Despite the economic and crypto downturn during recent months, adoption of cryptocurrencies (at least, as measured in active Web3/blockchain wallets) has been increasing at a healthy clip. From the beginning of 2020 to present day (January, 2023), Bitcoin wallets with balances have increased from 27.72 million addresses to 42.54 million…

FTX — which, just more than one week ago was the world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange, is now bankrupt. The main face of the exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), has now gone silent — and his exact whereabouts are now in question. Current reports are indicating that more than $8 billion…

When it comes to the topic of the metaverse, so much talk these days is around the idea that “in the future” this virtual world will evolve to become a significant part of our everyday lives. …

Luxury powerhouse Tiffany & Co recently released and sold out a limited collection of 250 custom jewel-encrusted pendants for holders of CryptoPunks, each claimable through the purchase of an “NFTiff”, the jewelry retailer’s playful take on what otherwise is known as an NFT. To be eligible to purchase a CryptoPunk…

Followers of Bitcoin already know that during late April of 2022, the African country known as the Central African Republic declared Bitcoin would become legal tender — becoming the second country after El Salvador to do so. …

The word “soul” doesn’t usually conjure up images of blockchains or cryptocurrencies, but if Vitalik Buterin’s vision of soulbound NFTs eventually materializes, we may one day associate new meaning towards an otherwise very intimate, personal, and divine concept. During early 2022, Buterin published a post describing the concept of soulbound…

The US National Debt is currently over $30 trillion dollars. That is the number 30, followed by 12 zeroes. Since the turn of the century, the national debt has exploded upwards of 600% — starting with “just” $5 trillion in debt during the year 2000, before rising every year through…

On June 7th, 2022, two US senators (Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York), introduced the Responsible Financial Innovation Act to the world — setting into motion of what looks to be a regulatory foundation around digital assets in the United States. Known better these days as…

At the June 2021 Bitcoin conference in Miami, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele made the groundbreaking announcement that El Salvador would soon become the first country to recognize Bitcoin as legal tender. …