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Binance announced the launch of a lending platform, offering up to 15 percent annualized interest rate for 14-day fixed-term BNB, USDT, and ETC based instruments. Crypto lending comes to Binance Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, officially announced the launch of its lending platform. According to the company’s Aug. 26 blog […]

Craig Wright lost the Kleiman case. The judge ordered Wright to part with half of his pre-2014 Bitcoin—worth over $5 billion—to the Kleiman estate, alongside considerable intellectual property. The Southern District Court of Florida magistrate Bruce Reinhart recommended that Kleiman’s estate be awarded half the Bitcoin and intellectual property Wright held prior to 2014. In […]

The Bitcoin markets experienced extreme levels of fear, with the Crypto Fear and Greed Index reaching a historic all-time low. As BTC hovers around $10,000 traders claim it should be taken as a buying opportunity. Meanwhile, a handful of respected traders first believe a dip to $8,500 is more likely. The bear-case for Bitcoin’s future […]

Top crypto exchange Coinbase has added support for IDEX on its official wallet, allowing its customers to trade hundreds of new cryptocurrencies on the third-party “hybrid decentralized” exchange. The move comes months before the purported launch of Binance U.S., the regulatory compliant, North American arm of retail exchange giant, Binance. As previously reported by CryptoSlate, […]

It’s about remembering the people who were there in the beginning. All the cryptocurrency in the world traces its origins to raw mathematics — if you can solve complicated math problems faster than anyone else, then you stand to profit. As a result, members of the mining community find themselves in a figurative arms race […]

The past couple of days have seen the Bitcoin network go through a huge spike in transaction output activity, reaching almost 25 million BTC on Aug. 21. However, data from TokenAnalyst showed that this could be explained by a sudden rise in the number of addresses sending funds to themselves, with a single Bitcoin address […]

Mining difficulty could be an indicator for predicting BTC prices. All three of the major bull runs in Bitcoin’s history started after mining difficulty reached its bottom, meaning the market could see robust gains this year, says crypto researcher PlanB. Predicting Bitcoin bull runs with mining difficulty Despite being known for its incredibly high volatility, […]

Although most coins are still staggered, Ethereum Classic, Basic Attention Token, and Ravencoin still posted strong gains. Do the indicators suggest their prices will keep rising? Ethereum Classic On June 3, Ethereum Classic hit a yearly high of $9.85. The move followed a nearly 200 percent upswing that began in early December 2018 when it […]

History’s third largest Ponzi, Plus Token, took in nearly 10 million Ethereum—worth $1.9 billion—from over 800,000 victims, according to analysis conducted by Elementus. These coins have the potential to flood the ETH market should the perpetrators cash out. Background on the Plus Token Wallet Ponzi Plus Token Wallet, a mobile app promoted across China, South […]

Coinbase’s newly launched decentralized web feature will enable users to access dapps on any desktop browser. WalletLink will securely link users’ Coinbase Wallet apps with their desktop browser, while keeping their funds safe, according to a press release. Coinbase Wallet experience no longer limited to mobile devices The largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the U.S., Coinbase, […]