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XRP, the native cryptocurrency of the Ripple network is up another 10 percent as investors speculate on what has caused its price to nearly triple in the past week. According to prominent investors and analysts, the staggering 155 percent price increase of Ripple in the last seven days from $0.27 to $0.69 is largely attributable […]

Bitcoin Core developers acknowledged a potentially devastating vulnerability in the code of the original cryptocurrency and appealed to miners to upgrade to their newly issued patch with immediate effect. If exploited, bug CVE-2018–17144 would have permitted bad actors to shut down entire nodes and create Bitcoin, supposedly debasing the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. The […]

In the densely-clustered space of cryptocurrency, education is valuable—literally. Paying attention to the word around the campfire is a great way to stay informed, and Binance Info 2.0 is making information easily accessible. Reading is fundamental, and in this case, a new concept for ecological good. Cryptocurrency has been around for nearly 10 years, which […]

At Consumer Identity World Tour 2018, identity verification software company Civic announced a partnership with Brave Software, in which verified publishers using Brave’s platform and Ethereum-based Basic Attention Token (BAT) will be able to verify their identities using Civic’s interface. We're excited to announce that we will be working with @civickey to offer secure identity verification […]

While the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Zaif faces backlash following a Sept. 14 hack, the NEM.io Foundation, known for the NEM blockchain platform and XEM token, has reassured its asset holders that it remains unaffected. Nem Suspends Zaif Withdrawals During the hack, holdings in Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and MonaCoin (MONA) were subject to stolen funds. […]

Charlie Lee, inventor and founder of Litecoin (LTC), took to Twitter earlier this week to debunk some of the FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) he’s seen swirling around LTC, himself and his company in a string of 11 tweets breaking down some of the most common negative rumors in the crypto verse. Lee Defends LTC […]

For the first time since December 2017, XRP, the native cryptocurrency of Ripple, overtook Ethereum on Sept. 21. However, the so-called “flippening” for XRP did not last long, as Ethereum (ETH) recorded a 17 percent increase in price and added $3 billion to its market cap. Ripple just flippened Ethereum for the first time since […]

Changpeng “CZ” Zhao quietly offered a utopian forecast for the cryptocurrency industry and his ubiquitous cryptocurrency exchange, Binance–which he revealed is becoming increasingly institutionally oriented and will launch five to 10 fiat-to-crypto operations in nearly every continent. Speaking at Consensus Singapore, the Binance chief whip suggested that the regulatory breakthroughs seen last week have now […]

In a recent, exclusive interview with The Street, billionaire investor Tim Draper stated that he stands by his $250,000 Bitcoin price target by 2022. While the price of Bitcoin has declined by more than 65 percent since late 2017, the holdings of early Bitcoin investors remain relatively high against the U.S. dollar. Draper, who invested […]

Earlier this week, the New York Attorney General’s office released a report on the state of the cryptocurrency marketplace in the state, called the New York Virtual Markets Integrity Report. The report took a look at how several cryptocurrency trading platforms operated and what measures they had in place to protect consumers’ investments. ‘These Platforms […]