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Medial • 1y
In 2013, crypto was a joke. Today, it's a movement. Cryptocurrency users have grown from 1 million to 833 million in a decade. The unstoppable rise of digital money: 2008: Satoshi Nakamoto creates Bitcoin amid the financial crisis. 2015: Vitalik Buterin launches Ethereum, introducing smart contracts. This quickly became the primary platform for building decentralized apps. 2017: ICO boom. $5 billion raised for new crypto projects. Many innovative. Many more were scams. The bubble burst, teaching valuable lessons about regulation and due diligence. 2018-2019: "Crypto Winter". A necessary reset. 2020: The tide turns back in favor of blockchain. 2020-2021: Institutional adoption takes off. - MicroStrategy buys $425M in BTC. Tesla follows with $1.5B. - El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as legal tender. DeFi explosion: Total Value Locked grows from $1B to $100B in a year. Today, crypto providing borderless and permissionless alternatives to banks.

History always repea... • 1y
🤯 The President of El Salvador proposed to lease all 170 volcanoes 🌋 in the country for cryptocurrency mining ⛏️ An experimental geothermal station on one of them has already allowed the mining of Bitcoin worth $46 million. 🌋💰 Why Indian's are
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Founder & Editor of ... • 1y
Crypto is starting to become more accepted, especially after the approval of #Bitcoin and #Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the U.S. and changes to accounting rules by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). However, like with any
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Arizona State University • 9m
>> AI Video Generators: A Boom in Users! Think about this: Back in 2020, around 116 million people were using these tools. Just a few years later, in 2024, that number skyrocketed to a whopping 314.4 million! And get this – experts predict we'll see
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