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The Silk Road Balance Sheet Discrepancy: Bitcoin Worth $4.8 Billion Still Missing
12.10.2020
The original Silk Road marketplace has been shut down for well over seven years now and to this day, 444,000 bitcoin worth $4.8 billion is still missing. Just recently, a report focused on those funds discusses one of the market’s biggest mysteries and how people have seemingly forgotten...
Belgian investors lost $12M to crypto and forex scams last year
12.10.2020
Losses due to crypto scams are on the rise in Belgium
Defi Community Members Aim to Sue Yearn Finance Creator Andre Cronje and Fork YFI
12.10.2020
Members of the decentralized finance (defi) community are upset with Yearn Finance founder Andre Cronje over the mishap with Cronje’s secret Eminence (EMN) project. The Eminence protocol gathered $15 million before the project was ultimately hacked before the official launch. According to...
Group raising funds to sue Andre Cronje over EMN hack
11.10.2020
Cronje may have gone silent on Twitter, but it hasn’t stopped people from trying to sue him for the EMN hack
NFT Craftiness: Mint a Non-Fungible Token Art Collectible in Less Than 15 Minutes
11.10.2020
In the last few months the non-fungible token (NFT) art space has exploded and data shows that there’s been over 4.9 million sales worth well over $128 million to-date. This week I decided to create an Ethereum-based NFT leveraging the application rarible.com, in order to show our readers...
Payments firm Rocketfuel Blockchain sues co-founder over expired patents
10.10.2020
The blockchain payments company said it unknowingly owns patents that expired before these were transferred to them
Las Atlantis: A New Bitcoin-Friendly Online Casino
10.10.2020
Las Atlantis is a new ambitious project developed by Top One Partners, an affiliate program that develops and manages brands. Their casinos are popular around the world due to the crypto-friendly policies, which allow users to deposit funds in BTC. Earlier this month, Top One Partners introduced...
Coinbase VP of Business and Data Will Leave Over Mission Statement
9.10.2020
In a LinkedIn post, Vice President of Business and Data Dan Yoo announced he was leaving the company after CEO Brian Armstrong released a blog post saying the company was moving in an ‘apolitical’ direction and later offered a severance package for employees who disagreed
Animating Number Counters
9.10.2020
Number animation, as in, imagine a number changing from 1 to 2, then 2 to 3, then 3 to 4, etc. over a specified time. Like a counter, except controlled by the same kind of animation that we use for other design animation on the web. This could be useful when designing something like a dashboard,...
Market Update: Bitcoin Captures $11K, Flash Buy Signals, Bollinger Band Squeeze
9.10.2020
Cryptocurrency markets are seeing decent gains on Friday following the announcement Square made the day prior about purchasing $50 million worth of bitcoin for reserves. During the morning trading sessions, the overall market capitalization of all 7,000+ crypto assets is up over 2% hovering at $340...
Bitcoin Cash Draws a Bullish Crossover Over the Past 15 Days
9.10.2020
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) maintains its stance to be one amongst the top 5 cryptos of the market and leaves altcoins like BNB, LINK, LTC behind with a striking positive momentum in the intraday. After a steep pullback in the previous month, BCH price had tested bottom at $203, which is close to hitting...
Aussie household name threatens to sue The Guardian over Bitcoin scam ads
9.10.2020
The legal team behind the case called it a “prolific cryptocurrency scam.”
5% of Coinbase Employees Take Severance Offer Over ‘Apolitical’ Stance
8.10.2020
Sixty of Coinbase’s 1,200 employees have accepted the exit package offered by CEO Brian Armstrong, according to a memo obtained by CoinDesk
DOJ states it has jurisdiction over foreign crypto companies that touch US servers
8.10.2020
The US government says they have broad extraterritorial jurisdiction over crypto-related businesses
Bitcoin-inspired Art Sells for over USD 131,000 at Christie’s
8.10.2020
The link between the worlds of arts and blockchain-powered non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is continuing to deepen for collectors worldwide, with a bitcoin (BTC)-themed work named Block 21 (42.36433° N, -71.26189° E) (from Portraits of a Mind) – a piece inspired by blockchain technology – fetching...
Yearn Finance Token Value Slides 67%, While Locked Value Loses Over $300M
8.10.2020
Yearn Finance’s native token YFI has been seeing significant capitulation as the price has dropped from an all-time high (ATH) of $43k in mid-September to today’s $13,875 USD value. Despite the -67.7% loss since the token’s ATH, the Yearn Finance project still has around $624...
China’s Digital Currency Has Been Used in 3 Million Transactions Worth Over a Billion Yuan So Far
8.10.2020
China’s central bank digital currency has been used in 3.13 million transactions worth about 1.1 billion yuan ($162 million) so far, the People’s Bank of China’s deputy governor has reportedly revealed. In addition, more than 122,000 digital wallets have been created....
Over $26M Worth of Bitcoin Associated With 2016 Bitfinex Hack is on the Move
7.10.2020
The seven transactions involved in the movement of these funds on Wednesday were flagged by Twitter-based blockchain tracker bot Whale Alert
Finance Redefined: DeFi party’s over, back to building now, Sept. 30—Oct. 7
7.10.2020
DeFi tokens suffered massive losses this week, and they could continue
Japan’s Messaging Giant Line Introduces Crypto Lending Services
7.10.2020
Back in the summer of 2018, the Japanese messaging giant, Line Corp., launched a cryptocurrency exchange with over 30 digital assets. Now Line is introducing crypto lending services with five different crypto assets and a new lineup of decentralized applications (dapps). The Japanese messaging...