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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...
Glaciers, Novogratz, Fraudsters and 20 Crypto Jokes
4.1.2020
We are back with another crypto summary and jokes article to start this new crypto year. First, let's see what happened at the very end of 2019 and beginning of 2020.
Ethereum's unplanned Muir Glacier upgrade was two days away when 74% of the clients were ready for it, and finally the network saw...
Bans, Exiles, Breakthroughs and 20 Crypto Jokes
28.12.2019
Just because it was a holiday week doesn't mean that there were no crypto news. The head of the People’s Bank of China’s digital currency research institute confirmed that a “digital form of the yuan” is on its way, but said it's different from BTC or stablecoins as it's not for speculation. Meltem...
Twitter Storms, Ice Ages and 20 Crypto Jokes
21.12.2019
This week saw many crypto-related developments: FTT rallied after Binance invested in FTX, Ripple raised USD 200 million, Tron’s Justin Sun sparked a Twitter storm by publicly committing USD 1 million to Greta Thunberg’s cause, the Cryptoworld wondered if BSV is about to sabotage itself, Cardano...
Market Shrugs, Price Nightmares and 20 Crypto Jokes
14.12.2019
Let’s see what happened this week in the Cryptoverse. Matic and some other Binance IEOs rallied, but then Matic droped a nightmarish 66%, seeing even Binance investigating it; Tezos entered the Top 10 club; Zcash prepared for Blossom, but then XRP became the only green one; BTC dev says that...
Brazil, Japan, Istanbul and 20 Crypto Jokes
7.12.2019
This week in the Cryptoworld: CryptoBridge is shutting down, while Vertcoin experienced another 51% attack, Huobi strengthens ties with China , OneConnect Financial Technology aims to raise up to USD 504M in an IPO, Hive found itself in a peculiar situation, SBI is considering issuing XRP...
Hack Worries, Roller Coaster and 20 Crypto Jokes
30.11.2019
The Cryptoworld was hit this week with major news that Upbit lost ETH 342,000 (USD 53 million). The week started badly with BTC tumbling below USD 6.7K, but it rallied 10% some 7 hours later, with altcoins moving upwards too, then it dropped below USD 7K again and rallied another 10% two days...
Leaked Passwords, Miner Capitulations and 20 Crypto Jokes
23.11.2019
This week saw personal data and passwords of GateHub wallet users leaked online, as well as discussions about 80,000 Bitcoins stolen from Mt. Gox. We learned that BTC may dip below USD 7K before the halving (and it did), and miners may or may not be capitulating. Meanwhile, Ethereum managed...
Surveillance, Blockchain Importance and 20 Crypto Jokes
16.11.2019
Welcome to your crypto-week summary. Let’s see what happened. While financial professionals say BTC will outperform S&P 500, a Manhattan condo was paid for with BTC and Buterin said that Bitcoiners may change their minds on PoS. Bakkt opened its Bakkt Warehouse to all institutions, Justin...
Manipulations, Turns, Exchanges and 20 Crypto Jokes
9.11.2019
Well, it was seven days of twists and turns, and we’re not necessarily talking about crypto prices. Tezos rallied on news from major exchanges, an analyst discussed why DOGE is doing better than most altcoins, and a report said that a single whale manipulated 2017 Bitcoin rally, though multiple...
Integration, Domination, Investment and 20 Crypto Jokes
2.11.2019
It was a fun week in the Cryptosphere. Is there any other kind though? Tron became a part of Samsung Blockchain Keystore; China's already looking at applying blockchain technology to cross-border trade finance, and China-based coins pumped hard; as BCH network security was in question, BCH rallied...
Killers, Giants, Nodes and 20 Crypto Jokes
26.10.2019
So, what happened this week in the Cryptoworld? Bitcoin crashed and the entire market turned bloody. You know, the usual. Until it's not usual and Bitcoin makes one of the biggest move in its history. We found out that Bakkt aims to lure institutional investors with a new product, that Killers...
Strange Confusions, Big Money and 20 Crypto Jokes
19.10.2019
It was another week of ups and down in the Cryptoworld. While analysts advise us to keep our eyes on the price formation on large Asian exchanges, XRP jumped the highest among the top 10 on Monday, BAT jumped after Brave's major news, six coins in the top 50 went up by two digits, BNB jumped...
Green Lists, Red Lights and 20 Crypto Jokes
12.10.2019
This past week in the Cryptoworld saw a lots of greenery: XRP price rallied, Chainlink jumped 33%, and then it climbed 45%, but also ETH went over USD 180, Tron went up 11%, and LTC appreciated 4.4%. And the up-‘n’-down nature of the space continues, as we've seen DeFi dapps growing, but also...