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Coinbase Report Suggests Bitcoin Acts as a Gateway to Altcoins
15.5.2020
Bitcoin acts as a gateway to altcoins, with only 24% of investors keeping the faith, according to research from Coinbase
Coinbase Says That 60% of Its Bitcoin Buyers Go Into Altcoins
14.5.2020
Major cryptoasset exchange Coinbase claims that although most of its users initially favor bitcoin (BTC), the vast majority also go on to trade altcoins and other digital assets.
In a blog post, the platform claimed,
“Among customers with at least five purchases, 60% start with bitcoin but just...
Price Analysis 5/13: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, LTC, BNB, EOS, XTZ, XLM
13.5.2020
The recent correction in Bitcoin has not dented the upward trend and a retest of $10,000 seems likely
Some Bitcoin Miners Flock to Bitcoin Cash And Bitcoin SV
13.5.2020
While it might take weeks until we have a clear picture of the Bitcoin network after its third halving, it looks like some of its miners have already turned to Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV).
BCH saw its hashrate almost doubling on the day of BTC's halving, on May 11. As reported, after...
Mysterious Stablecoin Rally Marked With Regional Differences
13.5.2020
Strong and unexplained worldwide growth in the use of stablecoins following crypto’s Black Thursday on March 12 is also marked with certain regional differences.
The combined market capitalization of all stablecoins has “almost doubled” since the market crash in March, despite an initially sharp...
Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 is 'On track' With 0 Deadlines
13.5.2020
A recent mistake by Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum (ETH), confirmed that Phase 0 of Ethereum's next version, Ethereum 2.0 (ETH 2.0) will not launch this July, but it might happen in Q3.
Buterin appeared at the CoinDesk’s Consensus: Distributed conference this Monday, where he replied...
Breaking: Telegram Abandons Telegram Open Network and GRAM Tokens
12.5.2020
Telegram CEO announces the end of Telegram Open Network and Gram following regulatory battle
BitPay Onboards Client With 1M Customers, ECB Focuses On Retail CBDC + More News
12.5.2020
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Major crypto payment processor BitPay announced the first large international furniture brand to go live...
Could Stablecoins Trash Cash in the Race to Deliver COVID-19 Payouts?
12.5.2020
With governments all over the world looking for ways to mitigate the financial damage of the coronavirus outbreak, many thinkers are openly asking if cash, already looking outdated before the pandemic, is the right tool for the job in a pre-vaccinated world.
In South Korea, both the private and...
Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 19
11.5.2020
Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today.
Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know...
Crypto Market Sentiment Drops in 7 Days, Even Bloodier in 24 Hours
11.5.2020
The crypto market sentiment is not having a good day, or a good week for that matter. Not only has the combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure, sentscore, for the top 10 coins dropped from last week's 5.88 to 5.67/10 this week, as crypto market sentiment analysis service Omenics...
Litecoin an Unlikely Champ as Crypto Hedge Funds Continue to Diversify
11.5.2020
Hedge funds are finding new uses for cryptoassets that do not involve investment, per a new report, with litecoin (LTC) earmarked as an unlikely altcoin champion for funds.
These were the findings of a joint research paper released by PwC and Elwood Asset Management and shared with Cryptonews.com...
Litecoin Foundation Migrates to BitGo’s Multi-Signature Wallet
11.5.2020
The Litecoin Foundation announced on May 7 that it would migrate from the multi-sig Electrum-LTC wallet to BitGo’s multi-sig wallet
Top 5 Cryptocurrencies to Watch This Week: BTC, ETH, XTZ, ADA, NEO
10.5.2020
Strong buying near the $8,100 level suggests that Bitcoin is likely to retest higher levels in the next few days
Is Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Ready to Replace Altcoin Use Cases?
10.5.2020
For many, Bitcoin’s (BTC’s) Lightning Network (LN) is viewed as a way for the world’s most popular cryptocurrency to enable faster, cheaper payments. While many altcoins, such as Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Litecoin (LTC), have specifically focused on low transaction fees for smaller cryptocurrency...
Kik’s Drama With The SEC May Soon Be At An End
9.5.2020
Both SEC and Kik are requesting summary judgment in their lengthy dispute over the firm’s 2017 ICO
Ripple Reveals Details on its New Trading Platform Through Job Openings
8.5.2020
More information is out about a new trading platform that Ripple, an American blockchain company focusing on payments technologies, has in the works - and it's coming through employment adds.
Ripple is seeking a staff engineer for their "trading platform team that provides market access...
The Tron/Justin Sun Scandal Gets Hotter as Cryptoverse Seeks Explanation
7.5.2020
Justin Sun. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Tron
After yesterday's reports that Tron, which maintains the Tron (TRX) blockchain, led by CEO and Founder Justin Sun, seemingly received more than USD 2 million from the US pandemic relief fund, the story's not getting its epilogue, but rather...
Confusion Reigns as Venezuela’s Petro Goes Offline for ‘Maintainance’
7.5.2020
Nicolás Maduro is the President of Venezuela since 2013, with his presidency under dispute since 2019. Venezuela’s troubled national cryptocurrency the petro (PTR) has gone offline, with petro transactions also apparently suspended at the small number of domestic exchanges that handle...
Trillions of Dai Required in Future to Maintain Maker's Current Value
7.5.2020
Crypto analysts AlfaBlock claim that the MakerDAO protocol will need to host several trillion Dai by 2040 to maintain its current market capitalization