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Why This May Be The Time For Bitcoin To Shine
26.3.2020
Gary McFarlane is a cryptocurrency analyst at interactive investor, a UK-based investment platform.
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With central bank money-printing machines switched back on, might bitcoin be the star of the recession?
Crypto – it’s still all about COVID-19 for now
Whether the bounce in both bitcoin...
EU Seeking Blockchain Defense Solutions + More News
26.3.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Blockchain news
The European Commission is looking for solutions that drive innovation and adapt technologies for civil and defense...
Blockchain Plays a Part as China Claims 72% of SMEs Are Back to Work
26.3.2020
Chinese authorities state that industry 4.0 technologies such as blockchain technology have helped almost 72% of the nation’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) return to work in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Per Chinese state news networks the People’s Daily and the Beijing Youth...
Japanese Investors Taking Advantage Of Bitcoin Sell-Off - Exchange
26.3.2020
Despite what some may have thought, it appears that the latest sell-off in bitcoin has not scared away retail investors quite yet, new data from one Japanese crypto exchange suggests.
According to a blog post by Yuya Hasegawa, market analyst at the Japanese crypto exchange bitbank, the number...
ETH 2.0 Phase 0 Reviewed by Auditers, with Attack Vector Warnings
26.3.2020
Ethereum 2.0 (ETH 2.0) (aka Serenity) has left its auditors satisfied, though critical issues have been pointed out.
Working with the Ethereum 2.0 team, security consultant Least Authority reviewed Ethereum's network update to Proof of Stake (PoS) from Proof of Work (PoW), specifically its upcoming...
Korean Nth Room Police Hunt 260K Crypto Wallets, Brokerages Hand over Client Data
26.3.2020
South Korean crypto exchanges are cooperating with the police investigation into the Telegram “Nth room” sexual exploitation case, with brokerages now being searched, and exchange data seized and hundreds of thousands of crypto-fiat gateway records checked.
Per a number of South Korean media...
Cardano Price Fails to Respond as New Scaling Solution Reintroduced
26.3.2020
Source: Adobe/Skórzewiak
The price of cardano (ADA) remained largely unchanged along with the broader crypto market on Thursday morning (UTC time), despite the unveiling of a new scaling solution that is to be implemented on the Cardano blockchain.
Earlier today (10:30 UTC), ADA traded up by a mere...
Coinbase Grants App Users Direct Access to Crypto Lending Platforms
26.3.2020
Major crypto exchange Coinbase has announced that it will allow users to lend out their crypto and gain interest from loans using decentralized finance (DeFi) apps via its Coinbase Wallet app.
The development comes as the crypto lending industry continues on a path of dynamic growth, with rapidly...
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Sees Historic Drop, Even Larger Might Be Coming
26.3.2020
After the second-largest Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty drop, the next one might be even bigger and provide even stronger relief to miners.
As predicted, Bitcoin mining difficulty (a measure telling us how hard it is to compete for mining rewards) has just dropped - but instead of 5.8% estimated...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Consolidating Below Key Hurdles
26.3.2020
Recently, bitcoin price made another attempt to gain momentum above the USD 6,800 and USD 6,850 resistance levels. However, BTC/USD failed to continue higher and it is currently (08:30 UTC) correcting gains. If there is a downside break below USD 6,500, the price could start an extended downside...
VPN for Crypto Transactions: Why Bother?
26.3.2020
Disclaimer: The text below is a sponsored article that was not written by Cryptonews.com journalists.
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Virtual currencies are no longer a novelty. They are used all over the world and traded on Forex. Aside from the profit-making potential, virtual coins are still linked to assorted safety...
How To Earn Crypto Rewards Through Staking & Masternode Coins?
26.3.2020
Disclaimer: The text below is a sponsored article that was not written by Cryptonews.com journalists.
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Staking and the Proof-of-stakes
Staking can basically be called the method of setting aside a certain number of cryptocurrency coins through a node on the network of the crypto asset...
How Working From Home May Be Exposing Us To Cybercrime
25.3.2020
Apart from the obvious health and economic impacts, the coronavirus also presents a major opportunity for cybercriminals.
As staff across sectors and university students shift to working and studying from home, large organisations are at increased risk of being targeted. With defences down...
European Crypto Exchange BitBay Says Business Is Booming in March
25.3.2020
Source: a screenshot, Instagram/bitbay
Central and Eastern Europe-focused cryptocurrency exchange BitBay says that bitcoin (BTC) trading volumes have hit record levels in the past two weeks.
In the past fortnight, the platform’s volume of the BTC-Polish złoty (PLN) pair hit a peak of BTC 11,233...
500+ Crypto Wallets Linked to Telegram Nth Room Suspect + More News
25.3.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Crime news
Media outlets in South Korea have been investigating the cryptocurrency holdings of Cho Joo-bin, the suspect thought...
China May Ramp up Digital Currency Progress to ‘Fend off Risk’ from US
25.3.2020
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted China’s economy, but not its digital currency plans. And amid reports that the country is nearing a major breakthrough in its plans to launch a digital fiat, one of the project’s key figures is urging caution lest American rivals steal a march on the Middle...
Gold Faces a Very Physical Problem; Bitcoin To the Rescue!
25.3.2020
Bitcoin's competitor, gold, found itself in a peculiar situation due to the current pandemic: it's getting increasingly difficult for it to move. Fears of stranded bullion led to London spot gold prices dropping far below U.S. gold futures.
“There’s plenty of gold [...] But it’s immobilized,”...
Monero, Zcash, Dash Outperform Bitcoin Year-to-Date
25.3.2020
As privacy becomes a new battlefield in the fight against the coronavirus, and new centralized digital fiat initiatives are starting to appear, how have the most popular privacy coins performed after the March 12-13 market crash?
Among the privacy coins that have seen optimistic trading in recent...
S Korean Province to Fight COVID-19 Recession with Stablecoin Handout
25.3.2020
Suwon, the capital of Gyeonggi Province. South Korea was one of the first nations after China to be hit with a major coronavirus outbreak. But as the health crisis slowly abates in the East Asian nation, government authorities are now looking at ways to deal with COVID-19’s economic fallout.
But...
Telegram Loses Latest Round With the SEC; Kik Begins the Next Round
25.3.2020
Instant messaging giant Telegram and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have just finished another round in their court fight, with the judge declaring the SEC the winner. Meanwhile, Kik continued its battle against the SEC, denying the accusations the regulator raised against...