The Cointelegraph Store brings you Bitcoin Pizza Day merch, and luckily you don’t have to spend 10,000 BTC to get your hands on a piece. Celebrate the 12th Bitcoin Pizza Day together with Cointelegraph.  Many crypto bull runs ago, Laszlo Hanyecz, programmer and early Bitcoin (BTC) miner, made history on May 22, 2010, when he...Continue Reading

The study noted that three out of five European respondents declared a 50% growth in their crypto investments. While there are risks associated with crypto investing, some see it as a way to boost their family savings, a recent study commissioned by crypto trading platform BitMEX shows.  The survey, conducted by research firm Kantar, tried...Continue Reading

The quest continues for the perfect “stand in” for the U.S. dollar. But, UST’s crash suggests that algo stables may be “inherently fragile.” TerraUSD (UST) is an algorithmic stablecoin that is pegged at $1.00. But, on the evening of May 19, it was trading for $0.083. This isn’t supposed to happen, of course, but last...Continue Reading

Cardano-based accelerator program Genius X continues to attract ADA delegators after the launch of its ISPO. Cardano-based accelerator program Genius X has seen more than $105 million worth of ADA delegated to its initial stake pool offering (ISPO). This comes after the firm’s decentralized automated market maker and liquidity management protocol Genius Yield completed its...Continue Reading

Sustainability goals for Bitcoin will be presented to world leaders during the first in-person World Economic Forum since the start of the pandemic. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is scheduled to take place from May 22–26,  marking the first in-person WEF global leadership event since the pandemic began. The annual meeting...Continue Reading

ATOM’s ascending triangle setup opens up the possibility for another major crash by June 2022. Cosmos (ATOM) emerges as the biggest gainer among the top cryptocurrencies this May 20, brushing aside the fears about its association with Terra (LUNA), an algorithmic stablecoin project whose market valuation fell by 99% last week. Cosmos TVL down from...Continue Reading

The rise and fall of the Terra blockchain and family of related tokens is both one of the most convoluted and one of the most important stories happening in crypto right now. Assembled here is a plaintext explanation of what Terraform Labs built, why it got so big, why it imploded, what it means for...Continue Reading

A revelatory discovery of legal documents could provide greater context to the catalyst of the infamous LUNA and UST price crash The dramatic story of the Terra (LUNA) crash — referred to by some as the Lehman Brothers of crypto — has taken yet another remarkable turn as legal documents reveal the liquidation of two South...Continue Reading

DAI has been around since 2017, which no algo stablecoins has ever matched, and it’s unlikely to share the fate of UST. TerraUSD (UST) flipping BinanceUSD (BUSD) for the third spot in the market capitalization list didn’t last long. The once-mighty stablecoin that powers the entire Terra ecosystem finds itself reduced to “Terra is more...Continue Reading

On day three of El Salvador’s financial inclusion and funding for SMEs conference, Bitcoin has stolen the show. The orange pilling adventure in El Salvador continues. In a video that beggars belief, 44 central bankers and financial delegates from emerging markets around the world shout “Bitcoin!” while posing for a photo in El Zonte, El...Continue Reading