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In an increasingly crowded but frustratingly similar ICO environment, platforms are looking for ways to differentiate themselves. Many companies have risen to prominence following the same playbook, using similar designs, and publishing the same-sounding articles. Now that the total value of the entire cryptocurrency market is approaching $1 trillion, there is at least some semblance […]

You would think that the ‘Long Island Blockchain Corp’ news that broke at the end of 2017 would have been a sobering moment. If I had to write a list titled Signs We’re In A Bubble, “watching a company triple in value for adding a buzzword to its name” would rank first (and second, and […]

Wrapping up 2017 as the hottest exchange on the planet, Binance is teetering on the edge of being too popular for its own good. Most major exchanges have had to temporarily halt new user signups, including Binance. However, as soon as they re-opened, CEO Zhao Changpeng admitted in an interview Binance had 240,000 new investors […]

The man who once described Bitcoin as “a fraud” that is “worse than tulip bulbs” has taken his first bite of humble pie and is eyeing up another slice. JP Morgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon has turned around on his dark view of the world’s biggest crypto and is starting to eat his words after the […]

Cryptocurrency markets are down 10% on the false news that cryptocurrency exchanges will be shut down by the government. The price of Bitcoin fell to as low as $12,600 and Ripple was down 25%. This is the second time in the past few weeks when misleading news out of South Korea has sent the crypto markets […]

For those of us who have been working in the cryptocurrency market for some time, we have come to both respect and loathe the legal and compliance minefield that has been created from governments trying to manage the astronomical rise in cryptocurrencies and ICOs over the last twelve months. It has become clear that in […]

Bitcoin may have started the cryptocurrency party, but it’s all the uninvited guests that are having the most fun now. Throughout 2017, Bitcoin dominated headlines, gained followers, and increased in value by 1,500%. However, all this attention has increased Bitcoin’s resource usage, and there is much speculation as to how it will continue to scale. Even […]

The crypto-space is full of evangelists. Those who are enthusiastic about cryptocurrencies tend to be really enthusiastic. None more so than Mike Novogratz. In the past year, Novogratz made frequent appearances on network TV to boast about the potential for cryptocurrencies to be the leading source of financial innovation in the world. He is known […]

By now, we’ve all realized that cryptocurrencies are a big deal. Some of the most popular have market caps that rival some of the most transformative tech companies in the history of the world. Even relatively small digital currencies are amassing millions in market cap, and the power dynamics between the largest and smallest currency […]

Litecoin was born out of an early software branch of Bitcoin, but has since gained momentum as its own currency, and, at time of writing, holds the seventh place in terms of market cap. New blocks on the Litecoin network are discovered every 2.5 minutes, as opposed to Bitcoin’s 10, resulting in faster transaction confirmations […]