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Over the last week, Bitcoin’s trading volume has been fading away. On July 15, it surpassed $25 billion, but over the past few weeks, it dropped to around $14 billion today. As BTC’s volume continues declining, its price seems to have gotten stuck in a $600 trading range between $9,900 and $9,300 without any clear signs […]

After Facebook’s Libra, it seems likely that other major brands like Amazon, Delta, and T-Mobile will create their own stablecoins. Stablecoins of the future The coming years will see the advent of the second generation of stablecoins. These “branded” stablecoins would not only employ the fundamental aspects of price stability and blockchain technology used by […]

Coinbase announced that it will be listing Tezos on Coinbase Pro. Following the announcement, XTZ jumped 16.4 percent while the altcoin markets overall remained stable. Tezos (XTZ) is a proof-of-work smart contract platform with built-in features for user governance. Using these governance features, Tezos is attempting to “democratize” protocol upgrades by incenting user participation. On […]

Blockchain and gaming have been on a collision course and may have reached the point of impact. Rapid changes in technology and methodologies have begun to happen across different sectors of the gaming industry. Here are some of the most significant ways distributed ledger technology is changing gaming. Variety of use cases At the core, […]

Facebook has warned investors that its highly anticipated, and much-contested cryptocurrency project, Libra, may never get off the ground. Libra’s May 2019 debut brought to an end nearly a year of speculation that Facebook was quietly building a cryptocurrency, with the social media giant unveiling a permissioned payments blockchain for its 2.4 billion users backed […]

While Tron remains one of the top blockchain platforms by market capitalization and user activity, its founder Justin Sun has continued to attract controversy. Here’s a chronology of all the drama and controversy around Tron and Justin Sun to date: Tron, a leading blockchain network for building decentralized applications (dApps), has attracted a relatively large […]

Square App started a mass movement on Twitter asking its followers to submit designs for a new symbol for increments of Bitcoin, the satoshi. The Twitter community responded by submitting dozens of designs, starting a larger conversation about the inclusion of Bitcoin and satoshi symbols and the future of crypto payments online. Satoshi is to […]

On the fifth anniversary of Ethereum’s 2014 pre-sale, ConsenSys took a look back at the network’s history. This year has proved to be critical for Ethereum with data showing that it managed to rise from the 2018 crypto crash better and more popular than ever. World’s second-largest cryptocurrency boasts with better-than-ever stats Ethereum, the world’s […]

Jiang Zhuoer, the CEO at BTC.TOP, one of the largest Bitcoin mining pools, revealed that Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre planned the split from the Bitcoin Cash network long before the matter was publicly discussed. In a Reddit post that shares part of an interview with Zhuoer, the Chinese entrepreneur pointed out that Craig Wright […]

Binance now offers wealthy traders a “personalized way” to conduct trades larger than 10 BTC off of the exchange’s order books via over-the-counter (OTC) trading. Binance trading introduces block trading services One of the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, the Malta-headquartered Binance, introduced a new feature that allows its users to trade larger […]