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Should You Treat Cryptocurrency as a Speculative Investment or Long-Term Hold?
Cryptocurrency offers both short-term speculative opportunities and long-term investment potential. Traders thrive on market volatility, aiming for quick gains but facing high risk. Long-term holders (HODLers) believe in crypto’s future, minimizing transaction fees and ignoring short-term swings. Success depends on goals, risk tolerance, and experience.
A balanced strategy is advised diversifying funds between speculative trades and long-term holdings while spreading investments across multiple coins to manage risk effectively.
Overhauling Dash's Confidential Payments
Dash is upgrading its privacy features by introducing Confidential Transactions (CT), which conceal transaction amounts and balances. This upgrade enhances user privacy, simplifies CoinJoin mixing, and reduces traceability. Future plans include implementing Sietch and exploring the Hawkweed protocol for network-level privacy.
These changes aim to make Dash more secure, user-friendly, and efficient while maintaining transparency. CT adoption marks a major step in modernizing Dash as a leading confidential digital cash solution.
The author shares her journey into Web3, initially doubting its legitimacy until a friend introduced her to Hive. Inspired by seeing her friend's Hive-funded lifestyle, she created an account, made her first post, and earned. Now passionate about blockchain, she highlights Hive’s transparency, ownership, and opportunities.
She encourages newcomers not to give up, recognizing that Web3 is vast and complex but worth exploring for long-term growth and wealth-building potential.
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EU To Allow USD Stablecoins
The European Central Bank is losing ground as the EU prepares to allow USD stablecoins issued abroad, despite ECB protests. This move risks sidelining EU banks from trillions in transactions and increases U.S. Treasury demand. The shift highlights the EU’s struggle to keep up with technological innovation due to heavy regulation.
Facing economic decline and global isolation, the EU sees no option but to embrace USD stablecoins to stay connected globally.