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Legislators and financial experts dismiss crypto as a fad in public, but in private, they are adding digital assets to their portfolios. Crypto continues to demand thoughtful responses from governments and the financial community.

The Kriptomat Savings account is perfect for people who want to earn both the benefits of their cryptocurrency going up in price AND the passive income and reliable returns of a traditional interest-bearing account. It’s the best of the old world, improved by the finance system of the future.

Chainlink is teaming up with AccuWeather to make weather data and forecasts available to blockchain-based applications. It’s one more indication of why decentralized applications are increasingly reliant on blockchain oracles.

Crypto enthusiast Elon Musk has done it again. A tweeted photograph of his Shiba Inu puppy, Floki, sent the value of the dog’s namesake coin on a wild roller-coaster ride – yet another example of celebrity influence over crypto prices.

A crypto investment can be worth a fortune one moment and become worthless the next; it all depends on how smartly you manage your crypto portfolio.

Businesses have found myriad creative applications for non-fungible tokens: as rewards in customer loyalty programs, as digital collectibles, as achievement badges, as proof of shared ownership in masterworks of art, and more.

Crypto founders have received public recognition for their innovations this week. Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto has been memorialized with a public statue, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin was recognized by Time magazine.

Kriptomat is starting 2021 with a new infrastructure that provides substantial security and scaling improvements. Kriptomat's updated platform for trading, moving, and storing digital assets is more secure and efficient than ever.

Leave your wallet at home! AMC, the world’s largest cinema operator, has announced that it will accept Bitcoin payments for movie tickets and snacks by the end of the year. It’s one more sign that crypto is going mainstream.

In addition to consuming as much electricity as a mid-sized European country, Bitcoin mining is responsible for adding a substantial amount of toxic electronic waste to the world’s landfills, MIT researchers say.

The use cases for blockchains today are limited by their insufficient scalability, similar to how the dial-up internet of the 90s wouldn’t be able to support 4K video streaming.

Alchemy Pay has completed development of virtual Mastercard and Visa cards that will be backed by crypto holdings, not bank accounts. The company says its cards will be accepted by millions of merchants in more than 200 countries.