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Hot Scandals, Business Giants, Halvation and 20 Crypto Jokes
9.5.2020
It was a fun, pre-halving week. Coinbase analyst said that we shouldn't count on banks to invest in crypto, and options traders appear to be skeptical about current ETH price. Business giants join a new consortium to help firms ‘manage digital assets’, Blockstream updated their BTC satelite...
Mainnet, Testnets, Targets, Multiple Clients and 20 Crypto Jokes
2.5.2020
Another crypto week is behind us, so let's take a quick look at what happened. Bitcoin soared to pre-crash levels, Cardano announced their new "mainnet wallet", Hive saw a major pump and a smaller dump on listing news, Telegram's Gram token launch was postponed indefinitely, Plan...
Digi-Yuan Confirmations, Royal Screw-Ups and 20 Crypto Jokes
25.4.2020
Another eventful crypto week. Let's take a look at what happened. So, China's central bank officially confirmed that digital yuan testing is coming soon, and there are reports that McDonald’s, Starbucks, and Subway may take part in its testing. Uniswap and Lendf.Me were attacked using a known...
Predicted Market Crash, Foretold Market Explosion, and 20 Crypto Jokes
18.4.2020
The Cryptoverse brought us quite a few interesting stories this week. Lower USD interest rates, combined with the inflation and crypto volatility could bring greater demand for stablecoins and cryptocurrencies, and while Silk Road founder predicts that there will soon be another market crash before...
First Halvings, New Steps and 20 Crypto Jokes
11.4.2020
The week behind us had many news and quite a few firsts for us. ETH saw a wave of buying, leaving BTC in the dust, while BTC's mining difficulty was set to increase - which indeed it did, and BCH had its first halving, with miners seen changing camps ahead of it. Meanwhile, BSV rallied ahead of...
Pushy Turbulence, Pressuring Miners, Bright Future and 20 Crypto Jokes
4.4.2020
Another eventful week is behind us. We reported that the number of addresses with 1 BTC is rising, while BTC is leaving exchanges, but merchants remain resilient; that the outlook for BTC development is generally positive, with key funding players revealed; that turbulences in the market could push...
Reversed Loses, Settled Lawsuits, Pickled Gold and 20 Crypto Jokes
28.3.2020
Let's see what this past week served on our crypto table. Bitcoin and major altcoins reversed losses Monday, after the Fed announced unprecedented measures to support the economy, while Coronavirus put gold in a peculiar pickle. As BTC mining difficulty saw a historic drop, a new Cardano scaling...
Devastation, Mitigation, Migration, Stabilization and 20 Crypto Jokes
21.3.2020
Another adventurous crypto week. Did you have fun? BTC once again saw heavy selling on Monday, after the news that the Fed was taking emergency measures to mitigate the financial devastation, Coin Metrics found that it's the short-term traders again who have been driving the most recent sell-off...
Crash! Boom! Bang! and 20 Crypto Jokes
14.3.2020
What an eventful, volatile week this has been. After Bitcoin mining difficulty and hashrate hit new highs, Bitcoin dropped suddenly to January lows, with altcoins suffering major losses, and then it crashed to USD 5,000 levels, and crypto exchanges had to make emergency moves to deal with...
Victories, Opportunities and 20 Crypto Jokes
7.3.2020
Let’s see what crypto was up to this week. Major victories have been won: South Korean National Assembly voted in favor of the country’s first cryptocurrency-specific legislation, and India’s crypto ban got overruled, though the fight is not over. Bitcoin may be too young to be predictable, but...
Discussion, Opposition, Escalation and 20 Crypto Jokes
29.2.2020
It was a busy crypto week. IOTA mainnet is paused but MIOTA’s still trading, FCoin wants to reopen but clients aren't happy, OKEx and Bitfinex suffered a DDoS attack, Ethereum’s core devs decided to implement ProgPow in July amid heavy opposition that only grew larger, Vitalik Buterin shared that...
Hacks, Exploits, Pauses and 20 Crypto Jokes
22.2.2020
It was an eventful crypto-week. Seven golden crosses were seen shining among the top 10, including BTC, yet a surprising Bitcoin crash left the market bewildered, but still BTC may be at a pivotal point. Alibaba launched a blockchain-powered initiative amid coronavirus fears, Fcoin failed and...
Rollouts, Rollbacks and 20 Crypto Jokes
15.2.2020
This week in crypto, analysts predicted Bitcoin may go higher after breaching USD 10k. Justin Sun told people to buy his 'shitcoin,' and OKChain testnet went live; Voice Beta went live too, but not for all. Meanwhile, Ripple announced partnership with the National Bank of Egypt, Hadera is working...
BitMEX CEO’s Jokes About XRP End With a Flash Crash and a Wall of Silence
14.2.2020
Arthur Hayes. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, CfC st. Moritz
The normally outspoken CEO of major crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, Arthur Hayes, has gone quiet after a short-lived crash occurred in the exchange’s XRP derivatives market, which may have led to large losses for some traders...
Conflicts, Interests, Emojis and 20 Crypto Jokes
8.2.2020
Let's recap what happened in this crypto week. Total value locked in DeFi hit 1 billion! The public war-of-words between the co-founders of the IOTA Foundation took a fresh turn, Bitspark will close due to internal issues despite reporting positive results, but the first phase of Ethereum 2.0...
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...
Transformation, Domination, Evasion, and 20 Crypto Jokes
25.1.2020
This week in crypto, experts at the WEF said that digital finance, crypto and blockchain-powered economics are sweeping through markets in the developing world unchallenged and that digital tokens could transform the world of business and art. While Binance aims to find more merchants for its...
Safe Havens, Lawsuits, Pandora’s Boxes and 20 Crypto Jokes
18.1.2020
This week we saw 55 contracts marking the first day of Bitcoin options on CME, ETF giant WisdomTree planing to launch a stablecoin, and 21 leading crypto industry players that'll advise OECD on blockchain. We looked into a report about the strongest validation of the BTC safe haven theory,...
Dethronement, Maintenance, Breakup and 20 Crypto Jokes
11.1.2020
This week saw BTC rally above USD 8K, while altcoins dropped, and BitPay CCO said that BTC will surpass USD 20K, but with a surprise. While more altcoins are expected to be integrated by mining pools, the ousted co-founder of Bitmain made a legal move to dethrone Jihan Wu. Telegram confirmed that...
The Top 50 Crypto Memes of All Time
7.1.2020
Memes are the fuel that powers the cryptoconomy. Exploitable image macros, shareable acronyms, and obscure in-jokes are the stuff that crypto is made of. To mark the dawn of a new decade, news.Bitcoin.com has endeavored to catalog the crypto memes that came to define the last one. These are the...