With Bitcoin gaining more importance in the current market, certain centralized institutions fear that Bitcoin‘s decentralized monetary policy might eventually take over and destabilize the authority or control major central banks wield. Bitcoin’s monetary policy has been discussed fervently for a while now, with many major assets trying to follow the path set by the...Read More
In a bid to further extend developments in the Cardano ecosystem and bolster the adoption of ADA, Nathan Kaiser, Chairperson and Chief Legal Counsel of the Cardano Foundation has now revealed the Foundation’s work with Zurich-based GenTwo AG. On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum 2020 in Davos, Kaiser stated, “The Cardano Foundation has...Read More
Digital currencies are increasingly being viewed as a reliable alternative off-late. Be it U.S-Iran tensions or the economic slowdown in developing countries, people are now curious about cryptocurrency and its use cases. However, the Governor of the Bank of France, Francois Villeroy de Galhau, believes otherwise. In a statement released on 25 January, the Governor...Read More
The new year has brought in increased demand for Bitcoin Futures, with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange [CME] reflecting increasing open interest. According to a recent report by Arcane, CME continued to stay more bullish than other platforms, with June premiums looking strong. Source: Arcane Research While the premium on March contracts appeared to align between...Read More
The crypto-community’s eyes today are keenly centered on Bitcoin’s third halving scheduled for May 2020. And while the king coin’s volatility declined this week, Bitcoin’s volatility was surging throughout December 2019. That being said, the uptrend in volatility since December is “still intact,” noted a recent study. Bitcoin’s price has been consolidating, despite it breaking...Read More
England’s Lancashire Cricket club recently announced that it has teamed up with TIXnGO, a blockchain mobile ticketing platform, to enable mobile ticketing via blockchain for all domestic and international fixtures at Emirates Old Trafford. With this, the club thus became the first-ever cricket club to use blockchain technology to sell tickets. The main advantage of...Read More
After briefly touching the $9000 mark on 14th January, the largest digital asset consolidated for the next 8 days. The slump arrived on 23rd January, which resulted in a 4.41 percent drop and the bears surfaced again. However, Fundstrat’s Tom Lee remained unfazed. According to a recent segment of CNBC’s Fast Money, Lee believed that...Read More
Stablecoin’s value proposition comes from its inherent feature of being censorship-resistance and increased stability than most conventional cryptocurrencies. Tether, being the most popular one, was expected to follow this norm. Most critics of Tether still argue whether this stablecoin is, in fact, censorship-resistant or not. According to Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle, Tether is not...Read More
It seems like we’re just not content with a bullish scenario involving Bitcoin; a bearish narrative is always around the corner! After a 6 percent drop over the last 3 days, the community speculated whether the upcoming Chinese New Year will have yet another bearish setback on BTC‘s price. A historical storyline that has played...Read More
Bitcoin’s constant deterrent towards true decentralization can be attributed to the centralization of mining, with several people expressing concerns over mining sector concentrating in China in particular. A move taken to make mining more decentralized was made by Blockstream – a bitcoin and blockchain technology firm. Unveiling Blockstream mining and pool in August 2019, the...Read More
According to CBInsights’ latest report on blockchain startup investments in 2019, despite a drop in total funding dollars, investment activity in the fourth quarter of 2019 points toward pockets of opportunities for blockchain technology adoption in enterprise applications. The report also stated that total equity funding to the space, a measure of investor enthusiasm, fell...Read More
2019 ended with Bitcoin‘s price doing fairly well, and the SEC still not having approved an ETF, and interesting, the new year also followed another similar pattern with Bitwise Asset Management withdrawing its application for an ETF. With the United States Securities and Exchanges Commission continuing to show reluctance towards approving an exchange-traded fund, several...Read More
It is a great time to speculate prices in the digital asset industry with the apparent presence of bulls in the market. January 2020 catalyzed the dormant markets, and the curiosity of various analysts was piqued, on whether the current momentum would persevere over the next few weeks. Ethereum’s valuation surged past $160 mark on...Read More
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, IOHK CEO, Charles Hoskinson spoke about how Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology can help the world solve numerous problems that societies struggle with today. “The whole world is changing,” he said. “We’re going from fragmented siloed markets that live within the borders of countries to one global market.”...Read More
The Chicago-based crypto derivatives platform, ErisX has partnered with Etale’s institutional trading platform. This partnership aims to enhance the trading experience for institutional investors. According to the official release, this would enable users of the Wall Street-backed cryptocurrency exchange operator to view real-time market data, manage account balances as well order execution via a secure...Read More
The XRP ledger has closed over 51 million ledgers since its creation and is today, home to over 150 known validators, according to Ripple’s recently-released Q4 report. And while many have alleged the firm ‘controls’ the third-largest crypto-asset’s price, Ripple in its report highlighted its transparency, claiming that it has provided regular updates on the...Read More
In an excerpt from its upcoming ‘2020 Crypto Crime Report,’ Chainalysis addressed cases of cryptocurrency exchange hacks over the years, while tracking where the funds went after they’re stolen. The report also addresses the perpetual war between crime and law enforcement. In 2017, four exchanges were hacked, amounting to $86 million in stolen funds for...Read More
After a turbulent start to the new year, crypto-market sentiment appears to have improved. The market saw a pump in Bitcoin SV’s stagnant price, making it the top-performing crypto-asset over the past week. However, Bitcoin continued to lead the crypto-market due to the increased correlation between the world’s largest crypto-asset and altcoins. According to a...Read More
The Bitcoin SV saga has been one of the highlights of January 2020. After the collective market went on a bullish run in the second week of January, the controversial Bitcoin SV registered a hike of close to 300 percent, taking its valuation from $116 to $457 in a span of 4 days. In fact,...Read More
The United States’ Securities and Exchanges Commission [SEC] has already started to take action with regard to initial coin offerings this year. The first move this year was to charge a convicted criminal for conducting a “fraudulent ICO using a fake identity,” one that raised over $30 million, according to an official website. The most...Read More
According to a recent post by Litecoin.com, the Litecoin Network has facilitated the transfer of over $100 billion in 2019 and was able to sustain its usage over the year, despite the wider crypto-market performing poorly in the second half of the year. While 2019’s figures are lower than the ones recorded in 2018, the...Read More
Back in October 2019, when J. Christopher Giancarlo, former CFTC Chairman, wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that proposed blockchain-based digital cash to tackle the issue of the declining U.S dollar, it garnered a lot of attention. Today, the global financial space is no longer new to the idea of a CBDC, with...Read More
The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland is underway right now and some of the most prominent personalities in the world would be gathering at the event over the next three days, including many from the digital assets industry. Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder of Circle, is one of them, with Allaire taking the podium on the...Read More
The world’s largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, is undoubtedly the most successful coin, seeing immense adoption and growth over the past few years. The cryptocurrency not only paved the way for an electronic cash system, which does not rely on a 3rd party, but also led to the creation of several other cryptocurrencies/technologies and several other industries...Read More
Bitcoin aka digital gold recently marked the successful completion of a decade of existence. Over the years, the coin has seen several developments and changes, wherein if the community did not agree with the changes or wanted a particular change that did not have a majority vote, they had the liberty to fork the chain....Read More
Facebook’s unveiling of its plan to launch a digital currency dubbed Libra has not only drawn the attention of regulators worldwide, but it has also initiated talks about central backed digital currencies, with China currently leading the race. With the country extensively pushing forth the growth of its blockchain ecosystem, it is still unclear when...Read More
TokenInsight, a noted data-analytics platform, has released its latest report on derivatives trading markets, with the same analyzing trading activities surrounding Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency Futures contracts in 2019. TokenInsight studied Bitcoin and altcoin Futures trading volumes from nine different exchanges, including the likes of Bybit, Binance, Deribit, and FTX, collecting data for between 1...Read More
Binance has not only emerged as a major player in the cryptocurrency world, but its native coin, Binance coin [BNB], has also created ripples after it completed its 10th quarterly burn. According to Binance’s blog, the burn amounted to 2,2116,888 BNB [38.8 million], which represented 1.1% of the total supply. The $2 million increase from...Read More
Bitcoin‘s journey this new year has left everyone on the edge of their seats. The coin has jumped by almost 17% but was noting an impending correction, at press time. Despite the crests and troughs in the market, CME‘s first week reported strong data. It has been just one week since the Chicago Mercantile Exchange...Read More
Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, has a crucial 2020 to look forward to, with one of the most important events lined up for May – block reward halving. Many investors and traders are expecting the price of the cryptocurrency to record massive recovery, with some expecting it to break its previous all-time high on the...Read More
