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Tether Reaches 30 Billion USDT Issued on Tron
13.5.2021
Tether, the largest stablecoin by market cap, has reached a milestone by issuing 30 billion USDT on top of the Tron blockchain. While the stablecoin is now present on several chains, including BSC (Binance Smart Chain) most of it is now on Tron due to the blockchain’s low transaction fees...
Paradox Director Is Very Sorry For "Low Quality" DLC Releases
13.5.2021
Following fan backlash over Europa Universalis IV’s Leviathan DLC, which wound up the worst-rated launch on Steam of all time, the director of the studio responsible has apologised to fans for not just Leviathan’s poor quality, but that of some other recent releases as well.Read more
Coinbase stock plunges to record low, further decoupling from crypto
6.5.2021
The stock was down by as much as 6.5%, even as the overall cryptocurrency market reached new all-time highs
US Dollar Share of Global Foreign Exchange Reserves Drops to 25-Year Low
6.5.2021
Serkan Arslanalp is Deputy Division Chief in the Balance of Payments Division of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s Statistics Department. Chima Simpson-Bell is an Economist in the same department.
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The share of US dollar reserves held by central banks fell to 59%—its lowest level in...
Osprey Polkadot Trust Arrives as Institutional Interest in Altcoins Swells
6.5.2021
The newest investment trust tracking polkadot echoes other moves by the fund manager to make cryptos accessible via traditional equity markets and satisfy growing investor demand as interest in ETPs mounts. Low-Fee Offering to be Launched on OTCQX Market Bitcoin may have been the first crypto...
Venezuelan Minimum Wage Reaches $3 as More Venezuelans Take Refuge in Cryptocurrencies
5.5.2021
The president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, approved a minimum wage raise increase last week that took it to three dollars monthly, a very low income for the citizens of the country that are facing a strong economic crisis since 2013. However, the crypto environment has been growing, and...
African Property Development Firm Partners Online Leasing Platform in a BTC for Solar Cells Scheme
29.4.2021
South African property developer, New Age Properties, says it has partnered with Sun Exchange, an online leasing platform, as part of an effort to bring cheap and clean energy to low-income earners. Bitcoin for Solar Cells According to the two companies’ working arrangement, Sun Exchange...
Smoothy Listing on AscendEX
28.4.2021
PRESS RELEASE. AscendEX, formerly BitMax, an industry-leading digital asset trading platform built by Wall Street quant trading veterans, has announced the listing of the Smoothy Token (SMTY) under the pair USDT/SMTY on Mar 29 at 1:00 p.m. UTC. Smoothy is a novel single pool liquidity protocol...
Rabín a hliněný sluha: Opravdu stvořil rabi Jehuda Löw mýtického golema?
26.4.2021
Legenda o pražském golemovi tvoří součást českého folkloru a je vlastně jediná, která spojuje český národ se židovskou kulturou. Údajně měl umělého člověka z hlíny vytvořit pražský rabi Löw, učitel, mudrc a filozof. Jenže židovského čaroděje z něj udělaly až mnohem pozdější legendy, zatímco na jeho...
The Low Poly Dog From Modern Warfare Is Perfect
25.4.2021
It turns out, digital dogs don’t need a lot of polygons to be good boys.Read more
‘Nothing Goes up in a Straight Line’- S2F Creator Plan B Claims Bitcoin Price Drop a ‘Mid-way Dip’
25.4.2021
Bitcoin prices have dropped below the $50k region during this week’s trading sessions sinking to a low of $47,555 on Friday. The popular creator of the stock-to-flow (S2F) bitcoin price model, Plan B has discussed the recent price dip and stressed that “nothing goes up in a straight...
Ripple’s Chris Larsen Believes Bitcoin Dominance Could Fall Over Proof-of-Work’s Energy Consumption
25.4.2021
Ripple Labs cofounder Chris Larsen has a bone to pick with bitcoin and crypto networks that leverage proof-of-work (PoW). Larsen’s latest write-up explains that the crypto industry needs to reconsider PoW because of the effects on the environment. The Ripple executive believes that other...
2 Cents per Kilowatt Hour: Bitfarms to Launch a 210 MW Bitcoin Mining Operation in Argentina
21.4.2021
The Canadian publicly traded bitcoin mining company Bitfarms has announced a deal that will see the company developing a 210 megawatt (MW) mining farm in Argentina. Bitfarms says that the company was able to secure a low electricity rate at $0.02 per kWh during the contractual period....
Crypto Markets Lose Hot Air, DOGE and BCH Skyrocket, 46% Chance ETH Hits $2,600 by May
16.4.2021
Digital currency markets have seen some slight losses on Friday morning, as a great number of cryptocurrencies saw significant gains the day prior. Bitcoin dropped to a low of $60,042 during the early morning trading sessions shedding 3% during the last 24 hours. Crypto Markets Shed Some Value...
Bitriver to Sell Tokens Backed by 100 Megawatts of Low-Carbon Siberian Mining Power
13.4.2021
On April 12, the international provider of colocation services for low-carbon cryptocurrency mining Bitriver announced it is launching a pre-sale of tokens backed by 100 megawatts (MW) of mining power in Siberia. The ERC20 tokens called “bitriver token (BTR)” will represent a single...
Bitcoin bulls are confident even as a key BTC price metric hits a new low
12.4.2021
Bitcoin’s long to short ratio has dropped to a 5 month low but bears are not taking the bait, suggesting bulls are still in control of BTC price
'Meat Is Magic': The Women Who Are Committed Carnivores
7.4.2021
There are dozens of photographs of bloody slabs of ribeye and shots of bacon strips sizzling in pools of fat, chunky piles of ground beef, glistening pots of butter, and tallow. These images of meat and fat aren’t much to look at, but to the members of the Women Carnivore Tribe, a Facebook group...
UK prosecutor expects crypto scams to increase, but numbers remain low for now
5.4.2021
Less than 1% of overall fraud cases relate to cryptocurrency, but that number could be rising in line with Bitcoin and the crypto market's ascension
Ripple Partner Mercury FX Accepted Into ‘First Cohort’ of a South African Regulatory Sandbox
4.4.2021
South Africa’s Inter-governmental Fintech Working Group (IFWG) recently accepted Mercury FX, a UK-based e-money firm, into the first cohort of its regulatory sandbox. The firm, which harnesses the Ripplenet blockchain, says it wants to demonstrate its technology’s ability “to...
Binance Abruptly Delists South African Rand Trading Pairs After Currency Fails to Meet ‘High Level Standard’
2.4.2021
In an abrupt move, Binance South Africa announced on March 31 that all South African rand (ZAR) trading pairs will be delisted on April 2. The crypto exchange adds in a statement that “all trade orders will be automatically removed after 10.00 UTC on April 1” in each respective trading...