Apple’s new family of iPhone models has got everybody talking, with a launch date for the new iPhone 12 Pro expected in September, this year. Review site PocketLint expects multiple new features for the family of phones. Will this be the year that Apple steps into the crypto phone space to rival leading competitor, Samsung? ...Read More
Ripple’s XRP is booming at the start of the new year, suddenly spiking by 8% on January 6. In the past few days, the coin started showing signs of a revival, and has now returned to $0.21. Futures Market Announcement Boosts Price Performance XRP has been pressured by its protracted slide, and has fallen almost...Read More
The developer of the privacy-focused Grin coin and MimbleWimble [MW] protocol, under the pseudonym Yeastplume, has announced the release of Grin and Grin Wallet 3.0.0. The official announcement posted on the Grin Forum by the dev revealed that Grin and Grin wallet 3.0.0 are ready for use in advance of the upcoming hard fork which...Read More
Crypto is entering its second decade, after 10 years of highly dynamic development. Brian Armstrong, CEO, and co-founder of Coinbase revealed his expectations for the coming decade. User Base to Expand to 1 Billion for One Scalable Blockchain Predicting what comes for crypto assets will also in a way outline and affect their future, commented...Read More
“Ether absolutely can be money if the community wants it to be,” remarked Vitalik Buterin, Creator of Ethereum, at the Ethereal Summit that took place in October 2019. The statement was made after Buterin was asked whether he believed if Ether could be a “global permissionless store of value asset that would be most functional.”...Read More
2020 is off to a great start, with cryptocurrencies recording largely positive gains over the last few days. Since 3 January, the total market cap of cryptocurrencies has risen by 7% from $185 billion to $198 billion. Litecoin rose by nearly 1.8% in the last 24 hours alone. However, its prospects for the future seem...Read More
Only a few days ago, the price of Bitcoin plunged to $6,850 (Bitstamp) in a violent red candle. However, the bulls quickly took charge, and the price recovered to over $7,200 in the next few hours, and since then, the state of BTC has been ever healthier. The largest cryptocurrency is currently trading safely above $7,400,...Read More
With Bitcoin marking its 11th year of existence and the rest of the cryptocurrency market entering a new decade, the question that has been discussed the most is what next for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, with the focus being on its performance this year. The latest noteworthy person in the crypto-market to answer this question...Read More
Monero, the largest privacy-oriented cryptocurrency, has seen tremendous growth in the market lately. However, compared to Bitcoin, the fungible cryptocurrency still has a long way to go. This was one of the topics discussed by Diego Salazar, a prominent member of the Monero community, in an interview with AMBCrypto. When asked whether Monero would follow...Read More
Most people enter the cryptocurrency market with the sole purpose of making profits by investing, trading, or hodling. This is quite understandable, and for them, prices are the most crucial factor. Furthermore, they can get into real in-depth details to notice some positive or negative changes in the last day, week, month, or even a...Read More
The Cardano ecosystem has long been touted as one of the most innovative blockchain networks in the industry. The CEO of IOHK, the company behind Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, hopes that ADA will be the most predominant force in the cryptocurrency space by the end of 2020 and expects it to become a true social operating...Read More
The past two years have opened the eyes of the world to crypto currencies. Showing particular interest has been central banks with a number of them developing their own stablecoins and more will be arriving this year. Year of the Stablecoin Many of the existing stablecoins may simply disappear under an avalanche of better alternatives....Read More
According to the latest Coin Metrics report, 2019 has been a record-breaking year when it comes to crypto adoption. Addresses with a balance of at least $10 increased for most of the major cryptocurrencies, as did their prices, showing that the retail market was thriving despite pessimistic predictions. Coin Metrics state of the market report...Read More
When it comes to privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies in the market, Monero has always been the coin that stands out the most. The cryptocurrency, that recently saw a successful algorithm shift from Cryptonight R to RandomX, was the main subject discussed by Diego Salazar, in an interview with AMBCrypto. Salazar stated that the fungible cryptocurrency represented “trustless...Read More
The previous decade has been interesting from a financial point of view. Primarily the evolution of bitcoin is worth taking into account. This remains one of the most modern forms of money to be introduced in the past 10 years. The Bumpy Bitcoin Ride Continues It has to be said that bitcoin’s evolution has not...Read More
Commercial banks should work out their own transfer systems as an alternative to Facebook’s Libra, urged Jens Weidmann, President of Bundesbank and member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB). Euro Area Banks Should Not Rely on Facebook’s Libra Banks in the Euro area should explore tools for faster, cheaper transfers, but...Read More
2019 in the cryptocurrency space was pretty much all about Bakkt, Bitcoin‘s price, Facebook’s Libra, and China‘s state-backed digital currency. While China has been up-and-running in terms of planning out its digital currency, one of the main concerns brought up against the digital currency is that it will be used as a tool to surveil...Read More
Litecoin, the Vegeta to Bitcoin‘s Goku, has been rolling out updates for its Mimblewimble project since the Foundation’s plan to implement the protocol was announced last year. The new protocol would be making its debut on the silver coin via extension blocks, and while the idea has been applauded by several people, it did also...Read More
China has undoubtedly been leading the state-backed cryptocurrency race, with the country recently revealing that it would launch its own digital version of RMB last year. The news that broke-out right after Facebook’s Libra announcement immediately grabbed the attention of all governments around the world, including that of U.S regulators. Interestingly, China‘s venture into the...Read More
Not your keys, not your coins Let the meaning sink in… It’s the most popular adage in the crypto-community. This mantra is echoed time and again or each time an exchange gets compromised! Just like Satoshi Nakamoto, Trace Mayer ignited the Proof-of-Keys [PoK] revolution on January 03, 2018. To the people outside looking in, the...Read More
Bitcoin witnessed a turbulent 2019 and in spite of high volatility in the market, the king coin registered an impressive growth north of 90 percent. In Coinmetrics’ recent State of the Network report, Bitcoin’s performance with regard to various factors and other assets was evaluated, including fundamental properties and other adoption parameters. A section covered...Read More
Since 16 December, XRP has been hovering around the $0.19 mark, with intermittent dips under $0.185 and rises around $0.198. With a value of around $0.191 at the time of writing, XRP could be in for a short-term rise in value, despite its less-optimistic long-term prospects. XRP 4-hour chart Source: XRP/USD on TradingView Following a...Read More
The hashrate of Monero reached an all-time high (ATH) of 1.1358G a few days ago. However, while many welcomed the development, it also lent fuel to a few debates within the Monero community. While many were unsure as to what caused the hash rate of Monero to spike, others voiced skepticism of some who claimed that...Read More
The world’s second-largest digital asset faced a major crisis on New Year’s Eve. As previously reported, some of the Parity Ethereum nodes failed to attain synchronization, with representatives of Parity fearing that a hack or attack might be underway. The Parity issue raised a lot of concerns within the community, with Liam Aharon, Software Developer...Read More
“Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society” ~ Carlos Salinas de Gortari To ASIC or not to ASIC has been the dilemma for years now. For some, the distinction is very easy; it comes down to choosing between centralization and decentralization....Read More
CoinMarketCap, one of the central crypto price listing websites, has been used as a vehicle to present newly arrived exchanges. Usually, those new markets show up with immense volumes, rising to the top while aiming to become industry names. LAToken’s Crypto Volumes Once Again in Spotlight LAToken, one of those exchanges, has caught attention for...Read More
The leaves that bud out of the stem, the pattern on the shell of snails, the petals of flowers; all of these have a common denominator, a pattern. Nature follows a particular kind of symmetry. The world that we live in has many mysteries to it, many that might seem chaotic to naked eyes. However,...Read More
Hedera Hashgraph, one of the prominent new projects for 2019, is in trouble again. Nodes have shut down without warning, suggesting the network may be more centralized than previously thought. The community noted 4 out of 10 council nodes shut down, signaling centralization. The closing of this number of nodes also practically turns Hedera Hashgraph...Read More
Tron has been on a roller-coaster ride in 2019, with it being ranked among the top 10 cryptocurrencies, before then slipping out of the top 10 by the end of the year. However, despite many challenges in the market, the twelfth largest cryptocurrency’s DApps have been gaining popularity this year, along with its acquired firm,...Read More
The cryptocurrency market traded mostly in the green on Monday, as the top 10 altcoins continued to build on the weekend’s strong gains. Bitcoin SV posted gains of over 10%, and traded back into triple digits as the recovery from the $75 support level gathered traction. Litecoin was another notable gainer over the weekend among...Read More
