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Today, Craig Wright—a computer scientist who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto (to the skepticism of many) and one of the figureheads behind BCH fork Bitcoin SV—allegedly deleted his Twitter account after sustained heckling from spoof accounts, including Fake-toshi Bot. Background on Craig Wright (“Satoshi Nakamoto”) Craig Steven Wright is an Australian computer scientist who is […]

We are now entering the sixth month of the seemingly never-ending bearish market that has become the new norm within the crypto world. Regardless of whether you see this current market as a market correction, a new phase in crypto, or something in-between, the reality is that we are now in a very different position […]

Ethereum is strongly leading in the total number of active developers working on both its core protocol and in total development; Bitcoin boasts a strong developer ecosystem 10 years after launch, while Litecoin and Dogecoin are “being abandoned,” according to an analysis by one crypto venture capital firm. One often criticized method for comparing cryptocurrency […]

Japanese authorities in the city of Utsunomiya have charged an 18-year-old for stealing crypto from Monappy, a digital wallet service for MonaCoin. The unnamed teenager was reportedly referred to prosecutors in what is the country’s first case of charges being brought against a cryptocurrency hacker. Even though Japan has been at the forefront of crypto […]

Binance Coin (BNB), the native token of one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, has seen its value triple in the past three months, arguably making it the best performing cryptocurrency of the quarter. This has led some experts to speculate that Binance Coin could be following in Bitcoin’s footsteps, which rose to […]

Tendermint, a respected public blockchain development company, announced the successful completion of their series A round. Paradigm, a crypto asset investment company, led the $9 million round with support from prominent co-investors including Bain Capital and 1Confirmation. Tendermint Inc secures $9M in Series A funding led by Paradigm. We're extremely excited to work with @paradigm, @matthuang […]

The tokenized blogging front-end built on the Steem blockchain, Steemit, recently experienced sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. There was no reported impact on the Steem blockchain or any other apps associated with it. Steemit.com was down for 25 minutes on Mar. 13th with users still reporting periodic inaccessibility a day later, according to […]

Bitcoin has once more returned to $4,000 per coin. The warming markets could be attributed to a number of positive factors around Bitcoin usage, adoption, and awareness, However, assuming the largest driver of BTC price is speculation, a more important factor could be changing market sentiment. Within the last 24 hours, the price of bitcoin […]

Documents from the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) show that no new contracts were added for its “XBT” Bitcoin futures for March 2019, effectively delisting the BTC derivative. The Chicago Future Exchange (CFE) has effectively delisted its bitcoin futures according to a Mar. 7th document describing products being added and removed for the upcoming month. […]

Receiving Bitcoin investment related emails could cause a Windows clipboard hijacker to be installed on your computer, researchers warn. The new malware spam campaign that aims to steal bitcoins from its victims is currently underway; it’s still unknown how many devices are affected. Fake Bitcoin Investment Scam Discovered While scams have almost always been synonymous […]