[ad_1] In 2020, Wealthsimple dipped its toes into crypto by offering Bitcoin and Ethereum trading. Now, the online investment platform is fully embracing crypto by including capabilities like hosted wallets and several other coin options to trade. Of course, Wealthsimple isn’t the first financial services company to embrace crypto, signaling that digital currencies are becoming […]
[ad_1] The Energy Secretary of Argentina eliminated power subsidies for cryptocurrency miners, raising the cost of energy to almost 4x what the miners were paying before. The measure affects customers of the wholesale power market in the Tierra del Fuego province, one of the provinces more notably occupied by miners in the country due to […]
[ad_1] For far too long big corporations have dominated the entertainment industry by keeping total control over consumers and content creators. Blockchain, the technology that powers cryptocurrencies, and NFTs have opened a door to turn that model upside down and place power on fans and artists. This transformation process is at an early stage but […]
[ad_1] Theoretical research into a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in the U.S. has found that distributed ledger architecture has “downsides.” The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Digital Currency Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published their findings of their initial research into a CBDC on Feb 3. The research project, dubbed […]