Blockchain research and development startup IOHK, and Ethereum Classic Cooperative today announced a collaboration to provide ETC community with solutions that aimed to improve security of the network, especially after ETC had been 51% attacked three times already. In a release shared with AMBCrypto on Tuesday, the two entities analyzed the vulnerability of the ETC...Read More
New research about Russia’s retail investment market indicates a prevalence of investment in cryptocurrencies and has ranked crypto as the fifth most popular investment asset, after savings accounts, foreign currencies, real estate, and life insurance. With a quarter of Russia’s investments being carried out online, cryptocurrencies led the way with nearly 80% which were being...Read More
The probability of losing funds through investing or trading to the point where it is no longer possible to recover the losses is termed as the risk of ruin. The “probability of ruin” is as high or higher than the probability of booking a profitable trade. However, it gets interesting when you think of recovering...Read More
“Ethereum 2.0 phase 0 to be launched at the end of 2019. . . .January 2020. . . .July 2020. . .September 2020. . .November 2020?” The digital asset class has created a very unique community over the years. While a person would rarely hear another one promoting investments in Gold, Silver, or whatnot, proponents...Read More
Investing can be a daunting task, be it a newbie or an experienced investor. This involves selecting different assets that gel well with each other and return a good profit. An extension of investing is creating and maintaining portfolios. What makes a portfolio? Creating a portfolio is the opposite of putting all your eggs in...Read More
German politician Burkhard Balz who is a member of the German central bank’s executive board said in a speech today that the decision to launch the digital currency was politically motivated. The official’s stance on the digital currency contradicts the European Central Bank’s intentions to launch a CBDC. In recent events, plans to launch digital...Read More
Sadyr Japarov, Acting President of the central Asian nation Kyrgyzstan, offered the nation’s election commission to use blockchain technology to streamline elections in the country. In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Japarov believed that only blockchain tech would make way for “fair” presidential and parliamentary elections. Until recently, the newly appointed President and Prime Minister was...Read More
By this point in 2020, Bitcoin’s investment thesis needs no retelling. But for the uninitiated, here’s a quick summary. With central banks printing money like there’s no tomorrow, and riling up liquidity, any asset which has value, is limited and can be used as currency, benefits. Case in point, Bitcoin. Since the beginning of the...Read More
Bitcoin, Gold, and the S&P500 have collectively shared the center stage when it comes to market movement in 2020. While the crypto-asset has periodically taken sides, at the moment, Bitcoin is more correlated with the traditional stock market. Source: Skew Source: Skew When comparing recent Skew charts of Bitcoin’s relationship with Gold and the S&P...Read More
Much BTC vs fiat fun was had after self-claimed Bitcoin pioneer and podcaster, Max Keiser, took to Twitter to make another impassioned case for Bitcoin to gold advocate Peter Schiff, chairman of Schiffgold. Keiser claimed that crypto karma had gotten the better of Schiff for “trash talking” about Bitcoin. The BTC evangelist said that had...Read More
Ben Edington, a developer associated with ETH 2.0 at Consensys, recently updated the community about a few “breaking changes,” with respect to the series running on the Medalla testnet. Reportedly, a few configuration parameters have been changed. A previously noted pain point was the genesis delay. This has now been changed to one week, meaning...Read More
Amid talks of forking Filecoin because of miner unrest, Juan Benet, the entrepreneur behind the decentralized storage network, dismissed the claims and said their storage network was “just fine.” In a tweet, Benet called the miner strike “nonsense” and that there has been no “power loss” as such on the network. Benet said in a...Read More
Bitcoin was trading above the price level of $11400, at press time, with BTC having successfully negotiated a stay above $11k for most of the previous week. In fact, despite several notable developments recently, the cryptocurrency recorded a 5% hike over a 3-week period. This is interesting because, until 2020, the prevailing perception was that...Read More
Capitulation, more popularly known as the death spiral, is usually thought of to arrive when investors surrender, and HODLers give up all future hope in an asset and sell. A discussion about capitulation is relevant right now because institutions like MicroStrategy and Square are buying and there may be a point when they flood exchanges...Read More
Another update disclosed by IOTA’s development team has revealed news of several existing projects being deployed, as well as many other noteworthy projects in the pipeline. IOTA 1.5 (also known as Chrysalis) is the mainnet’s intermediate stage. Chrysalis Phase 1 components were deployed to the mainnet in August. The engineering team is now working on...Read More
Bitcoin’s hashrate hit a new ATH recently. In fact, the total hashrate has hit quite a few ATHs this year, with the same noted to be $144.03M TH/s, at the time of writing. However, while historically this points to a price hike in the future, it may not be the case this time. Bitcoin’s hash...Read More
According to a tweet by Whale Alert, part of the funds stolen during the KuCoin Hack last month are now moving around again. The blockchain tracking platform reported that 1,814 ETH ($665,980) of the aforementioned funds were moved from the wallet in question, a wallet dubbed ‘Kucoin Hack 2020,’ to an unknown wallet earlier today....Read More
Vietnam’s Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank is in the news after it joined RippleNet as a strategic partner on 16 October. Phong Nguyen, Head of Fintech at OCB, described the strategic partnership as the result of a “10-month effort in mobilizing multi-division resources and aggressively exploring business use cases.” According to Nguyen, Ripple’s technology will...Read More
Bitcoin has stayed above $10,000 for a record period of time; its price sustained above the 20MA and it has seen increased volume and institutional adoption. This was all amidst the FUD experienced by the markets in the past few months, with the drama around major crypto exchanges like KuCoin, Bitmex, and OKex, which surprisingly...Read More
Although the market was shaken as the regulatory hammer struck BitMEX at the start of October, it has since recovered. Bitcoin, the largest asset did notice sudden pressure given the panic in the market, but it managed to hold on and recover in the following days and reach a value of $11,731, which was unseen...Read More
There is a new coin creating hype in the market, but it isn’t that new. Filecoin, a decentralized data housing platform secured millions of dollars via its initial coin offering [ICO] in 2017. Despite being based on Ethereum, the FIL token has its own blockchain and launched it in phases leading to a mainnet launch....Read More
Earlier today, Coinbase Custody announced that they are looking into adding support for new digital assets. The move to support more coins comes as part of a broader plan to launch new features and demonstrate that Coinbase Custody is an innovative place for institutions to store their crypto assets across new geographies. Coinbase Custody stated...Read More
I get it. It’s always an either-or decision between Bitcoin and gold, as a pure investment play. Since the commodity and the cryptocurrency each have similar attributes of – a hedge, limited supply, and safe haven, these assets are used to balance the bottomless assets that are stocks, bonds, and cash. But does one edge...Read More
Bitcoin took a 3% hit as OKEx announced the temporary suspension of crypto withdrawals on 16 October. Reports state that the exchange is being investigated by the Chinese police, however, the nature of this investigation is still not clear. This news definitely caused a wave of panic across the crypto market causing altcoins also to...Read More
Bitcoin’s price was rallying before CFTC charges hit BitMEX, and immediately after, retail traders started scaling back positions on BitMEX. Open interest in XBTUSD perpetual contracts on BitMEX dropped to 55000 BTC. BTC Perpetual Swap Funding Rate || Source: Skew The funding rate dropped below -0.05% in the first week of October in response to...Read More
As institutions line up to buy Bitcoin, its origin story comes into focus. Most argue that Bitcoin was created in response to the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and the Global Financial Crisis that followed. However, it is the result of decades of work on peer to peer payments. Since prices are driven by inflow and volatility...Read More
Plaintiff Dmitry Dolgov, a resident of Moscow, Russia has filed another lawsuit against crypto exchange BitMEX for violating regulations and manipulating markets with legal claims amounting to $50 million. The lawsuit alleged that HDR Global Trading Limited, the company that owns and operates BitMEX, violated know your customer and anti-money laundering policies, which caused hackers...Read More
After the launch of Filecoin mainnet, CEO of Tron and BitTorrent Justin Sun accused the Filecoin developers of employing an exit scam strategy by selling 1.5 million of their FIL tokens at a steep price of $200, without any consent from the community. It is not clear how Justin Sun has calculated the aforementioned selling...Read More
As an altcoin, Ethereum has been the leader in terms of its growth observed this year. The evolution of ERC-20 tokens along with the decentralized platform established on Ethereum were vital contributors to Ethereum’s performance. Although the beginning of the final quarter of 2020 did portray as though ‘DeFi was dead’, but that seems to...Read More
Coinbase has published a “transparency report” that also revealed how the leading crypto exchange has received 1,914 “legitimate government” requests in 2020. According to Coinbase, these requests mainly came in the form of subpoenas and sometimes included search warrants and court orders. About 90% of these “transparency” requests were sent from the U.S., the U.K.,...Read More
