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
Earlier we had reported that the Bahamas has plans to launch its own digital version of Bahamian Dollar. The initiative is termed as Project Sand Dollar. However, a stipulated time-frame was not decided for this project execution. The latest update is that Central Bank has started the project’s pilot phase in Exuma this 27th December...Read More
A recent episode of The Ripple Drop saw executives give their predictions on the state of the crypto world in 2020 and beyond. Ripple Team Looks to the Future Ripple has recently released a special holiday episode of ‘The Ripple Drop’, which looks back on the things that impacted the crypto and blockchain industry over...Read More
Monica Desai Weiss, an investor at the venture capital company, Kleiner Perkins, recently had an interview in which she shared her predictions regarding fintech and blockchain in 2020. The year 2020 is almost here, and with it, an entirely new decade is about to kick off. Many expect it to be the age of technological...Read More
On the most recent episode of the Bitcoin & Co. podcast, Jan Capek and Pavel Moravec, CEOs and co-founders Braiins, the company operating the world’s first Bitcoin mining pool, Slush Pool, joined host Anita Posch to talk about Bitcoin mining, what it affects and what affects it. When asked about the energy cost of Bitcoin...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
The Penultimate week of 2019 saw Crypto Community in distress. Google’s Youtube Video streaming media had asked Crypto influencers to remove the educational videos citing Guidelines Violations. The Youtube team had allegedly removed certain videos even after the account holders had promised to remove the videos. This had resulted in the crypto community taking strict...Read More
Reports have emerged depicting long lines in front of a physical gold sales location in Germany, in view of pending legislation which would once again lower the anonymous purchase limit, this time from €10,000 to €2,000. The last drop happened in 2017 when the limit was set at €15,000. A draft bill from the German...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
Ripple Executives share their views on Crypto Industry in the last decade in the latest Ripple Drop episode. The team also spoke about their predictions in 2020. The festive holiday episode of Ripple Drop had CEO Brad Garlinghouse, CTO David Schwartz and their VP Breanne Madigan speaking their hearts out about crypto and blockchain in...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
2019 created many regulatory hurdles for crypto-businesses, mainly exchanges. Binance had to temporarily shut shops in the United States to comply with the regulatory norms, and soon launched its Binane U.S. platform to serve the customers in the country. However, Binance became a trendsetter, as many exchanges followed its lead and launched its own exchange...Read More
Be it South African Reserve Bank’s [SARB] calls for solutions providers for the creation of a digital currency that would allow consumers to transact without a bank account or Bitcoin’s interest spiking in the African nations, as cited by the Google Trends data, Africa’s crypto market is thriving. Talking about the latest OKEx Africa Cryptotour,...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
2019 saw a number of large crypto exchange hacks, resulting in millions of dollars stolen per attack. Here are 5 of the biggest breaches in the last 12 months. While cryptocurrencies are well-known for increased security — mostly thanks to the decentralized nature of their underlying technology — the same cannot be said for crypto...Read More
This year will be one to forget for the majority of cryptocurrencies which are ending it lower than they began. 2020 could be fundamentally different though and here’s why. A Brighter Future For Cryptocurrencies Total crypto market capitalization is currently 50% higher than it was this time last year, however that is largely bitcoin’s doing....Read More
According to recent reports, the Bank of Russia has started using a regulatory sandbox to test the performance of stablecoins. Russia Warming to Stablecoins Russia’s stance towards cryptocurrencies has always been questionable, with the country’s intentions and goals never being fully known to anyone. However, according to recent reports, it may be that Russia sees...Read More
Bitcoin (BTC) has been rising relentlessly in the first decade since its Genesis block. But now, the price may be entering a stage where new price moves are uncertain. Bitcoin Average Price Move in Bullish Direction Looking at average prices paints a bullish picture over the years-long frame. Bitcoin prices have moved through several waves,...Read More
Decentralized Finance or DeFi has evolved into one of the most active sections of the blockchain industry and Ethereum projects have been at the forefront in establishing an ecosystem with global network effects and interoperability. While offering bank-like features with lending and borrowing, payment, derivatives, and others, DeFi applications are built on Ethereum blockchain and...Read More
Recent widespread video removals have crypto Youtubers searching for greener and more dependable pastures for content production. While reports have since emerged of Youtube claiming the incident was an accident, and that videos are now being restored, the “Christmas Crypto purge” of 2019 has nonetheless burnt an indelible memory into the minds of dedicated Youtubers....Read More
The Ethereum Classic community has been awaiting the Agharta hard fork that is scheduled for January 2020. The network has been preparing for the hard fork by releasing several Testnets, with the Kotti testnet being the latest one, activated on 14 December at block 1705549. Other Testnets including Morden and Mordor were activated back in...Read More
A phenomenon like bitcoin can gain recognition, including regulatory, in many different and often unexpected ways. Governments that hesitate to accept cryptocurrencies as legal tender, sometimes validate their existence indirectly and even acknowledge they can be used for payments. Taxing crypto incomes and profits is one such example. Russia has just provided another one by...Read More
China has been exhibiting its interest in blockchain technology and with the digital yuan, the country has surely turned heads. Apart from this, China has been dominating the Bitcoin mining space. However, the latest news from the country shows the ugly side of the same. Recently, Chinese authorities have reportedly seized about 7,000 cryptocurrency mining...Read More
India’s topmost cryptocurrency exchange WazirX has started a trading marathon on its exchange. The “Highest Trader Kaun Marathon” has started from 9 am IST and will continue for the next 12 hours on 26th Dec 2019. The platform has only opened this marathon for Chiliz crypto and only trading pair available for trading is CHZ/USDT....Read More
After losing its footing the previous week, most major cryptos tumbled and were trying to recover. While most crypto assets are down over the past week, bitcoin managed to gain 5% of its value back, after Tron which noted a 7% recovery. However, other altcoins like Tezos [XTZ], still have a long way to go...Read More
Bitcoin’s market reflected signs of recovery in the past week, after being worn down most of December. Although the BTC market cap was still down week-over-week, its estimated hash rate grew by over 10%. However, the hash rate of altcoins like Ethereum [ETH], Litecoin [LTC], and Bitcoin Cash [BCH] dropped by almost 2.9%, with ETH...Read More
After touching a low of $0.175 on December 18, XRP’s performance over the rest of 2019 seems much more digestible. For the period between January and April, XRP consolidated between $0.30 and $0.32, only to rise to $0.50 by June. The coin has been on a steady decline since then, with only a couple of...Read More
