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Cryptocurrencies and Loki's Part in the Current Global Financial System

By Thomas Kuhn, CFA 
It has been God backing the global financial system, if US Dollars can be trusted. The medieval sentiment ‘In God We Trust’ snuck into the original 1776 design of the Great Seal of the United States and was raised to adorn the currency during the height of the United States economic power in 1956.

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A Deep Dive into Augur and What v2 Holds for Its Users

By Michael 
Augur is a decentralized prediction market protocol built upon Ethereum which allows users to speculate on anything. Prediction markets are a sector ripe for disruption from blockchain technology; however, scalability problems and broader adoption remain as potential growth inhibitors when it comes to a project like Augur. 

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How Did Lendf.Me Lose $25 Million to A Reentrancy Attack? [An Analysis]

By Valid Network Research 
DeFi or decentralized finance is a growing sector in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space that defines an ecosystem of decentralized applications providing financial services with no governing authority.

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19 Little-Known Programming Myths

By Momchil 
You might think a profession based on logic and learning would be immune to folklore, but the developer community remains rife with myth — myths so pervasive they begin to manifest into reality.

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Why We Don't Want to Sign-up for The Paid Version

By Joey Bertschler 
Price-tags are the first filter. Obviously features and benefits are important, but one thing hasn't changed and that is in the majority of time: value is still the determining factor.

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The Importance of Trusted User Interfaces and Secure Execution

By Charles Guillemet 
With digital assets on the rise, our industry as a whole must come together and consider the challenges and solutions aimed at keeping them safe. Individuals and companies are still unwittingly parted with their digital assets after falling victim to an increasingly sophisticated array of malware and phishing attacks.

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