Almost $20M of the $281M worth the tokens drained from the KuCoin exchange are already sold on decentralized exchanges (DEX). This is the standpoint of London-based blockchain analysis provider Elliptic. DEXs Were The Only Route For The Hackers According to a recent report, KuCoin hackers have sold $17.1 million of the $281 million in...Read More
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has openly criticized Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong following a recent controversial post urging employees of the exchange to steer clear from political discussions. Dorsey, however, believes that the whole purpose of the cryptocurrency field is social activism. Armstrong Highlights The Coinbase Core Mission In a post shared over the weekend, Armstrong...Read More
Is the era of the transparent Monero approaching? The United States government hopes so. After several days of waiting, the IRS finally granted a contract to Chainalysis to develop a tool that will allow authorities to track privacy coins like Monero and second-layer solutions like Lightning Network. Cracking Monero is an Expensive Task According to...Read More
A final series of testnets has been activated for the Beacon Chain stage of Ethereum’s Serenity roadmap, but one called ‘Spadina’ has been a failure. This has set the stage for the next testnet called ‘Zinken.’ Spadina Failed on Finality The three-day Spadina testnet was one of the final dress rehearsals for the real thing,...Read More
Despite briefly dipping to $10,660, Bitcoin has slightly increased in value since yesterday and trades above $10,800. At the same time, Ethereum has spiked by about 2% to above $360, while more volatility is evident from lower and mid-cap altcoins. Bitcoin To Above $10,800 After an unsuccessful attempt to conquer $10,800 yesterday, Bitcoin headed south...Read More
September has never been a particularly great month for Bitcoin’s price historically, and this year has cemented that fact. Assuming prices will remain where they are at the close, Bitcoin prices will be down 7.5% from the monthly open. Last year during September, the asset fell 13.5% and the year before that it was down...Read More
Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, has seen another failure in his ongoing legal battle against the popular cryptocurrency proponent going by the Twitter handle Hodlonaut. The Supreme Court in Norway rejected Wright’s jurisdiction appeal. CSW Vs. Hodlonaut: The Backstory Craig Wright has attracted lots of attention to himself, especially after claiming on numerous occasions...Read More
ETH/USD – Bulls Struggling To Pass 2019 Highs Key Support Levels: $350, $336, $325.Key Resistance Levels: $364, $378, $390. Ethereum pushed higher last week to reach the 2019 highs at around $364 over the weekend. Unfortunately, it has not been able to overcome this resistance in the past four days of trading as bearish divergence...Read More
Yesterday The Verge published an elaborate article portraying a picture of Justin Sun’s leadership at BitTorrent post the peer-to-peer file-sharing site’s acquisition by the TRON foundation. Sun later responded to the ‘false-claims’ made by TRON/BitTorrent’s ex-employees in the article with ‘An Open Letter to Anyone Who Cares to Read’ on Medium. Claim: Megalomaniac Leader; Response:...Read More
Venezuela’s cryptocurrency story continues as the country’s President Nicolas Maduro has presented new use cases. A recent report informed that the South American nation is studying the possibility of using digital assets in trades alongside the national Petro. President Maduro has presented new anti-sanctions law in the Constituent National Assembly. In a recent speech, he...Read More
French authorities have arrested 29 people allegedly operating a sophisticated network of funding jihadists and al-Qaeda members with cryptocurrencies. The police suspected that the network has been active for over a year and has funded terrorist organizations for hundreds of thousands of euros. French Police Arrests 29 People According to the report, France opened an...Read More
The highest judicial institution of the Pakistani province of Sindh has requested the federal government alongside the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to submit a detailed reply on the ban on cryptocurrency dealing in the country, local media reported Wednesday. The Ban The court hearing is coming after it...Read More
“Will you shut up, man?” “You graduated either the lowest or the next lowest in your class, don’t ever use the word ‘smart’ with me!”, “Maybe you could inject some bleach in your arm.”, “It’s hard to get any word in with this clown.” …no, this is not an argument between two heated-up highschool teenagers...Read More
New York-based cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has made it possible for its users to engage in shielded Zcash (ZEC) withdrawals. Following the news, the price of Zcash surged 6%. The 33rd-largest crypto by market capitalization is up 110% year-to-date (YTD). Confidential Zcash Withdrawal Now Available on Gemini According to a blog post on Tuesday (September 29,...Read More
The token powers a cross-chain DEX called Polkastarter, which was launched in Uniswap yesterday, Sept. 29. The platform was announced earlier this month when it was touted another Ethereum killing interoperable DeFi protocol powered by the high-throughput Polkadot ecosystem. POLS Volume Surges Today’s announcement has focused on the volumes of the new POLS token, which...Read More
After marking another price increase from $10,640 to $10,860, Bitcoin has slowed down around $10,750. Most larger-cap alts have remained relatively calm on a 24-hour scale. Binance Coin is once again the exception and BNB nears $30. Bitcoin Trades Around $10,750 As Bitcoin failed to reclaim $11,000 yesterday, the asset headed downwards and dipped to...Read More
Filb Filb is arguably one of the most reputable Bitcoin traders in the field. His attention to detail is obvious, and he’s known for his precision and accuracy when charting cryptocurrencies for his audience. He’s got a following of almost 50,000 people on Twitter, while his Telegram trading journal has more than 14,000 users in...Read More
XRP/USD – Bulls Face Tough Resistance at 100-days EMA Key Support Levels: $0.237, $0.228, $0.22.Key Resistance Levels: $0.251, $0.261, $0.271. XRP dropped beneath the .618 Fib at $0.228 last week but managed to find reliable support at the $0.22 level. From there, it rebounded as it pushed back above the 200-days EMA to reach the...Read More
Twitter chief Jack Dorsey is not letting up on his Bitcoin (BTC) and blockchain evangelism, describing the novel tech as the future of the microblogging platform. Twitter on the Blockchain Appearing at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2020, Dorsey remarked: “Blockchain and bitcoin point to a future, and point to a world, where content exists forever,...Read More
The owner of a cryptocurrency exchange has been recently convicted in a transnational scheme of defrauding people through an online auction fraud. Court says the scam reached a multi-million dollar scale. At Least 900 Americans Victimized As per a recent report, people who suffered from the fraud were probably more than 900 American citizens. According to...Read More
The Aave Money Market DeFi protocol is now about to be more decentralized than ever. In an announcement published on its official blog on 25th September 2020, the team reported on the successful launch of the Aave Governance on the mainnet. This means that users of the protocol will now be able to vote on...Read More
One is called the difficulty ribbon, and it has just broken out of the green buy zone for the first time since March in terms of compression. The metric was reported by analytics provider Glassnode, which added that historically, these had been periods characterized by a positive momentum indicating significant price increases. #Bitcoin Difficulty Ribbon...Read More
Yearn Finance founder Andre Cronje has been busy conjuring up new concepts to bring DeFi to the masses, and his latest brainchild is an ecosystem called Eminence, which targets the gaming world. Gaming tokens and economies have been tried before with the likes of Enjin Coin (EJN) and a couple of others. The latest non-fungible...Read More
After failing to reclaim the $11,000 level again, Bitcoin got rejected and dipped below $10,700. Most alternative coins have followed BTC’s move downwards, and the market cap has lost about $6 billion since yesterday. Bitcoin Fails At $11,000 In the past few days, Bitcoin made a few attempts to challenge the coveted $11,000 line but...Read More
Brazil is about to revolutionize its banking system. In a little more than a month, the country will say goodbye to an infrastructure that made payments a nightmare even though Brazil boasts one of the most thriving economies in the world. Such is the potential Brazil has to offer, that Ripple chose that country to...Read More
ETH/USD – Etheruem Bulls Rebound Beyond 2019 Highs Key Support Levels: $350, $336, $325. Key Resistance Levels: $378, $390, $400. Last week, Ethereum dipped beneath the 100-days EMA as it slipped into the $320 support. From there, the bulls defended this support level, which produced a bullish engulfing candle on Thursday. From there, Ethereum followed...Read More
The University of Cambridge’s third Global Cryptoasset Benchmarking Study is here. Highlights from the report point to an almost 200% growth in the number of cryptocurrency users over the last two years. The extensive digital asset market study by Cambridge also revealed that year-on-year growth in all segments dropped to 21 percent in 2019 from...Read More
Bitcoin price has finally broken bullish out of a 3-day channel (orange) and making good progress towards the psychological $11,000 level above. The return of $9 billion to the global crypto market today has allowed BTC to return above $10,900 for the first time in 7 days and caused over $9 million worth of short...Read More
Newly aggregated data suggests that the hackers that recently compromised KuCoin’s hot wallets may have taken more than the estimated $150 million, as per the exchange’s report. Considering the updated numbers, the KuCoin hack would be the third-largest in history, with approximately $280 million stolen. The KuCoin Hack: $280M Taken Instead Of $150M? As CryptoPotato...Read More
Founded all the way back in 2013, Huobi Group is one of the leading blockchain companies in the industry. It’s safe to say that the company has come a long way since then and it’s currently offering a variety of services for its wide user base. Employing people globally, Huobi offers a myriad of crypto-related...Read More
