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Grayscale Tells SEC Its Bitcoin Trust Rose $1.6B Over Six Months
12.8.2020
Crypto investment firm Grayscale has told the SEC that the dollar-value of assets in its flagship bitcoin fund increased 90% to over $1.6 billion
Ternio’s ERC-20 TERN Token Listed On Global Crypto Exchange Bibox
12.8.2020
ATLANTA, GA – August 10, 2020 – Ternio’s ERC-20 payment token TERN, has been listed by global cryptocurrency exchange, Bibox. This news comes two months after Ternio’s announcement that they would be burning ten percent of the TERN supply, previously hosted on the Stellar...
Peru, India, Indonesia, Nigeria Among Countries With Highest Crypto Usage Increase
11.8.2020
Peru, India, Indonesia, and Nigeria are among the countries with the biggest increase in crypto wallet creation based on data from Blockchain.com, which has over 52 million wallets created by users worldwide. Nigeria has been the most trending country in recent months, with a 60% increase since...
Halfmoon: A Bootstrap Alternative with Dark Mode Built In
11.8.2020
I recently launched the first production version of Halfmoon, a front-end framework that I have been building for the last few months. This is a short introductory post about what the framework is, and why I decided to build it.
The elevator pitch
Halfmoon is a front-end framework with a...
PSF Token Invokes the First Coin-Age Staking Protocol on Bitcoin Cash
11.8.2020
During the last six months, the Simple Ledger Protocol has grown immensely and there’s been 9,604 SLP tokens created since the infrastructure launched. Just recently news.Bitcoin.com reported on mistcoin, the mineable SLP token that can be mined with a CPU. Now software developer Chris...
Chainlink Price Jumped More Than 45% in 48 Hours and 440% in Twelve Months
10.8.2020
Chainlink’s token surged more than 45% from $9.53 to $14.09 between Friday and Sunday data shows. The surge saw chainlink’s (LINK) market capitalization shooting to $5.12 billion which makes it the sixth most capitalized token, just ahead of cardano (ADA). At the time of writing...
Bitmain Delays Delivery of Bitcoin Miners by Three Months, as Co-Founders Battle for Company Control
7.8.2020
Bitmain has delayed shipments of its Antminer bitcoin mining machines by three months, as the tussle between co-founders, Jihan Wu and Micree Zhan Ketuan, for control of the company intensifies. According to a post on Bitmain’s official Wechat account, the Beijing-based bitcoin miner maker...
Bitmain Delays Bitcoin Miner Shipments by Three Months as Co-Founders Battle On
6.8.2020
The escalating internal power struggle at Bitmain is starting to have a more serious impact on its business and customers
Bitcoin Cash Difficulty Algorithm Debate Heats Up With Fears of Another Chain Split
5.8.2020
With a touch more than three months left until the next Bitcoin Cash upgrade, crypto proponents have been witnessing a new quarrel rise after last year’s contentious Infrastructure Funding Proposal (IFP). This time around, the tensions derive from the Difficulty Algorithm Adjustment (DAA)...
Genesis Reports Q2 Crypto Loans Spiked 118% to $1.4 Billion Amid Rising Yield Farming Interest
5.8.2020
Genesis Capital said Tuesday that its total number of loans outstanding more than doubled to $1.4 billion for the second quarter to June, up from $649 million three months earlier. The crypto lender, which targets institutional investors and wealthy individuals, added over $2.2 billion in...
McAfee Says NetWalker Ransomware Generated $25M Over 4 Months
4.8.2020
The millionaire profits put NetWalker as one of the most profitable pieces of ransomware during 2020
Hackers Have Been Using Dogecoin to Deploy Malware for 6 Months & No One Noticed
31.7.2020
Researchers at Intezer discovered a new malware that relies on the Dogecoin blockchain network to deploy the attack against cloud servers
Curve’s Daily Volume Increases 50x in Two Months
30.7.2020
Decentralized exchange Curve has attracted record volumes after revealing plans for the retroactive distribution of its forthcoming governance token
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Set to Drop for the First Time in Two Months
27.7.2020
The short string of very high highs in Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty is to be broken today according to the current estimates, with miners about to see a difficulty drop instead.
Per the the current estimations by mining pool BTC.com, the difficulty will decrease by more than 3% to 16.8 T.
This...
Crypto Race Heats Up: Bitcoin’s Dominance Ratio Drops to Lowest Level in 12 Months
24.7.2020
The largest digital asset by market capitalization, bitcoin has lost a significant share of market dominance during the last few weeks. Bitcoin’s dominance ratio dropped to 61.5% on Thursday, after hovering around 66% for months on end. The last time the crypto asset’s dominance level...
South Korea to Charge 20% Tax on Bitcoin Profits Under New Law
23.7.2020
South Korea will now tax profits made from buying and selling of cryptocurrency at 20% after the government agreed to the decision on Wednesday. The decision was reached after months of debate. According to a taxation policy amendment notice released July 22, the Ministry of Economy and Finance...
Twitter Has Been Trying To Hire Senior Security Engineers for Two Months
17.7.2020
In the months leading up to the most devastating hack in the company’s history, Twitter was trying to hire cybersecurity pros
Report Shows Bitcoin’s Covid-19 Recovery Stronger Than Other Markets With Zero Intervention
17.7.2020
The response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been ruthless on the global economy and during the last six months, traditional stocks and commodities have felt extreme market volatility. Coinshares published a comprehensive report this week in regard to how bitcoin performed during the coronavirus...
Six Months Later, Bitcoin Community Finally Debates How to Activate Taproot
15.7.2020
The Taproot conversation is continuing with the Bitcoin community having to decide how to begin the months-long activation process
Emerging Markets Drive Paxful First Half 2020 Bitcoin Volume to $1.1 Billion
14.7.2020
Peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto exchange Paxful reported Tuesday that its bitcoin trading volumes climbed 35% to $1.1 billion during the first six months of 2020 compared to $817 million a year ago. More than $182 million worth of bitcoin (BTC), on average, was traded on the platform every month between...