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Last weekend, Twitter was ablaze with reactions to former Coinbase Chief Technology Officer Balaji Srinivasan accepting a bet proposed by James Medlock that, due to hyperinflation in the United States, a single bitcoin would be worth $1 million in just 90 days (by June 15, 2023). CoinDesk Senior Research Analyst George Kaloudis breaks down the latest debate.

24 de mar. de 2023

Delphi Digital co-founder Tom Shaughnessy reacts to entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan responding to pseudonymous Twitter pundit James Medlock's tweet betting "anyone $1 million dollars that the U.S. does not enter hyperinflation." "I think he studied a lot of hyperinflation over the years and saw this as probably the best time for his call to action on alerting people [about] the difference between central banks and decentralized currencies," Shaughnessy said.

20 de mar. de 2023

Crypto exchange Binance said it would convert $1 billion worth of Binance USD (BUSD) to bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), BNB coin (BNB) and other tokens to support the market. "The Hash" panel discusses the transaction from Binance’s industry fund to BUSD, which Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said on Twitter took 5 seconds and cost only $1.29.

13 de mar. de 2023

A Stanford University senior research scientist and former Stanford Law School dean were revealed to be Sam Bankman-Fried's bond co-signers, in addition to his parents. Securities lawyer James Murphy, also known as "MetaLawMan" on Twitter, joins "First Mover" to discuss the details and implications of the latest legal developments around bankrupt crypto exchange FTX and its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.

16 de fev. de 2023

Meme tokens dogecoin (DOGE) and Floki Inu (FLOKI), named after Elon Musk's shiba inu, are soaring after Twitter CEO tweeted a photo of his dog in the CEO chair. eToro Investment Analyst Callie Cox weighs in on this speculation, warning investors to "be careful."

15 de fev. de 2023

Bitcoin climbed back above $22,500 as crypto traders reacted to the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rising 0.5 percent in January. eToro Investment Analyst Callie Cox discusses how the inflation data could impact risk assets and Federal Reserve's upcoming interest rate decisions. Plus, insights on DOGE soaring after Twitter CEO Elon Musk posted a meme involving his dog Floki.

15 de fev. de 2023

CoinDesk data shows that the price of DOGE has risen over the past 24 hours after Twitter CEO Elon Musk posted a photo joking about his dog Floki as the new boss of Twitter. Musk replaced Parag Agrawal as CEO of Twitter when his acquisition deal for the social networking platform closed on Oct. 27. 

15 de fev. de 2023

A contentious Uniswap vote is drumming up a debate on crypto Twitter over just how decentralized the exchange truly is. Compound Labs Founder Robert Leshner discusses the significance of a winning proposal to deploy Uniswap v3 on the BNB Chain using the Wormhole bridge. Plus, a closer look at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, which invested in Uniswap and earned a massive trove of the project's UNI tokens.

10 de fev. de 2023

Independent developer, Udi Wertheimer, claims he minted a giant image of what appears to be a bald, bearded wizard donning sunglasses and promoting “magic internet JPEGs” on the Bitcoin blockchain via the Ordinals protocol. His announcements in the Discord channel “taprootwizards.com” and on Twitter sparked further flames of division between Bitcoin purists and Ordinals proponents. "The Hash" panel weighs in.

2 de fev. de 2023

Jack Dorsey-backed decentralized social media project Nostr has launched its Damus mobile app on Apple's app store, which some bitcoiners say could replace Twitter as the next censorship-resistant global social network. CoinDesk Executive Director of Global Content Emily Parker discusses what we know so far.

2 de fev. de 2023