Bitcoin recently crossed the $10,000 level for the first time since last year, an important psychological level and quite likely a sign of a more positive market sentiment. Though Twitter did see the usual friction between altcoin communities (each thinks the other is a scam), it feels like the cryptocurrency space is gearing up to...Read More
China, with its central bank digital currency, dubbed, ‘DCEP‘ is advancing its development toward replacing coins, banknotes, and other money equivalents. China had recently implemented a law on January 1st, 2020 that aimed to govern password management, as part of its plans for DCEP’s release. While rumors regarding the development of a Chinese CBDC gained traction...Read More
Decentralized finance [DeFi] has continued to gain steam in the past couple of months. The latest milestone includes surpassing $1 billion Total Value Locked [TVL]. Source: Binance Research | Monthly unique users in Ethereum DeFi in 2019 Interestingly, Ethereum’s use in DeFi continues to expand since most of the decentralized financial ecosystem, so far, is...Read More
Bitcoin’s surge past the $10,000 mark is, according to many observers, an expected bull run before the halving event slated for later in the year. With Bitcoin’s halving, the scarcity of the king coin is going to increase dramatically and may cement its position as a significant competitor to gold. In a recent Tales from...Read More
Earlier this month on Twitter, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posed the question of whether transactions using CBDCs, such as the one recently proposed by China, would be cryptographically provable. Important tech question about these CBDCs that are starting to pop up (CC @mg0314a): will transactions be cryptographically provable? That is, if I send you...Read More
Thanks to its innovation around building decentralized applications [DApps], Ethereum became crucial for the ICO space. However, the 2017 ICO boom and bust attracted a lot of bad press for the ecosystem since a large portion of many ICO scams leveraged Ethereum blockchain. Highlighting the ICO phase, Camila Russo, the Founder of The Defiant, in the...Read More
Four months since the last coming of the five-figure heaven, Bitcoin is once again back. During the early hours of 9 February, the premier cryptocurrency broke the $10,000 mark. At 0320 UTC, Bitcoin saw a massive 0.5 percent price increase on the 5-minute candlestick, taking it from $9,985 to $10,0025. However, it was not hunky-dory...Read More
Cardano has been taking leaps and bounds with respect to developments on its network. From establishing many strategic partnerships at Davos WEF 2020 to opening up new avenues in a bid to bring about commercialization in the ecosystem, Cardano is on a roll. As revealed by IOHK CEO and Co-founder Charles Hoskinson in an interview...Read More
Malta-based Binance, one of the world’s leading crypto-exchanges, will soon add new fiat gateways for Norwegian, Russian, and Croatian fiat currencies in the near future. During CEO Changpeng Zhao’s first AMA of 2020, the CEO of the Malta-based crypto-platform revealed that the team is looking to tap into more markets after launching P2P trading of...Read More
Binance’s CZ aka Changpeng Zhao made quite a few announcements in his first AMA for 2020. The AMA revolved around Binance DEX which runs on the Binance Chain. Among other updates, CZ also spoke about listing fees for projects on DEX, fees that are said to start at a whopping $100,000. Binance Chain Binance has...Read More
The Cardano ecosystem has been focused on maintaining and enhancing the Shelley Incentivized Testnet. The progress made in terms of the ITN has been substantial. Communications Director at IOHK, Tim Harrison, recently compiled the latest ITN stats, revealing that Cardano has reached 1,046 number of registered stake pools out of which 87.2% are registered by...Read More
The Australian government has released its national blockchain roadmap, one that aims to revolutionize the country’s blockchain industry. The roadmap talks about the opportunities that blockchain technology could unleash across sectors from supply chains and logistics to agriculture, with finance and banking being priority sectors. The national blockchain roadmap read, “Blockchain technology is predicted to...Read More
The Bitcoin Cash [BCH] ecosystem’s development fund proposal has faced a lot of backlash recently. The most contentious part of the entire episode was the “no-debate” clause which stated that any miners who didn’t support the soft fork would risk having their blocks orphaned. While many crypto-proponents have criticized the way the proposal was put...Read More
Over the years, breaching attacks in the cryptocurrency industry has made headlines. Even established platforms had their security compromised at the hands of malicious attackers. But with the rising trend of hacks and compromises, there has been substantial development towards curbing these activities too. Kraken’s recent revelation of a vulnerability in Trezor hardware wallets posed...Read More
As technology advances, risks associated with it also increase. In this age when personal data is collected by social media and various other platforms at every step, none of it really remains private. In a recent talk, Diogo Monica, co-founder and the President of crypto security company Anchorage, talked about the use of crypto in...Read More
Since it’s inception, the case of whether Bitcoin should be hodled or not has always been debated. Two main objectives cause contention, should Bitcoin be a store of value, akin to digital gold, or should it be used as a medium of exchange similar to using dollars to buy coffee. While this caused divisions, fervor,...Read More
Bitcoin closed January in bullish fashion, ending with a 30 percent-plus price increase. While this set a positive tone for what could be a big year to follow, with the halving less than 100 days away, the altcoins are not too far behind. According to the latest report by Arcane Research, the mid-cap cryptocurrencies i.e....Read More
Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, added Monero [XMR] to its Futures market. Binance Futures announced the launch of XMR/USDT perpetual contract today. This update comes just weeks after the exchange announced that Stellar Lumens [XLM] paired with USDT perpetual contracts would be supported on Binance Futures. In the announcement, the company stated...Read More
Bitcoin just gots its own emoji on Twitter! This was the top trending news today on crypto Twitter. Having been around for more than a decade, Bitcoin is, at last, being recognized (by institutions) and by Twitter. To use the Bitcoin emoji, just type the hashtag of Bitcoin(#Bitcoin), and the emoji just pops up. The...Read More
As network stability remained the focus for the Cardano ecosystem, Dimitris Poulopoulos, Project Manager for the Shelley Incentivised testnet addressed some key updates on its progress. This week the Cardano community saw the release of two versions of Jormungandr Node – 0.8.8 as well as 0.8.9. According to Poulopoulos, the 0.8.9 version was essentially made...Read More
David Burkett, the Grin++ developer who also acted as the lead dev working on the proposal to integrate MimbleWimble [MW] onto the Litecoin network, revealed some interesting details. The official blog published by the dev revealed that he found a way to support “non-interactive transactions” in MW. He stated, “The biggest news from January is...Read More
The rise of bitcoin and its increasing popularity along with its ability to dominate the cryptocurrency world has led to a barrage of altcoins. Among these King Coin aspirants, recent debates have revolved around the role of stablecoins and CBDCs regarding their pitfalls and innovations that they bring to the table. While bitcoin provided a...Read More
Bitcoin’s narrative has evolved over the years. A reason for this could be due to the increase of a plethora of innovative products. Take, for example, the futures, options, derivatives, etc, all of these in combination with institutional onboarding has caused Bitcoin to mature as an asset. According to Genesis Capital, a crypto lending firm,...Read More
Yet another battleground for Bitcoin and gold. In 2019, while the yellow metal saw a consistent rise, reaching a 6-year high, its luster, in the face of Bitcoin’s massive rise, on the fundamental and the technical side, was overshadowed. The markets paint a different picture of how the larger public looks at the cryptocurrency and...Read More
Research firm Gartner recently released a report that predicted that blockchain smart contracts would increase a company’s overall data quality by about 50% by 2023. Smart contracts simply put, are pieces of programming code that are invariably used on a blockchain. The Gartner report also predicted that the overall data asset availability would decrease by...Read More
Founder and managing director of Autonomous Partners, Arianna Simpson, recently took to twitter and officially announced that she would be joining the a16z crypto team as a deal partner. Many noted crypto investors and enthusiasts appreciated the move and congratulated Simpson. 1/ I have some news! I’m thrilled to announce I’ll be joining the @a16z...Read More
Over the month of January 2020, the top assets have undergone continuous re-shuffling in terms of ranking, with Litecoin and EOS engaged in a close battle for the 7th position. At press time, Litecoin held a small lead of $10 million over EOS with a market cap of $3.98 billion. The silver counterpart for Bitcoin...Read More
Over the years the number of cryptocurrency wallets has been increasing; latest data from Blockchain.com revealed an exponential increase and by the last week of January 2020, the number of cryptocurrency wallet users increased to over 45 million. A sharp increase was noted in the second quarter of 2019 when the numbers shot above 40...Read More
Bitcoin’s price has been surfing turbulent waters over the past 3 months. Dipping to $6900 and spiking up to to $9400 in a span of 90 days, marked a volatile 3 months for the largest digital asset. However, Bitcoin’s difficulty and the hash rate continued to rise over the past 90 days. BTC’s difficulty and...Read More
Digital currencies are seeing greater adoption and a lot more clarity regarding their regulatory status’. However, for many traditional investors, the technological intricacies surrounding cryptocurrencies is still unchartered territory. A week ago, CEO of Euro Pacific Capital, Peter Schiff made the headlines within the crypto community when he took to Twitter to blame Bitcoin when...Read More
