OPINION
Ethereum co-founder Buterin labels Bitcoin Cash a failure
Buterin was also proud to note that he had foreseen the development of decentralised exchanges like UniSwap Hardly a day into the New Year, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin went on a “mini-tweetstorm” in which he reviewed comments he has made in the past on crypto-related matters, providing his present standing on the said subjects. One particular view that stood out from his series of tweets was his conclusion that Bitcoin Cash is now largely a failure as he sees it. Launched in August 2017, Bitcoin Cash was developed as a Bitcoin fork that offered larger transaction volumes per block and lowered fees owing to the larger blocks. In its initial stages, the token enjoyed success, and by mid-November in that year, it had surpassed Ethereum in market cap. At that point, Buterin...
El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele predicts Bitcoin to hit $100k this year
Bukele, a Bitcoin proponent, also said he expects to see two other countries take up Bitcoin as legal tender this year Nayib Bukele’s Bitcoin campaign soldiers into the New Year, with the El Salvador President giving his predictions on the coin yesterday. Though most of the predictions were seemingly quite bold and ambitious, Bukele has never been irresolute in his belief in Bitcoin. The El Salvador president said he expects Bitcoin to notch a price point of $100,000 this year and that two additional countries would adopt it as legal tender. His country, El Salvador, became the first and sole country in the world, so far, to assume the use of Bitcoin as an accepted official currency at the beginning of September last year. The move was plagued with criticism and technical hitches, bu...
Former Block.one strategist believes Bitcoin will reach $200k next year
His projection is similar to that laid out by Fundstrat Global Advisors co-founder at the end of last week Block.one ex-Chief Strategist Officer Brock Pierce has predicted the price of Bitcoin to rise to $200,000 at some point in 2021. Justifying his projection, the former child actor explained that the economic situation i.e. the growing inflation would propel the flagship cryptocurrency into the five-digit zone. Bitcoin surged to a 7-day high just shy of $52,000 on Monday but has since been on a downtrend. The recent dip places the coin 31.75% below its all-time high recorded in November. It’s unlikely Bitcoin price will reach his initial predicted price figure In an interview with Fox Business, he acknowledged that his previous prediction of $100,000 before the end of the yea...
Cardano and Ripple tokens will crash out of the top 10 chart in 2022: Arcane Research
The blockchain research firm also predicts Bitcoin to continue recording better returns than the S&P 500 index in the incoming year Crypto market analytics company Arcane has laid out its 2022 predictions for various digital assets and the industry at large. The research firm compiled a report highlighting numerous predictions around various aspects, including token prices, regulations, and the performance of different crypto coins. Most notably, Arcane crowned Binance coin as the winner of 2021, explaining that it crushed both Ethereum and Bitcoin in returns. Here’s a look at the other major predictions: The fate of Ripple (XRP) and Cardano (ADA) According to the research firm, the two alts will slip and lose their spot among the top 10 coins by market cap next year. Arcane note...
Zenith Bank gets it wrong
Facebook WhatsApp Reddit Twitter Shares By Azuka Onwuka At the point where air travellers leaving Nigeria step into the aeroplane at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, Zenith Bank wishes them a safe journey in French (which has been adopted by the English) as well as in the top three Nigerian indigenous languages. That is good branding. But the Igbo greeting (Ije oma) is wrongly written. .uffa6d0fd95b01fb2c1e31be5df78a5ea { padding:0px; margin: 0; padding-top:1em!important; padding-bottom:1em!important; width:100%; display: block; font-weight:bold; background-color:inherit; border:0!important; border-left:4px solid #16A085!important; box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -o-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -webkit-b...
“Pretty Dark Loud”: How My Most Challenging Times Inspired My First Album
This is an opinion column. The thoughts and viewpoints expressed are those of the author, Anderson Benoit Gallegos, proprietor of The Mersiv Sound Project. Sometimes it’s hard to realize how long we’ve been in this pandemic. Sometimes it feels like yesterday, sometimes it feels like a lifetime. I never really knew my life would take such a sharp pause and change, but ultimately I’m glad it did. I’m proud of the struggle and how it’s left me stronger, more focused, and beyond grateful to be able to be doing what I love each and every day. When the lockdowns started, Pretty Dark Loud was just a thought. Even though it was just a couple starting riffs, I knew it was going to be something special. Lockdown was one of the most challenging times of my life—like most people, it was unlike anythin...
“Pretty Dark Loud”: The Story Behind the Album I Was Born to Create
This is an opinion column. The thoughts and viewpoints expressed are those of the author, Anderson Benoit Gallegos, proprietor of The Mersiv Sound Project. Sometimes it’s hard to realize how long we’ve been in this pandemic. Sometimes it feels like yesterday, sometimes it feels like a lifetime. I never really knew my life would take such a sharp pause and change, but ultimately I’m glad it did. I’m proud of the struggle and how it’s left me stronger, more focused, and beyond grateful to be able to be doing what I love each and every day. When the lockdowns started, Pretty Dark Loud was just a thought. Even though it was just a couple starting riffs, I knew it was going to be something special. Lockdown was one of the most challenging times of my life—like most people, it was unlike anythin...
Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing? How Spotify’s Discovery Mode May Harm Artists and Listeners
This is an opinion column. The thoughts and viewpoints expressed are those of the author, Richard James Burgess. Burgess, who is credited for coining the music genre terms “EDM” and “New Romantic,” is the CEO of the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM). On its face, Spotify’s Discovery Mode might seem like a boon for some artists. Agree to accept a reduced royalty rate and the platform’s algorithms will suggest that artist’s music to more users—in hopes of expanding their base of listeners. But the scheme will most likely generate more profit for Spotify while hurting the very people Discovery Mode is alleged to benefit: artists and listeners. Spotify’s Broken Promise to Listeners When Spotify launched, its premise was an exci...
Rolling Stone Has a New “500 Best Songs of All Time” List for All of Us to Complain About
This is an opinion column. The thoughts and viewpoints expressed are those of the author, Phil Scilippa. It’s been 17 long years since Rolling Stone published a list of the “500 Best Songs of All Time.” 17 years is quite a stretch of time to update the previous version, which many readers took issue with. That’s to be expected, though—after all, calling anything the “best” is subjective and entirely based on personal opinions. But the issue is: some people’s opinions are wrong. So after 17 years of moaning and complaining about the previous list, I took a gander at the new version released yesterday with a glimmer of hope in my eyes. But now I’m not sure why I bothered. Surely there should have been enough great music in t...
Creation, Conflict and Clarity: My Metaphysical Journey to “Rainbow Brain”
I suppose that behind every story, there is a story within itself. Every body of work has its own life to it. The inspiration, birth, creation, struggle, moments of clarity, release into the world… And if the creator gets lucky, their story becomes a living narrative that is retold over time. And time is a funny thing to me. An unfolding of the ever-present current moment wherein all projections of past and future might be manifested into the eternal now. This is now. This is a story of what was, what might be, and can only exist right now. This is a time machine of words and ideas where we can use the present moment to travel anywhere and to any moment: the stream of consciousness that we all flow into each other. This is my busy mind making nonsense of spirituality. This is my struggle t...
Mass defection: House member asks PDP national chairman to resign
Rep Rimamnde Shawulu (PDP-Taraba), has urged the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Uche Secondus, to resign following mass defection from the party to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Shawulu said this a letter addressed to the chairman and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday. He decried the rate at which the party was losing members to the ruling APC in recent times. Shawulu also urged members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to resign. “Today, unexpectedly, four members of the House of Representatives from Zamfara defected from the PDP to APC,” he said. He said unlike before, when leaders of the party at the House usually put up a form of protest, not a whisper was heard or a hand raised in protest against the defection. “Dear...
Egyptian TikTok influencer to appeal 10-year trafficking sentence
Egyptian TikTok influencer Haneen Hossam will appeal a 10-year prison sentence handed down by a Cairo court that found her guilty of human trafficking, her lawyer said on Monday. In the latest twist in a nearly year-long saga, the court also fined the 20-year-old Cairo University student 200 000 Egyptian pounds ($13 000) on Sunday for encouraging women to share footage on the video-sharing app in exchange for money. “We will demand restoration of the case proceedings because there are contradictions between the verdict and the merits on which the court’s decision is based,” said lawyer Hani Sameh. “We hope that she can get a reduced jail sentence or an acquittal,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Several women have been accused of “inciting debauchery” for challenging Egypt’s conser...
