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The global financial landscape is going through a major paradigm shift with digital assets taking the front seat. Digital assets include a wide range of assets, such as cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), and decentralized finance (DeFi) instruments. The curiosity to learn the best practices for digital asset management is growing as digital assets [...] The post Be…

Hello DEV Community! 👋 I wanted to share my latest open-source project: Hunter-Base-Intelligence (v17 Plus). It is a fully local-only cryptocurrency intelligence dashboard that scans DEX tokens on the Base blockchain, scores them using a multi-factor logic, and simulates a paper-trading shadow portfolio. 🛡️ Why Local-Only? Most on-chain analytics tools require sensitive private keys, leak user da…

Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency and enjoys popularity as it has the highest market capitalization. The meteoric price rise and dramatic drops of Bitcoin have captured the attention of almost everyone in the world. As of late May 2025, the price of Bitcoin had reached $112,000, an all-time high. The Bitcoin price trajectory has always [...] The post Analyzing Bitcoin’s Price Trajectory: Can It…

The emergence of Bitcoin as a cryptocurrency has been nothing short of revolutionary. The decentralized cryptocurrency has proved that it is possible to make payments without relying on conventional fiat currencies. Bitcoins first came into existence in the year 2008. Since then, the popularity of these novel currencies has reached new heights. This is evident [...] The post The Role of Bitcoin i…

On June 15, 2023, our co-founder Professor Dr. Ingo Fiedler led an event course on the topic "Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple & Co. - About Cryptocurrencies and the Abolition of Cash. Digitalization in the German Financial and Banking System of the Future." within the Study Program Q+ at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

When I first found out that the UK Treasury proposes to issue Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) as part of a general push to make Britain a world centre for crypto-currency, I assumed that this was a Boris Johnson stunt. The obvious model is El Salvador, where Johnson-style demagogue Nayib Bukele has made Bitcoin legal tender, with […]

Bitcoin, and more generally, cryptocurrencies, are often described as a new type of money. In this post, we argue that this is a misconception. Bitcoin may be money, but it is not a new type of money. To see what is truly new about Bitcoin, it is useful to make a distinction between “money,” the asset that is being exchanged, and the “exchange mechanism,” that is, the method or process through wh…

Economist William Luther on the popularity of cryptocurrencies, attitudes toward the blockchain, and the future of the Bitcoin market The post Bitcoin first appeared on Serious Science .