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RegulationChina’s 2021 crypto notice banned the business, not the maths
Exchanges, brokers, token sales and derivatives serving mainland residents are out. Holding a key is not the same as running a venue. May’s mining crackdown was a different instrument.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationEl Salvador made bitcoin legal tender. That is one country’s experiment.
Businesses are told to accept bitcoin alongside the US dollar. Chivo, ATMs, and a $30 signup bonus are the product. Volatility and the IMF are the weather around it.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
SecurityPoly Network’s $610m hole was a bridge bug. The chains kept running.
A little-known interoperability protocol lost on the order of $610 million, then spent two weeks getting it returned. Ethereum did not halt. A keeper path did.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
TechnologyLondon burned the base fee. That is not the Merge.
A protocol-set base fee is burned; a tip can still buy priority. Fees remain an auction when blocks are full. Proof of stake is a later year.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
RegulationChina told miners to leave. Hashrate moved. The protocol did not.
Vice-Premier Liu He’s committee named mining in a risk list. Provinces that hosted the world’s hash began to shut barns. Bitcoin kept producing blocks at whatever hash remained.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
CompaniesTesla stopped taking bitcoin for cars. That is a till, not the chain.
A car company changed a payment option and said it would keep the coins. Energy use is a mining-industry fact. It is not a consensus vote.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
CompaniesCoinbase listed on Nasdaq. That is a company going public.
Reference price $250; open $381; close $328. Existing holders sold into a public book. The exchange is still a custodian with a login.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
CompaniesVisa settling some USDC is a treasury choice, not a new dollar
A network that moves billions in many currencies added a dollar token as a settlement asset for a crypto-native partner. That is plumbing. It is not Visa accepting bitcoin at the till.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min read
AltcoinsBeeple at Christie’s is a receipt, not a new law of art
A major auction house sold a unique token that points at a collage. Ownership is the NFT. The file can still be copied. That is the product, not a museum statute.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readBitcoinBitcoin’s market cap reaches $1 trillion
Bitcoin’s market capitalisation — price multiplied by coins in circulation — was reported above $1 trillion for the first time in February 2021.EasyCryptoGuides · · 1 min readCompanies