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Bitcoin's Price Falls By Thousands in 15 Minutes as Weekend of Carnage Grips Crypto Markets

Dogecoin and Ether weren't immune from sudden downturn, which appears to have been sparked by a series of unfortunate events.

Connor Sephton

April 19, 2021

Connor Sephton

Bitcoin's Price Falls By Thousands in 15 Minutes as Weekend of Carnage Grips Crypto Markets

Connor Sephton

Coinbase CEO Sells 750,000 Shares and Pockets $300M — Is It as Bad as It Looks?

Connor Sephton

Blockchain Will Avoid Counterfeit Digital Euros, Public Tells European Central Bank

Werner Vermaak

What Are Crypto Airdrops?

Boris Spremo

The DCommerce Stack

Tech Deep Dives

Crypto Basics

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What Are Crypto Airdrops?

Crypto airdrops are a pretty popular marketing technique — but can you also make money off of them?

Werner Vermaak

April 19, 2021

Nine Things We Know About Coinbase's Stock Market Debut

From a controversial valuation to the risk factors affecting the business, this is everything we know about Coinbase's listing on the Nasdaq.

Leo Jakobson

April 13, 2021

What Are Privacy Coins?

How private are privacy coins? Are they legal? We answer that, and more, in this privacy coins deep dive.

Werner Vermaak

April 7, 2021

Michael Saylor: A History of His Relationship With BTC

This is the story of the man who became the first CEO of a publicly listed company to make a long-term investment in Bitcoin.

Leo Jakobson

March 31, 2021

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How to Keep Your Crypto Safe

Now that you own some crypto, you need to keep it safe. Our series of tips and resources for protecting your cryptoassets is updated constantly.

Decentralized Dog

March 18, 2021

How to Mine Bitcoin

While you can't mine Bitcoin at home anymore, there are still ways that you can get involved in cryptocurrency mining without breaking the bank.

Decentralized Dog

March 18, 2021

How to Use a Bitcoin Wallet

There are many different kinds of Bitcoin wallets — web, desktop, paper, just to name a few — which wallet type is right for you?

Decentralized Dog

March 18, 2021

How to Create a Bitcoin Address

Just like an email address ensures your message gets to the right person, a Bitcoin address guarantees your crypto is sent safely.

Decentralized Dog

March 17, 2021

Sushi Cookbook: A Complete Tutorial on SUSHI DeFi Opportunities

Contributor: Sushi gives a detailed walkthrough over how to use their multiple DeFi offerings.

Sushi

March 16, 2021

Mining Zcash Explained

Zcash was invented as a way to provide a higher level of privacy to users that want to trade cryptocurrency.

Milko Trajcevski

March 12, 2021

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Tech Deep Dives

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The DCommerce Stack

Contributor: Boson takes a deep dive into the future of decentralized e-commerce.

Boris Spremo

April 16, 2021

The Deeper End: Can Decentralized VPNs Stop Government Data Mining and Censorship?

Contributor: Can decentralized virtual private networks like Deeper Network provide the Web 3.0 antidote of data privacy and censorship resistance to an increasingly manipulated web?

Werner Vermaak

April 8, 2021

How To Stake Ethereum With Lido

Contributor: Lido gives a detailed walkthrough over how to stake Ethereum using their platform.

Lido Finance

April 7, 2021

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All Crypto Articles

Bitcoin's Price Falls By Thousands in 15 Minutes as Weekend of Carnage Grips Crypto Markets

Coinbase CEO Sells 750,000 Shares and Pockets $300M — Is It as Bad as It Looks?

Blockchain Will Avoid Counterfeit Digital Euros, Public Tells European Central Bank

What Are Crypto Airdrops?

The DCommerce Stack

Tech Deep Dives

Why Some TikTok Users Are Smug After DOGE Doubled in a Day and Hit $0.29

WallStreetBets Bans Crypto Chat in 'Childish' Response to Bloomberg Article

Jim Cramer Sells Half His Bitcoin to Pay Mortgage and Calls It 'Phoney Money'

Coinbase Is Listed, Mainstream Coins Break New Highs: TI Weekly Market Research

Crypto New All-Time Highs Driven by Increasing Blockchain Activity: A Data Perspective by IntoTheBlock

CoinMarketCap Introduces New Logins to Secure Privacy

Coinbase Shares Surge on First Day — What Analysts Are Expecting Next

Ethereum's Berlin Upgrade Goes Live... Will It Bring Fees Under Control?

Bitcoin Offers Accepted for the U.K.'s Most Expensive Apartment

All About Compound: Flipside Crypto

Coinbase Staff Get Mega Payday as Stock Launches — Receiving 100 Shares Each

Coinbase CEO Admits Fees May Fall Long Term, But Exchange Will Make Money in Other Ways

Dogecoin Hits $0.1425 After Surging 60% in One Day — Should Investors Be Worried?

CoinMarketCap Earn Launches ~$50,000 Campaign With FIO Protocol

Nine Things We Know About Coinbase's Stock Market Debut

Bitcoin and Ether Hit Record Highs as XRP's Jaw-Dropping Rally Continues

TIME Magazine to Hold Bitcoin in Reserve as New Partnership with Grayscale Announced

Binance Launches Tokenized Stocks — Tesla is the First to Be Listed

MicroStrategy Directors Are Now Going to Get Their Bonuses in Bitcoin

Bitcoin is a 'Caged Bull' That's Ready to Escape... and 2021 is 'Tame' Compared with 2017

TI Weekly Market Observation: XRP Soars and the Trading Sector Leads the Market

Dire Predictions about Coinbase Made as Stock Market Debut Looms

After Record $69.3M NFT Sale, Christie's is Auctioning Off Nine Rare CryptoPunks

Trust in Crypto Could 'Rapidly Evaporate' — Disrupting Financial Markets, ECB Official Says

This New Study Has a Big Warning When It Comes to Bitcoin's Impact on the Climate

McDonald's is Releasing Rare NFTs Featuring the Fast Food Chain's Best-Known Items

Revealed: Who Made It onto the Forbes List of Crypto Billionaires

Coinbase IPO Propels a Risk-On Market: A Data Perspective by IntoTheBlock

The Deeper End: Can Decentralized VPNs Stop Government Data Mining and Censorship?

Tech Deep Dives

XRP Breaks $1 as Ripple Secures Breakthrough That Could Mean 'Game Over' for SEC Lawsuit

Coinbase Reveals How Much Profit It Made in Q1 Ahead of Stock Market Debut

Bitcoin Regulation Faces a 'Big Evolution,' Goldman Sachs CEO Predicts

How To Stake Ethereum With Lido

Tech Deep Dives

How to Solve the Blockchain Data Query Issue and What The Graph Service Has to Say

Tech Deep Dives

What Are Privacy Coins?

XRP Hits Prices Last Seen in 2018 After Surging By 52.5% in One Week

'Fake News': Roger Ver Hits Out at GoDaddy for Saying Bitcoin.com Can Be Bought for $100M

Total Crypto Market Cap Hits $2T and BTC Dominance Slides as Altcoins Go Wild

The Flipside Stablecoin Recipe for Success

12 Crypto Firms That Are Hiring Right now — April 2021 Edition

What Is KickPad?

Tech Deep Dives

Beeple Hits Back as David Hockney Calls His NFTs 'Silly Little Things'

To Have and to Hodl: This Couple Just Got Married on the Blockchain

What Happened in the Crypto Markets over the Weekend?

Revealed: What's in This Billionaire's Crypto Portfolio... and Why

We Finally Know When the Coinbase IPO is Happening

Ether and Binance Coin Break All-Time Highs as Bitcoin Flirts with $60,000

Filecoin Suffered a Short-Selling Attack, Application Tokens on Public & Non-Trading Chains Led the Market: TokenInsight Weekly Market Review

The Promising Implications of Payments Adoption on Ethereum: A Data Perspective by IntoTheBlock

What Are Real World Asset-Backed Tokens?

Tech Deep Dives

The Teletubbies Have Launched a Cryptocurrency... and Teslas Now Come with DOGE Mining Rigs

Bitcoin Has Best Q1 Since 2013... and is Now Up 590% Since the Halving

DOGE Surges 28% as Elon Musk Says SpaceX 'is Going to Put a Literal Dogecoin on the Literal Moon'

Michael Saylor: A History of His Relationship With BTC

What Is MetaMask?

Burritos or Bitcoin? Chipotle is Giving Away $100,000 of Crypto in New Contest

CryptoKitties and NBA Top Shot Maker Dapper Labs is Now Worth $2.6 Billion

Apple Under Fire After Fake Trezor App Stole $600,000 in Bitcoin from One Victim

How PayPal's Crypto Service Will Work

Alchemix — Pulling Back the Curtain: Flipside Crypto

What Is Illuvium?

Tech Deep Dives

What Is Convergence?

Tech Deep Dives

What Is TotemFi?

Tech Deep Dives

PayPal Users in the U.S. Can Now Buy Things Using Crypto at Millions of Businesses

Getting a Mortgage? You Might Be Able to Get Rewarded in Bitcoin

Tether Says Report Confirms All USDT is Fully Backed with Reserves

Which Blockchain Is Best for You?

Tech Deep Dives

Visa to Allow Payments on Its Network to Be Settled Using Crypto

YouTuber Turns 1989 Game Boy Console into Bitcoin Miner

One Quarter in 2021, More Than One Year in 2020: Weekly Market Review by TokenInsight

The New York Times Turned an Article into an NFT. You Know What Happened Next

This Retirement Plan Has Just Allocated 5% of Assets to Bitcoin

Report: 400,000 Crypto Scams Created in 2020 — 75% Increase Possible in 2021

NFT Mania, Crypto Scams, Tesla Doubts: CoinMarketCap Newsletter, March 26

Uniswap V3 Guide: The Apex DEX Reclaims Its Edge

Tech Deep Dives

Key Bitcoin Indicators Remain Strong as Positive News Offset Decreasing Price: A Data Perspective by IntoTheBlock

Bitcoin Plunges Below $52,000 as $6B Options Expiry Looms

Private Firms Shouldn't Launch Digital Currencies, Microsoft President Says

Instagram Influencer Famed for Cash Giveaways Accused of Scamming Followers Out of $2.5M

Crypto Sell-Offs, Instagram Scam, Break-up over Bitcoin: CoinMarketCap Newsletter, March 25

Macrotokenomics Is the Way Forward to a Healthy Token Economy

Tech Deep Dives

A Deep Dive Into Decentralized Private Networks: Deeper Network

Tech Deep Dives

You Can Now Buy a Tesla with Bitcoin — But Was Timing of Elon Musk's Announcement Suspicious?

Could There Be a Missed Opportunity in NFTs? Vitalik Buterin Thinks So

A 10-Part TV Comedy is Being Made about Cryptocurrencies

Is Buying a Tesla with BTC a Bad Idea? CoinMarketCap Newsletter, March 24

A Major Step for Decentralized Governance: Flipside Crypto

Decentralized Data Governance for Enterprises

Tech Deep Dives

What Is Konomi Network?

Tech Deep Dives

A DeFi Model for Decentralized Leveraged Tokens: FinNexus

Tech Deep Dives

Snoop Dogg, Lionel Richie and Boy George Join Crypto.com NFT Platform

UNI Breaks Records as Uniswap V3 Unveiled — But Will Fees Finally Fall?

Bitcoin's Slump Continues as Crypto Criticism Bites... and a Bold Prediction Emerges

Liquid Staking and Its Benefits: A Deep Dive by Lido

Tech Deep Dives

Poll of the Week: What's Your Favorite Cryptocurrency?