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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 […]

Bitcoin transactions are approaching all-time highs while fees remain low. The number of transactions conducted in April is comparable to the peak of the market in December of 2017, yet total BTC fees decreased by 85 percent. What changed? Bitcoin Transaction Fee History Transaction fees on the Bitcoin network rose to absurd levels during 2017. […]

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Legal representatives for Bitfinex and Tether confirm the widely held suspicion that USDT is not one-to-one backed by US dollars. Court documents confirm tethers are only 74 percent backed, and those holding tokens are “subject to the risk of default, insolvency, inability to collect, and illiquidity.” Coming Untethered In February of 2019, Tether updated the […]

Mysteriously, 25 percent of mined Bitcoin Cash blocks are being tagged with “Satoshi Nakamoto.” Given the May 15th hard fork as part of a scheduled protocol upgrade, it is rumored that the tagging is a miner signaling 51 percent attack. Since Apr. 25th, beginning at 03:22 PDT, blocks began to appear on the Bitcoin Cash […]

On April 30, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mysteriously tweeted “Ethereum,” engaging with Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin. Ethereum — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 30, 2019 Almost immediately after the release of Musk’s tweet, the interest in Ethereum on major search engines including Google spiked, most likely as it drew interest from the mainstream. Google search trends […]

Vitalik Buterin asserted that finance is likely the first sector that will be disrupted by blockchain. The advent of decentralized finance (DeFi)—with projects such as MakerDAO, Augur, Uniswap, and Etherisc—has the potential to disrupt the “insanely inefficient” sector. Is DeFi Ethereum’s Killer App? Vitalik Buterin said while delivering a talk at ETHCapeTown 2019: “If you […]