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SLP Token Trading Platform Cryptophyl Adds BTC Pair With Bitcoin Cash at Flat 0.15% Fee
6.2.2020
Digital asset exchange Cryptophyl has announced it’s launching bitcoin core (BTC) trading. The first available pair is with bitcoin cash (BCH), the platform revealed on social media this week. Trading the two major cryptocurrencies will also allow users to earn the exchange’s native...
UK Crypto Startups to Pay Discounted £2,000 Fee for Registration, FCA Revises Application Charges
5.2.2020
Young and small cryptocurrency businesses will pay lower registration fees than big companies, the United Kingdom’s financial watchdog has decided after consultations with members of the industry. The revised fee scheme takes into account the firms’ income to determine the amount...
What Is the Ideal Block Size and Fee Cost?
24.1.2020
Many of the debates around block size in Bitcoin operate under the false premise that the question can even be properly answered by a central authority. But markets are better at deciding these questions and block sizes and fee costs should be worked out by miners and users, not development...
Startup Crypto Exchange Blade to Launch Zero-Fee Trading in February
15.1.2020
Crypto perpetuals exchange Blade will be introducing zero-fee trading next month in a bid to gain market share from rivals
Researcher’s Scathing Lightning Network Analysis Finds Flaws
9.1.2020
On January 7, digital preservation researcher David Rosenthal published an overview of BTC’s Lightning Network (LN) which claims LN infrastructure isn’t decentralized and privacy-preservation is a myth. Rosenthal’s analysis found significant flaws with the LN fee system and...
Why Double Spends on BCH Are Not the Same as Replace-By-Fee Fraud
3.1.2020
When it comes to creating a peer-to-peer electronic cash system, accepting zero confirmation transactions becomes critically important. When a model’s main aim is to “just hodl” or push an isolated store of value narrative, important concerns like double spending can take a back...
ShapeShift Exchange Revolutionizes Industry With Zero Trading Fee Feature
2.1.2020
Trading fees play an important role when it comes to the selection of a cryptocurrency trading platform. At present, the market is flooded with an array of crypto exchanges which promise to offer the best facilities to their clients. While some crypto exchanges manage to earn the name from...
Cashaa Slashes Fee Rates by 50% to Promote Cryptocurrencies in India
2.1.2020
With the start of a new decade, the crypto community is aspiring to achieve new heights of success in the financial marketspace by exploring the untrodden areas. Despite being a developing country, India has been a favorite choice for businesses worldwide owing to the immense potential the country...
Getting In and Out of the Cryptocurrency Economy Can Be Costly
24.12.2019
Since bitcoin and digital currencies have become popular, fiat on and off-ramps have sprung up that allow investors to enter and exit the cryptoconomy. However, many of the entryways into cryptocurrency markets have a hefty fee between 1-4% of the overall purchase and in order to obtain fiat...
These Myth-Busting Articles Dispel Common Bitcoin Myths
22.12.2019
Recently, a few Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponents have been writing a series of myth-busting articles that describe Bitcoin technicals generally thought to be true but which are not. The articles posted on the read.cash blog have reviewed topics like 10-minute confirmation times, SPV wallets,...
Travelbybit to Drop Bitcoin Payments After Viral Double Spend Video
20.12.2019
On December 18, Bitcoinbch.com published a video explaining how easy it is to double spend BTC transactions in the wild. Not long after the film was released, the payment processor Travelbybit announced it would be removing both BTC and BCH payments for over 400 Australian merchants. Unfortunately...
Video Shows How Easy It Is to Double Spend BTC Using RBF
18.12.2019
On December 18, the web portal Bitcoinbch.com published an informal notice explaining that merchants accepting BTC should switch to BCH because of “dangerous flaws” found in the BTC software. The problem is tied to slow confirmation times tethered to a BTC-based protocol called...
Crypto Lender BlockFi Rolls Out Zero-Fee Trading for Bitcoin, Ether, GUSD
5.12.2019
BlockFi, the cryptocurrency lending service, is expanding into trading with an unusual, zero-fee model
Maker’s Stability Fee Drops to 5.5% After Multi-Collateral Dai Announcement
3.11.2019
According to the CEO of the Maker Foundation, Rune Christensen, Multi-Collateral Dai (MCD) will launch on November 18. On October 28, Maker’s stability fee was reduced by a ‘whale’ with roughly 94% of the voting power. Also Read: French Ministry of Education Publishes Bitcoin...
Not a Fee, But 'Long-Term Payment' — How Crypto Exchanges List Tokens
3.11.2019
Cryptocurrency exchanges say money isn’t the main determinant for deciding which altcoin tokens to list on their platforms… but then, why is so much money always involved?
Bitcoin Thermocap Approaches $15B as Miners Hit $1B in Fee Revenue
31.10.2019
Bitcoin pays out $15 billion to miners since 2009
As Lightning’s Economy Takes Shape, Devs Are Split on Proposed Fee Hike
21.10.2019
At the lightning network's inaugural conference in Berlin, the future economics of the bitcoin payment technology took center stage
TradeSanta and HitBTC’s Collaboration to Offer 0% Trading Fee Opportunity to Traders
12.10.2019
Serving as one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the European market, HitBTC has broadcasted the news of its strategic partnership with TradeSanta, the cloud software solution that allows us to create and manage bots efficiently. As per the announcement, the highly anticipated...
SoFi Launches Zero-Fee Crypto Trading for Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin
25.9.2019
SoFi launches zero-fee trading for Bitcoin, Ether and Litecoin via a partnership with Coinbase
Seed CX Slashes Rates as Crypto Trading Fee War Looms
20.9.2019
Cryptocurrency exchange Seed CX has cut fees as competition piles into the profitable crypto trading space