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Crypto investors must have heard about Proof of Work (PoW) and Proof of Stake (PoS), the two different mechanisms to validate crypto transactions. They are an essential component of blockchain technology and security. All decentralized blockchains like Bitcoin or Ethereum require computers to 'prove' their presence on the network to validate transactions. PoW and PoS are the most prominent ones among them. Both are known as consensus mechanisms — the standardized and trusted way of how the blockchain’s nodes. Despite being different, both mechanisms ensure honest transactions and reduce fraud.

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crypto currencies are yet to pass the test to become fiat currency and the lack of regulation it is akin to a world of Caribbean pirates underlining necessary caution in regard to some of these fintech based disruption. «The more decentralised they become and the absence of a watchdog or a centralised regulatory authority also means that there is a world of Caribbean pirates or a world of 'winner takes it all' in terms of being able to really take it all from somebody else. Also, the recent developments with respect to Luna, Terra are definitely very important cautionary tales that we need to keep in mind,» he said. «I would be somewhat guarded in my welcome of some of these fintech-based disruptions like DeFI or decentralised finance and crypto etc,» Nageswaran said at an Assocham event.

Edge on Wednesday announced the launch of Edge Mastercard, which enables crypto holders to spend with digital currencies like Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Dogecoin, Litecoin, and Dash from its App. Edge users sell their Bitcoin to the card when adding funds in the app, while merchants receive funds in US dollars. Users register their cards inside the Edge app to start spending, without having to add personal information or pay any fees. The card, powered by Ionia, a fintech and savings platform, connects with mobile pay services Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, or Google Pay.

Mumbai: Amid a global cool-off in the crypto market, Indian exchanges WazirX and Unocoin are slowing down their hiring, senior executives told ET. Apart from the current bear market, Indian crypto exchanges have had to contend with a harsh new tax regime and a pullback from banks and payment processors, which have caused trading volumes to plummet. ET reported on April 12 that trading volumeson crypto exchanges had hit a six-month low. Nischal Shetty, cofounder of WazirX, confirmed to ET that the company has slowed down hiring for the time being.

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The parliament of Japan passed the bill on Friday, giving investors a cushion after multi-billion dollars were wiped out from their pockets. Japan is one of the first major economies to pass specific laws over cryptos, stablecoins in particular. However, the legislation will come into effect after a year.

prices in the years before the crisis was a bubble, and that many of the seemingly sophisticated financial instruments that helped inflate housing would eventually be revealed as worthless junk. Why were so few willing to bet against the bubble? A large part of the answer, I would suggest, was what we might call the incredulity factor — the sheer scale of the mispricing the skeptics claimed to see. Even though there was clear evidence that housing prices were out of line, it was hard to believe they could be that far out of line — that $6 trillion in real estate wealth would evaporate, that investors in mortgage-backed securities would lose around $1 trillion. It just didn’t seem plausible that markets, and the conventional wisdom saying that markets were OK, could be that wrong. But they were. Which brings us to the current state of crypto.

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