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First Mover: Bitcoin Difficulty Adjustment Feels Like Post-Halving Easing Party
19.5.2020
Bitcoin mining is set to get easier, as the network undergoes an expected difficulty adjustment on Tuesday – the first since last week's reward halving
EU Supercomputers Hijacked From COVID-19 Research to Mine Cryptocurrency
19.5.2020
A number of supercomputers programmed to search for a vaccine for the coronavirus were remotely hijacked last week using stolen credentials
DTCC Considers DLT Use in Securities Trading With 2 New Studies
19.5.2020
DTCC, the plumber to capital markets’ quadrillion-dollar pipes, is wondering if DLT can boost securities processing
Developers of Ethereum Privacy Tool Tornado Cash Smash Their Keys
19.5.2020
Developers of ether mixer Tornado Cash have destroyed their admin keys, turning the privacy tool into permissionless code
Uniswap V2 Launches With More Token-Swap Pairs, Oracle Service, Flash Loans
18.5.2020
The headline feature of the new Uniswap will be the ability for anyone to create any pool pair they want, so long as it exists on Ethereum
Bug Forces Shutdown of Bitcoin-Backed Ethereum Token tBTC
18.5.2020
Thesis shut down tBTC after two days on due to a bug, and plans to release details once all users have withdrawn their funds
Trading Contest on Synthetix Aims to Showcase Speed of New DEX Tech
18.5.2020
Synthetix is putting over $40,000 in crypto on the line to entice users to try out the faster beta of its decentralized exchange (DEX)
Visa Patent Filing Would Allow Central Banks to Mint Digital Fiat Currencies Using Blockchain
15.5.2020
The filing details a way for fiat currencies, like the U.S. dollar, to be turned into a central bank digital currency
Polymath Eyes June Testnet Launch for New Blockchain Designed for Security Tokens
14.5.2020
The firm is soon to launch the first test network for its new blockchain designed to bring new safeguards for financial institutions working with security tokens
Popular BTC Derivatives Product Goes Live on DeFi’s dYdX
13.5.2020
Andreessen Horowitz-backed dYdX released its Bitcoin Perpetual Contract out of private alpha on Wednesday, bringing a key BTC derivatives product to DeFi
Blockchain Firm Partners Indian Government to Boost Earnings for Farmers
13.5.2020
Agtech startup Agri10x is working with India's government to better connect small-scale farmers to global buyers, using blockchain to cut out the middleman
Vitalik Buterin Clarifies Remarks on Expected Launch Date of Eth 2.0
13.5.2020
Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin: “I defer to the client devs on timelines and if they are now saying ‘Q3’ more broadly then I believe them.”
CipherTrace Wants to Guide Central Banks on Their Digital Currency Projects
12.5.2020
The blockchain analytics firm is launching an initiative to pitch itself to central banks as both a tech partner and a guiding influence on future digital currency projects
China’s BSN Aims to Reclaim Financial Data From Tech Giants
12.5.2020
Research Fellow Martin Chorzempa argued that China’s blockchain strategy is entirely focused on domestic objectives during Consensus
UAE Bank Opens Bangladesh Remittance Corridor using Ripple’s Blockchain Tech
12.5.2020
RAKBank aims to speed up remittances for Bangladeshi expats after integrating with RippleNet
IBM Blockchain to Offer Decentralized Smart Contract Option
12.5.2020
IBM is implementing the Hyperledger Fabric 2.0 base layer to support smart contract governance on its blockchain platform
Trust No Dapp: Chainlink Launches Oracle for Provable Randomness
12.5.2020
Chainlink may be solving part of the problem that first drove Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s interest in decentralized applications
Bitcoin Halving Arrives: Mining Rewards Drop for Third Time in History
11.5.2020
Bitcoin's third halving, a once-every-four-years occurrence and the most anticipated event this year in the cryptocurrency industry, has finally happened
Main Barrier to CBDC Is Philosophy, Not Tech, Says European Central Bank Rep
11.5.2020
ECB executive board, Yves Mersch, believes that the main impediment for CBDC is philosophical rather than technological
Zcash Alliance Aims to Bring Privacy Tech to Bitcoin, Cosmos and Ethereum
11.5.2020
Zcash-inspired privacy tools are coming to Bitcoin's Lightning Network and many other blockchain ecosystems, creating a shared cryptocurrency privacy layer