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In data we trust - but which data should we trust?

Right now the cryptosphere is largely still ruled by the brains and hearts of entrepreneurs. People create projects because they really love the idea they want to broach to the world, and they then use their intelligence to make the best of their offer. The machines will take over sooner or later however...
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Will Crypto Ever Be Too Big To Fail?

We collect and generate truth - also known as data - at such an incredible rate that no one can actually measure it, but who believes what we collect?
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Dark Pools are Coming to Crypto

To those that don’t have backgrounds in conventional finance, dark pools are either two words that have never come up next to each other in the same sentence or a commonly misunderstood part of healthy markets.
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Terra stablecoin and Luna unstable reservecoin review

Terra has secured 32M$ funding to implement their stable coin. Let's review Terra's 19-page whitepaper, which is very technical from an economic and scientific point of view. However, this level of technicality ends at economics, as both technical implementation and blockchain logic is missing from the...
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The what in the road?

Native English speakers always make things fancy and more complex than they need to, whereas someone using English as a second language has to keep it simple.
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What’s the cost of a 51% attack?

On the 3rd of June, ZenCash suffered from a 51% attack where more than $500,000 in double spend transactions was lost. The attacker managed to manipulate blocks which allowed him to double spend on two massive transactions of respectively 13,000 and 6,600 ZEN. According to estimates via the website 51Crypto.app,...
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Tough enough to fail

Why are we looking at the failure rates for planes and medical drugs? Because I wanted to see if there was a context to view the failure of ICOs - and let's be realistic here, the numbers of ICOs failing doesn't make for a pretty picture. According to figures from Tokendata, of 902 ICOs so far this year,...
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Problem? What Problem?

The cart is often put in front of the horse with ICOs. It’s quite understandable that the development team are focused on their amazing solution, but hey guys, pause a moment and tell us what the problem is! That way the solution horse will pull your problem cart all the way to the success of your I...
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The gendered cryptoworld

The brave new world of crypto is exactly mirroring the sad old world of conventional finance, and the whole Internet-as-a-men’s-club approach.
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Good news bad news

If you searched far and wide for a brilliant example of how NOT to do an ICO, you couldn’t find better than the sad story of the petro.
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