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An Aggregated List of Cryptocurrency ‘Fair Values’ in 2021 Gives a Different Perspective
6.2.2021
During the last decade, cryptocurrency users have leveraged a number of coin market capitalization aggregators, in order to check in on a crypto asset’s price and the project’s overall market valuation. However, there’s also a number of crypto price aggregators that follow...
All Tifon Gas Stations in Croatia Now Accept Cryptocurrencies
5.2.2021
Forty-six Tifon gas stations across Croatia have reportedly started accepting cryptocurrency payments. Using payment processor Paycek, customers can pay with a number of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin and ether. Tifon gas stations in Croatia started accepting cryptocurrency payments at...
Sky High Bitcoin and Ethereum Fees: While Prices Jump the Cost to Transfer Follows Suit
4.2.2021
While a number of digital currencies have seen price gains the two leading crypto assets, bitcoin and ethereum have seen transaction fees skyrocket. For instance, data shows that the median fee for a bitcoin transaction is $8.58, while the median fee is $9.35 when spending ether. Meanwhile,...
.NFT Web Domain Extension Scooped Up for Record $84K by Kenetic’s Jehan Chu
3.2.2021
Jehan Chu, who owns 1,300 Handshake domains, will be able to issue an unlimited number of subdomains under the .NFT extension. The Previous Owner Bought Extension for Less Than $600 Amid the rally in major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, non-fungible tokens (NFT) have experienced...
Visa Pilots System to Help Banks Provide Crypto Services Including Buying, Trading, Custody of Bitcoin
3.2.2021
Visa is piloting a new system to enable banks to seamlessly integrate crypto features. Using Visa’s crypto APIs, banks can offer a number of cryptocurrency services to their customers, including the buying, trading, and custody of bitcoin. Visa announced Wednesday a partnership with First...
Active Addresses Number of Tether's Tron Version Eclipsed Ethereum Version
3.2.2021
There's a shift of tether (USDT) activity from the Ethereum (ETH) to the Tron (TRX) version, while the ETH version still has much higher daily transfer value, according to crypto intelligence firm Coin Metrics.
Since 2021 started, stablecoin daily active addresses have reached new highs, said...
Gamestop Shares and Reddit Fueled Stocks Plummet, Crypto Fans Say Bitcoin Is the Only True Attack
2.2.2021
Following the Wallstreetbets saga last week, a great number of the popular shares being fueled by social media have started to tank in value. Gamestock shares dropped over 60% on Tuesday, while AMC dropped more than 49% shaking investors who bought into these stocks to the core. Meanwhile, a number...
US Lawmaker Likes Bitcoin — Urges Policymakers to Embrace Innovation in Regulation
1.2.2021
U.S. Representative Patrick McHenry is pro-bitcoin. He is now hosting the Bitcoin whitepaper on his official congressional website and has called on other lawmakers to embrace innovation like Bitcoin. He believes that the cryptocurrency is unstoppable and governments cannot kill it. Pro-Bitcoin...
Goldman and Interactive Brokers Execs Claim Wallstreetbets Trend Could ‘Take Down the System’
31.1.2021
The heavy hitters in traditional finance have been concerned about the recent stock market action fueled by Redditors and a colossal number of retail investors. This week a Goldman Sachs executive warned that if these short squeezes continue it could “snowball through the market.”...
Bitcoin Cash Transactions Intensify, Daily Count Nears BTC, Big Blocks Help Clear Throughput
31.1.2021
Just recently, the Bitcoin Cash community has been discussing the large number of transactions the network has been seeing on a daily basis during the last month. Statistics show that bitcoin cash daily transactions have been increasing every day since the last week of 2020. Bitcoin Cash miners...
Report: Bitcoin Bull Run and Rising Awareness of Digital Currencies Led to a 20% Increase in Crypto Related Lawsuits in China
28.1.2021
A report from China says as many as 872 lawsuits relating to cryptocurrencies were filed in the past year, a figure which is approximately 20% more than that of 2019. Using data obtained from the China Judgment Document Network (CJDN), the report shows that the province of Guangdong had the highest...
Privacy-Centric Messaging App Signal Experiments With Stellar-Based Mobilecoin Project
28.1.2021
One of the most popular privacy-centric messaging applications Signal has seen explosive growth during the last two months over things like the Whatsapp acquisition and the recent Big Tech censorship. According to a number of reports, the company has been experimenting with monetization and more...
Report Claims Harvard, Yale, and Brown University Endowments Have Been Discreetly Buying Bitcoin
26.1.2021
According to sources familiar with the matter, a number of Ivy League universities including the University of Michigan, Brown, Yale, and Harvard endowments have been discreetly purchasing cryptocurrencies. The prominent schools have been reportedly leveraging exchanges like Coinbase and other...
USDT Transactions on Tron Surpassed Ethereum Tether Transactions Every Day in 2021
25.1.2021
During the last two months, tether transactions have spiked considerably. More recently, however, USDT transactions on the Tron network have outpaced the number of tether transfers on the Ethereum blockchain. Despite a whole lot more ERC20-based tethers in the wild, the minted stablecoin using...
Crypto ETF Race Heats Up in 2021- Valkyrie Bitcoin Trust Files to List Shares on NYSE
24.1.2021
2021 has been an explosive year for bitcoin as the crypto asset has touched new all-time price highs as cryptocurrencies have seen increased demand. Meanwhile, a number of crypto proponents expect the first exchange-traded fund (ETF) to be approved this year as a number of firms are racing...
Buying Items and Services With Bitcoin: A Look at Crypto Asset Accepting Merchants in 2021
24.1.2021
While the price of bitcoin and numerous cryptocurrencies have jumped in value, a great number of merchants have been willing to accept digital currencies for goods and services. These days a crypto proponent can buy literally anything with their crypto assets and some of these items are very unique...
Bitcoin Whales Grow After Price Bottoms, Analyst Says ‘Coins Are Moving to Very Strong Holders’
24.1.2021
While the price of bitcoin has been consolidating just above the $30k handle, onchain data shows that when the price dropped to $28,800, bitcoin whales bought the dip. Statics from Glassnode’s web portal shows the number of addresses with more than 1,000 bitcoin has spiked after hitting...
Purging Today’s Freedom Activists: Why Big Tech’s Censorship Isn’t Directed Solely at Trump Supporters
23.1.2021
There’s been a lot of unrest in the U.S. and just before the presidential election’s electoral vote, Big Tech took action and censored a great number of individuals and even competing social media platforms. Moreover, even after President Biden’s first few days in office, social...
Crypto Economy Shaves $100 Billion, Digital Asset Markets Recover Some Losses
22.1.2021
Digital currency markets have dropped in value during the last two days as more than $100 billion was shaved off the entire crypto market valuation. Bitcoin slid to the lowest point of the year at $28,800 per unit on Thursday afternoon, and a number of other crypto-assets saw significant losses...
Bitcoin Websites Asked to Remove White Paper After Craig Wright Claims Copyright Infringement
21.1.2021
During the last few days, the cryptocurrency community has been discussing the recent action taken by Craig Wright’s lawyers against web portals that host the original Bitcoin white paper. Recently letters were sent to a number of websites requesting the removal of the paper due to alleged...