Maria Irene

Maria Irene is a journalist and author covering the Internet Computer Protocol, Bitcoin, DeFi, and the broader decentralised web. She is the founder and editor of LedgerLife.io, an independent, reader-funded publication dedicated to clear-eyed reporting on the ICP ecosystem and Web3 technology. She is the author of two books: Money Without Masters: The Story of Crypto (Amazon) and The World Computer: Decentralised Computing and the Rise of the Internet Computer Protocol (Amazon). Her work focuses on making complex blockchain technology accessible without losing precision or depth.
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DFINITY-backed Pakistan national messenger enters testing phase

A national messenger application being developed for Pakistan has moved into testing, with the service now running on the country’s dedicated cloud infrastructure and...

Onicai postpones Aug 29 SNS launch as funnAI protocol work continues

Onicai has postponed the planned August 29 launch date for its SNS as development work continues on the funnAI protocol. The project announced the change...

ODIN.fun Ships Major Indexer and Staking Updates in Week 32

ODIN.fun has reported 187 commits and 45 pull requests in its Week 32 development update, with a series of infrastructure, staking and user-facing changes...

Liquidium Unifies Simple and Advanced Loan Profiles

Liquidium has introduced a new feature allowing users to bring loans from their Simple and Advanced profiles together, giving borrowers a more unified view...
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The Dawn of $DONS: Still Early, Yet This MemeCoin is Already...

Maria Irene After the recent crash of the popular meme token, Pepe, discussions about the future of meme tokens have been ignited in the crypto...
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Bank of America Signals Economic Downturn: Consumer Spending Drops Amidst White-Collar...

Bank of America, one of the largest financial institutions in the U.S., has issued a sobering economic warning: consumer spending has dropped significantly, and...
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Rising Debt Mountains: A Comparative Analysis of Global Debt-to-GDP Ratios

Maria Irene As the world economy continues to grapple with the fallout of the past decade, the specter of sovereign debt looms large. The Debt-to-GDP...
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The Economic Ensemble: A Week of Telling Data for the American...

Maria Irene This week promises to bring a windfall of economic data that could potentially influence the direction of the American economy. From retail sales...
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Skousen’s Warning: Fed’s Policies, Asset Bubbles, and an Imminent Economic Collapse

Prominent economist Mark Skousen recently issued a grim forecast for the American economy, pointing to a cocktail of factors that could trigger a significant...
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The Bull Case for Bitcoin’s Web3 Ecosystem, Ordinals and BRC-20 Tokens

In the recent past, Leonidas.og, a well-known figure and influencer in the Ordinal space, painted a bullish picture for the integration of Web3 into...