Maksym Prykhodko
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Maksym has denied the existence of crypto as an asset for 3 years when he was working with standard financial instruments. Became Head of Treasury. Won the best bank employee award and left the bank for cryptocurrency exchange the next day. Got a second university degree, but that didn’t stop him from studying finance yet. Combines fiat and crypto experience to be as objective as possible in general matters. His dream is to be interviewed by Bloomberg.
The most popular social media platform in China, WeChat, will ban all accounts that offer crypto and NFT services on the platform. This also includes secondary NFT trading. Between May and September last year, the Chinese government started to enforce a phased ban on the crypto sector. This followed a joint statement issued by the […]
Actor and writer Rob McElhenney of the “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” fame has formed a new “entertainment-tech” company named Adim. The company will provide a virtual writers’ room for collaboration between writers. Each of the participants will receive ownership of the developed IP via non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Initially, 100 writers will be selected from […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk distanced himself from yet another fabricated video promoting a cryptocurrency scam. Originally shared on Twitter, the video in question was a deepfake of Musk purportedly promoting a cryptocurrency platform boasting 30% returns on crypto deposits. Scammers made use of original footage from a TED Talk featuring Musk and curator Chris Anderson […]
The new filing indicates the Twitter deal is still going forward, although Musk recently said the deal couldn’t proceed until Twitter verifies how many users on the platform are spam accounts or bots. Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said the company’s estimate of spam accounts on the platform is based on multiple internal reviews, and external […]
The tides are shifting in the NFT space of late. The high-value Ethereum NFT market has seen sinking trading volume the last couple weeks, but Solana NFTs are still growing and over a 24-hour span from yesterday into this morning, the Solana network yielded more NFT volume than Ethereum’s. Per data from CryptoSlam this morning, […]
Decentralized finance (abbreviated DeFi) is a set of blockchain-based financial technologies. It is aimed at removing the economic domination of incumbent stakeholders and intermediaries over ordinary people and replacing it with financial autonomy, equality, and easier access to financial services for everyone. Do the phrases “incumbent stakeholders” and “intermediaries” sound pretentious? They might be, but […]
