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A new Chinese startup focused on Bitcoin mining broke into the top-ten hash power providers last week, a local industry observer tweeted on May 13. The surge Reportedly launched two weeks ago, Lubian.com is now ranked sixth among all miners as per data on BTC.com. The firm accounts for 5.99 percent of Bitcoin hash powers […]

Throughout the past year, traders, users, and investors appear to have been driven primarily to three digital assets, which now account for 90 percent of the trading volume seen amongst the top ten cryptos. This comes as the thousands of other digital assets that have sprouted up in recent years are seeing virtually no trading […]

The traditional markets have seen a notable downturn today that has led them to erase the bulk of the gains they incurred earlier this month. Bitcoin has been able to climb concurrently with this downturn, however, signaling that the benchmark digital asset is decoupling from the stock market. This potential decoupling comes as the Fed […]

The blockchain marches on, ever forward, relentless, in an inexorable journey to add new transactions and to create new blocks to append to the decentralized ledger. It is immutable, creating a perpetual, permanent and fixed history of transactions. The cryptographic state-machine infrastructure that powers this decentralized ledger has led to a wave of innovation that […]

Ethereum has seen some incredibly poor price action throughout the past several weeks, with the cryptocurrency’s severe underperformance of Bitcoin leading it to erase virtually all the gains that came about as a result of the latest market-wide upswing. This weakness has led its market structure to become firmly bearish against its BTC trading pair, […]

While global markets have been hit with panic facing some of the worst challenges since the financial crisis of 2008, the crypto industry has solidified its power through one of the largest crypto mergers to date. Binance, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges acquired CoinMarketCap (CMC), a platform that tracks the capitalization of different […]

The Ethereum community has had a long wait for the much-anticipated Ethereum 2.0 upgrade. After several years of delays.  July is the targeted date for the move to proof-of-stake, provoking wild speculation about a bull run in the price of ether. It does seem reasonable to assume that the proof-of-stake implementation, known as Beacon Chain, […]

An Xpring report on May 13 stated XRP exchanges see increased inflow/outflow volumes whenever Bitcoin and Ethereum networks are hit by surging transaction fees and congestion. Traders move to XRP during crunch While the sample sizes in terms of days were not specified, Xpring notes XRP cross-exchange transactions went up significantly when Ethereum — widely-used […]

[Update at 14:50 UTC] Benjamin Winston, Director of Security at ECC, told CryptoSlate via a tweet the paper was simply a  “review” of existing material and proposes a new attack that is based on a “faulty understanding” of the Zcash protocol by the Hush team. We reviewed this on May 6th and found it to […]

As Neo is anticipating the launch of its newest iteration—Neo3—its founder and CEO Da Hongfei explained what the latest upgrade will bring to the ecosystem. The biggest change to Neo, aside from integrating various tokenization services, will come in the form of a new governance system, where 21 committee members will be voted in by […]