Peter Wind, Publisher at CoinCodex
Peter has been covering the cryptocurrency and blockchain space since 2017, when he first discovered Bitcoin and Ethereum. Peter's main crypto interests are censorship-resistance, privacy and zero-knowledge tech, although he covers a broad range of crypto-related topics. He is also interested in NFTs as a unique digital medium, especially in the context of generative art.
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Three Arrows Capital, a major cryptocurrency hedge fund and venture capital investor, has had its positions liquidated by the FTX, Deribit and BitMEX cryptocurrency exchanges after failing to meet margin calls. Meanwhile, The Financial Times reports that collateral provided by Three Arrows Capital was also liquidated by cryptocurrency lender BlockFi after the hedge fund failed to meet margin calls.
The cryptocurrency bear market is beginning to show its impact on even the biggest players in the industry. Coinbase, Crypto.com and BlockFi have all announced significant layoffs recently.
Major cryptocurrency lending firm Celsius has paused cryptocurrency withdrawals, cryptocurrency swapping and internal transfers between accounts.
Dash does not have halvings in the same way as Bitcoin, but it does have a mechanism that gradually reduces the amount of Dash that enters circulation with each block. The emission rate of new Dash coins entering circulation drops by 1/14 (~7.14%) approximately every 383 days.
The proposal by Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon to launch a new Terra blockchain without the UST stablecoin has passed successfully.
Some LUNA holders are intentionally burning their own tokens in an attempt to help boost the LUNA price. A Terra burn address has received 276.4 million LUNA tokens in the last 3 days, which translates to about $55,000 at the current price.
$78 million for a pizza?! May 22 is known as the Bitcoin Pizza Day in the Bitcoin community, as BTC fans celebrate what is perhaps the single most famous Bitcoin transaction in the cryptocurrency’s 10-year history. It was also the first recorded exchange of Bitcoin for a real-world product or service.
Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon’s plan to “revive” the Terra ecosystem is now being voted upon by LUNA token holders. Kwon is proposing that the Terra name is used for a new blockchain that doesn’t have algorithmic stablecoin functionality. The existing Terra blockchain would keep its functionality, and would be renamed to Terra Classic.
Cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com has revealed an integration with e-commerce heavyweight Shopify to provide crypto payment processing services to merchants that use Shopify.
Learn about Proof-of-Stake (PoS) and how it compares to Proof-of-Work (PoW). PoS cryptocurrencies are generally faster and more energy efficient than their PoW counterparts, but the PoS model comes with its own pros and cons.
