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North America Seeing Increased Investment In BTC Mining Initiatives To Take On China

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Springtime in the North American Crypto mining sector as access to cheap power, stable market climate, robust capital markets, and growing tech innovation boost industrial-grade crypto mining operations. The burgeoning crypto mining activities in the US and Canada provide competition to mining pools in China, which currently control almost half of the globe’s hashing power.

More crypto miming ventures in North America

Interestingly the new ventures are aware of the need to reduce carbon footprint. For instance, in March, Link Global and Neptune Digital Assets announced that they will build a five-megawatt BTC mining facility in Alberta. Neptune CEO indicated considerable pressure globally to establish sustainable BTC mining operations, adding that the mining facility they are building will be solar, natural gas, and wind-powered.

Luxor Technologies CFO and Co-founder Ethan Vera said that there is currently a large investment in mining infrastructure in North American. Vera said that it seems capital has been unleashed in North America, with private and public markets committing capital to BTC mining. As a result, this has set the stage for a large-scale build-out in North America. In a recent blog post, Meltem Demirors, CoinShares Chief Strategy Officer, indicated that there has been more than 200 million of capital deployed in the US to develop onshore mining capacity.

The US states incentivizing mining initiatives

Similarly, the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s chief policy officer, Amy Davine, said an upward trend among mining companies is looking to establish in the US and North America in general. Most importantly, there is willingness from some US states to support crypto mining ventures. For instance, in March, Kentucky passed two legislations on tax breaks for crypto miners as the state looks to attract miners to create jobs and energize the economy.

China currently leads the crypto mining sector accounting for almost 65% of global BTC. China has moved ahead of western nations because of cheap power in some of China’s rural areas and large tracts to construct mining pools.

PayPal Wants To Transform The Financial Sector With Its Crypto Offering

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With BTC prices continuing to surge to new highs, major companies with the crypto offering are starting to place grand plans for the future. Recently PayPal CEO Dan Schulman hinted at a possibility of future crypto offerings development for PayPal during the “201 Blockchain 50 Symposium: Crypto Goes Corporate.” The online Forbes event took place on April 13, 2021.

Digital currencies are the future of the financial sector

Schulman mentioned during a fireside chat with Forbes Associate Editor Michael del Castillo that the financial system will experience changes more than what has been witnessed in the past three decades in the next five years. Schulman pointed out that digital currencies such as BTC will lead the way, adding that there will be few credit card or cash transactions in the future. We are in an era of digital currencies, and going forward, crypto holds massive promise irrespective of them being crypto or central bank digital currencies. Schulman said that he is optimistic that cryptocurrencies will see increased usage in payments, making the financial sector less expensive and more inclusive.

Among the main challenges, society faces today is the exclusion of millions of people in the financial system. Schulman said that this is apparent in the US, where most Americans with bank accounts are receiving their economic stimulus checks through direct deposit. However, for millions of underbanked and unbanked Americans, they have to wait longer to get their paper checks in the mail.

PayPal crypto offering to streamline the financial system 

The current financial system is inefficient as it takes a long to receive money. Schulman says that this is challenging for low-income households, and as a result, PayPal’s crypto offering will solve these ongoing challenges. The offering will allow users to buy, hold and sell BTC, ETH and LTC. In March, the payments processing company announced that the platform will allow merchants to accept crypto as a medium of exchange. The PayPal CEO said that they want to use crypto as a funding source for daily transactions.

Aave and Polygon Partner To Launch A $40 Million Liquidity Program On Ethereum

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MATIC Network Polygon and Aave have collaborated to roll out a liquidity program on Ethereum to grow and scale the DeFi world. Notably, the program will use 1% of MATIC supply estimated at $40 million.

Polygon to help address challenges limiting transaction efficiency

The interesting part is Aave is a growing DeFi platform with approximately $6 billion in value locked. In contrast, PolygonPolygon is an established DeFi solution provider which has worked with several top DeFi Projects. Polygon has so far worked with InstaDapp, Sushiswap, and Polymarket.

Particularly, PolygonPolygon plans to address the pain points that currently limit transaction efficiency on Ethereum. It is vital to note that Ethereum network has been struggling with scaling limitations that have resulted in high gas fees and congestion on the smart contract platform.

While speaking about the collaboration Aave CEO and founder Stani Kulechov said that if Defi was great but limited to five-figure portfolios, Defi will fall short of its objective of financing everyone. Kulechov added that PolygonPolygon will enable this and male DeFi accessible to many people globally. Nevertheless, the challenges the Ethereum network faces will be a reflection of the platform’s acceptance. So far, the Ethereum network support around 200 DApps, 300,000 wallets, and 15 million transactions.

Polygon and Aave partners to make DeFi accessible and scalability

Therefore, Aave and Polygon must have partnered to make DeFi accessible and drive the Ethereum Network’s scalability. T realize this, the two companies have dedicated themselves to a two-phase strategy. The 1% MATIC supply will be divided into two equal phases, with the first running from April 14 to June 14, 2021, while the second phase will run from June 14 to April 13, 2022.

Polygon’s decentralized exchanges, such as ComethSwap and Quickswap, will support the decentralized exchanges. The DEXs will allocate part of the supply of the token to set Aave Receipt Token farms. Equally,  ComethSwap is committed to working on Tipple Liquidity Mining which will add an extra space layer for polygon users. 

MakiSwap Raises $1.4 Million In Funding Round To Build AMM Platform

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Huobi Eco Chain (Heco) based DEX MakiSwap raised b$1.4 million in private funding. The decentralized exchange will use the funds in building an Automated Market Maker (AMM) exchange Yield Farming platform on Heco.

MakiSwap’s funding round oversubscribed

The round led by Inclusion Capital was oversubscribed, and it incubated and supported MakiSwap in development. Others that attended the funding round include QCP Capital, Polygon Network, DAO Maker, Kinetic Capital, Momentum 6, LD  Capital, AU21 Capital, NGC Ventures, and Xend Finance, among others. Jawad Ashraf, the Terra Virtua founder, was also part of the round as a private investor.

Unilayer, a decentralized Finance (DeFi) platform, and cross-chain DEX aggregator, developed MakiSwap. The exchange offers exceptional features such as limit orders, analytics, and advanced charting tools to cater to professional traders. The exchange also offers appealing YFI designed to lure users into the new protocol and blockchain. Governance token MAKI powers MakiSwap. It will likely airdrop to LAYER token holders in Binance Smart Chain and Ethereum.

Unilayer and MakiSwap founder Geo said they are delighted with the MakiSwap launch on Heco. Geo said that they see massive potential for Heco to consolidated massive market share than other blockchains in the future.

MakiSwap leading Defi wave in Heco community

Jehan Chu, Kenetic founder and managing partner said that MakiSwap is leading the new DeFi wave by empowering the Heco community with critical infrastructure and tools. Chu said that they are delighted to support MakiSwap in transforming global finance via DeFi.

With the crypto market growing and getting adopted widely, there is a need for secure, cheaper, and realizable exchanges. Currently, MakiSwap is the top Heco-based AMM, a high-performance blockchain ancillary to the Ethereum Virtual Machine running on Heco. Huobi Global exchange launched Heco with support from Asian-pacific and Chinese markets. Heco was launched to offer low gas fees, high performance, and enhanced cross-chain user experience. Most importantly, Heco projects have shifted focus to the global market to onboard DeFi users from other blockchains and regions.

Coinbase Echoes Political Message Despite Its Policy Against Political Ceases

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Adam Barry
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Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong previously indicated that companies can sometimes create unwelcome environments and divisions internally by engaging in politics. However, a day ahead of the exchange’s IPO, the company had some political undertones regarding President Joe Biden’s coronavirus stimulus package.

The message was a reverence to Satoshi’s title embedded in a BTC blockchain

According to the exchange, there was a mining pool F2Pool embedded to a New York times article title in a BTC blockchain at 2:05 PM UTC. The block 679,187 message refers to the passing of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 by Congress on March 10. The bill sets aside $1.9 trillion meant to cushion against the pandemic’s economic impact.

Regarding the posting of the message on the day Coinbase stock started trading in Nasdaq, the exchange indicated that it was paying reverence to a news article title that BTC founder Satoshi Nakamoto embedded in the initial BTC block mined on January 3, 2009. Interestingly, the story “Chancellor on Brink of Second Bailout for Banks,” was a London Times publication at the start of the 2008 financial crisis.

Satoshi commenced the trend, with other crypto miners previously hiding messages to mark significant events in the history of BTC. Immediately, before the third bitcoin halving in May Last year, F2Pool had a message in the BTC blockchain that contained the New York Times title comparing the COVID-19 induced crisis to the 2008 financial crisis. Equally, an anonymous mine had embedded a Bible verse in block number 666,666 of the BTC blockchain. It is important to note that 666 is popular for religious connotations.

Coinbase doesn’t discuss political causes as it is distracting

Last year Armstrong had indicated that the exchange’s mission doesn’t involve advocating for any cause internally that is not related to Coinbase’s mission because it will be a distraction to the exchanges’ mission. He said that they don’t discuss causes unrelated to work and neither express personal beliefs externally. Around 5% of employees left following the announcement.

Tether Considering Unveiling USDT ON Kusama And Polkadot Networks

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Adam Barry
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Tether remains the biggest stable coin, and that is in reference to the coin’s market capitalization. Reports indicate this coin’s expansion into the Kusama and Polkadot.

Kusama is popularly known as Polkadot’s cousin network, and that is because of the close link between the two.

The digital token ecosystem and its changes

Paolo Ardoino happens to be Tether’s CTO, and the official is quite excited about the latest move. He sees USD’s unveiling on Polkadot as a progressive and looks forward to greater times ahead. Arduino happens to be a close observer of the digital token ecosystem. It is interesting watching him refer to Polkadot as one of the best projects within the digital token ecosystem. The official speaks out about how the Tether token supports Pokadot’s emerging DeFi ecosystem, citing that as a good reason why they look forward to Tether’s uptake.

Arduino describes Polkadot elaborately, outlining how it pulls along with what expert terms a parachain structure. The official expresses great optimism in Polkadot’s growth over the coming years. He discloses how everything will occur, outlining the massive role of the great scalability in the overall growth.

The stable coin has a massive footprint, considering how easy it is to find it in wide-ranging networks. The good examples include Algorand, Etherum, EOS, Tron, Solana, Bitcoin cash, Omni, snd the Liquid network.

Wood’s stand on the matter

The former Co-Founder of Ethereum Giving Wood happens to be Polkadot’s founder. He unveiled Polkadot back in 2016, and that target was to connect blockchains to simplify matters for users.  Wood wanted users to have an easier time in the transfer of data and tokens between them. The official considered that the users would be operating in both the private and the public blockchains and that matters would be much easier. Dot performs remarkably in terms of market capitalization and is currently taking up the list’s sixth position.

A close focus on the crypto ecosystem shows Tether as a favorite stablecoin considering the many people using the coin. The coin’s most common uses include the transfer of money through exchanges and for trading undertakings.

Thiel Warns About Bitcoin’s Use As As A “Financial Weapon” Against The Dollar

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PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel is suspicious of the Chinese central government and its motives. This venture capitalist hints that the Chinese central government has some ill-motives in showcasing its support for Bitcoin. The official explains the support as a strategy for the government to frustrate the United States’ foreign and monetary policy. The official’s remarks continue eliciting mixed reactions among people worldwide.

The Chinese government’s motive

Thiel has also cast blame on the Chinese central government, outlining that it has done a lot to undermine the Euro and that it is high time the United States woke up and faced reality.

The leader spoke at a Richard Nixon Foundation virtual event hosted recently when he spoke about the matter. The Richard Nixon Foundation happens to be one of the most dynamic non-profit organizations. Thiel’s invitation to speak got him taking a rather interesting perspective regarding China’s motives with Bitcoin.

Thiel spoke quite elaborately about the country’s central bank issues digital currency and its impact. He believes that the CBDC could end up posing a major threat to the dollar, which happens to be the current global reserve currency.

Thiel has, over the years, stood out as a pro-Bitcoin, and his recent remarks come as a shocker to most people. The leader comes out as rather pessimistic about China’s motives, highlighting that Bitcoin might be used as a tool to undermine the dollar’s hegemony.

Threat lurks on the dollar

China happens to have its point of view on the matter, outlining its opposition to the U.S continued hold of the reserve currency. The country claims that the US doesn’t conduct matters the right way regarding the oil supply chains and other closely linked activities.

Thiel defends China at some point, outlining that it doesn’t have any motives to turn its renminbi into a global currency. Thiel believes China would have to exert much effort to reach such a goal. For example, it would be necessary that the Chian Government opens up its capital accounts and observes some other more important measures. Thiled outlines that the Chain isn’t open to undertaking most of the set requirements.

Challenges Pop Up In The Sale Of The FEI Protocol Token

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According to analysts, Crypto market correction is a good thing, but that wasn’t how matters turned out for Wednesday’s FEI project. It is a market correction that has become more of a challenge to the FEI project. Analysts describe FEI project as one of the most recent attempts targeting the development of an algorithmic stablecoin. Its development’s main motive was to introduce the sort of stablecoin that would remain stable at all times. Market turbulence is a reality, and thus it was crucial to develop something that would remain unaffected by the market turbulence.

FEI token and the associated challenges

The FEI token pulls along with a rather challenging protocol, according to analysts. The above reason best describes why the FEI token continues to be so problematic to sell. A closer outlook shows the token as bearing some liquidity pool which quotes it as having a negative price.

The Fei protocol is rather massive, considering that it has managed to pull in billions in liquidity. The recently-launched project seeks to conform to the U.S dollar, and that is why a lot of effort continues to go towards the concept of Protocol-Controlled value.

The working of the ETH-FEI Uniswap pool

There happen to be several interesting aspects about the protocol’s functionality, and the major one happens to be the ETH-FEI Uniswap pool. The protocol in question significantly governs this pool.

The pool’s design happens to be so that it can effectively track the ETH-USDC pool’s pricing. This protocol’s functionality is such that it sends much of the Ether it obtains from the FEI buyers straight into the ETH-FEI incentive pool. In other words, it becomes possible to supply plenty of liquidity, and that makes trading easier.

It is crucial to maintain the peg, no matter what it takes. Understand that the protocol puts in place limitations on how much selling needs to occur. The working of the incentivized pool quite elaborate and focussed.

It is sometimes necessary to burn a large chunk of the FEI tokens in the sales. This move could lead to a major decrease in price.

Mati Greenspan Expresses Fears Over SEC’s Lawsuit Against LBRY And Its Impact On Crypto

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Mati Greenspan, who happens to be Quantum Economics founder, has sent out a warning to the SERC on its recent action. The official has expressed his disagreement with the body’s latest move, which he believes undermines the LBRY, a decentralized content platform. Greenspan has warned that the move could turn out to be a major setback in the future of the various cryptocurrencies.

Greenspan casts the blame on SEC

In March, the SEC filed a complaint outlining that LBRY had gotten out of line when it decided to offer and sell its unregistered securities through the LBRY Credit tokens. The body alleged that LBRY had been undertaking the exercise from 2016 to the present moment and that the deal involved millions worth of unregistered securities.

The company has expressed dissatisfaction with SEC’s allegations, questioning its tokens’ description. SEC termed the company’s tokens as utility-focused and not standing chances of speculation.

A new newsletter titled “Don’t let them kill crypto,” turns out to be a matter of great discussion among crypto-enthusiasts. Greenspan speaks out through the newsletter, criticizing SEC’s move and citing it as a great danger to the crypto segment. The official expresses fears that the success of the lawsuit against the company could result in what he terms “dramatic consequences.”

Cryptocurrencies face immense danger

Greenspan says he mentioned both Ether and Bitcoin, outlining that all cryptocurrencies would suffer the consequences of the judgement if the body wins. The leader believes that cryptocurrencies’ future needs to be protected by all means possible, casting blame on the SEC for its insensitivity. Greenspan believes that the move to put the future of cryptocurrencies in question was the last thing the SEC should have considered in the fast-moving business world.

The official discloses how the U.S has been posing a jilted attitude towards crypto regulation, warning that such has consequences. Greenspan outlines that the United State’s laid-back attitude could result in an undesirable precedent. The leader forecasts that the world could get to the point where “multifaceted programmable money” is classified as securities.

Greenspan admits that it was a crime for the platform to set up in the United States but still casts blame on the country for its innovative approach.

Signal Unveils New Crypto Payment Feature In The United Kingdom

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Adam Barry
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Signal has pronounced the addition of its latest payment feature that will be known as “Signal payment.” The ones set to benefit are UK customers using the Privacy-Conscious messaging App’s beta version. The functionality of the Signal payment feature is such that it utilizes the MobileCoin network to achieve effectiveness. The provision of peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto services happens to be a rather elaborate process, requiring everything to work the best way. 

Move to benefit customers

Signal expresses great determination to succeed in its quest to simplify matters for all of its customers. It will specifically focus on how they send and receive money. The firm wants to make it easy and possible for customers to send and receive money privately without risk. 

Signal also considers bringing up a new dynamic that will enable all customers to transact in an extra-ordinarily quick way, something it closely likens to the sending and receiving of text messages. Every user must be qualified to take advantage of the firm’s top-notch services. In other words, users need to move with speed in linking up their MobileCoin wallet. Making the above-mentioned move will allow these users to send and also receive the MOB tokens without much struggle. 

The buck doesn’t stop at making transactions, according to Signal. The Privacy-Conscious messaging App will give users a leeway to review their wallet’s history, a move analyst believe simplifies matters for the customers significantly. 

Service upgrades underway

Most customers have been looking forward to seeing the company simplify matters for them in various aspects. The provision that lets customers keep the funds records safely in the signal app is a rather unprecedented move. It is about safe storage and encryption of user information, and the firm looks forward to brighter times ahead. 

Signal also disclosed details about its plan to upgrade its beta testing. It admits that the undertaking might take quite a while but expresses optimism to live up to its promise to the customers. The firm said that the beta expansion would be achievable provided users provide positive feedback. It calls upon users to be honest in submitting their feedback and comment based on their actual experiences. 

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