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There’s now more of the dollar-linked stablecoin tether (USDT, +0.02%) on the Tron blockchain than on Ethereum, data from Coin Metrics shows, possibly a sign that crypto traders are favoring the network’s lower transaction fees. Source: Coin Metrics As of April 14, the total market capitalization of tether (USDT) on Tron was $24 billion, versus $23.4 billion on Ethereum. “As the popularity and adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain continue to grow, we expect USDT to continue to explode in popularity” Justin Sun, founder of Tron and CEO of BitTorrent, said in a press release….

One of Australia’s largest buy now, pay later companies is reportedly looking at a move into stock and cryptocurrency trading. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Zip Co.’s co-founder Peter Gray said his company was looking at providing trading services through its native app in a bid to further engage its typically young consumers. The co-founder did not specify when the offering would launch or whether services for stocks would be released before cryptocurrency. Instead Gray suggested Zip would first roll out the services to its U.S….

Ether (ETH, -0.25%) continued its rally on Thursday after the Berlin hard fork on the Ethereum blockchain went live earlier the day, surpassing $2,500 for the first time in history. The No. 2 cryptocurrency by market capitalization was traded around $2,498.91 at press time, just slightly down after it briefly went as high as $2,503.92. Ether’s price has been outperforming bitcoin (BTC, -1.71%)‘s on Thursday, as the Ethereum blockchain’s much anticipated Berlin hard fork went live early the day. The upgrade, which sets up the network for the much bigger London hard fork in July, incorporates…

The Reddit forum famous for making GameStop’s (GME) stock price a household topic has banned all discussion of cryptocurrencies less than 24 hours after tentatively allowing a daily discussion thread, with restrictions. WallStreetBets, a subreddit that describes itself as “like 4chan found a Bloomberg terminal,” has long banned cryptocurrency discussion. It lifted this ban on three cryptocurrencies – bitcoin (BTC, -1.74%), ether (ETH, -0.45%) and dogecoin (DOGE, +87.45%) – though it continued banning “crypto spam” on Wednesday, after Coinbase’s direct public listing. On Thursday, the ban was reinstated, citing the deleterious effects of a Bloomberg article. “Due to the article that…

Smoked meat stick vendor Slim Jim has an actual official dogecoin (DOGE, +97.74%) strategy. And it appears to be working, big time. News of this tie-up, which CoinDesk broke earlier Thursday, sent the price of DOGE to a new record. The social media-savvy snack food saw its Twitter follower count increase 160% and tweet impressions soar to the moon (35 million impressions in 25 days) after it began engaging in Shiba Inu meme coin content last quarter, according to the CEO of parent company Conagra Brands. “We’ve seen a marked uptick in audience…

In 2021 marks the first year of institutionalized mining, which brings both benefits and challenges. CoinFans Mining’s analysis shows that the institutionalization of digital currency mining is an inevitable trend in the next five years, mining will become easier and easier, and everyone will be able to mine, and the mining industry will become an industry. Few investments offer the upside with venture capital-style upside and the downside with infrastructure-style downside case. Combining energy arbitrage with hoarding bitcoin onto a company’s balance sheet can make this happen. Which is why…

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“Estrella Choelus,” translated from ancient Greek as “Estrella  Chœlus,” originally meant a star that was permanent, pleasant, and beautiful.In 1844, while refining essential oils, Galio di Vincenzo, a vegetable oil refiner, discovered that the fragrance they gave off when heated not only made people feel good, but also cured his perennial insomnia.For this reason, he opened an essential oil treatment workshop Estrella Chœlus in a small town to treat anxiety, insomnia and depression by heating essential oil.Guests could not only enjoy the fragrance treatment in the store, but also they could buy back home…

Based on earnings estimates announced Tuesday, nothing else in the financial services industry really compares to Coinbase right now. Wedded to the rising fortunes of cryptocurrencies themselves, soon-to-list Coinbase expects to make more money in the first quarter of this year than in all of 2020, and has seen an exponential rise in engaged customers. Coinbase’s revenue for the first three months of 2021 is expected to be $1.8 billion with earnings of about $800 million, compared with $1.3 billion in revenue and earnings of $322 million for all of 2020. Crypto is…