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Weiss Ratings, an independent financial rating agency, has downgraded EOS amid growing concerns about centralization. On Mar. 25, Dan Larimer, the Chief Technology Officer at Block.one, revealed that on June 1, EOS will make the “biggest announcement” since EOSIO was launched. #B1Junehttps://t.co/SWnpm3aFmI pic.twitter.com/zUCBbcKKOx — block.one (@block_one_) March 25, 2019 One day before the event, on […]

In the past seven days, the valuation of the crypto market has fallen by around $30 billion as the bitcoin price dropped by nine percent from $8,567 to as low as $7,451 on major exchanges like Coinbase and Bitstamp. When the bitcoin price was hovering at $8,000, some traders indicated the possibility of a pullback […]

Bitcoin has been on a 174-day bull rally since the low of Dec. 15, 2018, when it was trading at $3,150, which has seen its price surge 188 percent reaching $9,070 on May 30. According to some analysts and investors, the upswing may be partially be attributed to the financial crises affecting the world’s biggest […]

The most recent market surveillance report from the Blockchain Transparency Institute claims that Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, shows signs of wash trading. Cryptocurrency trading volume is fabricated The Blockchain Transparency Institute (BTI) is a group of blockchain data researches who aim to bring more transparency to the cryptocurrency market. The […]

The recent spike in bitcoin prices and the skyrocketing number of daily outputs has had a direct impact on the transaction fees and the congestion of the mempool. Despite the different solutions that have been implemented to address these issues, some of the most important cryptocurrency exchanges in the industry have failed to implement them. […]

The Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), the largest commercial bank in Thailand, retracted a statement about using Ripple’s XRP token. The bank quickly issued a correction saying it had no plans on using XRP “as of now.” SCB hints at XRP integration Thailand’s largest commercial bank, the Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), caused quite a stir after […]

Jay Clayton, chairman of the SEC, spoke about the Commission’s take on the cryptocurrency industry. In an interview with CNBC, Clayton said that unlike the crypto market there are “sophisticated” rules in place to prevent the stock market from being manipulated. Chairman of top US securities regulator discusses cryptocurrencies After voting to pass a new […]

Andrew Yang, the pro-bitcoin 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, met with Litecoin founder Charlie Lee to reportedly discuss the future of cryptocurrency. Yang shared a picture of the two on Twitter, congratulating Lee on being a pioneer in the industry. Pro-crypto presidential candidate meets Litecoin founder Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has been making headlines for […]

Truffle, a subsidiary of Ethereum development studio ConsenSys, entered into a partnership with Microsoft. According to a press release shared with CryptoSlate, Truffle will integrate its developer tools with Microsoft Azure to bring quality developer experience and DevOps to enterprise blockchains. Truffle announces Microsoft as preferred cloud and services partner One of the first companies […]

There is evidence that the second largest Zcash mining pool is censoring shielded (private) transactions. If more pools begin censoring shielded transactions it would make the privacy coin “mostly unusable,” according to one analysis. Mining pool censorship Lev Dubinets, a former software developer at AWS, noticed that F2Pool—the second largest Zcash mining pool, which controls […]