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Ethereum has been outperforming Bitcoin this year in multiple metrics, as the world’s largest cryptocurrency has been sluggish ahead of the May 2020 halvening. According to data from Skew, Ethereum has shown a 47 percent YTD price growth, outpacing Bitcoin’s 29 percent. Ethereum futures and options have also seen a significant rise in volume. The […]

Bitcoin’s dream of becoming “a peer-to-peer electronic cash system” seems to be fading away due to its high volatility and scalability issues. But, Ethereum could be emerging as the ideal network for digital payments. Ethereum is becoming a payment gateway In a recent blog post, Danger Zhang, a writer at Coinmonks, explained that there are […]

Craig Wright has taken his war against Bitcoin quite seriously, as the controversial nChain scientist could have around 6000 patents on blockchain technology in the next few years. He claims he currently has already been granted between 100 and 200 patents, while nChain’s chairman Jimmy Nguyen said the company currently has around 800 pending applications. […]

XRP just broke above a significant price hurdle that has been containing its price from advancing further since January 2018. Now, this cryptocurrency could be preparing to make higher highs. XRP breaks decisively through resistance After reaching an all-time high of $3.30 on Jan. 04, 2018, XRP entered a massive downtrend. The price of this […]

Lior Yaffe is the Co-Founder and Director of Jelurida and has 20+ years of experience in design, development, and deployment of enterprise applications for large organizations. Lior has his B.A. in computer science from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. Before establishing Jelurida, he led the development and product management of a leading mainframe integration product […]

Yesterday, in a move out of left field, Twitter added an emoji for Bitcoin. To use the emoji, all you need to do it enter the hashtag of “Bitcoin,” and the emoji will magically appear on your screen. Although this may seem extremely trivial—the addition of the Bitcoin emoji doesn’t add any functionality to Twitter—this […]

As Bitcoin closed out its best January in seven years, open interest rocketed to a new all-time high on Bakkt’s physically-settled Bitcoin futures market, and institutional traders on CME Group looked to position themselves for higher highs. Bulls at Bakkt On Friday the Bakkt physically-settled contract saw a new record of $11.6 million in open […]

Following a brief overnight selloff that sent Bitcoin to lows of $9,200, the cryptocurrency’s bulls have been able to post a strong defense of this key support level and have subsequently rallied BTC back up to its 2020 highs of $9,500. BTC’s rally up to these levels elucidates that it is firmly in the control […]

Investing as little as $1 every day into Bitcoin over five years would have yielded an incredible 12x return. According to James Todaro, the managing partner at Blocktown Capital, an investment of $1,858 into Bitcoin would now be worth over $22,000 even when accounting for Bitcoin’s violent price swings. A dollar a day keeps bankruptcy […]

The Grin developer tasked with implementing privacy features in Litecoin announced the introduction of a new type of transaction that will “open up more opportunities going forward.” MimbleWimble development update In a blog post, David Burkett, the project lead for the Litecoin MimbleWimble (MW) proposal, announced the integration of non-interactive transactions. The new feature eliminates […]