Price Watch
Hacks
Bitcoin Cash reportedly suffered a 51% attack, transactions reversed
Bitcoin Cash reportedly suffered a 51% attack following its May 15 scheduled hardfork upgrade. Following Bitcoin Cash’s hardfork upgrade, an attacker exploited a vulnerability…
Stablecoins
Coinbase lists MakerDAO stablecoin Dai on its retail platform
Coinbase listed Maker’s stablecoin Dai on its retail trading platform. The move comes is part of a larger strategy to list more trading pairs…
Adoption
AT&T now accepts Bitcoin as payment for its 150+ million subscribers
AT&T, the world’s largest telecommunications company, became the first major U.S. mobile carrier to accept Bitcoin for payment. AT&T customers will now be able…
Rumors
The curious case of Ethereum’s missing warrant canary
Previously, ethereum.org featured a peculiar yellow canary on the footer of its website. The easily overlooked avian emblem served an important purpose—until it went…
Adoption
Worldwide crypto acceptance is within reach thanks to Coinbase Commerce’s USDC stablecoin integration
Crypto as a method of payment has just gotten easier. Coinbase Commerce has expanded to include USD Coin as a settlement option, allowing merchants…
Price Watch
VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin ETF delayed by SEC for public comments
The VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin ETF was delayed another five weeks in an order issued by the Securities Exchange Commission. So far, the Commission is unconvinced…
Technology
Dragonchain awarded patent for blockchain-powered loyalty system
Dragonchain, an enterprise blockchain-as-a-service provider originally developed out of a Disney technology incubator, was awarded a patent for a loyalty system that tracks and…
Hacks
Bitcoin Cash exploit cripples network during scheduled hardfork upgrade
A bug was reportedly exploited on Bitcoin Cash during a scheduled hardfork upgrade of the protocol. For an hour and a half transactions went unprocessed,…
Exchanges
Bitwise bitcoin ETF delayed for another five weeks amidst concerns from the SEC
The Bitwise bitcoin ETF was delayed for another five weeks in a statement from the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission. So far, it seems the…
People
Charles Hoskinson of Cardano partners with Polymath to launch security token blockchain
Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano and co-founder of Ethereum, is partnering with Polymath as the co-architect of “Polymesh”—a blockchain that aims to become…
Adoption
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Bitcoin Cash now accepted at thousands of retail locations including Whole Foods, Lowe’s, and Nordstrom
As of today, cryptocurrency is now accepted as payments at tens of thousands of merchants in the U.S. on the Flexa network. Top brands…
Exchanges
Bakkt announces bitcoin futures trading coming July, BTC surges to $7,800
Bakkt, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform led by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), expects their bitcoin futures to be listed on federally regulated futures exchanges…