As tensions increase between Turkey and Greece in the eastern Mediterranean over gas and oil exploration rights in the area both powers have claimed, the US has thrown its weight behind the Greek Cypriots thus upsetting the balance in the region, says a Turkish expert. On 12 September, US Secretary […]
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Hurricane Florence approaches the Carolinas in September 2018. NOAA hide caption toggle caption NOAA Hurricane Florence approaches the Carolinas in September 2018. NOAA Millions of Americans live in the potential path of a hurricane. The good news is that hurricane and cyclone forecasts have gotten significantly more accurate in recent […]
What makes Ethereum culture click? Maker Foundation board member Tonya Evans and former ConsenSys chief marketing officer Amanda Cassatt joined CoinDesk senior reporter Leigh Cuen on Monday to discuss Ethereum’s ethos in an hourlong conversation streamed to the CoinDesk homepage. “In terms of its structure and what it accomplishes in […]
Over the last couple of years, Japanese authorities have been trying to solve the puzzle over so-called “ghost ships”, presumably of North Korean origin, that have turned up on the country’s coast. Some of them contained decomposed human remains, prompting local officers and media speculate about origin of these mysterious […]
A primer on DeFi and yield farming. We’ll also cover liquidity mining, automated market making plus the other terms shaping this brave new world. Today’s episode of The Breakdown is a primer for anyone who has lost track of the terminology surrounding decentralized finance. In it, NLW goes over: Disclosure […]
The concept of bitcoin days destroyed (BDD) was introduced in 2011, two years after the creation of the world’s first cryptocurrency, bitcoin. People were already beginning to create blockchain metrics to measure on-chain transaction activity and value. Once the first cryptocurrency metric was created, BDD was quickly followed by a plethora […]
It’s effectively July 2017 in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi), and as in the heady days of the initial coin offering (ICO) boom, the numbers are only trending up. According to DeFi Pulse, there is $1.9 billion in crypto assets locked in DeFi right now. According to the CoinDesk […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106480/13/1064801392_0:120:1280:840_1200x675_80_0_0_df74e984b224573f9109ee3973bb1ae3.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/science/202006211079682571-mysterious-anomalies-found-amid-antarctic-ice-finally-explained—report/ While the discovery made by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna may indeed be interesting, it’s probably not of the “Nobel prize-winning” kind, suggested one researcher. Researchers studying anomalies in Antarctica that were discovered via the the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) have apparently […]
[Editor’s note: The move to annexe the West Bank has almost no support within Israel, least of all with the usually militant settler community. This is purely a Trump-Netanyau plan and characteristically, it ignores any and all international law. The timing of this move is also cynically orchestrated to take […]