coindesk.com / Feb 15 3:00pm
Decentralized Finance Emerges as Banner Topic at Ethereum Denver Conference
ETHDenver kicked off with an address by Aave CEO Stani Kulechov about a hot new wave of decentralized finance...
blog.wallstreetsurvivor.com / Feb 14 1:35pm
Bitcoin is significantly and quietly re-gaining momentum. There has been a vast increase in the total transactions confirmed per day and the reached levels have not been of such magnitude since 2017. In that particular year, the largest cryptocurrency of the world surged in terms of its value and caused it to become a hot...
cointelegraph.com / Feb 13 12:11pm
The birth of a national Iranian digital currency has been postponed. However, blockchain remains a hot topic in the Islamic Republic of Iran, intertwined with international sanctions and the clash between conservatives and...
theverge.com / Feb 11 10:00am
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cryptodaily.co.uk / Feb 09 3:00pm
It’s time for another weekly round-up of the news that matters in the cryptosphere this week. We have seen numerous suggestions that a Bitcoin ETF may see approval in the coming months, news regarding XRP market cap manipulation, and even a massive blockchain acquisition from Facebook. It’s an exciting time to be in crypto, that’s for sure. SEC & the Bitcoin ETF approval One interesting story that came out of this week was that a solicitation notice was issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States. With institutional finances getting ready to flood into the market and...
nulltx.com / Feb 09 4:29am
A lot of interesting things are happening in the world of cryptocurrency. Especially when Bitcoin moves up or down in a decisive manner, it would appear all market show signs of life either for better or worse. The Holo price is going through some sort of a revival right now, which is rather impressive all...
cryptodaily.co.uk / Feb 06 4:30pm
During the Bitcoin developer panel at the recent Unconfidscatable Conference in Las Vegas, the topic of MimbleWimble was discussed. With the recent launches of the MimbleWimble-based Grin and Beam altcoins, the privacy and scalability-focused technology has been a hot topic of conversation throughout the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Applied cryptography consultant Peter Todd is known to throw water on blockchain-related ideas when they start to gain a bit too much hype around them, and he made the case that MimbleWimble is overrated during the recent panel discussion. Additionally, Todd provided his reasoning for why the technology should not be implemented as a...
cryptodaily.co.uk / Feb 06 7:00am
It seems like there is new Ripple news surfacing every day and today is no different. Similar to past transactions, Ripple has just moved more than $300 million worth of XRP from one of its several escrow accounts to an unknown place. The transaction had the message “Crawl… Walk… Run ;)”. It is rumoured that the firm has locked $80 million worth of the total transfer. In 2018, there was around $535 million worth of XRP was sold by XRP, many of its buyers being institutions and exchanges. The consistent sales of XRP are now believed to be an...
cryptodaily.co.uk / Feb 06 6:30am
As is the general consensus, Bitcoin can supposedly make it easier for criminals and fraudsters to conduct illegal transactions. The amount of money laundered through Bitcoin is nothing in comparison to the multi-trillion dollar network of illegal transactions that pass through traditional banks on a yearly basis. In a recent report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, there are more than trillion dollars illegally transacted through the traditional banking system every year. In another recently published report, this time by Bloomberg called “The Cost of Dirty Money”, there are diagrams of the complex world of...
ccn.com / Feb 02 6:58am
Seven cryptocurrencies performed way better than Bitcoin during January’s market volatility. HOT, the native token of Holochain project, surprised the cryptocurrency community with a 178% price surge. Augur’s REP followed by posting a 51.50% monthly gain. Chainlink’s LINK came third after rising 39%, while Numeraire’s NMR became the fourth most profitable crypto asset after ballooning 35%. Tron’s TRX, Loopring’s LRC, and OAX’s token of the same name swelled between the range of 31-33% in the same time. In contrast, Bitcoin had lost close to 10% of its value by January’s close. However, the digital currency still fared better than...
ccn.com / Feb 01 6:40pm
A new Ethereum token called “Wrapped Bitcoin” just launched Thursday. How Wrapped Bitcoin Works The purpose of the new cryptocurrency is to enable Bitcoin users to “participate in Ethereum smart contracts natively on the Ethereum blockchain.” Last October Bitcoin custody company BitGo announced a partnership with Kyber Network and Republic Protocol to launch Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC), a token on the Ethereum blockchain that acts as a 1-to-1 token backed by Bitcoin reserves. In a blog post announcing the new token BitGo stated: “WBTC users will be able to utilize Bitcoin in a wide variety of new decentralized use cases,...