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On Oct. 25, the IOTA foundation revealed a bug bounty program for their Trinity wallet is now extended to project enthusiasts and the broader cryptocurrency community, from being a third-party audit process as earlier. Bounty Campaign Opens to Public The Trinity “Public Bug Bounty” is open to independent security researchers from all sectors, encouraging professionals […]

A Chinese arbitration court declared crypto-assets such as Bitcoin must be treated as legal property, despite an infamous blanket ban on cryptocurrencies in the country. Chinese Court Classifies Bitcoin as Property As reported by a local news outlet, the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration ruled cryptocurrencies must be legally protected as a property with “economic […]

Bitcoin is experiencing an unprecedented period of low volatility, which could either be a sign that the lodestar cryptocurrency has found its price level, or has found a market floor in preparation for the next bull run. The data was revealed on Oct. 25, 2018, by Pension Partners Director of Research Charlie Bilello who shared […]

Welcome to this week in Blockchain Venture Capital. dYdX dYdX, a San Francisco-based startup building open-source protocols for decentralized margin trading and derivatives, recently closed a $10 million Series A round. Participants in the round included a16z crypto (lead), Dragonfly Capital Partners, Craft Ventures, Kindred Ventures, Vy Capital, 1confirmation, Fred Ehrsam, Elad Gil, Naval Ravikant, […]

Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen sat down for a discussion on the cryptocurrency space and creating an internet of value with Arjan Schütte, the Founder and Managing Partner of Core Innovation Capital, for the keynote of this year’s Money2020 FinTech conference. During the talk, Larsen shared his views on Silicon Valley, disruption in the financial technology […]

In a direct challenge to the type of industrial-grade efforts that have transformed once-lone cryptocurrency miners into multi-billion-dollar oligarchies, Zcoin has held itself up as the first cryptocurrency to “democratize” mining using Merkle Tree Proofs, a PoW algorithm for ASIC-resistance. According to the team behind the zero-knowledge proof privacy coin, Zcoin’s newfangled feature sticks it […]

Police have arrested a 23-year-old woman from an address in Epping, Sydney where she lives with her parents for allegedly raiding a 56-year-old man’s cryptocurrency wallet and transferring more than 100,000 XRP to an exchange in China. In a video report on Oct. 25, 2018, the Brisbane Times revealed that while the case is the […]

The rapid launch of several stablecoins offerings in 2018 seems comparable to the ICO boom in 2017, with most price-stable tokens built by premier crypto companies or invested in by venture capital funds. However, such developments look largely centralized – which defeats the significance of cryptocurrencies – and forms an area of concern. USDC Controversy […]

Binance released a report Oct. 24, outlining its role in the aid of the victims of the 2018 West Japan floods. According to the report, the exchange donated 63.03 BTC and 169.85 ETH, the combined fiat equivalence of which exceeded $500,000 at the time of donation. The 2018 Japan Floods Japan suffered the worst flood […]

Ten years after the launch of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency market remains in its nascent stages. While a lack of real-world applications and widespread crypto-usage creates questions about the innovation’s long-term viability, a prominent financial advisor predicts the market has potential to 50x from here. 5,000 Percent Increase Nigel Green, the founder, and CEO of financial […]