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Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 5
3.2.2020
Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today.
Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know...
What Are Managed Trading Accounts?
3.2.2020
Disclaimer: The text below is a sponsored article that was not written by Cryptonews.com journalists.
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Trading in any market can be a difficult thing, especially if you lack technical knowledge. Luckily, there are services like managed investment accounts, where a professional does all...
Crypto Market Sentiment Bounces Back; BTC, ETH, ADA in Positive Zone
3.2.2020
Source: iStock/da-kuk
The cryptocurrency market sentiment has bounced back somewhat over the course of the last week, though still not reaching the score it got two weeks ago. The combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure, sentscore, for the top 10 coins is 5.71 today, compared to 5.54...
Politician to Form Blockchain-powered Party + More News
3.2.2020
National Assembly Building in Seoul. 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
Former presidential candidate, tech entrepreneur and leading South Korean...
IOTA Co-Founder Threatens Legal Action as Catfight Intensifies; MIOTA Up 10%
3.2.2020
The bitter, public war-of-words between the co-founders of the IoT-focused IOTA Foundation has taken a new turn, with Sergey Invancheglo taking to Twitter to announce that he will launch legal proceedings against fellow co-founder David Sønstebø.
Invancheglo appears to have accused Sønstebø...
Russian Companies Pushing Gov’t for Crypto, Blockchain Legislation
3.2.2020
The man charged with putting together a legal framework for Russia’s cryptocurrency and blockchain technology industry has insisted that legislation will be in place before the year’s end, and has hinted that Russian companies are keen to begin blockchain and cryptocurrency operations.
In...
Coin Race: Top Winners/Losers of January 2020; Winners Aplenty
3.2.2020
The crypto market as of late has been enjoying a spring in the middle of winter. The second part of the first month of 2020 has brought a number of small and large rallies to a variety of coins, with the world’s number one crypto, bitcoin (BTC), surpassing the USD 9,000 mark yet again. How long...
XRP Outperforms Broader Market as Price Flirts with Key Barrier
3.2.2020
XRP, the crypto token affiliated with the U.S.-based fintech firm Ripple, has outperformed the broader crypto market over the past 24 hours, with the coin posting the strongest 24-hour performance among the top 10 cryptoassets by market capitalization.
As of pixel time (11:00 AM UTC), XRP almost...
China Worries Driving South Korean Central Bank to CBDC Research
3.2.2020
The South Korean central bank is launching a second central bank digital currency (CBDC) team – a year after disbanding its first group of CBDC researchers.
The central Bank of Korea (BOK) announced its intentions to launch the new unit, which it says will conduct CBDC-related research, in what...
Bitcoin Just Got New Emoji to 'Spread Awareness', New Goal Emerged
3.2.2020
You can now use Bitcoin (BTC) emoji in your tweets, and there are calls for it to be added by the world standard for text and emoji.
Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey brought good news to the Cryptoverse on February 2, by tweeting the famous Bitcoin logo, signifying that the social media giant...
Bitcoin and Altcoins Look Primed For Further Upsides
3.2.2020
In the past three sessions, bitcoin price followed a bullish path and traded above the USD 9,550 resistance. BTC/USD even climbed above USD 9,600, but it failed to continue higher above USD 9,650. The price is currently (09:00 UTC) correcting lower, but dips remain well supported near USD 9,250...
Transacting Online Using Crypto Just Got Wholly Anonymous and Way Cooler
3.2.2020
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com
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Croydon, London, Great Britain. January 29, 2020. – The world is moving towards mass adoption of cryptocurrencies. While the financial segment of the economy makes these strides, the risks...
Here’s What Bitcoin’s 2 Biggest Privacy Wallets are Working on in 2020
2.2.2020
It’s no secret that Bitcoin has issues when it comes to privacy. After all, it’s pretty difficult to implement privacy features in a system that puts the entire history of transactions on a public ledger for everyone to see.
That said, improvements to Bitcoin privacy have been slowly implemented...
Is Bitcoin New Ethereum Killer?
2.2.2020
Source: iStock/Alexander Ließ
Juan Villaverde is an econometrician and mathematician devoted to the analysis of cryptocurrencies since 2012. He leads the Weiss Ratings team of analysts and computer programmers who created Weiss cryptocurrency ratings.
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Looking for the next Bitcoin (BTC, Rated...
Seed Phrase and Wallet Recovery Still Isn't Idiot-Proof
1.2.2020
Prominent gold bug and Bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff is a genius. Okay, he isn't, but the apparent loss of his bitcoin (BTC) holdings has helpfully raised the topic of crypto-wallet security.
Yes, your holdings will most likely remain safe so long as you follow best practices, but the frequency with...
9 Ks, 12.5 Percents, 51 Attacks and 20 Crypto Jokes
1.2.2020
This crypto week, we watched Bitcoin play with USD 9K while coronavirus fears weighed on stocks, saw BTC usage rising on darknet markets, found a clear indication of healthy BTC adoption, and discovered that the 51% attack on BTC is pricier and on ETH cheaper. Speaking of ETH, a USD 1.57 million...
Open Letter to India's Finance Minister on Crypto Sector Potential
31.1.2020
Sumit Gupta is the CEO of cryptocurrency trading platform CoinDCX, which Gupta co-founded in early 2018.
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An Open Letter to the Finance Minister of India, Nirmala Sitharaman, on the Potential of India’s Cryptocurrency Sector and the Benefits it Presents to the Indian Economy
Dear...
New Blockchain Scalability Ideas: Packets and Zones
31.1.2020
Scalability is a long-standing and oft-discussed blockchain issue, for which many Cryptoverse residents have been searching a solution. Today we look into two of the latest ideas that aim to solve the problem and make transactions faster and more efficient.
Independent Zones
Asensys, a blockchain...
Directors of Crypto Exchange Upbit Cleared of Fraud Wrap + More News
31.1.2020
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.
Exchanges news
Two directors of the South Korean market-leading Upbit crypto exchange have been cleared of criminal fraud...
Some DigixDAO Investors Doubled Their Funds By Killing DAO
31.1.2020
The price of the DigixDAO (DGD) token rallied recently as the team is closing their decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) DigixDAO this quarter and promising to buy back DGD at a higher price.
Since talks about the dissolution of the DAO started in November, the price more than doubled...