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IOTA announced a $5 million grant program to contribute to “Coordicide”-related research, the elimination of the project’s centralized coordinating node. IOTA is a cryptocurrency that aims to facilitate IoT transactions by creating a fee-less, highly scalable, asset transfer network. In May 2019, IOTA Foundation announced its push toward Coordicide—a planned upgrade for IOTA  which removes […]

Tether ownership is worryingly concentrated, citing Coin Metrics data that showed just 318 addresses held 80 percent of all Tether in circulation. Coin Metrics data shows Tether ownership highly concentrated Tether, a stablecoin created to provide liquidity to cryptocurrency exchanges, hasn’t been a stranger to controversy. Since it was introduced in 2015, the company has […]

The Coinbase Pro announcement of Algorand’s ALGO listing pushed the price up from $0.727 to $0.814 within 40 minutes, an 11.85 percent increase—and wicking the price as high as $0.841. Algorand—a Boston-based blockchain company created to improve blockchain decentralization, scalability, and security—made the news last month after it completed a $60 million token sale. The […]

Craig Wright’s claims of using between 60 and 100 computers to mine Bitcoin in January 2009 were debunked by crypto researcher SeekingSatoshi. The low hash rate recorded in Bitcoin’s earliest days showed that Wright simply couldn’t have used that many machines to mine the researcher said, uncovering yet another layer of potential lies told by […]

Bitcoin development company Blockstream unveiled a new mining facility and mining pool aimed at enterprises, with the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman being named as two of the service’s first clients. Announced Thursday by the Canada-based firm, the mining operation is capable of a hefty 300 megawatts output spread between […]

Bitcoin’s latest consolidation has left many wondering whether it was entering a bearish phase, but recent data from Messari Crypto showed that its short-lived break over $12,000 was a major milestone. Unlike ETH, XLM, XRP, BCH, and LTC, Bitcoin has only spent 63 days in its history above it’s Aug. 6 closing price. Bitcoin consolidates […]

Robinhood expanded its fee-free crypto trading platform to the United Kingdom. Robinhood announced Wednesday that the Financial Conduct Authority, which regulates U.K. financial services, has given it its blessing to operate in the country. Robinhood allows users to buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum without commissions. We’re excited to share that Robinhood International, Ltd. has been […]

Coinbase added Tezos to its retail platform and mobile apps. The move will provide market access to the cryptocurrency for millions of retail investors. Tezos is a delegated proof of stake blockchain that governs itself by establishing a true digital commonwealth. It facilitates formal verification, a technique that mathematically proves the correctness of the code governing transactions and […]

Coin Metrics’s State of the Network report comparing Bitcoin with Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin SV found that the two forks still have a long way to go before they can compete with any of BTC’s metrics. Both forks set out to be a better medium of exchange than BTC, but are increasingly being used as […]

It has been a tumultuous few weeks for TRON and BitTorrent’s CEO Justin Sun, who seems to have been embroiled in one predicament after another since calling off his widely-trumpeted lunch date with Warren Buffet. Intriguingly, the price-action of TRX during the spate of controversies may prove the cryptocurrency market has reached a significant level […]