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The long-planned Ethereum fork is coming on Jan. 16th. With Constantinople going live within weeks,  here’s what is important to know. Constantinople Activating in January Constantinople is one of the key milestones in Ethereum’s roadmap to version 2.0, which moves the protocol from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake (PoS). Compared to the larger plan, Constantinople’s changes […]

Major U.S. furniture retailer Overstock announced that it will pay taxes in bitcoin for the Ohio-based portion of its business under the state’s novel taxpayer platform, Ohiocrypto.com. Leading Crypto Adoption The 34th largest U.S. state by area, Ohio, became the first state to introduce tax payments via bitcoin in November 2018. The law extends to workers […]

Ethereum, TRON, and Iota have outperformed most other major cryptocurrencies by the 30-day Sharpe ratio, a measure developed by Nobel laureate William F. Sharpe to evaluate the return of an investment relative to its risk. Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s performance was dismal. Within the last 30 days, the market has experienced a robust recovery after bottoming out […]

The Financial Stability Board, a global inter-governmental body with over 20 member countries, has ruled that virtual currencies are not a threat to the world economy. The assessment could have an impact on India, whose central bank is part of the board. FSB Says Cryptocurrencies Won’t Affect Global Financial Stability While the crypto winter shows […]

Cardano was the most actively developed coin in 2018 by GitHub commits. Compared to Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap, which sat at 52nd place. More Development on Cardano than on Bitcoin With the end of 2018, a slew of interesting statistics regarding the crypto industry have started to emerge. While some are […]

The latest data shows that Bitcoin is in its longest buying streak in six months. Experts say that the coin could continue to see rising prices following last year’s brutal 74 percent decline. New Year and Renewed Optimism Despite many predicting the demise of the world’s largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin has continued growing. Jameson Lopp, the […]

Binance will be holding initial coin offerings (ICOs) on the firm’s token sale platform Launchpad nearly every month in 2019. TRON’s BitTorrent and Fetch.ai are two of the ICOs slated to be offered in 2019. Launchpad is Binance’s attempt to legitimize the cryptocurrency-based ICO method, which has had a checkered history since it rose to […]

The two masterminds behind Bitcoin S.V. are once again changing the narrative around Bitcoin; Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre claim that Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision is the one and only ‘true’ version of Bitcoin. Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre are former Bitcoin Cash (BCH) loyalists that split from the cryptocurrency to form their own coin, Bitcoin Satoshi’s […]

The two largest Bitcoin mining pools, BTC.com and Antpool, have lost a large chunk of their hash power over the crypto winter. The two Bitmain owned pools signaled the mining market’s implosion, culminating in Bitmain laying off 50 percent of its workforce. At the beginning of 2018, Bitmain’s mining pools BTC.com and Antpool were the […]

The Reserve Bank of India has shelved its plan to launch a state-backed cryptocurrency amidst increased government pressure and concerns around money laundering. Indian Government Still Cautious About Cryptocurrencies It seems that regulatory clarity has evaded the crypto community in India, yet again. The country’s central bank announced it was looking at issuing its own […]