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
It doesn’t come as a surprise that “don’t spend like a baller” is associated with lavish spending and basketball. With so much money coming in so quickly at such a young age, athletes are overwhelmed and end up spending it on cars, shoes, parties, and even a shark tank. But, it looks like one man...Read More
One of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, Malta-based Binance has registered unprecedented growth since its launch. The exchange is not only adding more services on its platform, with the recent drive being the addition of more fiat support, it is also extensively working towards establishing a presence in all countries in a way that is...Read More
The tokenization of assets gained a lot of momentum in 2019. By converting a real-world asset into its digital equivalent, tokenization provides higher liquidity, flexibility, and transparency, making it an emerging trend for investments in 2020. Just a couple of months ago, Jason Kelley, IBM’s General Manager of Blockchain Services, had mentioned during a talk...Read More
Cryptopia, Christchurch-based cryptocurrency exchange, recently announced that its directions hearing has been rescheduled to Feb. 11-14 at Christchurch High Court. The hearing was earlier scheduled with a New Zealand court for February 3, 2020. The exchange’s tweet on Jan 17 read, The #Cryptopia directions hearing has been rescheduled to 11-14 Feb @ Christchurch High Court....Read More
IOHK, the research and development arm of decentralized public blockchain and crypto project, Cardano, released Jormungandr 0.8.6 version for Cardano pool operators. This was revealed by Rick McCracken, Cardano Ambassador on January 15th. The latest release aims to improve the network stability of the node. The roll-out of Jormungandr 0.8.6, comes with several optimizations. IOHK...Read More
The year began with people hoping for a bullish Bitcoin market; there were some who thought that Bitcoin would be the one leading the bull run this year, considering that halving was just a few months away. There were others who believed that some of the popular altcoins such as BNB would be the ones...Read More
Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has been on a high-speed lane in terms of development and expansion, with no signs of return anytime soon. One of the biggest moves made by the exchange last year was its announcement that it would be withdrawing its services from the United States, only to set...Read More
The Cardano ecosystem has been in full swing development mode after the success of the incentivized testnet. As it approaches the Shelley mainnet launch, the focus has mostly been on network stability and other improvements. In a more recent update, the CEO of IOHK, Charles Hoskinson, revealed that the next-generation protocol on Shelley, dubbed, ‘Hydra,’...Read More
Riccardo Spagni, well-known as Fluffypony on social media platforms, yet again, spoke about privacy while speaking about Tari, and financial privacy, in an interview for Monero Talk. Tari, a decentralized assets protocol, will be built on top of Monero, with its own native token. The protocol will work as a merged-mined sidechain, along with enabling...Read More
With over 100+ days left for Bitcoin’s halving, it is time to take a look at how Bitcoin might react to its 3rd halving [halvening]. Unlike previous times, the narrative around Bitcoin has changed. The arguments on halving keep getting more pronounced as the date nears. Some argue that Bitcoin is priced in for the...Read More
Monero, the largest fungible cryptocurrency, has been well-known in the market for taking a different route than most P-o-W coins. Riccardo Spagni, also known by the moniker Fluffypony, stepping down from the lead maintainer position had many community members debating. The official announcement stated that Riccardo Spagni’s position has now been transferred to Snipa, adding...Read More
After the launch of the incentivized testnet, the IOHK and the Cardano ecosystem has been ramping up its tech and is currently focused on network and stability improvements. In line with this, the CEO of IOHK, Charles Hoskinson revealed that the Rust team is all set to deliver a network patch for the ITN in...Read More
While the Ethereum community has promised great developments for this year, the question of when still remains. Ethereum 2.0 developer community is expected to launch Beacon chain, with the first phase – Phase 0 of Serenity – promised to go live in the first quarter of 202o. However, the launch date was, once again, postponed...Read More
Blockchain in the gaming industry is an experiment that’s been ongoing for some time now. It started with the introduction of ‘Huntercoin’, the first real blockchain and decentralized strategy MMO game, introduced way back in 2014, which was basically an experiment to gauge the decentralized ledger technology’s ability to support the gaming industry. With Huntercoin’s...Read More
With the advent of Bitcoin came industries that were never foreseen, and one of the prominent ones is the mining industry. Undermining Satoshi Nakamoto’s rule of ‘one CPU, one vote,’ the mining of the largest cryptocurrency has been completely overtaken by ASIC miners. Since its inception, there has been a divided sentiment surrounding whether ASIC...Read More
Andreas Antonopoulos, the author of Mastering Bitcoin and Mastering Ethereum, recently spoke about the scenario that could unfold in the case of a 51 percent attack, in a Q&A session on YouTube. The well-known influencer also spoke about the reason why Bitcoin was immune to such an attack. After summarising all the things an attacker cannot...Read More
Ethereum Classic’s Agharta protocol upgrade went live on the Mainnet on 12th January 2020. The planned hard fork went live on block 9,573,000. Prior to this, its test networks – Morden, Mordor, and Kotti were successfully implemented. ETC’s Agharta essentially added the ETH Constantinople opcodes to ETC mainnet. The proposed changes for Ethereum Classic’s Agharta...Read More
The on-chain activity on Bitcoin’s blockchain remained overall positive throughout 2019. Despite stagnation in the price, Bitcoin’s network metrics stayed strong. Its mining hash rate has seen an exponential increase in the last couple of months and touched a new all-time high of 117 exahash per second [EH/s] on January 5th. As miners continued to...Read More
The concept of digital assets and the creation of Bitcoin is commonly lauded as a revolutionary change that led to the establishment of an asset class worth over $200 billion dollars. In a recent segment of whatbitcoindid with Peter McCormack, Aaron Van Wirdum, Technical Editor at Bitcoin Magazine, discussed some of the projects that eventually...Read More
The introduction of the blockchain network in the healthcare industry is something that’s been talked about a lot. Though there isn’t a proper model in place to this day. Discussing the topic, Samson Williams, Principal Consultant for Axes and Eggs, in a recent podcast talked about the difficulties faced while making the hospital staff understand...Read More
Bitcoin and Gold are dancing to the same tune once again. The long-held claim of Bitcoin being the digital equivalent of gold was strengthened earlier this month with the correlation between the cryptocurrency and the commodity jumping to a high not seen since August 2016. Following the US-led killing of Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani,...Read More
Blockchain-based smart contract protocol, EOSIO announced an update of its version 2.0 which was released last year. According to the latest blog post, EOSIO Version 2.0 release has been updated to a more stable version with security, stability, and other miscellaneous fixes. The released notes on GitHub stated, “These protocol upgrades necessitate a change to...Read More
Ethereum, Tron, and EOS mainnets have continued to lead the DApp space. In the December 2019 edition, DAppReview stated, “At present, these three major public chains have accounted for more than 98.65% share of the total transaction volume of the dapp market, forming the ‘Big Three’ in dapp space.” Source: DAppReview Ethereum still remains the...Read More
By Kenzan Boo On July 26, 2019, Coinbase Earn launched the Dai Advanced Task. In a few days, users created more CDPs (Collateralized Debt Positions) than ever existed. In the previous 11 months, about 9,000 CDPs were created on the blockchain with MakerDAO. We chose to launch on a Friday. On the weekend after the...Read More
XRP has maintained its position among the top three cryptocurrencies, while the development arm of Ripple, Xpring kept up with the innovation streak and the XRP ledger version 1.4.0 was released on Friday, 10 January. Xpring wrote in a tweet: “XRP Ledger version 1.4.0 is available on Mainnet and introduces “Deletable Accounts,” a new Amendment...Read More
The term decentralized currency was meant to signify a virtual currency that would be based on the logic of mathematics and economics, mined from the blockchain and stored in one’s digital wallet, assigned by a private key. However, that is not the case. In a recent piece on the Bankless blog, Coinmetrics co-founder Nic Carter...Read More
Bitcoin halving is expected to take place around May 2020 and it will prompt the inflation rate to decrease by ~1.7%. The halving will also result in the overall mining cost to become expensive, replacing the use of lower-end mining hardware with active ASICs second-hand market, according to TokenInsight’s report. Cloud mining, a type of...Read More
Bitcoin always had its critics. From regulators to bankers, the financial aspect of Bitcoin was a bone of contention to many. Another pain-point with Bitcoin was its production, or rather the energy-intensive nature of Bitcoin mining. Financial freedom for environmental harm was a small price to pay for many. Yet some could not balance the...Read More
According to new research by Kaspersky labs, the infamous Lazarus group used ‘enhanced capabilities’ to attack cryptocurrency businesses. The firm has been following the cyber theft campaign dubbed ‘Operation Applejues’ since 2018 and according to its report, victims across the world including the UK, China, Poland, and Russia have been affected. The hackers used the...Read More
