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USDT Jan Ludovicus van der Velde [57] Omnicore [58] PoW: Tether claims to be backed by USD at a 1 to 1 ratio. The company has been unable to produce promised audits. [59] 2016 Firo: FIRO Poramin Insom [60] Merkle tree Proof [61] C++ [62] PoW: The first financial system employing Zero-knowledge proof to protect users' privacy. [60]
Tether (often referred to by its currency codes, USD₮ and USDT, among others) is a cryptocurrency stablecoin launched by Tether Limited Inc. in 2014. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] As of August 1, 2024, Tether reported having $118.4 billion in reserves, including $5.3 billion in excess reserves.
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Spillover of the Ethiopian civil war. Djiboutian armed forces execute a drone strike near the Ethiopian border, killing eight members of what the government described as a "terrorist group" involved in "hostile actions". The attack also injured an unknown number of civilians.
Ether (ETH) is the cryptocurrency generated in accordance with the Ethereum protocol as a reward to validators in a proof-of-stake system for adding blocks to the blockchain. Ether is represented in the state as an unsigned integer associated with each account, this being the account's ETH balance denominated in wei (10 18 wei = 1 ether). At ...
Uniswap was created on November 2, 2018 [3] by Hayden Adams, [4] a former mechanical engineer at Siemens. [1] Adams is the founder and CEO of Uniswap Labs, the company responsible for the development of the Uniswap Protocol, a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Ethereum blockchain. [5]
In November 2018, the total current value for Bitcoin fell below $100 billion for the first time since October 2017, [12] [13] and the price of Bitcoin fell below $4,000, representing an 80 percent decline from its peak the previous January. [14] Bitcoin reached a low of around $3,100 in December 2018. [15] [16]
The legal status of cryptocurrencies varies substantially from one jurisdiction to another, and is still undefined or changing in many of them. [1] Whereas, in the majority of countries the usage of cryptocurrency isn't in itself illegal, its status and usability as a means of payment (or a commodity) varies, with differing regulatory implications.