Ethereum is seeing an outstanding rally against Bitcoin—fueled by strong network fundamentals—while the overall altcoin market sees some relief after months of bleeding. Altcoins in the green Altcoins are finally getting some relief after... 3 min read →
The VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin ETF proposal was withdrawn—again—from the SEC’s consideration prior to an October decision. Primer on VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin Shares VanEck-SolidX first submitted its proposal to list and trade shares of the “VanEck SolidX... 2 min read →
Binance made a strategic investment in crypto-data website Mars Finance. This is the first time the dominant exchange invested in a Chinese company since Beijing banned cryptocurrency trading in 2017. Growing crypto news outlet... 2 min read →
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A year after becoming top brass at the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, Binance CFO Wei Zhou says his firm wants to “grow the pie bigger” and opening up an exchange in... 3 min read →
On Sept. 13, an attacker flooded the EOSIO network to drain $110,000 in EOS from a gambling dApp. During the process, many user-facing applications were unusable due to congestion. Here’s how the hacker did... 5 min read →
Arthur Hayes, the CEO of BitMEX, responded to Changpeng Zhao’s false accusations of a Binance futures market maker attack—satirically. Hayes offered him a “copy/paste” course for 51 percent of his equity, alluding to earlier... 2 min read →
Segregated Witness (SegWit) transactions are on the rise and recently hit a new all-time high. SegWit adoption on the rise SegWit is a solution to the Bitcoin scalability problem that was implemented via soft... 2 min read →
BitPay, the largest crypto payments provider, which facilitates over $1 billion in Bitcoin transactions annually, will add support for Ethereum. Companies which use BitPay for payment processing can now accept Ethereum for purchases. Moreover,... 2 min read →
Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie is reportedly set to turn his three-year, $34 million contract into a blockchain tokenized bond. Investors will be able to put money into the contract and earn interest based... 2 min read →
Binance almost became the victim of a market maker attack in the early hours of Sep. 16. However, CEO Changpeng Zhao soon revealed that the “attack” on the new futures platform was actually the... 2 min read →
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Genesis Capital, the lending arm of institutional OTC cryptocurrency firm Genesis Trading, just might be the biggest champion of the 2018 bear market, having built a multi-billion-dollar business off the back of Bitcoin’s 70... 5 min read →
The Ethereum price has increased from $165 to $194 within a 10-day span, breaking out with strength in a larger time frame for the first time in a month against both bitcoin and the... 3 min read →
According to Andrew Yang, an American 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, the underlying technology of cryptocurrency like bitcoin, called blockchain technology, is powerful. Universal bitcoin income with the usage of cryptocurrency In an interview with... 3 min read →
An ongoing exploit on EOSIO is allowing an attacker to win every roll on gambling dApp EOSPlay by paying to fill blocks with their transactions. So far, the attacker gained 30,000 EOS worth over $110,000... 2 min read →
A common accusation toward Bitcoin: It’s a pyramid scheme. For BTC holders to profit critics claim it’s necessary to sell to other “suckers” at an even higher price. This is fundamentally wrong. Anatomy of a... 6 min read →
On-chain data around Litecoin is showing several healthy indicators, including an increase in the number of large transactions on the network. Apart from that, Litecoin’s volatility and price correlation to Bitcoin have dropped, indicating... 3 min read →
DapperLabs, the company that created the popular CryptoKitties Ethereum collectibles game, announced the launch of its new blockchain platform—Flow. The company secured $11 million in funding from Warner, Andreessen Horowitz, and Venrock to create... 2 min read →
Thomas Lee, the managing partner at Fundstat Global, believes the While House could issue an executive order banning Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. While Lee noted that he wasn’t expecting it “as of now,” the... 2 min read →
The fifth-largest bank in Europe, Banco Santander, is the first financial institution to issue an “end-to-end” debt-based bond on Ethereum’s public blockchain. The move is an indicator of ETH’s growing importance in finance. A... 2 min read →
BitPay, a Bitcoin payment processor, was criticized by the Hong Kong Free Press for arbitrarily suspending donations to the publication, alleges editor-in-chief Tom Grundy. BitPay suspends donations to Hong Kong Free Press BitPay was... 1 read →
