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Istanbul will host its first-ever Turkey blockchain week from April 6-10, with the main event IstanBlock 2020 being held on April 9-10. Throughout the week the focus will be on Turkey’s rapid and growing adoption of the technology, and the opportunities it presents. The event has already attracted big names, including government speakers and Turkish […]

Etherscan and Prysmatic Labs have released their Beacon Chain Ethereum 2.0 Testnet explorer. According to the company’s announcement, the explorer will allow users to view the Sapphire Testnet, a public network developed by Prystmatic Labs that implements the Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 protocol. New testnet explorer means Ethereum 2.0 could see the light of day […]

Despite the recent downturn, Bitcoin has a year-to-date (YTD) return of 111 percent showing that “HODLing” could be a lucrative strategy. HODLers in profits After peaking at nearly $14,000 on June 26, Bitcoin entered a corrective phase that has seen its price drop over 50 percent. The flagship cryptocurrency went down to hit a low […]

With just days left until the incentivized testnet for Shelley is finally released, Cardano issued a detailed explanation of the incentive model employed in the testnet. While the model introduced to the testnet isn’t the final one, the company published details about the rewards users can expect in the following weeks. Testing out game theory […]

Deutsche Bank (DB) believes cryptocurrencies could replace fiat by 2030 as the “forces that hold the fiat money system together” begin to unravel. The bombshell was dropped in a report Thursday by the 149-year-old bank, which is Germany’s largest, and comes a week after news broke that Germany will likely allow financial institutions to deal […]

There’s a running meme that the cryptocurrency community is filled to the brim with millennials and generation Z—people born after 1981. Apparently, the anecdote is more than just a meme, it’s fact. New data from Charles Schwab, one of the largest retail brokerage firms in the United States, has indicated that the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, […]

Craig Wright and his legal team accidentally asked the court to extend the deadline for his response to Kleiman’s latest motion by 90 years. If the judge had approved Wright’s request, his response to the fee motion would be due on Dec. 18, 2109. More extensions in the crypto trial of the century The self-proclaimed […]

During the first half of the year, the top 5 cryptocurrencies by market cap recorded significant gains. Bitcoin went up over 300 percent, Ethereum surged 250 percent, Litecoin rose a whopping 400 percent, and EOS moved up just under 300 percent. Meanwhile, XRP only saw its price increase by 78 percent, and today, it has […]

After more than 66 percent of its value got slashed since its August halving, Litecoin saw its hashrate drop from its peak of over 500 TH/s to just 150 TH/s. However, the network’s drastically reduced computing power doesn’t make it vulnerable to a 51 percent attack, data has shown, as its low price wouldn’t justify […]

Crypto research platform LunarCRUSH has launched a tool ranking the most influential Twitter accounts by their impact on specific cryptocurrencies. The California-based company markets itself as taking a “community-driven” approach to cryptoanalysis and claims to crunch data from more than 100,000 social media posts each day using machine-learning. The influencer function is the platform’s latest […]