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After a week of drama surrounding iFinex Inc., which operates Bitfinex and owns Tether Ltd., CoinMarketCap has decided to remove Bitfinex’s price data from its calculations. Bitfinex data excluded from CoinMarketCap A report by TIE on Mar. 20, 2019, exposed that almost 60 percent of the top 100 cryptocurrency exchanges were reporting fake volumes. As a result, […]

Bitcoin has more full nodes than XRP has active addresses, observed one crypto commentator. The conversation is part of a larger debate around centralization and other fundamental differences between BTC and XRP which make them difficult to compare. As stated by crypto commentator Kevin Rooke on Apr. 5th, Bitcoin nodes exceed the number of active […]

A Reddit user may have found some margin trading features on Binance API that could be pointing out that the exchange will soon allow margin trading on the platform. Margin Trading on Binance Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, could soon enable margin on the platform. Over a month ago a Redditor […]

Joseph Lubin, the co-founder of Ethereum and one of the crypto titans, accurately called the bottom of the 2018 bear market. Amidst the mass layoffs and restructuring of ConsenSys, and contrary to the “epic amount of fear, uncertainty, and doubt” in the market, Lubin asserted the industry has a “very bright” and exciting future. Industrialists […]

Balaji Srinivasan appears to be leaving Coinbase after serving one year as chief technology officer. In a tweet on May 3rd, Balaji Srinivasan announced he “taking a bit of time off” from his role as CTO at Coinbase. That said, the content of his announcement appears to indicate he is leaving Coinbase. 2/2 Coinbase was […]

In the past 24 hours, the bitcoin price spiked from around $5,374 to $5,778 on regulated fiat crypto exchanges like Coinbase in the U.S., surging past $5,800 in several other markets. The 5 percent upside movement of bitcoin led the market capitalization of the dominant crypto asset to surpass the monumental $100 billion mark. Bitcoin’s […]

Institutional investment in cryptocurrency is likely to increase over the next five years, according to research from Fidelity Investments. The firm surveyed 441 institutional investors—including pensions, hedge funds, and endowments—to determine the investment outlook for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Fidelity Investments is the world’s fifth-largest asset manager with $2.5 trillion in assets under management. On […]

Charles Hoskinson, CEO of IOHK and founder of Cardano, announced the launch of Atala, an enterprise blockchain aimed at helping governments in developing countries build systems for voting, property registration, and supply chain, as reported by Forbes contributor Rachel Wolfson. On Apr. 30th, Charles Hoskinson announced the launch of Atala, IOHK’s enterprise blockchain solution similar […]

Ria Money Transfer, the third largest money transfer service in the world, joined RippleNet—a settlement layer facilitated by Ripple which streamlines payments through improved technical and operational standardization between participating institutions. Ria Money Transfer, a subsidiary of Euronet Worldwide (a multi-billion dollar payments conglomerate), operates in 155 countries with over 377,000 locations and facilitates $40 […]

Daily active accounts for Stellar Lumens are grossly underrepresented by available charting tools, according to an analysis by OrbitLens. The group claims that active accounts for XLM should be 10x reported figures. In an Apr. 29th post, OrbitLens, who is behind block explorer and analytics platform StellarExpert, claims that the daily active accounts (DAA) for […]