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Riding The Wave News Summary 123

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How to build a crypto portfolio without spending any money or time trading, Ethereum Shapella upgrade gets new date, making way for un-staking ETH, & more.

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Feb 23, 2023
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Table of Contents

  1. Tweets

  2. How to build a crypto portfolio without spending any money or time trading

  3. Ethereum Shapella upgrade gets new date, making way for un-staking ETH

  4. Titanic artifacts to be tokenized as NFTs in new partnership

  5. Stablecoins Attract Scrutiny in SEC’s Drive to Control Crypto


Tweets

Twitter avatar for @financialjuice
Breaking Market News @financialjuice
FED MINUTES: ALL PARTICIPANTS SUPPORTED ADDITIONAL BALANCE-SHEET REDUCTIONS UNDER THE CURRENT PLAN.
7:00 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
325Likes65Retweets
Twitter avatar for @WatcherGuru
Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru
JUST IN: 🇮🇶 Iraq's central bank to allow trade with China to be settled in Chinese yuan instead of US dollars.
3:31 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
4,992Likes1,046Retweets
Twitter avatar for @therationalroot
Root 🥕 @therationalroot
The US might temporarily have a tight monetary policy dampening its money supply resulting in less liquidity, but adding China's money supply makes more than up for that. #Bitcoin is a global phenomenon.
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5:45 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
428Likes93Retweets
Twitter avatar for @financialjuice
Breaking Market News @financialjuice
FED MINUTES: PARTICIPANTS AGREED THAT RESTRICTIVE MONETARY POLICY WAS REQUIRED UNTIL THE FED WAS CONFIDENT THAT INFLATION WOULD FALL TO 2%; THEY ALSO AGREED THAT THE PROCESS WOULD LIKELY TAKE SOME TIME.
7:00 PM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
363Likes91Retweets
Twitter avatar for @IIICapital
Joe Burnett (🔑)³ @IIICapital
Bitcoin's hashrate continues to push higher. Miners are going to the ends of the Earth in all shapes and sizes and sourcing the cheapest energy waste on and off electrical grids. The demand for immutable scarcity will continue to soar.
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2:28 PM ∙ Feb 21, 2023
221Likes33Retweets
Twitter avatar for @BTC_Archive
Bitcoin Archive @BTC_Archive
BREAKING‼️ Global payments giant Ingenico now accepts #Bitcoin and crypto payments in France. It has 40 million terminals in 37 countries! 🔥 https://t.co/RVd4suIlzU
10:49 AM ∙ Feb 22, 2023
5,513Likes1,134Retweets
Twitter avatar for @WatcherGuru
Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 eToro gains regulatory approval to offer #crypto services in New York.
2:14 PM ∙ Feb 21, 2023
3,333Likes604Retweets
Twitter avatar for @WClementeIII
Will Clemente @WClementeIII
Bitcoin's daily correlation to the S&P flipping negative for the first time since the FTX collapse
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7:15 PM ∙ Feb 21, 2023
1,341Likes153Retweets
Twitter avatar for @WatcherGuru
Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru
JUST IN: #Polygon Labs fires 20% of its staff.
1:39 PM ∙ Feb 21, 2023
4,535Likes743Retweets
Twitter avatar for @WatcherGuru
Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru
JUST IN: 🇯🇵 FTX Japan resumes fiat and #crypto withdrawals.
8:33 AM ∙ Feb 21, 2023
4,067Likes683Retweets
Twitter avatar for @100trillionUSD
PlanB @100trillionUSD
Last chance to buy below $25k?
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2:26 PM ∙ Feb 20, 2023
6,180Likes871Retweets
Twitter avatar for @woonomic
Willy Woo @woonomic
Simple is powerful. Here's the timing of #Bitcoin cycles. Probably means we are entering the re-accumulation phase of the cycle. Here's the past zones.
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11:41 AM ∙ Feb 20, 2023
1,884Likes312Retweets
Twitter avatar for @WatcherGuru
Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru
JUST IN: 🇭🇰 Hong Kong to allow retail investors to trade larger cryptocurrencies such as #Bitcoin and #Ethereum.
11:55 AM ∙ Feb 20, 2023
8,436Likes1,696Retweets
Twitter avatar for @therationalroot
Root 🥕 @therationalroot
Halving progress 70%! #Bitcoin
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3:03 PM ∙ Feb 20, 2023
1,562Likes343Retweets
Twitter avatar for @WatcherGuru
Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru
JUST IN: 🇨🇳 China reportedly backing Hong Kong's proposal to become a #crypto hub.
5:04 AM ∙ Feb 21, 2023
10,091Likes1,978Retweets
Twitter avatar for @KobeissiLetter
The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter
Home Depot, $HD, just confirmed that we are nearing a recession. They warned that a weak housing market and high inflation has hurt demand. Housing market is falling, basic necessities are very expensive and credit card debt is near $1 trillion. Consumers are feeling the pain.
2:02 PM ∙ Feb 21, 2023
684Likes132Retweets
Twitter avatar for @PolygonDaily
Polygon Daily 💜 @PolygonDaily
Top Gainer with MarketCap under $100M Last 7 Days 🥇 $PAINT @MurAll_art 🥈 $WELT @FabweltToken 🥉 $BEL @BellaProtocol $QUICK @QuickswapDEX $PUSH @pushprotocol $STACK @DeployOnStackOS $DAFI @DafiProtocol $FOX @ShapeShift $ZEE @ZeroSwapLabs $APY @apyfinance #POLYGON $MATIC
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3:00 PM ∙ Feb 21, 2023
57Likes29Retweets
Twitter avatar for @AltcoinDailyio
Altcoin Daily @AltcoinDailyio
I want to believe. ❤️ #bitcoin #ethereum
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6:48 PM ∙ Feb 20, 2023
682Likes85Retweets

How to build a crypto portfolio without spending any money or time trading

Another way to earn cryptocurrency and build a portfolio is to complete a variety of tasks on various Web3 platforms.

Using decentralized applications and decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, users can earn cryptocurrency and then swap, sell or hold it in centralized or decentralized wallets without even having to spend money.

A person without cryptocurrency knowledge might be intimidated by the process of downloading wallets and performing on-chain transactions. An alternative is simply interacting with technology, and currently, there are multiple ways to experiment with different crypto platforms. One is replacing Web2 technology with a Web3 counterpart browser.

Google dominates the web browser and search engine space, making money off users by selling data to advertisers. The Brave browser is an alternative platform where users earn Basic Attention Token (BAT) and fully own their data while searching. Users earn from their activity on advertisers’ websites, and Brave does not sponsor search engine posts, which provides users with a more decentralized search experience.

Currently, Brave shares 70% of its advertising revenue, and some users choose to sell their earned BAT on centralized exchanges or through Web3 wallets like MetaMask.

NFTs continue to grow in popularity, and potential crypto investors can use a variety of free software to analyze the wallet addresses of successful NFT investors that minted high-value NFTs and also try to find free NFT minting and whitelist opportunities.

Many crypto and DeFi projects have set tokens aside for marketing, bug finding, beta testing and content creation tasks. Many crypto investors earn tokens by auditing, testing, and creating brand designs, marketing materials, music and other content. Lending one’s skills to crypto projects is a perfect way to get started.

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Ethereum Shapella upgrade gets new date, making way for un-staking ETH

Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko announced the Shapella upgrade is scheduled for Feb. 28. The Shapella network upgrade will activate on the Sepolia network at epoch 56832.

Shanghai and Capella (Shapella) are the upcoming Ethereum hard fork names. Shanghai is the fork’s name on the execution layer client side, and Capella is the upgrade name on the consensus layer client side.

Some key Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP) changes on the execution layer include warm coinbase (not to be confused with the crypto exchange) and Beacon Chain push withdrawals. The push withdrawals will allow validator withdrawals from the Beacon Chain to the Ethereum Virtual Machine via a new “system-level” operation type. On the other hand, warm coinbase could be a game changer that reduces network fees for builders.

Coinbase is the name of the software that builders use to receive new tokens on the network. Every new platform transaction must interact with the coinbase software multiple times. The first interaction costs more as the software needs to “warm” up, with fees declining as the interactions increase. However, with the introduction of EIP-3651, the coinbase software will remain warm to begin with, requiring a lower gas fee to access it.

The upcoming upgrade would enable validators to withdraw their staked Ether (stETH) from the Beacon Chain to the execution layer. Moreover, the upgrade would bring changes to the execution and consensus layers, adding new features, making it a key upgrade following the Merge.

Stakers and non-stakers who operate nodes must, however, upgrade their nodes to the most recent Ethereum client versions to take advantage of the Sepolia upgrade. After the deployment of the Sepolia upgrade, the next step would be the release of the Shanghai upgrade on the Ethereum Goerli test network, expected to commence in March.

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Titanic artifacts to be tokenized as NFTs in new partnership

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