Argentina, long a cornerstone economy for Latin America, and the world’s eighth-largest country, has been plagued by debt and diminished financial opportunities. While this troubling reality plays out in different ways, one of the... 2 min read →
One obscure exchange dominates half of all Tether trading volumes. Meanwhile, top-tier exchanges saw their largest decline in volume to date. Half of all USDT traded on D-rated exchange The data-driven analysis provided by... 4 min read →
Hedera Hashgraph could be making fundamental tradeoffs to achieve its touted 10,000+ transactions per second. These tradeoffs make it one of the most centralized networks on the market, argues well-known crypto developer Eric Wall.... 3 min read →
Altcoins such as Ethereum, XRP, and Litecoin are finally showing significant moves, regaining some of the market dominance they lost to Bitcoin year-to-date. If the trend continues it could mark the beginning of a... 4 min read →
Alchemist CEO Steven Nerayoff allegedly extorted an unrevealed Seattle company for over $10 million in Ethereum. Only one company fits the bill—StormX. Old-fashioned extortion Steven Nerayoff, the CEO of Alchemist, LLC blockchain consultancy, was... 4 min read →
The Stellar Development Foundation has made significant steps in facilitating the adoption of XLM. And, the price of the coin has reached levels not seen since 2017 with significant volume behind it. Here are... 5 min read →
According to Elias Simos, a senior research analyst at Decentral Park Capital, Ethereum recorded net exchange outflows for the first time since May, following the recovery of the cryptocurrency market and the Ethereum price.... 2 min read →
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In the end, Charlie Lee says Litecoin will have succeeded when it doesn’t need him anymore. Here’s what this means for the Litecoin Foundation. Litecoin’s origin story In an exclusive interview with CryptoSlate, Charlie... 3 min read →
Kristy-Leigh Minehan, the creator of Ethereum’s progressive proof-of-work algorithm, was uninvited from ETC Summit. Bob Summerwill, the summit organizer for ETC Cooperative, said he withdrew Minehan’s invitation due to her connections with Craig Wright... 3 min read →
Binance.US announced that its platform will now start accepting account registrations and deposits of six originally announced coins, with the addition of Binance Coin (BNB). The platform, however, will not be available to users... 2 min read →
Ethereum surged around 33 percent in the last 21 days after a steep decline. Although it seems like ETH will soon reach an exhaustion point, it could still have more legs. The following technical... 3 min read →
Balaji Srinivasan, the former CTO of Coinbase and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discussed the future of emerging technologies such as crypto and VR. Virtual worlds of the future In the first part of... 4 min read →
XRP has exploded out of its monthslong downtrend with a two-day buy-streak pushing the cryptocurrency up 18.5 percent against the dollar and injecting $2 billion into market capitalization—the extraordinary gain coming as the first... 2 min read →
Ethereum is seeing an outstanding rally against Bitcoin—fueled by strong network fundamentals—while the overall altcoin market sees some relief after months of bleeding. Altcoins in the green Altcoins are finally getting some relief after... 3 min read →
The VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin ETF proposal was withdrawn—again—from the SEC’s consideration prior to an October decision. Primer on VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin Shares VanEck-SolidX first submitted its proposal to list and trade shares of the “VanEck SolidX... 2 min read →
Binance made a strategic investment in crypto-data website Mars Finance. This is the first time the dominant exchange invested in a Chinese company since Beijing banned cryptocurrency trading in 2017. Growing crypto news outlet... 2 min read →
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A year after becoming top brass at the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, Binance CFO Wei Zhou says his firm wants to “grow the pie bigger” and opening up an exchange in... 3 min read →
On Sept. 13, an attacker flooded the EOSIO network to drain $110,000 in EOS from a gambling dApp. During the process, many user-facing applications were unusable due to congestion. Here’s how the hacker did... 5 min read →
Arthur Hayes, the CEO of BitMEX, responded to Changpeng Zhao’s false accusations of a Binance futures market maker attack—satirically. Hayes offered him a “copy/paste” course for 51 percent of his equity, alluding to earlier... 2 min read →
Segregated Witness (SegWit) transactions are on the rise and recently hit a new all-time high. SegWit adoption on the rise SegWit is a solution to the Bitcoin scalability problem that was implemented via soft... 2 min read →
