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Ravencoin's Original Vision and Why It Still Matters Today

Ravencoin's Original Vision and Why It Still Matters Today

January 15th, 2026 will go down as the day of Ravencoin's second halving. The block reward moving from 2500 RVN to 1250 RVN, it was an important development as it cut in half the issuance of the day. For what was essentially double the reduction of ravencoin entering circulation per day, the network would generate little more than a blip on the mainstream ravencoin news radar. Celebrity investors wouldn't tweet.

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Kava Price Could Hit $2.80 If History Repeats This Pattern

Kava Price Could Hit $2.80 If History Repeats This Pattern

Are the indicators that led to those previous pumps already in place? The chart could make you think that is a possibility. Although in order for a $2.80 movement to occur with Kava very specific circumstances would need to happen. Circumstances that begin with Bitcoin and end with Kava-related news.

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DOG Holders Made Money While Everyone Chased New Launches

DOG Holders Made Money While Everyone Chased New Launches

DOG traded to an all-time low of $0.0006988 just three days ago and hardly anyone blinked an eye. While price tells part of the story, the narrative that the free money dog meme has run its course is greatly exaggerated. A lot of the market didn't care because they were buying Solana flips.

Mia Halland logoMia HallandApr 4, 2026
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Why Ripple Mining Doesn't Exist and What That Actually Means

Why Ripple Mining Doesn't Exist and What That Actually Means

The very search term betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of Ripple USD and the XRP Ledger on which it's built. Ripple's dollar-pegged stablecoin, RLUSD, can't be mined because the underlying platform was designed from the ground up to make the whole concept inapplicable. No miners scrambling to solve cryptographic puzzles. No energy-intensive race. Instead, a consensus protocol where trusted validators agree on the state of the ledger in seconds.

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Bitcoin SV Just Hit 4 Million Daily Transactions

Bitcoin SV Just Hit 4 Million Daily Transactions

Bitcoin SV scales to 4 million transactions per day. Seriously. It already does that. Easily. Even while its price and bsv coinmarketcap ranking remains stubbornly low and stuck. BSV supporters have been saying these things for months. But it's always good to look at the facts. What they really are.

Archie Dutton logoArchie DuttonMar 25, 2026
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BARD Crypto Explained Without the Jargon or Hype

BARD Crypto Explained Without the Jargon or Hype

Bitcoin's most obvious problem: the majority of holders don't use it. Tokens on other blockchains can be deposited into DeFi protocols and staked to earn yield. Bitcoin doesn't have a native mechanism for that. Enter Lombard, the protocol powering bard crypto. Its pitch is simple: Lombard's technology allows people to put their Bitcoin to work in DeFi without surrendering ownership of their BTC. Whether that promise survives a deep dive is another question entirely.

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Core Merged Bitcoin Security with EVM Speed and It Actually Works

Core Merged Bitcoin Security with EVM Speed and It Actually Works

Is it possible to have a blockchain "secured by bitcoin" without forking bitcoin? That's the promise being sold by Core crypto, which launched with Satoshi Plus consensus hybridizing proof-of-work and delegated proof-of-stake. The elevator pitch is convincing: leverage the most battle-tested crypto security model to back an execution layer that can finalize every few seconds. But with ~200 validators and sub-10-second block times as of March 2026, curious minds will want to know how the engineering squares up.

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Satoshi Nakamoto's Legacy Lives in TOSHI's Community Model

Satoshi Nakamoto's Legacy Lives in TOSHI's Community Model

Toshi coin passed 921,000 holders this month, surpassing competing memecoin Base BRETT by nearly 57,000 wallets. Toshi achieved these milestones despite having absolutely ZERO venture capital firms in its cap table. Stop by the toshi price page on CoinGecko if you haven't in a while (global rank #290, market cap $91 million) and let those numbers sink in. They tell a story far greater than most aspects of the memecoin boom.

Mia Halland logoMia HallandMar 18, 2026
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From Rejected to $179 Billion: The Complete History of Bitcoin ETFs and What They Changed

From Rejected to $179 Billion: The Complete History of Bitcoin ETFs and What They Changed

When ten Bitcoin spot ETFs went live on January 11, 2024, the crypto market changed in ways that are still playing out. Volatility dropped 55%, institutional money poured in at a pace that shattered every ETF record in history, and Bitcoin's correlation with the S&P 500 surged to 0.71. This is the full breakdown of what shifted, why it happened, and what the next wave of altcoin ETFs will inherit.

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