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Multisignature Wallets Can Keep Your Coins Safer (If You Use Them Right)
10.11.2020
Multisignature wallets are cryptocurrency wallets which require two or more private keys to sign and send a transaction
ShapeShift Delists Privacy Coin Zcash Over Regulatory Concerns
10.11.2020
XMR, DASH and ZEC "were delisted at the same time for the same reason – to further derisk the company from a regulatory standpoint."
A Look at ‘Individual X’ and the Seized Stash of Silk Road Bitcoins Worth $1 Billion
9.11.2020
On November 3, 2020, the cryptocurrency community noticed that one of the largest addresses holding 69,369 bitcoins from the Silk Road were transferred. Following the onchain movement, the U.S. government revealed it had seized the coins from a person they dubbed “Individual X.”...
Grin network hit with 51% attack while GRIN token remains resilient
8.11.2020
An unknown mining group currently controls more than half of the Grin blockchain’s hashing power
20 More Block Rewards from 2010 Spent Today— Why Are Decade-Old Bitcoins Waking Up?
8.11.2020
Following the 21 coinbase rewards from 2010 spent on November 7, another long string of so-called ‘sleeping bitcoins’ mined a decade ago were transferred on Sunday morning. According to onchain data, the 20 block rewards from 2010 with 1,000 BTC were transferred at 4:02 a.m. EST. A...
Another Mysterious String of 1,000 ‘Satoshi Era’ Bitcoins Mined in 2010 Moved Today
7.11.2020
On November 7 at around 12:37 a.m. (EST), another string of so-called ‘sleeping bitcoins’ were moved for the first time since 2010. The peculiar movement stemmed from 20 blocks from 2010 with approximately 1,000 BTC spent ($15.5 million) in a single block. 2020 has been a wild year...
South Korea To Ban Crypto Exchanges From Handling Privacy Coins
6.11.2020
South Korea is to ban crypto exchanges from handling digital assets it considers “dark coins”. Regulator Financial Services Commission (FSC) is specifically targeting privacy coins such as dash, monero and zcash. ● The ban is with effect from March 2021. In an update to crypto...
Trezor’s failure to support upcoming BCH fork comes under fire
5.11.2020
Trezor has announced it will wait to see the outcome of Bitcoin Cash’s Nov. 15 fork before pledging support for Bitcoin ABC or Bitcoin Cash Node
South Korean financial watchdog to ban privacy coins
3.11.2020
Virtual asset service providers in the country will not be allowed to handle “dark coins.”
Bitcoin.com Exchange Reveals Role in the Cryptopia Rescue Group
31.10.2020
The world-class trading platform, Bitcoin.com Exchange announced it’s participating in the Cryptopia Exchange rescue consortium in order to help redistribute coins to customers. Bitcoin.com’s trading platform will provide an exchange environment in order to bolster the Cryptopia Rescue...
Central Banks Dump Gold for the First Time Since 2010, Precious Metal Drops 9% Since August High
30.10.2020
A few central banks have started selling tons of gold for the first time since 2010 in order to ease the financial suffering from the Covid-19 pandemic. At $1,875 per ounce, gold prices are down -9.63% since the commodity’s high of $2,075 on August 6. Even though gold has dropped...
Iran’s New Crypto Law Requires Miners to Sell Bitcoin Directly to Central Bank
29.10.2020
Iran has reportedly revised the country’s cryptocurrency regulation to require licensed bitcoin miners to sell their coins directly to the central bank for use to fund imports. Iran’s Revised Crypto Law The Iranian government has amended its cryptocurrency regulation to enable...
'Hyperinflation' DeFi coins hit the hardest in crash: Report
28.10.2020
A large number of DeFi governance tokens are still way down from their peaks as farmers take profits
Lossless Lottery PoolTogether Opens Up to More Coins, More Prizes
22.10.2020
PoolTogether v3 will enable more ERC-20 tokens, more yield sources and more prize distribution schemes for the DeFi savings game
Filecoin Founder Accuses Justin Sun of Spreading Lies About FIL Tokens as Fresh Dumping Allegations Emerge
21.10.2020
Juan Benet, a founder at Filecoin, is attacking Justin Sun for spreading completely false accusations about the movement of the FIL tokens soon after listing. In his long Twitter rebuff, Benet accuses Sun of spreading lies with the intention of harming the Filecoin project financially. Calling...
Payments Giant Paypal Says Its Customers Can Now Buy and Sell Bitcoin
21.10.2020
Payments giant Paypal says its customers can now buy, sell and hold bitcoin and other virtual coins with the company’s online wallets. The company also says its customers will able to use cryptocurrencies to shop at the 26 million merchants on its network starting in early 2021. A report...
Upgraded Monero Is Best Performer Among Top 15 Coins Today
19.10.2020
Privacy-focused cryptocurrency monero (XMR) is the best performing coin among the top 15 tokens by market capitalization today after it launched its network update this past weekend.
At pixel time (15:51 UTC), XMR, ranked 14th by market capitalization, trades at USD 127 and is up by almost 5%...
Crypto Market Sentiment Re-Enters Positive Zone; 3 Coins Join Bitcoin & Ether
19.10.2020
As foreshadowed by last Monday's 24-hour green picture, the entire week behind us turned green, with the combined moving 7-day average crypto market sentiment score (sentscore) for the top 10 coins by market capitalization reaching the positive 6 today, as shown by crypto market sentiment analysis...
Another ‘Sleeping Bitcoin’ Block Reward from 2010 Was Caught Waking Up After Ten Years
14.10.2020
Another 2010 block reward was spent on Wednesday morning (ET) adding to the great number of ‘Satoshi era’ or so-called ‘sleeping bitcoins’ waking up in 2020. The block reward with 50 bitcoins was created on November 11, 2010, and transferred in block 652,669 after ten years....
The Silk Road Balance Sheet Discrepancy: Bitcoin Worth $4.8 Billion Still Missing
12.10.2020
The original Silk Road marketplace has been shut down for well over seven years now and to this day, 444,000 bitcoin worth $4.8 billion is still missing. Just recently, a report focused on those funds discusses one of the market’s biggest mysteries and how people have seemingly forgotten...