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Historical price-action dating back to 2012 suggests January is the poorest-performing month for Bitcoin, while November may bode best for the bulls. Research shared Twitter user @Bitdealer_ shows that average returns for each monthly change in Bitcoin’s price since 2012, calculating seven-and-a-half years of data from January 2012 to June 2019. January usually closes in the […]

The past month or so has been totally overcome with news about Facebook making a play for a slice of the cryptocurrency pie with its Libra project. Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp could all suddenly be opening their doors to blockchain-based cryptocurrencies; over 2 billion people introduced overnight. It may sound exciting, but it is also […]

In a step forward for crypto regulation, the Securities Exchange Commission granted no-action relief to Pocketful of Quarters for its Ethereum ERC-20 token “Quarters”—assuring the startup that the Commission will not take enforcement action. Pocketful of Quarters (PoQ) is a blockchain startup headed by CEO George Weiksner, age 12, and his father, PoQ’s CTO, Michael […]

According to a recent poll by CivicScience, the majority of Americans trust Bitcoin more than they trust Facebook’s Libra. With 86 percent of respondents saying that they weren’t interested in Libra at all, it seems that Facebook will have a tough year trying to win over the public. Facebook’s Libra is up against a tough […]

BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen publicly accused Justin Sun of not making the final payment on the TRON Foundation’s $140 million acquisition of BitTorrent, Inc. Anybody know if Justin Sun is hard up for cash? He isn't letting the last payment for BitTorrent get out of escrow. — Bram Cohen (@bramcohen) July 25, 2019 Crisis strikes TRON […]

Brave Browser is introducing a new feature that will allow its users to withdraw BAT earned from ads. While the feature is currently only available on Brave’s developer browser preview, the community welcomed the news, calling it a step forward for BAT adoption. BAT withdrawals will soon be available on Brave Previously, Basic Attention Token […]

There are three narratives often used to describe Bitcoin—that it’s entering a new bull run, it’s a tulip mania, or that it’s comparable to the dotcom bubble. But there is a fourth more pessimistic scenario for BTC, according to Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox. 1) Market is in a new bull run This scenario most commonly […]

Stake.fish, a prominent validator for proof-of-stake blockchains, announced on Tuesday that it will serve as a Chainlink “Reviewed Node Operator,” growing the oracle network. Chainlink is decentralized oracle network that securely connects smart contracts to external data sources and various payment networks. Specifically, the platform’s infrastructure has been designed to establish secure connections with APIs […]

A planned hard fork has been executed on Bitcoin SV (BSV) despite deliberation over the timing of the scheduled upgrade, dubbed “Quasar”. The fork has upped the protocol’s block size limit from 128MB to 2GB—a development that according to the owners of the BSV project, Bitcoin Association, will help BSV scale to “1000+ transactions per […]

The privacy-focused Zcash has become the next digital currency to have a “friendly” network split, with Bitcoin Gold being the first. Announced earlier this year, the fork saw the network split into two almost identical cryptocurrencies–Zcash and Ycash. The two will act as competitors but maintain that the split was done in good faith and […]