The South-American continent has seen a tremendous rise in its interest in cryptocurrency and towards a more decentralized financial system. Especially for bigger countries like Brazil, the need for a cryptocurrency exchange started before Bitcoin became a household name. For that reason, Mercado Bitcoin was created. The Exchange’s name, which stands for Bitcoin Market, is …
Sovryn, the Bitcoin-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, announced it has agreed to a $9M investment from a consortium of partners, vetted for their strategic contribution and led by Anthony Pompliano’s Pomp Investments after its proposal was formally accepted by the Sovryn community. Tuesday, April 13th, will see the first day of Sovryn (SOV) trading, exclusively on […]
As the price of bitcoin has gone in an upward trend over the last few months, one of the knock-on effects of this is that sending transactions at previously normal fees can lead to massive delays in them confirming, or as I’ve had happen at least twice so far this year, transactions that got stuck and I had to wait about a fortnight for them to drop out of the mempool for me to be able to send them again (although thankfully Trezor Suite has just introduced replace by fee). For a long time, I’ve used Ethereum Gas Station for
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It has reached a point where yesterday,...