Analysis
Analysis
Inside Korean Black Market of Crypto Exchange Listings: $5 Million Price Tag
An increasing number of blockchain companies are flocking to the initial coin offering (ICO) market to initiate token sales and raise millions of dollars…
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Adoption
Adobe Developer: Ripple Transaction Activity Down to 2016 Level
Jackson Palmer, a product lead at Adobe and the creator of Dogecoin, said that the recent slump of major cryptocurrencies–including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash…
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Analysis
Massive Drop of Bitcoin Might Be Unrelated to ETF and SEC
On Aug. 8, Bitcoin recorded a massive drop from $7,200 to $6,150, a 14 percent drop within a 24-hour period. Most investors and prominent…
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Adoption
Status Releases Sharding Client: One Step Closer Toward 1 Million TX/S on Ethereum
Status, also known as Status.im, released a lightweight Sharding client, called Nimbus, to scale the Ethereum protocol and create a better ecosystem for decentralized…
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Adoption
Bitcoin Becoming Preferred Payment Method of $60 Billion Art Market
Since mid-2017, the art market, worth more than $60 billion, has seen an increase in Bitcoin as an alternative payment method to wire transfers.…
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Exchanges
Why Major Crypto Exchange OKEx Controversially Used User Funds to Liquidate Bitcoin Contract
OKEx, the second biggest crypto exchange by daily trading volume, officially announced the decision to engage in a forced liquidation to settle a massive…
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Technology
Trezor CTO Attacks “Unhackable” BitFi Wallet
BitFi, John McAfee’s purportedly unhackable wallet, was heavily criticized by Trezor CTO Pavol Rusnak, after it threatened to challenge the solutions invented by the…
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Adoption
Bitcoin ETF Approval Unlikely in 2018 but Maybe 2019 [INTERVIEW]
Several cryptocurrency investors and analysts believe the first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) will not hit the US markets until 2019, regardless of the involvement…
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Adoption
Ethereum Creator Praises Decentralized Twitter Peepeth, But Not All Users are Happy
Vitalik Buterin, co-creator of Ethereum, praised Peepeth, a decentralized, blockchain-based Twitter-like social media platform. However, not all users are happy with it. The Issue…
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Regulation
Major Hotels in Iran Accepting Deposits in Cryptocurrency to Avoid U.S. Sanctions [INTERVIEW]
HotelsInIran.com (“Hotels in Iran”), a major Iranian hotel booking platform, began accepting payments in cryptocurrency subsequent to the imposition of additional sanctions by the…
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Technology
Buterin: Ethereum Can’t be Forced to Adopt Code I Write, Merit of Decentralization
At the TechCrunch: Sessions Blockchain 2018 hosted in Zug, Switzerland, Ethereum Creator Vitalik Buterin explained the decentralized nature of the Ethereum blockchain and the…
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Adoption
New “Major” Crypto Exchanges Thriving on Fake Volumes, Bad For the Industry
Newly emerging crypto exchanges, equipped with billions of dollars in daily trading volume, are thriving based on fake numbers and malpractices, which may have…
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