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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 […]

Drama around Justin Sun’s lunch with Warren Buffett continues. Hours ago he published a statement on Weibo apologizing to the TRON community and Chinese authorities for “vulgar hype and marketing behavior.” He deleted the message shortly afterward—read the full translated message here. Justin Sun publicly apologizes for “over-marketing” A translation of the message from CryptoSlate’s […]

After its introduction in 2013, Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) managed to become one of the largest Bitcoin investment products in the world. So far, GBTC has outperformed most traditional assets year to date, in line with BTC’s rising prices, and became one of the most actively traded securities on the OTC Markets Group. GBTC performance […]

We went undercover to try and open accounts at four of the largest U.S. banks, telling them ahead of time that we would use the account to buy and sell Bitcoin on Coinbase. The verdict is in—personal accounts are at risk of being closed, and accounts for cryptocurrency-related businesses are outright prohibited. Here are some solutions. We […]

Dan Morehead, the founder and CEO at Pantera Capital, a cryptocurrency-focused investment fund, believes the Bitcoin price could hit $356,000 in the next three years. Morehead, who’s also the chairman at Bitstamp, a global digital currency marketplace, predicted during an episode of Laura Shin’s Unchained Podcast that Bitcoin’s price may reach $42,000 by the end […]

Several Ethereum developers voiced concerns about Ethereum improvement proposal (EIP) 2025, which recommends creating more Ether per block for the next 18 months. Authored by James Hancock, a Berlin-based developer, the proposal suggests adding an extra 0.044 Ether per block in order to broadly fund Ethereum’s ongoing development. Published last month, EIP-2025 was discussed briefly […]

iFinex, the company that owns and operates Tether and Bitfinex, said that the claims made by the New York Attorney General’s office that the companies served New York residents throughout last year were “misleading.” The company’s latest legal filing asserts that the alleged “New York customers” were foreign ECPs who worked through New York-based traders. […]

While altcoins continue dropping Bitcoin has increased its dominance over the market, reaching 68 percent for the first time since early 2017. Some prominent members of the industry even predict that BTC will capture 80 percent of the market. This technical analysis will evaluate whether Binance Coin, EOS and Stellar have the potential to rebound […]