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Popular cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex shocked the crypto industry when they announced that they would be offering an unprecedented interest rate to users looking to engage in USDC and USDT lending, offering interest rates as high as 65 percent APR to customers located in the European Union. The announcement of this new offering sparked controversy and […]

Over the last two months, MINDOL (MIN), an Ethereum-based token aiming to promote the Japanese “geek culture,” skyrocketed over 28x. The sudden rise in has the crypto community wondering whether this crypto is a legit project or another “pump-and-dump” scheme. What is MINDOL? MINDOL claims to be the new currency for the world of “subculture […]

Those new to the crypto industry often find themselves torn between two extreme views. With a war going on between those shilling Bitcoin’s supremacy and those rooting for its demise, which party should you listen to? How Bitcoin divided the world Envisioned as the ultimate solution to the problem of global currencies, Bitcoin is regarded […]

The head of the privacy-centric altcoin Monero is stepping down after leading the project since its inception. The news comes at a time when XMR is down 60 percent after peaking at $121 in June. “Fluffypony” steps down In a blog post, the Monero Core Team announced that Riccardo Spagni, known as fluffypony in the […]

VeChain is seizing the opportunities presented in China after President Xi Jinping vowed to put the nation at the forefront of blockchain technology. The firm recently scored a partnership to accelerate the development of the tea industry in one of the most populous provinces in the country. Meanwhile, VET is trending downward. Leveraging the VeChain […]

Asset management giant Fidelity Investments has established a U.K. entity for its cryptocurrency business with the intent of gaining a foothold in Europe, the move coming days after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson led his pro-Brexit government to victory in a snap election. Fidelity’s new U.K. arm was incorporated December 16 and will be used […]

2019 will go down as the year when the world went digital currency crazy. Not crypto crazy (that was 2017), but crazy for issuing national and corporate digital coins. Facebook. China. Canada. Thailand. The list of countries and companies experimenting with digital currencies is long and incongruous. On the surface, entities such as Facebook and […]

Once again, Bitcoin (BTC) has started to slip. After trading above the key $7,000 support for days on end, the cryptocurrency slipped on Monday, tumbling to $6,800, then $6,700 on Tuesday. Right now, bears still seem to be in full control of the crypto market, having pushed BTC from $14,000 to $7,000 over the past […]

We’re at the forefront of a new financial system built on public blockchains with over $685M (USD)​ already locked up in decentralized finance (DeFi). These solutions are built on smart contracts, which are simple programs designed to automatically execute once a specified criterion is satisfied. However, the data that decides this makes for a vulnerable […]

If you’ve perused the annals of Bitcoin, you’ve likely heard the term “SegWit” or “Segregated Witness” mentioned many a time. SegWit, for those unaware, is a controversial scaling technology that effectively reduces the computational size of Bitcoin transactions, allowing for more transactions to be fit into each block and for users to send the cryptocurrency […]