Ken Kurson, member of payment protocol firm Ripple’s board of directors, was arrested on Friday and has been charged by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn for cyberstalking in connection with his divorce. Authorities have also accused the Ripple board member of sending threatening and stalking messages to several people. Reports state that Kurson allegedly threatened an...Read More
Stablecoins are hotter than ever, with Tether’s trade volume surpassing Bitcoin’s by 55% in the past 24 hours. Led by surges in the USDC and USDT, the total number of stablecoin daily active addresses has topped 265K. Stablecoin Active Address || Source: Coinmetrics The above chart by Coinmetrics is smoothed using a 7-day rolling average....Read More
Calling the prospects of introducing a CBDC in Russia “very real,” head of the Central Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina said on Friday, a pilot launch of the Russian CBDC, or the digital ruble, “is possible” at the end of 2021. The news follows a recent opinion of an official from the Russian Central Bank’s...Read More
The PayPal announcement and the subsequent hike in Bitcoin’s price came at a great time for the altcoin market since many alts were struggling with the downtrend they have been on since mid-August. This speaks to not just Bitcoin’s overwhelming dominance of the crypto-market, but also to its high correlations stats with the rest of...Read More
It is easy to forget that Bitcoin, other than being a revolutionary asset in the current financial system, was initially created with the goal of Peer-t0-Peer transactions without any intermediaries. While discussions with respect to P2P volumes are limited in the space, Arcane Research’s new report brought the P2P scenario under a new optimistic light....Read More
Major crypto exchange Binance announced today that its investment and incubation arm, Binance Labs has made a strategic investment in a new blockchain-based decentralized streaming protocol, called Audius. Binance Labs led the extension round for Audius which was worth $1.25 million. The community-owned music sharing protocol is yet to launch on mainnet, and had earlier...Read More
People’s Bank of China (PBoC) published a notice today stating that the country’s central bank has provided various channels such as email, fax and letter to acquire public opinions, or feedback on a revised draft that under Article 19, under Section 3, the draft proposes to include: Renminbi includes both a physical form and a...Read More
The past few weeks have been quite favorable for Bitcoin’s price action. At press time, the coin was testing a key resistance around $13K, and if this resistance is breached, that would take Bitcoin to this year’s ATH. Interestingly, another metric that is quite favorable for many Bitcoiners is its UTXO profitability. According to data...Read More
According to a statement by Changchun Mu, the director of the Chinese Institute of CBDC, China’s dual offline wallet for its CBDC has now been fully developed and is ready for testing. The introduction of this wallet is expected to be the follow up to the pilot, which took place on October 12. This phase...Read More
In an announcement, Stellar said that the Stellar public network will no longer upgrade to Protocol 14 on October 28, skipping straight ahead to Protocol 15. Protocol 15 is reportedly the same as Protocol 14 but fixes an issue that could have caused validators to crash, reports Stellar. After the Stellar testnet upgraded to Protocol 14,...Read More
Founder and CEO of Filecoin, Juan Benet, took to Twitter to clarify that Justin Sun’s accusations of a Filecoin exit scam were completely false. On this Justin Sun bullshit — these accusations are completely FALSE. Neither PL nor any team member sold FIL as he accuses. & the ridiculous magnitude of trade he claims we...Read More
Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank Fabio Panetta said in a speech at the ECB conference on Thursday that a digital euro, or the Eurozone’s potential CBDC, could become necessary with evolving consumer preferences, especially if people became reluctant to use cash. In his speech that primarily addressed pan-European payments and...Read More
2020 has turned out to be quite a year for the DeFi space. DeFi’s rapid growth over the course of the year saw it cross the $12 billion-mark in terms of total value locked, with the same bullishness positively impacting popular Bitcoin (BTC) tokenization protocol – Wrapped BTC (WBTC). WBTC, the ERC-20 token on the...Read More
National Police of Tenerife arrested Santiago Fuentes who is accused of defrauding up to 32,000 people in an alleged bitcoin scam, amounting to the tune of about 850 million euros (over $1 billion). The accused is the director of a called ArbiStar 2.0, which is based in Playa Las Americas. Authorities launched an investigation after...Read More
One of the oldest crypto exchanges, Bitstamp today announced that it has appointed Julian Sawyer as the firm’s new CEO, who was Gemini crypto exchange’s Managing Director for Europe. Sawyer will be taking over from Bitstamp founder, Nejc Kodrič, who will now remain as a member of Bitstamp’s Board of Directors, in a non-executive role....Read More
While Binance is slowing becoming one of the most important names in the cryptocurrency industry, its native token, Binance Coin, is also gaining a lot of traction and interest this year. One of the market’s top performers in 2020, Binance Coin has flipped its objective as just an alternative to avoid transaction fees. Source: BNB/USD...Read More
An official from the Russian Central Bank’s National Banking Council, Anatoly Aksakov said that Russia’s CBDC, the digital ruble, would be the “future” of all money circulation in the country, and that the CBDC will start being tested, “possibly” in 2021. This development follows an earlier announcement from the Central Bank regarding the possibility of...Read More
Bitfinex announced today listing of HUMAN Token (HMT) which serves as the medium of exchange which will be used to power the decentralized labor markets built on the HUMAN Protocol. Deposits for HMT on Bitfinex will open on October 27, while Trading of HMT with USD and USDT pairs on Bitfinex will go live on October...Read More
Hodling Bitcoin has a whole different meaning in 2020. It is no longer associated with optimistic novice traders who entered the space a gazillion years ago, all hoping for a profitable return. Instead, the trend has been taken over by huge business entities that are eyeing Bitcoin as a long-term investment strategy and as a...Read More
Owner of the Bitfinex crypto exchange, iFinex announced today integration with cross-chain system pNetwork (pTokens network) which would enable BTC, ETH and LTC to automatically be tokenized, and moved on to DeFi blockchains directly from the Bitfinex platform. pNetwork is the decentralized governance layer operating the pTokens bridges. pTokens makes cryptocurrencies “compatible” with blockchains, such...Read More
In what is a significant development, Algorand will be partnering with VeriTX to build a digital marketplace for Aerospace Manufacturing. In a recent announcement, VeriTX Corp, a marketplace for digital assets enabling decentralized manufacturing, said it will develop a digital supply chain for aircraft parts using Algorand‘s blockchain technology. The VeriTX digital marketplace allows customers...Read More
According to a recent announcement, Class A Units of 3iQ’s The Bitcoin Fund have begun trading in Canadian dollars on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “QBTC.” The trade was initiated on the 20th of October. This is a crucial development, with the importance of the same highlighted by Fred Pye, President & CEO...Read More
It seems that not everybody from the crypto community has warmed up to PayPal’s decision to venture into the crypto market. In a tweet calling out the payment giant’s move into crypto, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said he was disappointed with Paypal’s upcoming crypto integration since he believed this would spur the benefits of crypto...Read More
With several blockchains integrating the USDC stablecoin last week, crypto payments tech firm Circle announced today that it would now make the dollar-backed stablecoin available for the Solana blockchain, after partnering with the firm. According to Circle, Solana, the blockchain behind decentralized exchange Serum, supports up to 50,000 transactions per second (tps). This surpasses Ethereum’s...Read More
A favorable week for Bitcoin in which the coin witnessed a price hike of 7% at press time. While Ethereum’s price hasn’t set the market on fire, its on-chain numbers were better over the past week in comparison to Bitcoin. Coinmetrics’ recent report suggested that Bitcoin’s active addresses were down by 2.7% and its transaction...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has shared an update today again declaring that its users were safe and that it would resume trading from 12:00 pm UTC onwards for certain fiat pairs such as CNY, INR and VND. It further added that the exchange will be reactivating its ‘Buy Crypto’ fiat gateway at the aforementioned time. However,...Read More
While Bitcoin hit $12,000 and went beyond it on October 20, this surge has more to it than meets the eye. In essence, this is bullish for bitcoin and there are several reasons to quantify that. Bitcoin technical levels For long, bitcoin has wandered the $9,000, $10,000 levels, failing to successfully break these levels. However,...Read More
“A portfolio built completely with cryptocurrencies” – to a traditional portfolio manager, is a nightmare in terms of risk and drawdowns. However, to a person that has been in crypto over the last 3-4 years, this seems like a cakewalk. While the traditional portfolio does include Emerging Markets, that, in a way, is similar to...Read More
As governments across the world stipulate the launch of CBDCs, crypto Twitter is exploding with chatter about the bullish sentiment in Bitcoin. While the launch of a CBDCs is exciting, given that they are digital currencies, the fundamental difference is the centralization. In an interesting thread on Crypto Twitter, Global Macro Investor Raoul Pal commented...Read More
The feud between Bitcoin and Ethereum is a long-standing one. ‘Feud’ isn’t exactly the right word for it. Perhaps, the communities have fought over which is the superior coin for quite some time. However, comparing BTC and ETH is like comparing apples to oranges, while both may be fruits, both are different and alike in...Read More
