A total of 33.2 billion TRX tokens are scheduled to be released into Tron’s circulating supply on 1 January 2019. This marks an important step in Tron’s journey as the release constitutes about 32% of its total circulating supply. This dilution in Tron’s circulating supply could have devastating effects on its price. Tron, a major...Read More
When Monero (XMR) users choose to veil their transactions, they cannot be traced between the sender and receiver. This finding by an Europol official contradicts previous discoveries that XMR transactions can reveal some of the identities of users. Blockchain Analysis Impossible for Monero Network At least when it comes to the authorities, transactions on the...Read More
It was December 17, 2017, when Bitcoin hit its all-time high, and nearly a month later on January 12, 2018, Ethereum peaked at $1,400 per crypto token.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
From a time when they were viewed as tools for outlaws, cryptocurrencies have come a long way. However, the same cannot be said for those cryptos that take pride in their privacy-enhancing features. Governments and international bodies the world over continue to tread cautiously around cryptocurrencies such as Monero and Zcash, with privacy coins struggling...Read More
From governments to mainstream companies, everyone has looked into cryptocurrencies and blockchain. While the industry did welcome many big shots, the price of most cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin witnessed massive price drops this year. As 2020 is just days away, several have been speculating the price movement of the king coin and the other altcoins. Caleb...Read More
Ethereum (ETH) has chosen the year’s most inactive day to perform a hard fork. On January 1, the Muir Glacier hard fork, as it is known, is supposed to once again delay the difficulty time bomb. Difficulty Diffusion Simply Forgotten During Istanbul Hard Fork The reason for choosing that date is ignominious, as the developer...Read More
On one hand, the Ethereum community has been gearing up for the transition of the network from Proof-of-Work [PoW] to Proof-of-Stake [PoS] with Ethereum 2.0, the members of the Ethereum Classic community, on the other hand, have leaned toward the Proof-of-Work algorithm. The founder of ETC Labs, James Wo previously expressed that ETC wasn’t looking...Read More
Very few companies survived the aftermath of the ICO hype, Ripple is one such company that was inspired by ideologies of Bitcoin and built to make cryptocurrencies better, faster, and more secure. Although the narrative around Ripple and XRP has changed over the years, both have done more than just survive: they have flourished. As...Read More
While the traditional financial industry is no stranger to wash trading, various studies in 2019 demonstrated the widespread prevalence of artificial inflation of trading volume in the crypto industry as well. As reports of alleged fake trading made headlines in 2019, exchanges have started addressing the issue of inflated volumes. Former Senior Market Analyst at...Read More
The past year has been an extension of last year’s bear market for most altcoins. All bar a few are set to end the year lower than they began it and there have been very few survivors from 2019.2019: An Altcoin NightmareWhile total crypto currency market capitalization is currently over 55% up this year, it...Read More
Looking back at 2019, altcoin XRP witnessed a major drop in its price throughout the year. Currently priced at $0.193, XRP is at its yearly low. Despite XRP’s price, the altcoin stands as the third-largest coin with a market cap of $8.39 billion. Additionally, Grayscale’s report also suggested that XRP had gained “momentum among both...Read More
Tokenization firm AlphaWallet partnered with the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) for the upcoming European Football Championship, ‘Euro 2020′. Via Ethereum integration, Alphawallet plans to put around 20,000 tokens on the custom blockchain backing the tournament tickets. According to reports, Victor Zhang, CEO of AlphaWallet, stated, “If we can convert 50% of the digital...Read More
A look at the price movement chart for XRP since its inception showed little price action over the last year. 2019 saw a yearly high of around $0.50, a dismal price-tag compared to 2018’s high of $3.31. It had breached under the $0.20 mark earlier this month and has had some trouble recovering from the...Read More
The growth of digital assets’ derivatives market underlined one of the key developments in 2019. Institutional involvement soared significantly as the likes of Fidelity and ICE’s Bakkt announced their presence in the crypto industry and other exchanges such as Binance, also launched their own futures platform. A majority of the exchanges launched Bitcoin or Ethereum...Read More
As the year comes close to an end, it is the time for retrospection and reflection: the same holds for XRP, which holds its position as the third-largest cryptocurrency. XRP has managed to retain its community despite its shaky track record when it comes to price performance. This article takes a look back at XRP...Read More
The Ethereum Foundation was in the news after Co-founder of the network, Vitalik Buterin affirmed that the Foundation had sold about 70,000 ETH when the token was at an ATH. While ETH was being traded for an ATH of about $1,400, the Foundation reportedly earned nearly $100 million by selling the altcoin. In an interview...Read More
It is no secret that early Ethereum (ETH) ICO buyers later became whales and potential multi-millionaires. But the project also seemed extremely generous to its developers. Ethereum Devs Got Paid for Short-Term Involvement Ethereum, which went through multiple phases of pre-mining, actual mining, and as much as eight hard forks, has always been accompanied by...Read More
Huobi, one of the major cryptocurrency exchanges in the industry, launched a fiat getaway in Indonesia to enable fiat-to-crypto trading between the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) and Tether (USDT) on December 27. Being one of the largest economies in Southeast Asia, local investors will now be able to use local fiat currency and trade over 250...Read More
Maker Foundation’s Interim Governance Facilitator, which is responsible for maintaining the ecosystem supporting the governance process, announced placing an “executive vote” for the community to approve a change in the protocol. According to its official blog, the alteration proposed in the Maker protocol in terms of debt ceiling adjustment was: Lower the Sai Debt Ceiling...Read More
Facebook‘s Libra has been in a tough spot since its inception. Though conceptualization was way back in July 2018, David Marcus and his team have faced constant pushbacks from policymakers and regulators across the globe. Speaking to Reuters, Patrik Ellis, one of the board members of Libra Association had stated, “At this stage, there is...Read More
Blockchains faced fierce competition in 2019, with only a handful of altcoins remaining in good condition. Now, a new proposal has been made, a hypothetical merger of Dash and Bitcoin Cash. Both Bitcoin Cash and DASH Brands Cause Resentment Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Dash (DASH) were bandied about as two chains that could merge, producing...Read More
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies have become immensely popular and this has cast a spotlight on the underlying decentralized ledger technology – blockchain. Blockchain tech has taken the world by storm and its landscape has been evolving at a rapid pace. This technology has been both attractive and critical for ensuring enhanced security and as well as...Read More
The cryptocurrency world that we all love, adore and hate has come a long way from being used by cypherpunks; the regulation and adoption rate has increased exponentially in the last decade and will continue to do so. In addition to the above, we have parried our way from Bitcoin’s boom and bust cycles to...Read More
Ten years on since Bitcoin’s inception great minds have flocked into the space. While a few of the cryptocurrencies happened to be forks of the king coin with negligible market cap, others have survived purely because it addressed unique offerings. Along with market capitalization, investor appetite and institutional coverage for cryptocurrencies have increased exponentially. However,...Read More
The MetaMask Ethereum wallet, one of the key entry points to crypto-based logins and distributed apps, has been suspended from the Google Apps Store. The reason cited was that MetaMask allowed phone-based mining, which the wallet provider denied. MetaMask Denied Offering Mobile Mining MetaMask denied its services involved mining, though the case is still being...Read More
YouTube faced criticism after it took down cryptocurrency and blockchain-related videos from its platform further categorizing it as harmful and dangerous content. While this enraged several Crypto YouTubers, they took to Twitter to express their agony and sought response from YouTube. While everyone thought that crypto YouTubers were the only ones that were affected, co-founder...Read More
With China‘s advancement in the digital currency space and state-backed stablecoin, other countries are not particularly laying low in this matter. Russia is another country that has been prominent in the ‘state-backed’ digital currency space, with the sovereign state considering issuing a digital currency backed by gold. Elvira Nabiullina, Governor of Russia’s Central Bank, once...Read More
2019 for the Ethereum Classic was evidently eventful, with the Atlantis hard fork and the testnets for Agharta hard fork rolling out. While the ETC community is ending the year on a good note, the beginning of 2019 was quite contrary to the current scenario. In the second week of January 2019, the Ethereum Classic...Read More
DeFi has been all about decentralizing the financial space and has grown multi-folds in 2019. However, the claims of the protocol being open, permissionless, and censorship-resistant have been put to test lately, and according to Mesari’s recent report, “it’s a bit early to trust those sweeping, aspirational claims.” MakerDAO has been leading the growth in...Read More
Every market has it’s defining entities. In the cryptocurrency market, none are more sought after than Binance. Founded in 2017, the exchange traversed the world before settling in the Mediterranean island of Malta, and while 2018 was a year to forget for the market and the exchange, 2019 was a year to BUIDL. Binance structured...Read More
