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The Covid-19 Crisis Fueled Darknet Markets – A Patron’s Biggest Concern Is Mail Disruption
19.7.2020
Ever since the coronavirus outbreak swept the globe, darknet markets (DNM) have grown exponentially and the lockdowns worldwide are prompting first-time DNM buyers. Currently, the largest DNM on the invisible web is the marketplace Empire, and the only thing impeding the rush of DNM sales these...
We need more inclusive web performance metrics
10.7.2020
Scott Jehl argues that performance metrics such as First Contentful Paint and Largest Contentful Paint don’t really capture the full picture of everyone’s experience with websites:
These metrics are often touted as measures of usability or meaning, but they are not necessarily meaningful...
Major Indian Company TCS Launches Cryptocurrency Trading Solution for Banks’ Customers
8.7.2020
Leading Indian IT company, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), is launching a cryptocurrency trading solution for banks to allow their customers to invest in cryptocurrencies. TCS is part of the Tata group, India’s largest multinational business group, and is listed on two stock exchanges...
IAMAI to Host World’s Largest Virtual Global Fintech Fest
8.7.2020
New Delhi, July 01, 2020: Internet and Mobile Association of India [IAMAI], and its sister organizations, Payments Council of India, [PCI] and Fintech Convergence Council [FCC] are jointly organizing the two-day virtual Global FinTech Festival on July 22-23, 2020. The Department of Economic Affairs...
World’s Largest Pension Fund Lost the Equivalent of Bitcoin’s Entire Market Cap in Just Three Months
6.7.2020
The world’s largest pension fund posted a first-quarter loss of $165 billion, which is equivalent to the Bitcoin’s entire market capitalization
Compound’s ‘Yield Farmers’ Briefly Turned BAT Into DeFi’s Largest Coin
6.7.2020
The digital advertising token briefly became bigger than ether in the decentralized finance space, thanks to popular lending protocol Compound
Encryption Crackdown: Private Phone Network With 60,000 Users Dismantled by Law Enforcement
6.7.2020
An international law enforcement team has brought down an encrypted phone network with 60,000 users worldwide. The platform was one of the largest providers of encrypted communications, widely used by organized crime groups. UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA), Europol, Eurojust, and several...
Tether’s Market Valuation Grows 144% in 2020, USDT Market Cap Worth $10 Billion
2.7.2020
The most popular stablecoin, Tether, has propelled its way into the third-largest position by cryptocurrency market capitalization. At the time of publication, a number of market valuation aggregators show that Tether’s market cap is between $9.1 to $10.1 billion. Tether (USDT) is a well...
SBI Invests $30M in B2C2, Largest Proclaimed Market Maker in XRP
1.7.2020
SBI invests $30 million in major crypto liquidity startup soon after revealing Japan’s first digital fund comprising 50% XRP
Bitcoin ETP Listed on Europe’s Third-Largest Exchange
1.7.2020
21Shares said listing on Deutsche Boerse's Xetra platform will make their Bitcoin ETP accessible to a broader institutional market
Binance Prepares ‘For the Next Wave’ With ‘Largest Upgrade’
29.6.2020
Source: Instagram, Binance
Major crypto exchange Binance has resumed trading after completing its “largest upgrade to date,” which according to the exchange’s CEO, Changpeng Zhao, included switching the trade matching engine to a new programming language, essentially re-writing all code in...
Market Says 'Meh' as Largest Ever Bitcoin Options Expires
26.6.2020
Following what was hyped as “the largest options expiry in history” for bitcoin (BTC) Friday morning, little has changed in the bitcoin spot market so far, where prices today have hovered mostly in the range of USD 9,100 to 9,200.
Zooming in on the shorter timeframes, however, it is clear that...
Bitcoin Price Dump: Miners Start Selling 9,000 BTC, Possibly Opening Bear Cycle
25.6.2020
Bitcoin miners on Tuesday transfered nearly 3,000 bitcoin, worth around $28 million, directly into exchange wallets. Several thousand others were likely moved via over-the-counter (OTC) deals. Direct exchange transfers represent the largest flow of bitcoin (BTC) from miners to such platforms...
Unicef Funding Startups With Cryptocurrency for Covid-19 Relief
21.6.2020
The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has announced its largest cryptocurrency investment funding of startups. Eight companies in seven countries will use Unicef’s crypto fund to develop prototypes, pilot, or scale their technologies. Several of them are working on mitigating...
UNICEF Cryptocurrency Fund Makes Its Largest-Ever Investment
20.6.2020
125 ETH going to some very good causes
Paxos ‘Flippens’ LocalBitcoins As The Largest P2P Bitcoin Marketplace
19.6.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) peer-to-peer (P2P) trading market went through a historical week, as Paxful has surpassed LocalBitcoins in weekly trading volume for the first time in P2P trading history.
According to data provided by Coin.dance, Paxful is now the leading Bitcoin P2P marketplace in terms of global...
Paxful ‘Flippens’ LocalBitcoins As The Largest P2P Bitcoin Marketplace
19.6.2020
Bitcoin (BTC) peer-to-peer (P2P) trading market went through a historical week, as Paxful has surpassed LocalBitcoins in weekly trading volume for the first time in P2P trading history.
According to data provided by Coin.dance, Paxful is now the leading Bitcoin P2P marketplace in terms of global...
Binance Pool Is Now the Largest Bitcoin SV Miner
17.6.2020
Since its launch in April, Binance Pool has become responsible for 26.39% of all Bitcoin Satoshi Vision blocks mined
Eidoo Burns 28 Million $EDO in Preparation for Governance Token Upgrade on June 18th
11.6.2020
Switzerland, 11th June 2020. Swiss-based crypto platform Eidoo has today burned almost one third (1/3rd) of the total supply of utility token $EDO as they prepare for its June 18th token upgrade, in collaboration with sister company Provable Things. In one of the largest-scale token burns in...
Hacker Steals Database of the Largest Hosting Provider on the Dark Web
1.6.2020
Sensitive data from darknet websites hosted in Daniel’s Hosting have been leaked by a hacker who claims ties to Anonymous