
Jonnie Emsley

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Near-majority of Ethereum holders in profit as Grayscale investors increasingly allocate to ETH
According to crypto analytics firm IntoTheBlock, 43 percent of ETH addresses are in profit with the Ethereum spot and derivatives markets seeing explosive growth…

CME posts one of its largest volume days ever as Bitcoin marks three-month buy-streak
Trading volume has rocketed to a near-all-time-high on the CME cash-settled Bitcoin futures market as the number-one crypto by market capitalization continues one of…

Strix Leviathan: the crypto quant fund that’s beating the market with a differentiated investment approach
Career dotcom entrepreneur and serial bootstrapper Jesse Proudman is the co-founder of Strix Leviathan, a quantitative hedge fund that's beating the market through software…

BTSE leaves Dubai for British Virgin Islands: Why crypto businesses still haven’t found their regulatory utopia
Crypto exchange BTSE has shifted its operations out of Dubai, claiming that regulators in countries with “non-permissive legal systems” are holding back the mass…

Handshake mainnet goes live allowing anyone to own top-level domains and earn in decentralized fashion
Handshake, a Proof-of-Work DNS protocol spearheaded by the co-creator of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, has launched its mainnet in its bid to decentralize trusted Certificate…

Bakkt open interest hits all-time-high as futures traders continue to bet on Bitcoin buy streak
As Bitcoin closed out its best January in seven years, open interest rocketed to a new all-time high on Bakkt’s physically-settled Bitcoin futures market,…

Ledger tells Londoners to “take back control” using crypto and “choose freedom” on Brexit Day
Hardware wallet provider Ledger has erected a digital billboard over London’s Canary Wharf financial hub reading “let’s take back control for real,” taking a…

MyEtherWallet adds “.crypto” email-style naming feature for personalized ETH addresses
MyEtherWallet (MEW) users are now able to send and receive ETH and ERC-20 tokens using their own personalized “human-readable” address instead of the standard…

Stablecoin protocol Terra surpasses one million users in less than 9 months
Eight months after launch, Terra, a stablecoin protocol backed by four of the world's largest crypto exchanges, has surpassed one million user accounts and…
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Venezuelans are paying an average $1,980 premium on LocalBitcoins [UPDATED]
[Note: this article has been updated for accuracy] The average price of BTC on LocalBitcoins Venezuela is $1,980 above the Coinmarketcap spot price, likely…

Dragonchain test demo hits 15,000 transactions per second on its public network
“Enterprise-first” blockchain platform Dragonchain clocked a peak performance of 15,000 transactions per second in a 24-hour performance demonstration Thursday, as reported by the company’s…

CryptoSlate partners with IntoTheBlock for real-time crypto analytics and market intelligence
IntoTheBlock, a machine learning-driven crypto analytics firm, is to integrate its unique market intelligence into CryptoSlate to bring real-time indicators and signals to users.…