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Visa CEO Leaves Door Open for Libra Return, Says Bitcoin Is Commodity
19.5.2020
Alfred Kelly. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Business Live ME
Payments giant Visa has suggested that its foray into digital currencies is not over, and – although it is still distancing itself from cryptocurrencies – has admitted that it is open to the idea of returning to Facebook’s Libra...
Price Analysis 5/18: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, LTC, BNB, EOS, XTZ, XLM
18.5.2020
Bitcoin looks ready to head higher in the next few weeks, meaning traders could consider accumulating on the dips
Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 20
18.5.2020
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...
New Crypto Bull Cycle, Ripple’s MoneyTap in ATMs + More News
18.5.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news.
Crypto adoption news
Major venture capital fund Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has predicted a fourth crypto bull cycle, driven...
Crypto Market Sentiment Drops Again; Bitcoin Still in the Positive Zone
18.5.2020
Source: iStock/da-kuk
Crypto market sentiment went for a dive in the first week after the Bitcoin (BTC) halving event on May 11. Crypto market sentiment analysis service Omenics shows that the combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure, sentscore, for the top 10 coins dropped from last...
South Korean Central Bank Steps up CBDC Work ‘in Response to COVID-19’
18.5.2020
The South Korean central bank has sped up its digital currency issuance progress, per a new report, with officials to begin a tech review several months ahead of schedule.
According to Chosun, the central Bank of Korea (BOK) says it has conducted a study of the technological advances required...
Top 5 Cryptocurrencies to Watch This Week: ETH, XLM, ADA, XMR, CRO
17.5.2020
If Bitcoin price breaks out of $10,000 this week, these altcoins could outperform it in the short-term
Review: Documentary Film - Monero Means Money
16.5.2020
The film, Monero Means Money, went from drawing board to premiere in just one week, and even briefly topped the U.S. box office, albeit largely due to the COVID-19 lockdown… but is that a good thing?
Venezuela Appears to Have Hard Forked The Petro
16.5.2020
Signs indicate that Venezuela’s state-backed cryptocurrency quietly underwent a hard fork earlier this month
Someone Was Propping Up the Bitcoin Cash Hashrate at a Loss in April
16.5.2020
Data indicates that someone was propping up Bitcoin Cash at a loss prior to the halving
Time For ETH to Rise and Shine as Futures Trading Now Available in US
16.5.2020
ErisX rolls out CFTC-regulated, physically-settled ETH futures contracts to U.S. traders, but positive spot price action is not a certainty
Another Exchange Delists Monero Amidst Ongoing Sex Scandal
15.5.2020
Another cryptocurrency exchange delists XMR in South Korea in the midst of the Nth room sex scandal case
Telegram Investor Backs Durov Crypto Return to ‘Kick Zuckerberg’s Ass’
15.5.2020
Pavel Durov. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/durov.
An investor in Telegram’s aborted Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain platform says he believes the project’s mastermind is not yet ready to walk away from his failed initial coin offering (ICO) – and backed Telegram to return to the crypto...
Bithumb Delists Monero as Telegram Nth Room Rape Video Anger Festers
15.5.2020
South Korean crypto exchanges have said their final farewell to monero (XMR) after Bithumb, the last major trading platform still trading in the token, officially delisted it yesterday. The so-called privacy token has endured a torrid past few weeks in South Korea, after media outlets unearthed...
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...