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Following Bitcoin’s rebound from $9,600 support, the market seems to be bouncing and giving signals that the retrace is over. This technical analysis will determine whether Ethereum, XRP and Litecoin will continue falling or if a bull trend is about to resume. The whole cryptocurrency market seems to be going through a corrective period following the […]

Binance—the world’s largest exchange by trading volume—announced that it will offer futures contracts on the new “Binance Futures” platform. An exact launch date wasn’t provided, but Changpeng Zhao said the platform is expected to launch in the coming months. Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance, made the announcement at the Asia Blockchain Summit (ABS 2019) […]

During his June 28 contempt hearing, Craig Wright told a federal court in Florida that he was unable to access his $10 billion Bitcoin fortune. Sources present during the deposition revealed that he also cried during cross-examination when explaining why he parted ways with Bitcoin back in 2010. Emotions run high in Wright’s contempt hearing […]

Danny Ryan, a developer with the Ethereum Foundation, announced that the code freeze of Phase Zero, the first iteration of Ethereum 2.0, was live. According to the project’s GitHub repository, version 0.8.0 will serve as a stable target as implementers work towards finalizing the entire project by January 2020. Code freeze Phase Zero for the […]

Although the longer-term indicators point to the beginning of a bullish trend that could take BTC to new all-time highs, the shorter-term timeframes indicate a Bitcoin correction is overdue. Since the low of December 2018 when Bitcoin was trading at $3,130, BTC experienced a strong upswing that has taken its price to almost $14,000, leading investors to believe […]

Prior to the 2016 presidential election, there was a lot of speculation about what would happen economically if Donald Trump won the presidency. Many analysts, such as professor Erik Jones of Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, expected to see “incredible pressure on stock prices and everyone flooding into rare metals like gold […]

ChainLink, a blockchain platform aiming to connect smart contracts to external data sources, is on a tear following listings on Coinbase Pro and Coinbase—the altcoin surged 117.2 percent, from $2.03 to $4.41, over the three days the listings were announced. The “Coinbase effect,” where a cryptocurrency’s price surges after its listing is announced on Coinbase, […]

Brave Browser is introducing a new feature that will allow users to tip posters on Reddit and Vimeo using Basic Attention Token. While the features are currently in Brave’s Developer preview on desktop, they will soon roll out for the public version of Brave, a company representative said on Reddit. New features coming to Brave […]

In May 2016, Charlie Lee and Jared Tate, the creators of Litecoin and DigiByte, cryptographically proved they were the creators of their blockchain platforms in less than a minute. If Craig Wright is truly Satoshi Nakamoto as he claims, why doesn’t he do the same on the Bitcoin blockchain? A single signature could end the Craig Wright […]

Lake City, a small town in northern Florida, paid almost $500,000 in Bitcoin to hackers following a ransomware attack on the city’s computer systems. This is the second time in two weeks a Florida town has been a victim of a ransomware attack, bringing the total ransomware payment in the state to over $1 million. […]