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Tracey Plowman
March 19, 2025
This Week in Crypto
This week🎙️Crypto Curious has the dream team back together! We get Blake’s lowdown on a recent OKX event he attended recently in Melbourne, along with the noticeable drop in Ethereum 🫣. We unpack which countries are the biggest Bitcoin whales 🐋(you won’t see them all coming!) & Binance’s ‘big deal’. All that, plus our short- sharps!
Video lovers ❤️ YouTube is here!
Markets at a glance.
X marks the spot.
Good articles.
Brisbane-based cryptocurrency exchange Swyftx has acquired its smaller rival New Zealand’s Easy Crypto, marking its first major acquisition since the company’s co-founder stepped down as chief executive last year.
Several U.S. lawmakers have warned that President Trump’s crypto dealings and Elon Musk’s unchecked power endanger financial stability, weaken oversight, and erode public trust in government accountability.
Dogecoin (DOGE) closed last week on a bullish note after testing critical technical levels that could define its next directional move.
Crypto things you didn’t know you didn’t know.
Blockchains Are Intentionally Slow.
First and foremost, blockchain is not intended to be a high performance or low latency solution. In fact, it may well be one of the least performant types of distributed system technology — and that’s no accident.
A blockchain is a persistent, transparent, and public append-only distributed ledger. It consists of a network of computers or nodes that collectively contain a shared history of transactions. Transaction data can be added to a blockchain and previous data cannot be changed (i.e. it is “immutable”). The nodes do not know or trust each other, meaning blockchain is a trustless mechanism of trade. This is convenient, as it does not require a middleman to facilitate exchanges. Instead, nodes must rely on using an agreed-upon method for validating new additions to the chain (e.g. Proof of Work or Proof of Stake).
As a result, blockchains must prevent Byzantine behavior whereby some nodes (either due to unreliability or to being a bad actor) present a risk to the system.
When organizations seek ways to speed up blockchain transactions, they introduce technical risk that could result in system failure or exploitation by a bad actor. Let’s look more into technical risk and a recent example.
In Other Crypto News!
The safe haven returns!
Gold Just Set a New All-Time High While Bitcoin Is Falling: What's Going On?
Bitcoin might be "digital gold" to some investors, but it's not acting much like the real thing lately—especially as gold hits a new peak.
