Litecoin Foundation recently announced its partnership with BlockFi, a cryptocurrency lending startup, intending to promote the use of BlockFi’s “suite of products” to provide Litecoin users with more options like earning interest on and borrowing against their Litecoin used within their platform. This partnership, as Litecoin Foundation noted, would produce additional options and liquidity opportunities....Read More
What many in the Litecoin community are looking forward to is the Mimblewimble implementation. In fact, the community has come out vocally in support of this move, with the Foundation bringing in David Burkett – Grin Developer – to join the project. While the majority sentiment has remained positive, the project did, however, face a...Read More
The year began with people hoping for a bullish Bitcoin market; there were some who thought that Bitcoin would be the one leading the bull run this year, considering that halving was just a few months away. There were others who believed that some of the popular altcoins such as BNB would be the ones...Read More
Geopolitical tensions have been on the rise across the world. However, many are surprised by the swing in Bitcoin’s price such tensions have caused. Alas, this is not the first time Bitcoin‘s price has reacted to global events. The same happened during the U.S- China trade war, a time when Bitcoin’s inverse correlation with Yuan...Read More
TokenInsight’s latest 2019 Cryptocurrency spot exchange industry annual report evaluated the overall trading performance of centralized and decentralized exchanges across the world. According to the report, the market activity of centralized exchanges was fairly inactive during the first quarter of 2019. However, this was followed by a sharp incline during the second and third quarter...Read More
2019 was a year of two halves, with both periods recording contrasting narratives with respect to the growth of the digital assets market. The first half of 2019 was off to a slow start, but picked up pace in April-June. On the other hand, the second half of 2019 began with the cryptocurrency market at...Read More
Monero, the world’s leading fungible cryptocurrency, has always taken a different path than the rest of the coins in the market. Towards the end of 2019, the cryptocurrency took an interesting turn by implementing RandomX, a part of the community’s constant efforts to be an ASIC-resistant coin. The team had decided to stop tweaking its...Read More
Bitcoin’s sustained price increase has sparked an even bigger rally for altcoins, launching the crypto market to fresh two-month highs. | Image: shutterstock.com Bitcoin hits $8,745.24 on Bitstamp, the highest since early November. Altcoins show strong upside, with Bitcoin SV, bitcoin cash, Litecoin and EOS registering double-digit percentage gains. As a collective, crypto markets are...Read More
Whenever people think crypto, Bitcoin’s mention automatically pops up. There is no question about the fact that Bitcoin has led the way for the development of the digital assets industry. However, Bitcoin has its own set of shortcomings, drawbacks that are often addressed by other major crypto-assets or altcoins. Despite a technical superiority reciprocated by...Read More
When news first broke out about Akon’s plans to build a “real-life Wakanda city” powered by cryptocurrency and renewable energy, many thought it was just a ruse for the African-American singer and entrepreneur to stay relevant. However, recent events have shown that the iconic rapper is indeed serious with his plans to build his own...Read More
The Cardano ecosystem has been in full swing development mode after the success of the incentivized testnet. As it approaches the Shelley mainnet launch, the focus has mostly been on network stability and other improvements. In a more recent update, the CEO of IOHK, Charles Hoskinson, revealed that the next-generation protocol on Shelley, dubbed, ‘Hydra,’...Read More
Between June 22 and July 15, XRP dropped by almost 44%, from $0.50 to $0.283. Since then, the coin has been unable to rise above the $0.34 mark, though that may be about to change in the coming months. At the time of writing, XRP was valued at around $0.21, with a market capitalization of...Read More
Riccardo Spagni, well-known as Fluffypony on social media platforms, yet again, spoke about privacy while speaking about Tari, and financial privacy, in an interview for Monero Talk. Tari, a decentralized assets protocol, will be built on top of Monero, with its own native token. The protocol will work as a merged-mined sidechain, along with enabling...Read More
Monero, the largest fungible cryptocurrency, has been well-known in the market for taking a different route than most P-o-W coins. Riccardo Spagni, also known by the moniker Fluffypony, stepping down from the lead maintainer position had many community members debating. The official announcement stated that Riccardo Spagni’s position has now been transferred to Snipa, adding...Read More
China has reportedly published a second printing of its textbook guide on blockchain and cryptocurrencies. It educates readers about their future usage and potential impact on the world. While teaching about the former is more easily accepted, the latter might come as a surprise since crypto trading has been banned for years in the country....Read More
After the launch of the incentivized testnet, the IOHK and the Cardano ecosystem has been ramping up its tech and is currently focused on network and stability improvements. In line with this, the CEO of IOHK, Charles Hoskinson revealed that the Rust team is all set to deliver a network patch for the ITN in...Read More
More than half of the total circulating of 63,842,239 LTC has not moved in more than a year now, i.e 40 million LTC have remained dormant which amounts to nearly $2.036 billion, at press time. This was pointed out by Franklyn Richards, Litecoin Foundation Director, who stated that a majority of these Litecoin appears to...Read More
The leading crypto-asset management firm, Grayscale Investments registered a total of $2.2 billion in Assets Under Management [AUM] on 10th January 2019. Its official tweet read, “01/10/20 UPDATE: Net Assets Under Management, Holdings per Share, and Market Price per Share for our Investment Products. Total AUM: $2.2 billion” According to the investment firm’s latest update,...Read More
In the crypto ecosystem, things change fast. Even though we may make predictions of different cryptocurrencies, some of the metrics that seem essential today may suddenly change in a matter of months. Nonetheless, as we enter a new decade, we’ll look at some important happenings that will likely shape the market in 2020. Given that...Read More
Cryptocurrencies are any digital currency with no central issuing, regulating authority, one that exists only on a decentralized ledger called blockchain. Sounds clear enough, right? Well, not quite, if you consider how differently they are treated by tax agencies around the world. Nothing is better evidence of the global crypto-confusion than an examination of how...Read More
On the latest episode of the Unconfirmed podcast, host Laura Shin spoke to Nate Maddrey, senior research analyst at CoinMetrics, a Bitcoin and crypto-asset data analytics firm. During their conversation, Maddrey mentioned how 2019 had been a big year for stablecoins overall, and that Tether is still, by far, the most dominant stablecoin in terms...Read More
The participation of new entrants in the industry has kept the space interesting for speculative trading. FTX has been making headway for a while; especially with the launch of Bitcoin Option tradings. The move to launch Options trading was announced by the CEO of the exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried on January 12, via Twitter. Options launching...Read More
The whole cryptocurrency market has been somewhat volatile over the last several days. Bitcoin, for example, is almost invariably on the move. Friday, it went down to $7,666 on Bitstamp and yesterday surged to nearly $8,300. At the time of this writing, it has calmed to around $8,100. Taking a look at the technical aspects,...Read More
Ethereum Classic’s Agharta protocol upgrade went live on the Mainnet on 12th January 2020. The planned hard fork went live on block 9,573,000. Prior to this, its test networks – Morden, Mordor, and Kotti were successfully implemented. ETC’s Agharta essentially added the ETH Constantinople opcodes to ETC mainnet. The proposed changes for Ethereum Classic’s Agharta...Read More
With all eyes fixed on Bitcoin‘s valuation at the moment, the lesser-known assets with medium-range market caps were seen performing better than the large market cap assets. According to Arcane Research, the best performing tokens over the past week has been outside the major altcoins with only Monero and Bitcoin SV making the cut from...Read More
Is Bitcoin priced-in for halving? The debate on this is heating up since halving is right around the corner [~122 days]. With the price of Bitcoin hovering in the sub-$8,000 regions, some say Bitcoin miners are not profiting. However, others say this is caused by Chinese miners trying to force the U.S. miners out. Bitcoin...Read More
“I am not a real believer in sort of the cryptocurrency world”, said the former Goldman Sachs President and former NEC Director Gary Cohn. The underlying technology, i.e the blockchain tech, however, is often touted as the ‘next big thing’ and has already been deployed in businesses and institutions globally. While Cohn does not believe...Read More
The silver to Bitcoin’s gold, Litecoin, has had a rather tough time since its halving. The price of Litecoin has reduced by a massive 70% since its last peak in 2019. The coin trades at $45 and has a market cap of $2.82 billion, just below Bitcoin Cash and above, EOS. At press time, however,...Read More
Blockchain-based smart contract protocol, EOSIO announced an update of its version 2.0 which was released last year. According to the latest blog post, EOSIO Version 2.0 release has been updated to a more stable version with security, stability, and other miscellaneous fixes. The released notes on GitHub stated, “These protocol upgrades necessitate a change to...Read More
Ethereum, Tron, and EOS mainnets have continued to lead the DApp space. In the December 2019 edition, DAppReview stated, “At present, these three major public chains have accounted for more than 98.65% share of the total transaction volume of the dapp market, forming the ‘Big Three’ in dapp space.” Source: DAppReview Ethereum still remains the...Read More
