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Balaji Srinivasan, the former CTO of Coinbase and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, discussed the future of emerging technologies such as crypto and VR. Virtual worlds of the future In the first part of the What Bitcoin Did podcast, Srinivasan told host Peter McCormack that virtual reality and virtual currency are an obvious marriage and […]

XRP has exploded out of its monthslong downtrend with a two-day buy-streak pushing the cryptocurrency up 18.5 percent against the dollar and injecting $2 billion into market capitalization—the extraordinary gain coming as the first market response to a series of high-profile partnership announcements by Ripple Labs. Driven by the highest trade volumes since July 10, […]

Ethereum is seeing an outstanding rally against Bitcoin—fueled by strong network fundamentals—while the overall altcoin market sees some relief after months of bleeding. Altcoins in the green Altcoins are finally getting some relief after getting pummeled, in Bitcoin terms, since the beginning of the year. BTC dominance started the year at 57.8 percent and hit […]

The VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin ETF proposal was withdrawn—again—from the SEC’s consideration prior to an October decision. Primer on VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin Shares VanEck-SolidX first submitted its proposal to list and trade shares of the “VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust” under commodity-based trust rules with the Securities Exchange Commission. Securities backed with gold or crude oil held in trust, […]

Binance made a strategic investment in crypto-data website Mars Finance. This is the first time the dominant exchange invested in a Chinese company since Beijing banned cryptocurrency trading in 2017. Growing crypto news outlet gets a boost from Binance Crypto exchange giant Binance has been on a roll in the past couple of months. The […]

A year after becoming top brass at the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, Binance CFO Wei Zhou says his firm wants to “grow the pie bigger” and opening up an exchange in the U.S. just might be the best way to do it. “I think the underlying theme here is that 99.99% of […]

On Sept. 13, an attacker flooded the EOSIO network to drain $110,000 in EOS from a gambling dApp. During the process, many user-facing applications were unusable due to congestion. Here’s how the hacker did it, in detail. Basics of the network congestion exploit Four days ago, an attacker pushed the EOS network into “high congestion […]

Arthur Hayes, the CEO of BitMEX, responded to Changpeng Zhao’s false accusations of a Binance futures market maker attack—satirically. Hayes offered him a “copy/paste” course for 51 percent of his equity, alluding to earlier plagiarism accusations. Zhao replied he’d be happy to buy-in. CZ’s quick fingers get him in trouble, yet again The rivalry between […]

Segregated Witness (SegWit) transactions are on the rise and recently hit a new all-time high. SegWit adoption on the rise SegWit is a solution to the Bitcoin scalability problem that was implemented via soft fork on Aug. 2017. It splits a transaction into two segments—appending signature, or “witness” data from the original transaction. By removing […]

BitPay, the largest crypto payments provider, which facilitates over $1 billion in Bitcoin transactions annually, will add support for Ethereum. Companies which use BitPay for payment processing can now accept Ethereum for purchases.  Moreover, BitPay will provide users with the ability to store Ether in a BitPay wallet and provide access to Ether on BitPay […]