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Nikolai Mushegian, the former technical partner at blockchain project MakerDAO, donated 3,200 MKR to his alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University. The Pittsburgh-based university is also set to receive another 6,800 MKR over the next 1 to 3 years to research dapps and protocols for Web3, Mushegian said. Carnegie Mellon University receives 3,200 MKR for Web3 […]

The development has officially begun on Litecoin’s implementation of Mimblewimble extension blocks, a feature that will bring confidentiality to the sixth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. The news comes nearly a year after Litecoin creator Charlie Lee announced the intention to improve LTC’s fungibility by enabling confidential transactions, and a month after the Litecoin Foundation began […]

The Ethereum (ETH) blockchain survived what appeared to be an intentional attack on December 31, which reportedly came very close to bringing down the entire network. Liam Aharon, an Australia-based blockchain developer, confirmed that the attack exploited a software glitch in a widely-used Ethereum client, called Parity. As noted by Sergio Demian Lerner, a cryptocurrency […]

Bitcoin has wound up as 2019’s top-performing commodity despite its exclusion from the majority of commodities market wrap-up reports. With an annual increase of 90 percent, the number one cryptocurrency by market capitalization beat by a significant margin Palladium (+57 percent), U.S. crude oil (+35.8 percent), and nickel (34.1 percent), according to data from Reuters. […]

For a second consecutive year, long liquidations dwarfed that of shorts by more than two-fold. In 2018, long liquidations reached $11 billion by the year’s end while short liquidations hovered at $5 billion. In 2019, long liquidations have totaled nearly $13 billion. What precedent does it set for the trend of Bitcoin in 2020? Bitcoin […]

Bitcoin’s $132 billion market cap might be a far cry from its 2017 all-time high, but it doesn’t mean it’s not playing in the big leagues. According to data from the CIA, Bitcoin’s current market cap makes it the 34th largest economy in terms of M1 money supply, just below the United Arab Emirates (UAE) […]

Bitcoin could be living out its final hours today if you were to believe Craig Wright. The self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto said last year that there was a “fatal flaw” in Bitcoin which is set to completely destroy it, adding that “there won’t be any BTC by the end of next year.” Self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto predicted […]

The IOTA network couldn’t process transactions for more than 15 hours after a software bug caused a “corrupt ledger state.” While IOTA’s developers managed to resolve the issue, the company’s response to the issue made it front-page news on the comedy section in the CryptoCurrency subreddit. IOTA team resolves a minor bug that left the […]

After the DApp browser MetaMask got removed from the Google Play Store, Apple followed suit and is forcing crypto exchange Coinbase to remove the DApp browser feature from its iOS app. While many saw this as blatant censorship and a danger to the crypto industry, it goes to show that the DApp market has gotten […]

When it comes to Ethereum, the future of adoption remains decentralized, privacy-focused, and non-custodial. Despite the lukewarm recovery of the cryptocurrency market and concerns about blockchain centralization, 2019 in Ethereum was big on figuring out easy and secure solutions to make decentralization user-friendly. After the 2017 ICO boom, 2018 was a year of uncertainty and […]