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Prepping for an Airdrop: Prominent BCH Community Members Bid Bitcoin ABC Devs Farewell
On August 18, 2020, the Bitcoin ABC development team announced a “feature freeze,” which will include a new Infrastructure...
Multiplier DeFi (Beta Release) Targets Tokenized Bonds
1st September 2020, Hong Kong – Multiplier DeFi protocol has successfully completed a full audit by leading blockchain-based form...
Akon Unveils Major Details of $6 Billion Cryptocurrency City: Real-Life Wakanda
Akon has released detailed plans of Akon City, his $6 billion futuristic cryptocurrency city, which he calls a “real-life...
Warren Buffett Shifts Funds From US Amid Inflation Fears, Bitcoin’s New All-Time High Expected
Warren Buffett has made another major investment shift, one that reduces Berkshire Hathaway’s dependence on the U.S. economy. This...
Leading Stock Exchanges in Switzerland, Germany, Austria Now List Bitcoin ETP
A bitcoin exchange-traded product by 21Shares is now listed on leading stock exchanges in three countries: Switzerland, Germany, and...
Sushi (SUSHI) token rockets 946% in two days
Decentralized finance continues its seemingly unstoppable rise with new token SUSHI jumping 946% in 48 hours. The wild world of DeFi...
Next target for BTC/USD is $13,880 after highest monthly close since 2017
BTC/USD monthly close of $11,655 is second-highest in history, and bulls have pushed to $11,920 during the Asian session Bitcoin traded...
Revolut Adds Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin Support for US Customers
Following the launch of Revolut’s new crypto exchange in the U.S. the company has added bitcoin cash and litecoin support. Alongside...
Suspected North Korean Hackers Move Bitcoin Worth $140K From Forfeited Account
Suspected North Korean hackers on Monday moved 12 bitcoin, worth about $140,000, from one of 280 accounts the U.S. Department of Justice...
Tesla Foils Ransomware Attack After Employee Rejects Bitcoin Bribe Worth $1 Million
Tesla’s Elon Musk has said the company recently foiled attempts to infect its computer network with malicious software, after an...
Defi Platform Uniswap Outpaces Coinbase Pro in Global Trade Volume
The decentralized exchange (dex) Uniswap has seen a massive amount of trade volume during the last seven days. Following Uniswap’s...
Ciphertace Allegedly Builds Monero-Tracing Tools, XMR Proponents Disagree
The blockchain surveillance firm Ciphertrace claims to have created the “world’s first” monero tracing tools for law...
Venezuela’s Bitcoin Use Soars Amid Hyperinflation: 3rd on Global Crypto Adoption Index
Venezuelans have become increasingly interested in cryptocurrency as their country faces dire economic crisis and hyperinflation, a new...
Ethereum options data is bullish following two-year high
ETH/USD trades above $420 as data by Skew shows traders expect a short term price surge While Bitcoin aims to hold above $11,600 going...
YF Link (YFL) surges to $745 — DeFi boom still ongoing
YFL has risen by 1,677% in just two weeks. Can it trace some of YFI/USD’s 100,000% rally since July? YFL is up 36% in the past 24...
Chainlink Doomsday Predictions: Zeus Capital Warns Investors Not To ‘Get Fooled’
Zeus Capital has doubled down on its doomsday predictions on Chainlink (Link). It is now warning investors: “don’t get...
Total Value Locked in Defi Jumped 85% in August, $8 Billion in Assets Held
A lot has changed during the last month, as the popular decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem has swelled considerably in value. Since...
Nigerian Crypto Startup Yellow Card Raises $1.5 Million For Expansion in Africa
Yellow Card has raised $1.5 million in a seed round. The Nigerian crypto startup said it will use the money to expand its operations in...
Bitcoin Will Break Out This Year, Says Devere CEO
The CEO of financial advisory firm Devere Group believes that 2020 will be a breakout year for bitcoin, fueled by the U.S. presidential...
Russia Blocks Cryptocurrency Websites Ahead of Regulation
Russian authorities have blocked a number of websites related to cryptocurrency ahead of the country’s crypto regulation taking...
Ethereum Classic Suffers 51% Attack Again: Delisting Risk Amplified
Beleaguered Ethereum Classic (ETC) blockchain suffered yet another 51% attack on August 29. The latest attack caused the reorganization of...
Polkadot Top 10 Redenomination Shot: Is the Token Now Bigger Than Chainlink?
The Polkadot token, which recently underwent a redenomination, has seen its value more than double in less than seven days. Now with a...
Lysander Spooner: Natural Law – The Science of Justice
The science of mine and thine – the science of justice – is the science of all human rights; of all a man’s rights of...
Defi Project Yearn Finance Smashes Records as Native Token Surpasses $30K
The decentralized finance (defi) crypto asset tied to the Yearn Finance project has smashed records this week, as the coin touched a high...
Major Chinese Bank Launches Central Bank Digital Currency Wallet Briefly
One of China’s biggest banks recently opened up registration for wallets using the country’s central bank-backed digital...
After Empire’s Exit Scam, Darknet Market Patrons Scramble to Find Alternatives
Ever since the darknet market (DNM) Empire went under, DNM patrons have been scrambling to find reliable marketplaces on the deep web. On...
3.5 Million Crypto Wallets Downloaded in July, Active Users up 110% in the Year
A record 3.5 million crypto wallet app downloads were recorded in July 2020, representing an increase of 81% when compared to the same...
73% of Argentines Say Cryptocurrency Best for Saving in Economic Crisis: Survey
A survey of Argentina’s citizens shows that 73% believe cryptocurrency is the most effective saving method in the current economic...
Ripple Sued by 13 Australian Banks for Trademark Infringement
Ripple Labs Inc. is being sued in an Australian court for allegedly infringing a trademark belonging to several local banks. A lawsuit...
Free Market Family: Goldbug Peter Schiff Asks the Bitcoin Community to Gift Crypto to His Son
The American libertarian, economist and financial commentator Peter Schiff has been criticizing bitcoin for years, as he believes...
Visa Exec Says ‘Opt Out With Bitcoin’ Slamming Fed’s Policy Change Toward Inflation
On Thursday, 17 top Federal Reserve officials explained that the committee plans to let inflation run hotter than usual, or above the...
Federal Reserve’s Major Policy Shift to ‘Push Up Inflation’ Could Send Bitcoin Price to $500K
The U.S. Federal Reserve has announced a significant policy change to push up inflation. Bitcoin is set to greatly benefit from this...
Bitcoin Slips in Latest Crypto Ranking by Chinese Government-Backed Center
China’s Center for Information and Industry Development has revised its rankings of 37 crypto projects. Bitcoin has fallen from the...
Miners are bullish on Bitcoin
Bitcoin miners hold more coins than they did two years ago even as price remains capped around $11,400 Miners on the Bitcoin network have...
Digital Currency Group Pledges $100 Million to Bolster Bitcoin Mining Industry
The firm Digital Currency Group (DCG) is entering the mining industry, as the firm has pledged $100 million into a cryptocurrency mining...
Polkadot (DOT) hits major resistance after rallying 200%
Sell-off pressure has seen DOT/USD price drop nearly 16% since touching a new high of $6.79 The price of sharded protocol platform...
Zimbabwe’s Mobile Money on Life Support as Central Bank Tightens Screws: Restrictions to Affect P2P Bitcoin Trading
Zimbabwe’s Mobile Money Operators (MMO) say they will comply with the latest directive by the central bank to shutdown mobile money...
Banks in Mexico Pose Greater Money Laundering Risk Than Crypto Firms, Says Report
Commercial banks by far pose the greatest risk of money laundering in Mexico compared to crypto-related companies, according to a new...
As Gold Prices Soar, Two Gold-Backed Tokens See Increased Demand Fetching Premiums
The last few months have bolstered the price of the precious metal gold as governments worldwide have created tremendous amounts of debt...
Over $1 Billion Ethereum-Based Tokens Vulnerable to ‘Fake Deposit Exploit’
A number of university researchers published a study that demystifies the “fake deposit vulnerability” in Ethereum-based smart...
SEC Redefines Accredited Investors to Include Those With Proven Knowledge
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has amended the definition of accredited investors, such as to include those with proven...
Bitcoin may see $14,000 by the end of August 2020
This article has been written by Konstantin Anissimov, Executive Director at CEX.IO. CEX.IO is a multi-platform exchange that offers a...
‘Bitcoin Will Never Ditch You’ Ad Dominates Front Page of Major Hong Kong Newspaper
The number of bitcoin ads appearing in major newspapers is growing. The front page of Apple Daily, a major newspaper in Hong Kong,...
Celo explodes 55% as Coinbase Pro adds trading support
Both CELO/USD and CELO/BTC pairs jumped over 50% in 24 hours as the token hit a new all-time high The native token on the CELO network has...
Cosmos (ATOM) reverses, more downsides likely
ATOM/USD drops nearly 9% after surging to highs of $8.86 Cosmos rallied over 35% on Tuesday to climb the crypto charts as one of the best...
DEC777 Decentralized Exchange – The Last Resort for the People Who Lost Trust in Centralized Exchange
Why do we have to store our digital assets with hesitation? We’ve lost trust in many scam exchanges such as Wex,...
New SEC Filing Shows Fidelity Preparing to Launch Bitcoin Fund
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published a new filing for a bitcoin fund, submitted by Fidelity Investments’...
Capturing Petahash: Marathon Obtains 3,300 Bitcoin Mining Rigs, Acquires Fastblock for $22 Million
The Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency mining company, Marathon Patent Group, has announced it will be purchasing Fastblock Mining in an all...
Dash Nigeria Takes Digital Currency Education Campaign to Regulators and Key Institutions
With sophisticated fraud schemes seemingly overwhelming the African crypto market, there is a growing need for players in the space to...
Korean Police Seize Crypto Exchange Coinbit Over Allegations of $84 Million in Wash Trades
Police in South Korea on Wednesday raided and seized the offices of Coinbit, the country’s third largest crypto exchange, over...
Crypto Exchange FTX Buys Blockfolio for $150 Million in Effort To Expand Retail Presence
Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX has acquired the popular portfolio tracking app Blockfolio for $150 million in a bid to gain a...
Report: Russia Remains a ‘Key Market for Crypto,’ Commands the 3rd Largest Bitcoin Hashrate in the World
The fervor for cryptocurrency assets in Russia has grown wild over the last few years. This week Xangle Research published a comprehensive...
IRS Sends Fresh Round of Tax Warning Letters to Cryptocurrency Owners
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has begun sending new warning letters to cryptocurrency owners. This followed the tax agency...
Akon Joins Presidential Campaign of Bitcoin Entrepreneur Brock Pierce as Chief Strategist
Akon has joined bitcoin entrepreneur Brock Pierce’s 2020 campaign to become the president of the United States. Akon will serve as...
Bitcoin in a bullish cycle but expect pullbacks of 40% Analysts say
Bitcoin has dropped nearly 9% since hitting $12,485,but could see more losses according to analysts. Bitcoin’s drop to lows of...
Bears eyeing Bitcoin at $10,900 after testing $11,079
Bitcoin price has declined by about 4% in the past 48 hours, dropping from highs of $11,780 to lows of $11,079 The latest pullback for...
Sources Say World’s Largest Darknet Empire Market Exit Scammed, $30 Million in Bitcoin Stolen
One of the world’s largest darknet markets (DNM), Empire Market, allegedly exit scammed after the marketplace was taken offline for...
Minereum Launches Crypto Bond With up To 50% Yield
Minereum, the project behind the first self-mining smart contract, has released a new crypto bond allowing investors to earn up to 50% a...
Cryptojacking has seen a recent spike: Symantec reports
The spike has been seen in the aftermath of Black Thursday in March this year as lockdowns across the world began According to recently...
Official Notice Says Cheap Electricity to End for Inner Mongolian Bitcoin Miners
Regional reports say that officials from Inner Mongolia delineated 21 bitcoin mines, as the region plans to stop subsidized electrical...
Bittrex Global Announces Listing of Sensorium (SENSO)
Los Angeles, California, August 25th, 2020 – The global cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex Global has announced the listing of SENSO...
Hyperinflation and Currency Collapse Fears After Zambian President Fires Central Bank Governor
Zambian President Edgar Lungu fired the country’s central bank governor Denny Kalyalya last week sparking fears that government...
Developers Plan to Compete in Bitcoin Cash-Fueled Hackathon ‘BCH Devcon III’
On September 4-6, Bitcoin Cash engineers will be holding the third annual developers’ conference dubbed “BCH Devcon...
Aave Protocol Outpaces Maker With $1.4B Locked, Defi Project Granted UK Electronic Money License
The decentralized finance (defi) open-source protocol built on Ethereum, Aave, has surpassed the Maker Dao project in terms of...
Riot Blockchain Buys 8,000 of Bitmain’s Latest Bitcoin Miners, Company Targets 1.5 EH/s by 2021
Bitmain Technologies Inc. said Monday that Nasdaq-listed Riot Blockchain is buying 8,000 of its Antminer S19 Pro bitcoin miners in a deal...
Analysts Predict US Presidential Election Outcome Could Collapse Dollar, Boost Bitcoin and Gold
Analysts have predicted a bearish outlook for the U.S. dollar as the country’s 2020 presidential election approaches. One analyst...
Aave top of DeFi leaderboard with $1.45 billion in Total Value Locked
With $1.45 billion worth of total value locked, Aave has surpassed MakerDAO that has about $1.44 billion in TVL. The total value locked in...
XRP’s Active Wallets Hit 7-day High Despite -9.2% Retrace
XRP daily active addresses have hit 9,499, even as XRP/USD corrected by roughly 9.2% last week. According to the on-chain data platform...
Increase Your Profit Potential With Margin Trading
Spot trading is a popular way for investors to access the crypto market in a straightforward manner. It’s mainly fiat-to-crypto...
P2P Cryptocurrency Exchanges in Africa Pivot: Nigeria and Kenya the Target Markets
Leading cryptocurrency exchanges are bullish about Africa’s growth prospects as evidenced by their ongoing forays into the...
Venezuela Blocks Opposition From Disbursing $18 Million To Health Workers via Bitcoin Exchange Airtm
Venezuela has blocked the main opposition from distributing $18 million worth of cash previously seized by the U.S. from the Nicolas...
The Bitcoin Network Now Consumes 7 Nuclear Plants Worth of Power
The SHA256 hashrate that secures the Bitcoin network has grown massively during the last few years, as Bitcoin’s processing power...
Corporate Crypto Reserve Status: Software Firm Snappa Swaps 40% Cash Reserves for Bitcoin
On Monday, Canadian graphics software company, Snappa, revealed that it was holding bitcoin as a reserve asset. Snappa follows the firms...
Bitmex Restricts Ontario Residents as Mandated by Canadian Regulator
Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Bitmex will be restricting access to users from Ontario, Canada, starting the beginning of next month....
IMF Publishes Cryptocurrency Explainer, Saying It ‘Could Be the Next Step in the Evolution of Money’
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published a video explaining what cryptocurrency is. Besides suggesting that cryptocurrency...
Ethereum sets course for $410 as fee costs plummet
ETH/USD is up 4% in the past 24 hours and is likely to break above $410 as altcoins post mixed trades The weekend was relatively...
$50 Billion in Cryptocurrency Left China Amid Escalating Trade Wars
Over $50 billion in cryptocurrency flowed out of China over the past 12 months amid trade wars, a new study finds. East Asia is the...
Bitcoin dips on weekly close but could recover to $13,000
Bitcoin’s weekly close was $11,650, about 2.20% lower on the week after strong moves in previous weekly candles Bitcoin is having a...
Brazilian Crypto Companies to Self-Regulate: Target a $100 Billion Market by Year-End
Brazilian crypto companies have signed a code of self-regulation that aims to legitimize and to boost adoption of crypto assets in the...
New Demand for Cryptocurrencies: Trading on Bitcoin Cash KYC-Free Exchange With Blind Escrow
Governments are injecting record levels of new money into economies to contain the impact of shutdowns. Restrictions imposed on people in...
Inter-Blockchain Liquidity: Minting Synthetic Bitcoin Cash With the Ren Protocol
The decentralized finance (defi) ecosystem has matured quite a bit in 2020 and one project that’s seen some growth is the Ren...
Darknet Giant Empire Market Offline for 36 Hours, Blame Cast at Massive DDoS Attack
According to a number of sources, one of the largest darknet markets in the world, Empire Market has been offline for well over 36 hours....
Re-Mining Simulation Shows Satoshi Used a Single High-End PC to Mine 1.1M Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency advocates have been recently discussing the mysterious Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto as the RSK’s chief...
Iran Shuts Down 1,100 Illegal Bitcoin Miners; Whistleblowers Rewarded $2,400
Iran’s Power Generation, Distribution, and Transmission Company (Tavanir) has reportedly shut down 1,100 illegal bitcoin mining...
INX Limited Announces Effectiveness of Security Token IPO
23rd August, 2020, NEW YORK, United States – INX Limited announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has declared as...
Bitcoin.com Wallet Launches Cred’s 1-Touch “Earn” Button
Bitcoin.com, a global blockchain leader with over 11 million Bitcoin wallets, and Cred, a global blockchain-enabled financial services...
12 Bitcoin Cash-Fueled Flipstarter Campaigns Raise $1 Million
The Flipstarter platform has gained traction in the last five months raising $1 million in bitcoin cash for 12 different campaigns. In a...
Canadian Restaurant Chain Tahini’s Converts All Cash Reserves Into Bitcoin
Canada-based Middle Eastern restaurant chain Tahini’s has converted all of its cash reserves into bitcoin. The company says bitcoin...
Stock Trader Dave Portnoy Dives Into Bitcoin, Only to Panic-Sell After Chainlink Plunges
High profile stock trader Dave Portnoy has panic sold his bitcoin one week after he got into cryptocurrency. He cited the falling price of...
IRS Prioritizes Cryptocurrency, Now First Question on 1040 Tax Form
The new U.S. tax form is out and the cryptocurrency question is the first one on the main 1040 tax form used by about 150 million people...