If you’ve followed the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency space at all over the past few years, you likely know of the term “HODL,” A misspelling of the word “hold,” HODL is a long-time meme used by industry investors who believe that BTC will appreciate over time.According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, HODL...Read More
It has not been a good year for cryptocurrency funds, depending on how one interprets the new reports coming out. From a longevity point of view, the current statistics are borderline alarming. The State of Cryptocurrency Funds in 2019 Several dozen crypto funds have shut down throughout 2019, primarily due to very little price action...Read More
The US Marshals Service and FBI have updated an earlier warning against scammers impersonating law enforcement officers. The agencies say those behind the scams accuse a potential victim of a crime and demand payment via a Bitcoin ATM or another somewhat obscure payment method.It’s unclear how effective such scams are. The requested payment method should...Read More
The divisive project is one of the most active Ethereum contracts. HEX has finally gone live, marking the most recent project of the colorful YouTube personality Richard Heart. As of Dec. 2, 2019, HEX has completed its snapshot, and its tokens are now in circulation. HEX describes itself as a blockchain certificate of deposit —...Read More
2019 is coming to an end and the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) ecosystem has matured a great deal. BCH has successfully upgraded twice this year, adding Schnorr signatures capabilities and most transactions on the BCH network are now non-malleable. Moreover, BCH has seen increased adoption this year, an SLP token explosion, a slew of helpful third-party...Read More
China is setting the wheels in motion to reduce the dominance of the US dollar. According to a recent report, it was revealed the Asian country was looking to amplify usage of its native fiat currency yuan over the US dollar in the digital asset industry. US dollar had a major dominance over the global...Read More
There are currently more Bitcoin keys with at least one satoshi associated with them than there has ever been before. The number of plus balance addresses is even higher than it was at the peak of the 2017 bull market. The figures, although problematic, give something of an indication of the number of Bitcoin users around...Read More
Coinbase continues to explore its options in the cryptocurrency space. That also includes adding support for digital assets in any way possible. As far as the Coinbase Card is concerned, it has now received DAI stablecoin functionality. A Different Asset for the Coinbase Card It is the first time any stablecoin is supported on this...Read More
Just over a week ago, Bitcoin touched the $6500 mark, which was last seen in May, earlier this year. BTC has made a respectable recovery since then, valued at around $7365 at the time of writing. Bitcoin has a market capitalization of nearly $134 billion, and almost $17.8 billion worth of BTC was traded in...Read More
Bitcoin owners have had many things to worry about over the past months. For instance, the price of BTC has tumbled by some 50% since June of this year, falling as low as $6,600 from $14,000. Also, there’s been increasing regulatory scrutiny from some of the world’s most powerful governments and entities due to Facebook’s...Read More
Bitcoin price is trading within a tight range as of late. Even the few surges here and there in either direction, have resulted in the leading crypto by market cap falling back into the current range.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
On 27 December 2019 12:00:05 UTC, BitMEX will update its index weights. From today, the hypothetical values of the indices with the new weights will be published as the “NEXT” index family (Eg .BXBT_NEXT). As of 27 December 2019 at 12:00:05 UTC, assuming no constituent exchanges have been excluded due to Index Protection Rules, BitMEX...Read More
