadre court terme, les indices boursiers trouvant un support sur le retracement de Fibonacci de 50% du mouvement haussier estival. La suite est assez classique, avec des indices américains qui sont parvenus rapidement à inscrire de nouveaux records historiques et un CAC 40 qui s’est stabilisé sur le support à 6.580 points et qui tend à nouveau vers son record historique de juillet 2000.

Les capitaux se dirigent toujours vers les actions après l’évènement majeur de politique monétaire qui a lieu le vendredi 27 août, le fameux Symposium économique de Jackson Hole. Cette année, pour raison sanitaire, cette réunion des banquiers centraux a eu lieu de manière virtuelle et le soutien sans faille aux conditions de financement a été confirmé. Pour les actifs risqués en général et le marché actions en particulier, tout l’enjeu était de savoir si la Réserve Fédérale des Etats-Unis (FED) envisageait de réduire ses achats d’actifs (tapering) dès cette année ou non.

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Pour la classe d’actifs risqués des cryptomonnaies, la reprise a été vigoureuse entre le 20 juillet et le 20 août pour le cours du Bitcoin. Le marché a repris plus de 70%, écartant le scénario technique du pire (la rupture des 30.000 dollars pour ensuite chuter en direction de l’ancien record historique) et plus de 100% de rebond pour le token de la blockchain Ethereum direction.

De manière générale, le marché boursier a conservé un profil d’attrait pour le risque cet été, avec de nouveaux records historiques ou annuels pour les grands indices boursiers. La corrélation positive de long terme marché actions / marché crypto a joué à plein régime et Bitcoin euro a multiplié les signaux techniques positifs.

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Dans l’immédiat, la tendance reste haussière à très court terme au-dessus du premier support à 47.000 dollars. Une rupture de ce support prolongerait le retracement vers le support à 44.000 dollars.

Sur la même période du 20 juillet au 20 août, la performance de Ethereum a été de près de 100%, marquant ainsi une rupture nette avec la phase corrective du printemps. La seconde crypto-monnaie par la valeur de la capitalisation boursière a développé une hausse linéaire qui a permis de défendre la ligne de tendance haussière chartiste de moyen terme, affichant une nette surperformance sur le BTC (voir le graphique ci-dessous du ratio ETH/BTC)

Le marché proposait un trading range au-dessus du support à 3.000 dollars. L’Ethereum en est sorti par le haut et tend vers la résistance à 3.700 dollars.

Graphique qui expose le ratio ETH/BTC, illustrant la surperformance de Ethereum euro sur le Bitcoin© Fournis par CapitalVincent Ganne (données TradingView)

Vincent Ganne, stratégiste de marché, analyste technique des marchés financiers et formateur, membre de l'Association Française des Analystes Techniques (AFATE)

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L'EIP-1559 ou Hard Fork London suscite de nombreux débats et controverses au sein de la communauté crypto. Il s'agit de la plus grande mise à jour de l'Ethereum (ETH) et elle modifie certains aspects fondamentaux de la blockchain. Alors que beaucoup d'utilisateurs d'ETH estiment que la mise à jour a lieu d'être, d'autres pensent qu'elle fera baisser leurs gains. Qu'en est-il ? Qu'est-ce qui change avec le Hard Fork London ?

L’EIP-1559 divise la communauté

Hard Fork London est le nom donné à la dernière mise à jour (MAJ) en date de la blockchain Ethereum (ETH). Les partisans de cette mise à jour avancent qu'elle apportera des transformations majeures relatives à la vitesse et à la fiabilité des transactions. D'un côté, celles-ci deviendront plus rapides et de l'autre, elles seront plus sécurisées.

Le nom de la MAJ lui a été donné en référence à la capitale britannique où a eu lieu la Devcon (conférence internationale de développeurs) durant laquelle le projet a été présenté. Le Hard Fork London compte cinq « Propositions d'amélioration d'Ethereum » (EIP). Il s'agit de l'EIP-3554, l'EIP-3529, l'EIP-3198, l'EIP-3541 et l'EIP-1559, et c'est cette dernière qui est au cœur des controverses. Pourquoi ? Elle a divisé la communauté d'utilisateurs de l'ETH en deux factions distinctes.

La première se range du côté de la Fondation Ethereum qui avance que la mise à jour améliorera significativement l'expérience des utilisateurs. La seconde faction, quant à elle, pense que le Hard Fork London aura un impact négatif sur l'activité des mineurs. Selon ces derniers, leurs revenus pourraient être revus à la baisse en raison des frais de transaction.

changements annoncés par la Fondation Ethereum

Le Hard Fork Londona été déployé le jeudi 5 août 2021 au niveau du bloc 12 965 000. Proposé par Vitalik Buterin, le créateur d'Ethereum (ETH), l'EIP 1559 est censé rendre les variations des prix de la cryptomonnaie plus prévisibles. Mais son avantage principal à en croire Vitalik Buterin, c'est qu'il permettra de réduire drastiquement les frais de transaction.

Un autre avantage a été mis en avant par l'équipe derrière la mise à jour. Il s'agit du dédoublement de la taille des blocs. Qu'est-ce que cela signifie ? Tout simplement que, en théorie, il doit être désormais possible de faire deux fois plus de transactions dans chaque bloc.

Avec ce changement, la Fondation Ethereum annonce que les pics aléatoires de la demande seront réduits. Conséquence : il y aura la diminution des frais de transaction. Par ailleurs, la fondation soutient que les transactions seront accélérées, ce qui permettra de rendre la plateforme plus attractive pour les utilisateurs. Ainsi, davantage de personnes rejoindraient le rang des mineurs.

Vers une totale scission de la communauté des utilisateurs d’ETH ?

Si la controverse que suscite l'EIP-1559 n'est pas rapidement résolue, elle pourrait entraîner des conséquences, disons... désastreuses. Le pire scénario selon les observateurs, c'est que le Hard Fork London provoque une division complète au sein de la communauté. En effet, les mineurs anti-EIP-1559 pourraient refuser de procéder à la mise à jour et continuer d'utiliser l'ancien système. À l'inverse, les pro-EIP-1559 feront la mise à jour et bénéficieront du nouveau système. Résultat des courses : on risque d'avoir une scission de la communauté.

Cela dit, les risques que se produise la scission semblent minces. Pour cause, les « mineurs rebelles » ne disposeraient pas d'une base d'utilisateurs conséquente. Cependant, rien ne garantit que cette scission ne se fera pas. Ce serait une erreur que de se hasarder à prédire l'avenir dans ce cas. Mais une chose est certaine : le Hard Fork London n'a pas fini de faire parler de lui.

Le Hard Fork London ou EIP-1559 est la plus grande mise à jour de la blockchain Ethereum (ETH). Elle suscite des controverses, car tous les utilisateurs d'ETH ne le perçoivent pas sous le même angle. Provoquera-t-il une scission de la communauté ? Difficile à prédire. Quoi qu'il en soit, le feuilleton de l'EIP-1559 nous réserve encore de belles surprises, après son lancement le 5 août 2021. Sortez les popcorns, le feuilleton ne fait que commencer !

Justin Sun, founder of Tron, a smart contract-enabled cryptocurrency, announced he purchased an NFT avatar for $10.5 million. The NFT, dubbed ‘Joker’ due to its appearance, is part of a Tron-native NFT series called Tpunks, that seeks to emulate the style and success of the known Cryptopunks series, but on the Tron blockchain.

Justin Sun Purchases NFT for $10.5 Million

Justin Sun, the founder of the smart contracts-enabled Tron blockchain, announced today the purchase of an NFT avatar for $10.5 million dollars worth of tron. The NFT purchased, identified as #3442 but called “Joker,” ostensibly due to its resemblance to the popular Batman villain, is part of the Tpunks series. Tpunks is a collection of NFTs that seeks to recreate the art style of another very successful line of NFTs, on Ethereum, the Cryptopunks.

The series features 10,000 avatars, of which there are some with rare traits, which make them especially desired by collectors. The project is picking up steam and has climbed to fourth place rank in collectible dapps at time of writing, according to DappRadar. Prices of rare NFTs on the platform have also spiked, with some offers reaching more than $800K.

This isn’t Justin Sun’s first foray into the NFT market. Sun was an active bidder on Christie’s sale of Beeple’s “Everydays: the First 5,000 Days” NFT. Sun made a bid of $60 million to acquire the asset, but according to his statements, he was outbid by $250K by an unknown buyer at the last minute.

NFT Craze

Non Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, have caused quite the excited commotion in the cryptocurrency space. Justin Sun is not the first to dive in. Several famous influencers, actors, and even rappers have gotten into the space to take advantage of this new kind of media. Even Jay-Z, the famous musician, partnered with Sotheby’s in June to auction an NFT inspired by his “Reasonable Doubt” album, called “Heir to the Throne.” The musician also changed his Twitter profile picture to display a Cryptopunk, something that made some of his followers believe he had purchased one.

Several other projects have sold millions of dollars in NFTs. The main project, Cryptopunks, surpassed $1 billion in sales last week, being the third NFT-based project to reach that number after Axie Infinity and Opensea. NFT fever even reaches into institutional markets. Visa, the multinational payments giant, purchased a CryptoPunk (#7610) to add to its collection on August 23, calling NFTs a “new era” of collecting.

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Ethereum changed the nature and future of the crypto industry when it launched back in 2015. Its story is well-known by now, but as a quick recap — Ethereum pointed out the possibilities of blockchain technology, showing the world that this underlying tech behind cryptocurrencies can be a lot more than just a distributed ledger.

Since then, the blockchain sector exploded, which led to amazing products such as smart contracts, DeFi, NFTs, dApps, and more, all of which is now available throughout the crypto industry.

But, for all its innovativeness, Ethereum still has its flaws, such as consuming too much energy due to its use of Proof-of-Work consensus, as well as its inability to scale. In the early days of its existence, neither of these things was particularly damning. Ethereum was still faster than Bitcoin, more energy-efficient consensus algorithms didn’t even exist yet, and the changes it brought made it extremely popular extremely quickly.

Not to mention that the crypto industry had so few members back then that even the scaling issues weren’t immediately noticeable, or at least, they did not have an impact. But, as crypto started to grow, more people joined in, more products got created, and more users started using them. Over time, the fact that it could only process a handful of transactions per block became a problem. Its growing transaction fees became a problem. Even Proof of Work became a problem, especially these days when the world is so desperately trying to go green.

The rise of Ethereum challengers

All of this, combined with the popularity of it being a development platform, led to the creation of countless other development platforms, each of which sought to become the next big thing — the next Ethereum.

But, by the time that happened, Ethereum was already so big and so well-developed that none of them stood a chance at even matching its performance and community, let alone overpowering it and becoming a so-called Ethereum Killer. Still, the idea of a blockchain that could overtake Ethereum someday became the stuff of legends, and whenever a new platform started seeing growth, people have been wondering — is this the one? Has Ethereum finally met its match?

This question was asked when NEO, also known as Chinese Ethereum first emerged. However, NEO wasn’t it. It was also asked when EOS came out, as well as when TRON — a project that originally started as an ERC-20 token — launched its own blockchain.

Time after time, people were asking the same question, but the answer eventually always ended up being the same. No other blockchain in the past six years was strong enough to overtake ETH, despite all of its shortcomings.

Now, however, Etheruem has a new challenger, and the same question is being asked again. Just like before, the answer is not obvious right from the start, which means that anything can yet happen. We are referring, of course, to Cardano, which is set to bring smart contracts to its mainnet in only a few days, on September 12th.

Could Cardano become the Ethereum Killer?

Cardano is not a new blockchain — it has been around for years now. However, unlike many other failed Ethereum Killers, Cardano did not rush its development. The project decided to take its time and do things slowly but surely, and it took years to get to where it is right now.

It never had any controversies, it was never hacked, nor did it encounter project-breaking bugs and similar issues. In fact, it became quite well-known for progressing slowly and not sacrificing its detailed plans just so that it could participate in bull runs and attract attention. All of this resulted in several benefits.

For one, Cardano managed to remain relevant while most of the previous Ethereum killers sank on the list of the largest coins, simply because people lost interest and have found other projects to focus on. And, another thing — Cardano developed its technology properly, allowing it to withstand the test of time.

As mentioned, this is an important moment for the project, as it will finally integrate smart contracts into its mainnet, which will mean that the project will finally be able to allow the creation of dApps, DeFi protocols, new coins and tokens, and more.

In addition, Cardano is built with PoS (Proof of Stake), which requires a lot less energy for it to work. It is also much faster, much safer, and a lot cheaper than Ethereum, with the ability to scale and meet user demand. The project raises zero red flags, and it promises a lot, but the thing is that Cardano never promised more than what it can deliver.

Cardano is already the second-largest altcoin

The anticipation of its smart contract integration alone was more than enough to push the coin’s price to a new all-time high over the last several weeks, and now that the day of the launch is closer than ever, Cardano is the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, just before Ethereum, and, of course, Bitcoin.

It is also as much as $10 billion larger than the next biggest crypto, which is Binance’s Binance Coin. Of course, it is still leagues behind Ethereum’s market cap, which currently sits at $297.5 billion, whereas Cardano is only at $79.1 billion. The only possible rival that the coin currently may have a reason to fear is Solana (SOL), which is another similar blockchain, but also one that seems to offer the same quality of services, but that moves a lot faster than ADA.

Whether or not this might be SOL’s downfall remains to be seen. For now, however, Cardano is still significantly bigger, and it appears to have greater expectations than Solana itself.

Another thing worth noting is that Ethereum is not exactly sitting around doing nothing while it waits to be overthrown. The project’s developers have been working on implementing Ethereum 2.0 for a long time now, and it seems that they are closer than ever to completing the process. They also recently introduced an upgrade that brought a new token burning mechanism that will reduce the coin’s supply, and at the same time, reduce the cost of making transactions.

This once again gives ETH the advantage, but we will still have to wait to find out whether this will be enough to stop Cardano from overtaking it.

To learn more about some of the differences between these altcoins, read our Ethereum vs Cardano feature.

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Top Crypto and Bitcoin Casinos Reviewed and Compared

By: Ofir Beigel | Last updated: 3/15/21

Bitcoin casinos have become more and more popular in the past few years as it allows many operators to avoid cumbersome regulations required by traditional online casinos. In this post I’ll review the top Bitcoin casinos around and also explain what’s important to check before choosing a casino.

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Nowadays casinos have a new solution for the issue of regulation – Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s somewhat anonymous nature drove many Bitcoin casinos to pop up since authorities couldn’t regulate or enforce them. This creates a very dangerous situation where people are depositing their Bitcoins into sites that may not even be provably fair.

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1. The 6 Best Bitcoin Casinos Around #1 – Bitstarz

Bitstarz is undoubtedly the most popular Bitcoin casino out there. The casino is provably fair and regulated by the Curacao government. It offers around more than 3,000 high quality games, however it does not offer a sportsbook feature (where you can bet on popular sporting events).

Bitstarz also accepts multiple currencies and isn’t limited only to cryptos. Deposits can be made via Mastercard, Skrill, Neteller, Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Dogecoin and various other methods making it highly accessible to worldwide users, even those who don’t own Bitcoin.

Support is available through social media, online chat and email. It’s also probably the most appealing casino out there in terms of design.

What really caught my eye about Bitstarz is the fact that they respond to user complaints even via Reddit, which shows they care about their customer experience and are willing to step up when needed. Read my full Bitstarz review here.

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#2 – 7Bit Casino

7Bit Casino features some of the more generous signup bonuses. New players are eligible for bonuses of up to 1.5BTC and free spins. You will get a 100% bonus (up to 1.5BTC) on your first deposit or 200 free spins and 50% bonus (up to 1.25BTC) on your second and third deposit.

7Bit Casino’s games are provably fair. Players can play slots, jackpot games and live table games. Players from the U.S., U.K., Coin bitcoin casino windermere Israel, Italy, France and certain other countries are restricted from gambling on 7Bit Casino. The casino is regulated under Antillephone N.V. Players can make deposits in BTC, ETH, DOGE and LTC, as well as traditional payment methods. Read my full 7bitcasino review here.

#3 – Stake

Stake offers a good variety of games, a 24/7 live chat support and anonymity. The casino is provably fair and it is regulated by the Curaçao Egaming authority, under the Curaçao government. The casino is not available for players from the US, Australia, Curaçao and the Czech Republic

The casino accepts deposits in BTC, ETH, LTC, BCH, XRP, TRX, EOS and Doge. Stake also offers a starting balance and free money by email to their users, as well as a faucet. They also run daily challenges and weekly prize pools, while you are rewarded for your loyalty at Stake. The casino offers a super low house edge (average 1%, depends on the game) on a wide selection of games.

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Cloudbet, established in 2013 is operated under a license issued by the government of Curacao. The site offers an online casino with Bitcoin slots, roulette, craps, blackjack and baccarat. There’s also a live casino that offers an authentic, real-life experience with high limits and a great feature enabling you to be seated immediately (no waiting required).

The site also offers live sports betting including all major leagues like the EPL, the UEFA Champions League, NFL, NBA and NHL as well UFC fight cards, boxing, darts and ATP tennis. Recently esports betting and virtual sports betting verticals are offered as well.

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FortuneJack, established in 2014, is probably the most trusted Bitcoin casino out there. It is provably fair and regulated by the Curacao government. There are over 500 games available on Fortune Jack. With the Dice Jackpot game, you can even choose your own lucky number, a feature that is not available in other casinos. Deposits are available through several cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Best london casinos for poker Litecoin, Dogecoin, Dash and many more.

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mBit, established in early 2014, is a Curacao regulated casino that puts an emphasis on anonymous betting. The casino offers a variety of games, including live dealers. You get a 110% deposit bonus when you deposit, however deposits are only available via cryptocurrency. In the current promotion, you get 300 free spins when you sign up.

There are 2000+ games on mBit Casino and online support is available as well in the form of a chatroom.

#7 Bitcoin.com Games

Bitcoin.com recently launched their Bitcoin.com Games portal, a provably fair online casino with anonymous and instant registration and several popular games.

Featuring the most popular casino games, like Slots, Roulette, Keno, Blackjack, Video Poker and Craps along with some exclusive games, players can deposit both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash with a variety of deposit bonuses for the 1st, the 2nd and even for the 3rd deposits.

#8 – Bitcasino

Bitcasino is one of the oldest Bitcoin casinos around. It started out in 2014 and is currently supplying over 3000 types of casino games. The casino is regulated by the government of Curacao, however it is not provably fair.

What makes Bitcasino better than Crypto Games is its wide variety of games (including live casino games), and the fact that it supplies new players with 100 free spins. Bitcasino supports various currencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Tron, Ripple, Tether (USDT) as well as Japanese Yen, just to name a few.

In addition to loyalty rewards, Bitcasino also offers other promotions and bonuses every week.

2. Bitcoin Casinos that Accept US Players

Many online casinos are blocked for US residents, Bitstarz withdrawal time which makes finding one that accepts players from the US pretty hard. The list below shows Bitcoin casinos that accept US players. Note that only ‘Bitcoin only’ casinos (i.e. fiat deposits not accepted) accept players from the US.

The following Bitcoin casinos are available for US players:

Seety, soutenue par l'accélérateur de start-up de la banque KBC, s'attend à ce que l'efficacité et l'impact environnemental des crypto-monnaies s'améliorent dans le futur, ce qui leur permettrait de devenir de plus en plus utilisées pour payer les biens et services de tous les jours.

Toute personne souhaitant payer sa place de parking avec Seety doit ouvrir l'application et choisir le montant et la crypto-monnaie qu'il souhaite utiliser pour acheter les crédits Seety. Pour le moment, il a le choix entre le Bitcoin, l'Ethereum, le Bitcoin Cash, le Litecoin, le Dai, le Dogecoin et l'USD Coin. Les frais de transaction sont les mêmes que si l'utilisateur paie avec une carte de crédit ou via Bancontact.

L'affaire Poly Network est digne d'un scénario hollywoodien. La plateforme spécialisée dans les cryptomonnaies s'est fait dérober 610 millions de dollars mardi par un pirate informatique. Le plus gros braquage de l'histoire des monnaies virtuelles. Le précédent «record » avait été établi en 2018 parle japonais Coincheck, qui s'était fait dérober 530 millions de dollars.

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Déjà hors norme, l'affaire a connu un nouveau rebondissement. À peine 24 heures après le vol qui concerne trois cryptomonnaies : des jetons d'Ethereum, de Binance et d'USDC, le mystérieux pirate a commencé à restituer le butin. Jeudi à 10 heures, «342 millions de dollars de crypto-actifs avaient été rendus, dont 4,6 millions en Ethereum, 252 millions en BinanceCoin et 85 millions en OxPolygon», a ainsi déclaré Poly Network sur Twitter. En contact avec l'auteur du vol, elle a assuré que «les actifs restants en Ethereum sont graduellement transférés sur le portefeuille multi-adresses requis» par le hackeur. Selon l'entreprise, il aurait assuré vouloir rendre tous les cryptoactifs des utilisateurs.

Mardi, l'entreprise avait l'avait exhorté à «rendre les actifs» dans une lettre lui étant adressée et publiée sur Twitter. «Cher hacker (...) nous voulons entrer en communication avec vous et vous exhorter à rendre les actifs que vous avez piratés», avait-elle écrit. La veille, la plateforme avait également publié un premier message sur Twitter dans lequel elle demandait au hackeur de restituer les actifs dérobés. « L'argent que vous avez volé appartient à des dizaines de milliers de membres de la communauté crypto », argumentait Poly Network.

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«Pirate éthique»

Elle a donc été entendue par celui qu'elle considère désormais comme un «pirate éthique» et qu'elle surnomme «Mr White Hat» (Monsieur chapeau blanc), en référence aux hackers qui piratent des systèmes informatiques pour identifier les failles et aider des organisations à renforcer leur sécurité.

Le pirate, qui se serait exprimé dans un texte relayé sur Twitter jeudi, a en effet déclaré qu'«identifier une faille dans l'architecture de Poly Network restera comme l'un des meilleurs moments de ma vie». Dans ce texte sous forme de questions-réponses, il donne quelques explications : «Pourquoi avoir transféré les jetons ? Pour les mettre en sécurité», après avoir repéré une anomalie, mentionne-t-il notamment. «Pour être honnête, j'avais des ambitions un peu égoïstes, de faire quelque chose de marrant mais pas nuisible... puis j'ai réalisé que d'être un leader moral serait le piratage le plus cool que je pourrai jamais faire».

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Une faille dans la plateforme

La diversité des actifs présents sur Poly Network tient à la nature même de ses activités. La plateforme fait le lien entre différentes blockchains, ces éléments constitutifs des cryptomonnaies. Schématiquement, cela facilite les transactions entre cryptomonnaies. Mais ce genre de plateformes a encore des lacunes.

Le hackeur aurait, en effet, profité d'une faille dans le protocole d'interopérabilité de l'entreprise. Un peu comme des braqueurs de banques qui s'empareraient de fonds lors de transferts d'argent entre deux établissements. La sécurité même des banques, en l'occurrence les protocoles servant à définir les cryptomonnaies dérobées, n'est pas mise en cause. La faute en incomberait directement à Poly Network.

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À défaut d'avoir joué la carte de la sécurité, cette dernière a choisi celle de la transparence. Le groupe a rapidement annoncé avoir subi une attaque informatique. Il a été jusqu'à publier les adresses internet sur lesquelles les sommes avaient été transférées.

Des allures de Far-West moderne

Malgré la restitution progressive des cryptoactifs dérobés, pour de nombreux observateurs du secteur, Poly Network pourrait ne pas survivre à cette affaire. Le monde des cryptomonnaies repose avant tout sur la notion de confiance. Or celle que les détenteurs d'actifs plaçaient dans la plateforme risque d'être sérieusement écornée. Pas de quoi faire vaciller l'écosystème des cryptomonnaies, même si les attaques se multiplient.

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À mesure que la valeur des différents cryptoactifs a monté, les piratages ont pris de l'ampleur. Le monde des cryptomonnaies prend des allures de Far-West moderne, avec des petits génies de l'informatique en guise de braqueurs de banque ou de diligence. Comme tous les mondes en construction, il faudrait sans doute encore plusieurs années pour stabiliser l'environnement. Et, là comme dans le « vrai » monde, le risque zéro n'existe pas.

Melanion lance un fonds de valeurs bitcoins

Par Enguérand Renault

La société de gestion Melanion Capital a reçu l'agrément de l'Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) pour lancer un fonds conçu pour répliquer les variations du bitcoin. Ce fonds, baptisé Melanion BTC Equities Univers, n'investit pas directement dans le bitcoin, ce qui n'est pas autorisé en l'état actuel de la directive UCITS sur la gestion d'actifs. De fait, le fonds Melanion est un fonds d'action classique, investissant dans un panier de titres de sociétés cotées évoluant dans l'univers bitcoin comme MicroStrategy, Marathon Patent, Rio Blockchain ou encore la plateforme de trading Coinbase.

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La société de gestion Melanion précise que son fonds indiciel est basé sur un indice calculé par ses soins : le Melanion Bitcoin Exposure Index, qui pondère les titres en fonction de leur capacité à répliquer au mieux les cours du bitcoin. Elle inclut aussi un avertissement spécifique à destination des investisseurs pour leur rappeler que la cryptomonnaie est un actif sous-jacent très volatile.

Pour Jad Comair, le président de Melanion, « ce fonds est destiné aux investisseurs avertis qui veulent diversifier leur portefeuille avec une exposition sur la thématique bitcoin et qui ont un horizon d'investissement à long terme ». Il ajoute : « Le bictoin est un actif très intéressant et risqué de par sa forte volatilité, mais on ne doit pas le juger par celle-ci. Si c'était le cas, les investisseurs pourraient éviter l'action Tesla, car sa volatilité a pu dépasser celle du bitcoin. »

Ces militants syndicaux se sont regroupés devant des bâtiments du Parlement avec des pancartes où on pouvait lire “Non au bitcoin“.

Dans un communiqué, la plateforme a réagi qu’ « à seulement six jours de l’entrée en vigueur de la détestable Loi bitcoin, le Bloc de résistance et de rébellion populaire (BRP) exige son abrogation car elle frappera les travailleurs, les paysans et les communautés rurales ».

D’après le chef de l’État Salvadorien, faire du bitcoin une monnaie ayant cours légal, en vigueur ce 7 septembre, permettra de dynamiser l’économie du pays. Les autorités s’apprêtent également à activer une application nommée « Chivo » (Super, en langage familier). Elle permettra de faire des paiements ou virements en bitcoin. Ses utilisateurs recevront une prime équivalente à 30 dollars en bitcoin lors de leur adhésion à l’application. Environ 200 distributeurs automatiques sont déjà en cours d’installation pour pouvoir échanger les bitcoins. 

Source : 20 Minutes

The cryptocurrency industry has witnessed several rising assets over the past few years. While Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP (to some extent) have remained prominent over the past 5 years, some projects temporarily rose to the occasion. Tron is possibly one of those projects at the moment.

In 2019, Tron was expected to match Ethereum in terms of network activity and traction but over time, the project has not managed to cope with the growing industry. However, there are some lessons that can be taken from such a narrative.

In the past, Tether or USDT stablecoin has been associated with assisting other assets to maintain price levels. FUD created with Bitcoin has been discussed in detail but now, it seems like the stablecoin has been keeping Tron’s functionality alive.

According to Tether’s transparency report, at press time, USDT issued on the Tron blockchain is more than any other chain with $32 billion. It comprises roughly ~52% of the total USDT supply, marginally ahead of the ETH platform.

Additionally, Tether recently announced that they issued $1 billion USDT more on the Tron chain but it hasn’t been authorized yet for circulation. Paolo Ardoino, Tether CTO said this amount will be used as inventory for next period issuance requests and chain swaps.

Therefore, it is probably not a stretch to state that Tron’s blockchain is currently active only to support the USDT issuance, which is a stark difference from its goals set in 2019.

A popular term that is attached to every rising prospect against ETH, Tron had a period owning this phrase as well. At the moment, it is ranked 26th in the industry, behind several other projects that came into the picture over the past year.

It is clearly evident that the average development activity for Tron has also been underwhelming over the past two years, with other tokens moving ahead. Now, there are clear similarities between some projects in 2021 and Tron in 2019; they are backed by hype.

Without naming any particular protocol, the main objective here is to understand that several projects in the top-20 or even top-30 might not meet their initial lofty expectations. The crypto industry is innovating and developing at a rapid pace, so it is essential that investors thoroughly understand the potential of a project. Another Ethereum killer is always around the corner, but the largest altcoin continues to shove them away.

What Happened: Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) mining firm Riot Blockchain Inc (NASDAQ: RIOT) reported record revenues in the second quarter of 2021.

In a statement on Monday, the company said its mining revenue increased by 1540% to a record $31.5 million over the second quarter from the $1.9 million during the same period in 2020.

This massive growth in Bitcoin-mining-related revenue, coupled with a 70% increase in its mining revenue margin, enabled Riot to produce $19.3 million of net income in Q2 2021. During the same period last year, Riot reported a net loss of $10.6 million.

“With the successful acquisition of Whinstone US (“Whinstone”), the Company’s growth prospects have been significantly de-risked, and future financial opportunities are very exciting,” said Jason Le, chief executive officer at Riot, referring to the company’s recent expansion in Texas.

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“Riot is aggressively expanding its capacity at Whinstone, which is expected to provide the critical infrastructure necessary to successfully execute on driving continued growth for the Company.”

Whinstone alone accounted for $2.9 million in revenue for the quarter, despite only being operational for one month after the acquisition.

Price Action: After making its Q2 earnings public, Riot’s shares jumped 7.6% higher on Monday to a price of $36.93 before closing at $35.73.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin had dropped below $50,000 at press time. The market-leading digital asset exchanged hands at a price of $49,300, losing around 2% over the past 24-hours.

The average BTC price used to calculate Riot’s second-quarter 2021 mining revenues was approximately $46,600.

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The cryptocurrency mining market in Vietnam is reportedly reviving amid the renewed crypto rally, where Bitcoin (BTC) has surged above $51,000 for the first time since May.

Crypto-related entrepreneurs and enthusiasts in Vietnam have witnessed a significant uptick in demand for crypto mining rigs in the country, local news agency VnExpress reported on Monday.

Quang Thuan, owner of a chain store selling cryptocurrency miners across Ho Chi Minh City, said that the company’s sales have tripled in early September over the previous month. He noted that the mining rig market in Vietnam was down before Bitcoin surged back above $50,000 in mid-August.

The rising demand has triggered notable growth in crypto miners’ prices as some devices are now priced at 5 million Vietnamese dongs ($220) higher than in mid-August, according to local crypto mining enthusiast Ngoc Van. The best-selling miners based on graphics processing units produced by AMD or Nvidia now reportedly cost between $3,500 and $4,400, he added.

According to Le Hung, the administrator of a local crypto mining community with nearly 80,000 members, the crypto mining market in Vietnam has heated up due to the renewed crypto rally and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “First, Bitcoin, Ether and other cryptocurrencies have simultaneously seen price hikes, and miners have started to make profits. Second, the pandemic has prolonged, reducing investment options, and so more people have opted for coin mining,” he said.

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The Vietnamese government has maintained a skeptical stance on the cryptocurrency industry, with the Ministry of Finance warning the public earlier this year that crypto is unregulated in the country. After banning cryptocurrency as a means of payment back in 2018, Vietnamese authorities have been urging the population to avoid crypto.

Despite hesitation from the government, Vietnam had the highest cryptocurrency adoption rate in August among 26 other countries. The country previously ranked 13th in realized Bitcoin gains for 2020 despite having only the 53rd largest economy based on gross domestic product.