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StormX, a popular gamified microtask platform based in Seattle, has recently patented innovative micropayments technology that allows for better scalability by creating a hybrid solution of off and on chain transactions using bolts and Storm Token, the company said in a press release shared with CryptoSlate. Seattle-based startup looking to revolutionize micropayments StormX, Inc., the […]

Altcoins across the board—including Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, EOS, and Binance Coin—are surging as Bitcoin makes its ascent past $7,000. Altcoins depreciate as bitcoin surges Altcoins have been hemorrhaging capital as bitcoin climbed from $5,687 on May 7 to $6,343 on May 11—an 11.5 percent increase. The relationship is visible when looking at overall market […]

Bitcoin recently hit new highs of $7,000 and altcoins are beginning to follow after several days of depreciation. One of those coins, ethereum, has managed to surge 16 percent over the last 24-hours. Is there more bullish momentum to come? $BTC money will flow into $ALTS it's just a matter of time. I'm honestly surprised […]

SEC commissioner Hester Peirce—the highest position in the agency second to the chairman—implored the Commission to provide regulatory clarity to the crypto industry. At the Securities Enforcement Forum in Palo Alto, California, Peirce urged the Securities Exchange Commission to take action on crypto: “It is not the SEC’s overzealous action that has stifled the crypto […]

After breaking $6,000, Bitcoin passed through another major resistance zone between $6,100 and $6,450. Altcoins, however, are not performing as well and Bitcoin’s dominance has increased to 59.26% at the time of press. Bitcoin Decoupling Bitcoin’s bullish momentum has shaken off a lot of bears out of the market. Tyler Jenks, a 40-years trading veteran, […]

An anonymous user reportedly lost $400,000 paying over 17,000 times the market price of a token by pressing “Market Buy” on Binance. First revealed in a Reddit post on May 9th, the news left many speculating on whether or not the alleged loss actually happened, and if it did, how did an exchange as large […]

French lending giant Societe Generale has become the latest traditional financial company to experiment with digital tokens. The bank’s Ethereum-based tokenized bonds have the potential to bring cryptocurrencies to a market worth over $2 trillion. Major traditional financial companies slowly getting into digital tokens Cryptocurrencies have already become an inseparable part of many different industries, […]

Changpeng Zhao (“CZ”), the CEO of Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange in terms of adjusted trading volume, has published a blog post in which he apologized for previously suggesting a chain reorg of the Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain. Following a large-scale security breach of Binance on May 7th, 2019, which resulted in a loss of […]

A filing showing the list of addresses that were supposed to prove that controversial figure Craig Wright was, in fact, Satoshi Nakamoto, has been unsealed. Deeper inspection of the list, however, showed that the blocks Wright claims to have mined are merely a “lazy copy-paste from the blockchain,” researchers from Wizsec Security found. Craig Wright’s […]

When bitcoin broke above $4,200 it marked a pivot point in the crypto markets. Since then, bitcoin has surged more than 40 percent and is now attempting to break through a major resistance zone between $6,300 and $6,450. Bitcoin unfazed by mounting bad news Despite Bitfinex being investigated for engaging in a cover-up of the […]