{"id":13131,"date":"2022-05-13T00:38:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T00:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/terra-collapse-teaches-about-crypto-and-bitcoin\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T00:38:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T00:38:20","slug":"terra-collapse-teaches-about-crypto-and-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/terra-collapse-teaches-about-crypto-and-bitcoin\/","title":{"rendered":"Terra Collapse Teaches About ‘Crypto’ And Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Terra is crumbling.<\/p>\n

The blockchain project home to the popular algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST), which had recently become the fourth-largest stablecoin by market value but now sits at fifth, is near collapse as UST repeatedly fails to sustain its $ 1 peg and LUNA, the blockchain’s native token, nears zero.<\/p>\n

Terraform Labs, the tech start-up behind the development of Terra, halted the production of new blocks on the network on Thursday “to prevent governance attacks following severe $ LUNA inflation and a significantly reduced cost of attack,” it said on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n