Bitcoin Equals Freedom
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Bitcoin (BTC) Price Prediction: BTC/USD Loses Support at $45k as Bitcoin Slumps to $42.5k Low
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Canaan expands crypto mining operations in Kazakhstan
Canaan, which is a leading Bitcoin mining hardware company, announced its strategic collaboration with crypto mining firms in Kazakhstan to bolster the joint mining business in the region. Canaan enters into strategic alliances with Kazakh crypto mining firms Canaan on Tuesday announced that it had successfully deployed 10,300 AvalonMiner units in Kazakhstan.
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Progressivism And Bitcoin Are Not Opposed
While people often see the two as lying on different ends of the political spectrum, Bitcoin is actually an a-political technology designed to help everyone.
El Salvador Drafts 20 Bills for Legal Structure of Bitcoin Bonds — Funds to Be Used to Build Bitcoin City, Buy BTC
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Phantom CEO clears the air about the iOS beta launch, as public rollout approaches
Phantom, a self-custodial browser extension and crypto wallet built for Solana, became the ecosystem’s top dog despite lacking a mobile app–hitting 1.8 million monthly active users in just nine months. With the mobile app public rollout approaching, CryptoSlate touched base with Phantom co-founder and CEO, Brandon Millman, who cleared the air about the bumpy iOS […]
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Ethereum dominates among developers but competitors growing faster
The total monthly active developers measured hit a record high of more than 18,000 but Ethereum retains the largest number of them.
The Ethereum ecosystem still has far more developers than rival networks, but they are catching up with a faster rate of growth.
Ethereum competitors such as Polkadot, Solana, and Binance Smart Chain are growing faster in terms of development activity according to crypto research firm Electric Capital which released its findings on the blockchain development ecosystem in a new report on Jan. 6.
It revealed that more than 4,000 monthly active open-source developers work on Ethereum — considerably more than the 680 who work on the Bitcoin network. Across all chains, the total monthly active developers measured was more than 18,400 and the record was broken for the number of code commits by new developers in 2021 with more than 34,000.
The measurements were gleaned by analyzing around 500,000 code repositories and 160 million code commits, which are changes or updates to the code. The report noted that Ethereum, Polkadot, Cosmos, Solana, and Bitcoin are the five largest developer ecosystems overall.
According to the report, Polkadot has around 1,500 developers in total, while Cosmos and Solana are around a thousand each.
Other active ecosystems in terms of monthly developers were Cosmos, NEAR which launched an $800 million developer fund in October, Tezos, Polygon, and Cardano each with more than 250 active monthly developers.
While Ethereum is still dominant — more than 20% of new Web3 developers joined its ecosystem — rival networks have seen greater growth.
“Polkadot, Solana, NEAR, BSC, Avalanche, and Terra are growing faster than Ethereum did at similar points in its history.”
The report compared the average monthly active developers between Dec. 2020 and Dec. 2021, noting that Solana grew by 4.9 times, NEAR had a 4X growth rate, and Polygon’s monthly developers more than doubled. Cosmos had a 70% increase in average monthly active developers and BSC 80% over the course of 2021.
While the development growth figures are impressive for more early-stage projects, Ethereum is still the king. The ecosystem continues to retain the largest network of tools, dapps, and protocols and is 2.8 times larger than its closest rival, Polkadot.
Related: ‘We are 50% of the way there,’ says Vitalik on Ethereum’s development
Solana, Avalanche, BSC, NEAR, and Terra have emerged as DeFi hubs over the past year or so, attracting more developers as adoption increases. DeFi full-time monthly active contributors grew by 64%, and more than 500 new developers contributed code to a DeFi project every month last year aside from January, it reported.
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Why Kevin O’Leary thinks NFTs could become bigger than Bitcoin
Despite betting that NFTs will surpass Bitcoin, Kevin O’Leary said he will hedge his bets and invest on “both sides” of the equation.
Millionaire investor and crypto proponent Kevin O’Leary thinks that the NFT sector could be worth more than Bitcoin in the future.
Speaking with CNBC’s Capital Connection on Jan. 5, O’Leary — also known as Mr. Wonderful — argued that NFTs provide a greater potential to attract capital than Bitcoin due to their ability to tokenize and authenticate physical assets such as cars, watches and real estate:
“You’re going to see a lot of movement in terms of doing authentication and insurance policies and real estate transfer taxes all online over the next few years, making NFTs a much bigger, more fluid market potentially than just Bitcoin alone.”
Mr. Wonderful admitted however, that he is not tied to that bet and will still be investing on “both sides of that equation.”
The former crypto skeptic told Cointelegraph in a recent interview that his change in tune towards blockchain and digital assets was due to the growing trend of regulators warming up across the globe over the past couple of years.
Not everyone agrees with comparisons between Bitcoin and NFTs however, with Coingecko digital marketing associate Khai Ren Kuan telling Cointelegraph that it’s “probably not fair to compare Bitcoin, which is a single asset, to NFTs which are an entire sector.”
Kuan did note however, that the NFT adoption curve in 2022 is only going to increase upwards as the sector is still in its early days:
“I think collectively if you look across all NFTs, and the fact that 2021 was year one of market adoption, there’s definitely still a lot of room to grow.”
“We’ve already got a set of ‘blue chip’ NFTs, but I think the industry is still barely scratching the surface of what NFTs could be and what they could do, particularly if the Metaverse comes to fruition,” he added.
Related: Global search interest for ‘NFT’ surpasses ‘crypto’ for the first time ever
Coingecko recently published a new book called “How to NFT” which provides a rundown for newbies entering the nonfugible space on how to buy, sell, store and mint NFTs. Questioned on whether he thinks the “NFT art narrative” will continue to dominate in 2022, or if the trend will shift towards utility-based NFTs, Kuan said:
“Arts and collectibles are always going to be high on the list as they’re the most beginner-friendly and easiest to understand. In terms of utility NFTs I think what’s probably interesting to watch for is how some NFTs are going to both be art, and have utility.”
“We’ve seen BAYC which the NFT doubles as membership into their ‘club’, and it really helps build a sense of identity and community,” he added.
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Velas Price Prediction — Will VLX Hit $0.65 Soon?
Bullish VLX price prediction is $0.5182 to $0.5851. The VLX price will also reach $0.65 soon. VLX bearish market price
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Ethereum outperformed Bitcoin throughout 2021
It is an unarguable fact that Bitcoin and Ethereum are the two biggest cryptocurrencies in the world today. The battle between these two coins dragged on throughout last year and the silent competition between both assets continues to shape the world of cryptocurrency.
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