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MCS, First Exchange to list TRON’s SUN and Klaytn’s KLAY Futures Contracts
Singapore, September 20, 2020 — For the first time in the industry, MCS (MyCoinStory), a global cryptocurrency derivatives exchange...
How a Spoof Turned Into a Media Hype About Bitcoin Cash
An anonymous Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporter says he deliberately started a spoof which successfully baited local media to report on the...
Ethereum’s Gas Spike Forces Coinbase Pro to Pass Network Fees to Customers
While Ethereum network fees have jumped to new highs this year, the popular cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase Pro, announced that the...
East Asia Dominates World’s Onchain Crypto Activity, Europe and North America Trail Behind
Crypto activity continues to flourish worldwide, according to a new cryptocurrency adoption index published by the blockchain intelligence...
Firstderivative Yield Farming Project Is Now Live With x10 Bonus
The latest trends at the cryptocurrency market are largely characterized by DeFi gaining more momentum and the upcoming launch of ETH 2.0...
UK Mulls Over Negative Interest Rates, US to Keep Near Zero Rates for Years
The Bank of England is now seriously considering implementing negative interest rates while the U.S. Federal Reserve has pledged to keep...
SaTT Smart Advertising Token Announces Listing on Leading Crypto Exchanges, KuCoin and Uniswap
Singapore, 18th September, 2020 – Smart advertising marketplace SaTT is proud to announce the listing of its namesake token SATT on...
Ethereum Price: ETH/USD Eyes $400 as Miner Fees Hit New Highs
Miners post bumper harvest on Ethereum as Uniswap activity pushes fees to record highs Ethereum price is eyeing a match back to highs of...
Argentina’s Peso Plunges After Central Bank Tightens Foreign Exchange Controls: Citizens Discuss Bitcoin Adoption
The Argentine peso plunged by more than 10% shortly after the country’s central bank announced measures to tighten controls on the...
Uniswap (UNI) price jumps 135% to $6.00 highs
UNI/USD price has touched highs of $6.00 as total value locked jumps to $1.40 billion. UNI/USD has touched highs of $6.08 on Coinbase,...
Switchere: Buy Crypto with CC, Pay with Local Banks, Swap and Sell Coins Online
Presently, the crypto market is witnessing an incredible growth and massive adoption worldwide. Digital transformation and tokenization...
South Korean Police Seize Shares From Major Bithumb Shareholder
South Korean police have seized shares in Bithumb, the country’s biggest crypto exchange. The shares belong to Bithumb Korea...
Number of daily ETH transactions hit new all-time high
The 1.4 million transactions witnessed on the Ethereum network on Thursday 17 set a new high exceeding the previous record achieved back...
GPU Manufacturer Nvidia Buys Chip Maker ARM for $40 Billion
California-based Nvidia is buying British computer chip designer Arm Holdings from Softbank Group Corp. in a deal worth $40 billion....
Timers’ Ongoing IPM Presale Will Help Tackle Challenges of the Next Industrial Revolution
For the first time in history, a human’s intrinsic ‘time value’ is being used as a currency for trading, as IPM is the...
Bitcoin Unlimited Launches Two-Option Voting App Powered by Bitcoin Cash
On September 16, the Bitcoin Unlimited development team launched a new application called Votepeer. The software is powered by the Bitcoin...
Defi Economy Rebounds: Total-Value Locked Jumps 28% Capturing Close to $9B
,The total-value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (defi) economy has recaptured much of the value lost during the Sushiswap fiasco...
Inflation Hit Ethiopia Demonetizes Currency To Curb Cash Hoarding
The Ethiopian government has unveiled a new set of banknotes that are expected to help authorities in curbing cash hoarding, illegal trade...
Kiss’ Gene Simmons Tweets Cryptic Message About His Bitcoin Plans
Rock band Kiss’ lead singer Gene Simmons has tweeted a cryptic message about bitcoin in response to a discussion on making...
Binance Supporting Flow Blockchain with BUSD Stablecoin
New York, September 17, 2020 — Binance, the global blockchain company behind the world’s largest digital asset exchange by...
29.9k addresses claim Uniswap (UNI) as Coinbase and Binance add support hours after launch
Uniswap’s new governance token is up 110% on the day; with nearly 30k addresses claiming the free 400 UNI tokens offered to...
Cardano price analysis: $0.090 critical as 30-day active supply on exchanges rises to 7.4 billion
Cardano users look more likely to sell their ADA than stake for rewards as price drops to $0.092 or 33% over the past month....
Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange Gets US Banking License, Plans to Be Global Bank
Cryptocurrency trading platform Kraken has received a banking license recognized under federal law to operate as a bank in the U.S. The...
A Spain Based Crypto Ponzi Scheme Abruptly Freezes Accounts of 120,000 Investors
A Spain based crypto Ponzi scheme, Arbicorp abruptly froze accounts of more 120,000 investors on September 12, after the discovery of an...
Over 15% of ETH Supply Locked in Smart Contracts, BTC Dominance Declining
The rapid growth of decentralized finance (defi) protocols is contributing to the increasing proportion of ETH supply that is now locked...
Global Digital Industry Group Launches Mining Business Bitworld
The UAE cryptocurrency giant, Global Digital Industry Group (GDIG), has established its mining subsidiary Bitworld and will invest $50...
‘You Are Not Anonymous on Tor’ – Study Shows Privacy Network Offers Superficial Anonymity
Privacy advocates are growing leery of the Tor network these days, as recently published research has shown a great number of...
Defi Platform Bzx Recovers Stolen $8.1 Million From Hacker
Decentalized finance (defi) protocol Bzx has recovered the $8.1 million it lost to a hacker a few days ago. The company claims it was able...
Hydra’s ‘Complex Drug Delivery System’ in Russia Overshadows Western Darknet Markets
On September 14, the blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis reported on the infamous Russian darknet marketplace (DNM) known as Hydra and...
Kraken Wins Bank Charter Approval
Kraken - "We are thrilled to announce that the State of Wyoming has approved Kraken’s application to form the world’s first Special...
49 US States Unveil Unified Regulation for Cryptocurrency Firms
The Conference of State Bank Supervisors, representing regulators from all U.S. states and territories, has launched a new regulatory...
Exclusive Casino Tournament with $5000 Prize Pool Begins at Bitcoin Games
Play in the newly launched tournament at Bitcoin Games to win a share of the $5000 prize pot, get guaranteed Free Spins just for...
Bitcoin price touches $10,950 as MicroStrategy confirms $425 million BTC haul
Firm buys $425 million worth of Bitcoin as price looks to break above $11,000. After touching an intraday high of $10,840 yesterday, the...
India’s Crypto Bill Omitted From Parliament Agenda While New Ban Report Appears
Despite much anticipation, the Indian cryptocurrency bill is not included in the list of bills to be introduced in the current session of...
Tezos price update: XTZ/USD springs bullish scenario amid France’s CBDC news
XTZ/USD is trending green in lower time frames and bulls need to close higher on higher time frames to confirm a bullish case. Tezos price...
P2P Bitcoin Exchange Paxful Shuts Down Venezuela Operations to Comply With US Sanctions
Peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto exchange Paxful is shutting down its operations in Venezuela, apparently, to comply with U.S. economic sanctions...
Miny.CC – Innovation in the Cryptocurrency Mining Sphere
Aberdeen, Hong Kong, September 16, 2020. – More than 10 years after the first cryptocurrency was successfully mined, the mining...
US Company Accepts Bitcoin Payments for Luxury Planes, as $40M Gulfstream Jet Goes on Sale
Aviatrade Inc., a New Jersey-based aircraft sales company, is now accepting bitcoin as a means of payment for its range of multi-million...
Report: Market Valuation of 14 Banking Giants Shed $635 Billion This Year
The world’s largest banks lost a considerable amount of market valuation amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report that...
Presidential Candidate Brock Pierce Served With Lawsuit for Alleged ICO Fraud
Former Disney child actor and U.S. Presidential candidate, Brock Pierce, was served with a lawsuit during a political campaign event held...
Forex Strapped Nigeria Designates Crypto Assets as Securities
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Nigeria has designated crypto assets as securities as the authorities step up efforts to...
Mad Money’s Jim Cramer ‘Fixated’ on Buying Bitcoin, Fears Massive Inflation
Jim Cramer, the Mad Money host and The Street co-founder, said he is “fixated” on needing to own bitcoin because he fears a...
Bitcoin Surges To 2-Week High above $10,800, bulls eye $11,000
BTC/USD climbs to $10,700, with BCH/USD top gainer among the top 10 with 7% to displace Binance Coin as the 6th largest cryptocurrency by...
Over $1B worth of Bitcoin is locked in DeFi
Over 100k “synthetic” bitcoins or $1.07 billion has been minted on Ethereum as people look to earn from DeFi. More than $1...
Nasdaq-Listed Microstrategy Raises Bitcoin Holdings to $425 Million After Second Purchase
Billion-dollar public company Microstrategy Inc. has bought 16,796 more bitcoins. The company has purchased a total of 38,250 bitcoins at...
US Consumers Flock To the First Mastercard Branded BitPay Card
New data from BitPay shows that American consumers are flocking to load the first Mastercard branded BitPay card with top digital assets....
Darknet drives crypto crime in Eastern Europe: Chainalysis
A recent report from Chainalysis has revealed that Eastern Europe tops other regions in terms of ransomware volume and darknet activity...
Bitcoin Revolution South Africa: Scam Claims Support by President Cyril Ramaphosa
A bitcoin investment scheme called “Bitcoin Revolution South Africa” has been gaining much attention lately. Promoters claim...
INX Becomes the First SEC-Registered IPO to Accept Crypto
15th September 2020, New York, United States: INX will start accepting bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH), and USDC stablecoin, starting today....
Macroeconomic Trends Boost Bitcoin and Gold, US Dollar Index Shows Bearish Double-Top
According to a number of reports and commentary from financial analysts, the world is “drowning in U.S. dollars” after the...
Defi Boom: Bubble Fears Grow as ‘Toxic’ Community Disagrees on Way Forward
The decentralized finance (defi) space is headed for an implosion unless the divided community leaders step forward with solutions. This...
Bitcoin Options Traders Bet the Price of BTC Can Touch $36K by December
This past weekend, data shows the most active bitcoin options contracts were calls for $28k, $32k, and $36k by the year’s end. This...
Bitcoin Hashrate Hits 135.2 EH/s as miners’ bullishness continues
Hashrate is at the highest level despite a week in which prices dipped from $12,000 to test lows of $9,825. Bitcoin’s hashrate has...
Defi Protocol Bzx Loses $8.1 Million in Third Hack This Year
So called decentralized finance (defi) lending platform Bzx on Sunday lost $8.1 million in a new hacking attack, the third this year,...
Binance (BNB) hits 2020 high and replaces Polkadot among top 5 cryptocurrencies
Binance Coin climbs above Polkadot (DOT) and ChainLink (LINK) as the 5th largest cryptocurrency by market cap. BNB/USD price traded at its...
DeFi Defied: Five Key Benefits The COV Token Will Bring To Covesting
In the ever-evolving crypto market that never sleeps, new trends and coins are popping up every passing day. The recent decentralized...
Sushiswap’s 2 Million Token Airdrop: Founders Face Accusations of ‘Making Defi a Joke Again’
Sushiswap’s new leader and FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried tweeted on September 12 that the promised 2 million token airdrop would go on...
The Moss Piglet Dilemma: Paypal Bans Payments to Merchants Using the Word ‘Tardigrade’
The popular payment provider Paypal has been known for cutting off a number of merchants and organizations over the years. This week, the...
NFT Economy Grows Exponential: $1M in Non-Fungible Token Sales Last Week
While a number of people are focused on decentralized finance (defi), the non-fungible token (NFT) industry has also exploded in demand in...
Rapper TI Cryptocurrency Fraud: Charged and Fined $75,000 by SEC
Rapper TI and four other people, including film producer Ryan Felton, have been charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...
Apple Censors Some Cryptocurrency and Defi Features of Coinbase App
Apple Inc. has censored some cryptocurrency features of the Coinbase app. Specifically, Apple has blocked Coinbase from adding to its iOS...
The Tell Tale Signs of a Scam Crypto Website: Bitcoin-Up.Live
From late March 2020, when the global pandemic Covid-19 paralysed many economies, the appeal of cryptocurrencies has grown. Several...
Tether Recovers $1 Million USDT Sent to Wrong Defi Address by Chinese Traders
Tether has recovered and returned $1 million worth of USDT to a group of Chinese traders who, in error, sent the funds to a wrong...
Bitcoin Hashrate Ramps to 130 Exahash Amid Next-Generation Miner Shortage
Regional reports from China have highlighted that a number of major Chinese ASIC mining rig manufacturers have sold out of their...
Morgan Stanley Strategist Recommends Bitcoin as Central Banks Ramp Up Money Printing
Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s chief strategist and head of emerging markets has recommended bitcoin as an alternative...
US Sanctions Russians Allegedly Using Cryptocurrency to Influence Presidential Election
The U.S. has sanctioned several Russian nationals, a Ukrainian lawmaker, and their cryptocurrency addresses for interfering with the...
Huge ‘Bitcoin Tram’ Ad Campaign and 20 Billboards Flood Hong Kong’s Financial District
A massive Bitcoin ad campaign has launched in the heart of Hong Kong’s financial district, featuring three Bitcoin trams and 20...
Working in the Cryptocurrency Industry as a Woman
It seems there is a lot of turmoil happening in the world, as the year 2020 keeps giving and giving. From natural disasters, a global...
European Union Seeks Strict Regulation of Crypto and Stablecoins in New Draft Law
The European Commission, the executive arm of the E.U., has drawn up regulation to tightly monitor cryptocurrencies it considers...
SLP Trading Platform Cryptophyl Plans to Change Into a Noncustodial Defi Exchange
The U.K.-based Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) exchange Cryptophyl is closing its doors in order to restructure into a decentralized finance...
Sushiswap Creator Returns $14 Million After Community Cries Exit Scam
One week after the Sushiswap creator was accused of an exit scam, he has returned all of the coins he cashed out. The anonymous creator...
The $700 Million Wallet Crack: Bitcoin’s 7th Largest Address Is Under Constant Attack
During the last two years, hackers have been trying to crack the seventh-largest bitcoin wallet, an address that holds 69,370 BTC or $712...
DeFi price update: yearn.finance (YFI), Maker (MKR), Aave (LEND)
Yearn.finance leads DeFi tokens with a 22% price surge as Coinbase Pro adds support. Tokens in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space...
Aelf (ELF) price analysis: SUSHI version SashimiSwap helps ELF token spike 142%
ELF/USD price rose 142% on Thursday thanks to the activity around its recently launched SashimiSwap, a DeFi token similar to SUSHI. Aelf...
Judge Dismisses $200M Damages Claim in SIM-Swap Crypto Lawsuit Against AT&T
A California judge has dismissed the $200 million in damages claim against the telecom giant AT&T for alleged negligence and fraud....
IRS to Pay $625K to Crack Monero, Crypto Proponents Scoff at Contract
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants to pay a contractor $625,000 if they can crack layer-two privacy schemes and the...
European Crypto Exchange Hacked for $5.4 Million in Bitcoin
Eterbase, a Slovak cryptocurrency exchange, revealed Thursday that it had been hacked for $5.4 million. Cyber-criminals broke into six hot...
Defi Project Yfdex.Finance Vanishes With $20M Investors’ Funds Just Two Days After Launch
Yfdex.Finance (Yfdex), a new liquidity mining pool, has reportedly exit scammed, making off with up to $20 million of investors’...
Despite Warnings from Regulators, the Ethereum Fueled Pyramid Scheme Forsage Thrives
While Ethereum has seen a number of benefits from the decentralized finance (defi) movement and initial coin offerings (ICOs), more...
New DeFi Project Xfinance(XFI) ILO Presale Will Start Today
As the cryptocurrency world is experiencing rapid growth, decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms are also rising. In early 2019, there...
Mastercard Launches Digital Currency Testing Platform for Central Banks
Mastercard has launched a digital currency testing platform aimed at helping central banks test their digital currencies. The system will...
South African Crypto Exchange Luno Expanding Globally After Acquisition by Digital Currency Group
Digital Currency Group has acquired South African cryptocurrency exchange Luno, which has more than five million customers in over 40...
Ticino Blockchain Technologies Association Has Been Established
Lugano, 10 September 2020 – The Ticino Blockchain Technologies Association aims to promote research and support innovative companies...
Transfer value on Ethereum flips Bitcoin by $80 million
Ethereum’s total transfer value of $3.08 billion surpassed Bitcoin by about $80 million. As ETH/USD price looks to move from this...
Defi Trader Pockets $250k From Bug Exploit, Hints at Possible Exit Scam by $SYFI Devs
An anonymous Defi trader says he gained almost $250 000 after inadvertently exploiting a rebase bug embedded in the $SYFI Defi token. The...
Fiat Devaluation Drives Retail Bitcoin Transfers in Africa 56% in a Year: Report
Monthly cryptocurrency transfers to and from Africa under $10,000 soared more than 56% from a year ago to reach $316 million in June,...
DistX is Taking the Crypto World by Storm
After selling out their own token sale in just 57 seconds in late August, DistX have been making headlines and attracting a lot of...
SWIFT Says Criminals Prefer Cash for Money Laundering, Not Cryptocurrency
A new report by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) says cryptocurrency is seldom used for money...
6 Members of the Multi-Billion Dollar Plustoken Scam Charged With Fraud in China
Following the arrest of 109 accused members of the $6 billion Ponzi scheme called Plustoken, six alleged members of the team were...
Targeted by IRS? What Cryptocurrency Owners Should Know
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has started sending out new letters to cryptocurrency owners suspected of owing crypto-related...