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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 […]

Microsoft and blockchain gaming firm Enjin have unveiled a novel tokenized rewards program based on Ethereum, Azure Heroes, and are piloting the scheme in “selected Western European countries.” The bulls sent Enjin Coin (ENJ) rocketing shortly after Microsoft’s announcement, with market capitalization spiking 42 percent up to $67 million. The rally made ENJ the market’s […]

Over the past few weeks, Jared Tate, the founder of popular blockchain network DigiByte and its native DGB cryptocurrency, has been waging a Twitter war against one individual: Justin Sun, founder of Tron, the blockchain behind currently twelfth-largest cryptocurrency TRX. Tate’s quips started off relatively mild, calling Sun a “crook,” though, on the afternoon of […]

Bitcoin has had a crazy day, with the bloody battle between bulls and bears resulting in a chair-shaped pattern, with BTC surging from its key support level within the lower-$7,000 to highs of $7,800 before fully retracing back to its support levels. This volatility has confirmed that Bitcoin is still firmly caught in a downtrend, […]

In terms of how long it maintained its $100 billion valuation, Bitcoin has outperformed every tech company that existed, claims Balaji Srinivasan. The former Coinbase CTO said that the biggest unicorn of the 2010s wasn’t any of the usual picks such as Uber, Airbnb, or Snapchat, but rather the world’s first decentralized cryptocurrency. Bitcoin’s performance […]

Bakkt’s intention to provide a pure non-leveraged Bitcoin futures product seems to have evaporated — both of the firm’s futures contracts are traded on margin, as pointed out by Alex Kruger: “Myth: Bakkt futures fully backed by bitcoin. Reality: Bakkt futures 37% backed by dollars or treasuries.” More than a year ago Bakkt CEO Kelly […]