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
More than half of the total circulating of 63,842,239 LTC has not moved in more than a year now, i.e 40 million LTC have remained dormant which amounts to nearly $2.036 billion, at press time. This was pointed out by Franklyn Richards, Litecoin Foundation Director, who stated that a majority of these Litecoin appears to...Read More
The leading crypto-asset management firm, Grayscale Investments registered a total of $2.2 billion in Assets Under Management [AUM] on 10th January 2019. Its official tweet read, “01/10/20 UPDATE: Net Assets Under Management, Holdings per Share, and Market Price per Share for our Investment Products. Total AUM: $2.2 billion” According to the investment firm’s latest update,...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
January 7 was a momentous day for Bitcoin, having finally crossed the $8000 level for the first time since late-November. With such a great start to 2020, Bitcoin could have more surprising upward price movements in store. BTC was valued at around $8100 at the time of writing, and indicators show the price could move...Read More
Other than a brief rise to nearly 2900 sats on January 6, XRP has been mostly consolidating between 2550 and 2700 sats since mid-December, 2019. With Bitcoin and its dominance on the rise, XRP could be in for some sharp movements in the short-term. XRP BTC 4-hour chart Source: XRPBTC on TradingView The 4-hour chart...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
Cryptocurrencies are any digital currency with no central issuing, regulating authority, one that exists only on a decentralized ledger called blockchain. Sounds clear enough, right? Well, not quite, if you consider how differently they are treated by tax agencies around the world. Nothing is better evidence of the global crypto-confusion than an examination of how...Read More
On the latest episode of the Unconfirmed podcast, host Laura Shin spoke to Nate Maddrey, senior research analyst at CoinMetrics, a Bitcoin and crypto-asset data analytics firm. During their conversation, Maddrey mentioned how 2019 had been a big year for stablecoins overall, and that Tether is still, by far, the most dominant stablecoin in terms...Read More
The participation of new entrants in the industry has kept the space interesting for speculative trading. FTX has been making headway for a while; especially with the launch of Bitcoin Option tradings. The move to launch Options trading was announced by the CEO of the exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried on January 12, via Twitter. Options launching...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
If we look at the blockchain infographic today, we see overall positive figures for the tech that has been the foundation of the world’s most popular and oldest cryptocurrency. What was fascinating at the beginning was how it branched out from being just the underlying tech of cryptocurrencies to developing numerous use-cases. Be it bringing...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
With all eyes fixed on Bitcoin‘s valuation at the moment, the lesser-known assets with medium-range market caps were seen performing better than the large market cap assets. According to Arcane Research, the best performing tokens over the past week has been outside the major altcoins with only Monero and Bitcoin SV making the cut from...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
Is Bitcoin priced-in for halving? The debate on this is heating up since halving is right around the corner [~122 days]. With the price of Bitcoin hovering in the sub-$8,000 regions, some say Bitcoin miners are not profiting. However, others say this is caused by Chinese miners trying to force the U.S. miners out. Bitcoin...Read More
Over the past seven days, Bitcoin’s price has been revived after witnessing a lukewarm period in December 2019. Source: Coinstats Since January 4th, BTC’s valuation has scaled up to 15 percent, and at press time the largest digital asset held strong consolidation above the $8000. It is important to note BTC‘s price was around $6900...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
“I am not a real believer in sort of the cryptocurrency world”, said the former Goldman Sachs President and former NEC Director Gary Cohn. The underlying technology, i.e the blockchain tech, however, is often touted as the ‘next big thing’ and has already been deployed in businesses and institutions globally. While Cohn does not believe...Read More
If the idiom ‘off to a fresh start’ needed an example, Bitcoin will be an ideal candidate at the moment. After starting the year at a price under $6900 on 2nd January, the largest digital asset seemed to break away from its bearish shackles, registering a growth of over 19 percent in the past 9...Read More
The silver to Bitcoin’s gold, Litecoin, has had a rather tough time since its halving. The price of Litecoin has reduced by a massive 70% since its last peak in 2019. The coin trades at $45 and has a market cap of $2.82 billion, just below Bitcoin Cash and above, EOS. At press time, however,...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
How did your 2020 begin? While the world’s greatest economic and military superpower was inching close to war with yet another Middle Eastern country, Bitcoin was sitting back and watching its value surge. On January 3, Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian military commander, hailed as the second most important person in the country, was killed by...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
XRP, the third-largest crypto has had its downs more than ups; things have started to change for XRP, but the future looks slightly less gloomy. Especially with a tiny surge on the horizon. 4-Hour Chart Source: XRP/USD TradingView XRP’price successfully completed a reversal pattern [triple bottom] and surged by 15% reaching $0.22. This pump for...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
