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A new website, Got Satoshi, claims to know the true identity of Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. The reveal is scheduled to happen today, on May 14, during the annual Consensus conference in New York.... 2 min read →
eBay could be about to enter the crypto world. If advertisements at the Consensus conference in New York are true, the e-commerce giant could be adopting crypto payments in the immediate future. “Virtual Currency.... 1 read →
An anonymous user reportedly lost $400,000 paying over 17,000 times the market price of a token by pressing “Market Buy” on Binance. First revealed in a Reddit post on May 9th, the news left... 3 min read →
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... 2 min read →
Justin Sun, the CEO of TRON, recently announced a partnership with Liverpool FC. The announcement was met with great fanfare, but recent evidence calls into question whether the partnership is real. On Apr. 24th,... 1 read →
It’s no secret that there is a growing interest among institutional investors for Bitcoin. Just as the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is reportedly eyeing a BitLicense for its cryptocurrency exchange Bakkt, just a few months... 2 min read →
Tether, the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, has issued over $300 million in USDT during the last week. The sudden increase in supply has resulted in accusations that Tether is, once again, engaging in... 2 min read →
Vkontakte, a Russian social media platform and subsidiary of Mail.ru Group, is reportedly working on a cryptocurrency. According to RNS, a Russian news outlet, Vkontakte’s plan involves the creation of cryptocurrency wallets for its... 2 min read →
Billionaire Calvin Ayre is claiming that Craig Wright, the controversial figure who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto (in the face of substantial skepticism), is allegedly filing lawsuits against those “falsely denying he is Satoshi.”... 2 min read →
Previously, institutional investors did not stake their cryptocurrency or participate in governance because of the need to use crypto-custodians. Coinbase Custody is changing that with support for Tezos staking and MakerDAO governance for its... 3 min read →
Earlier this week, a programmer on Reddit reportedly discovered margin trading features on Binance’s API, the world’s largest crypto exchange by daily volume. Noting that major cryptocurrency exchanges like BitMEX and Bitfinex have been... 2 min read →
Tether, the company behind one of the biggest and most widely used stablecoins on the market (USDT), has updated the terms on its website to further clarify how their reserves work. The small update,... 2 min read →
One Coinbase executive recently said that its partners were “selling client data to outside sources,” stoking privacy concerns. Controversy has been brewing since the exchange’s acquisition of blockchain analytics company Neutrino on Feb. 19th.... 4 min read →
There is mounting evidence that there is more to the QuadrigaCX incident. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is suspicious, Kraken suggestively announced $100,000 for tips, and Bloomberg recently reported that Quadriga’s cold wallets “have been... 3 min read →
Eugenia Alcalá, the CEO of Dash Venezuela, issued a statement following embezzlement accusations against Dash Merchant Venezuela, a separate Dash-funded organization. Some in the community are still outraged. Meanwhile, the CEO apologized for delays... 3 min read →
There are percolating allegations that Apollo Currency is a “pump and dump.” Others claim that one of the project’s co-founders—Stephen McCullah—is a “scam artist,” and that APL is a “massive scam” that is making... 12 min read →
Within the last 48 hours, news (re)surfaced suggesting that know-your-customer (KYC) information from some of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges was made available for sale. Yet, there is evidence that this is likely recycled news... 2 min read →
Bloomberg reported that Tether “has the billions it promised,” suggesting that USDT could be backed one-to-one by dollars. That said, the reserves do not necessarily prove Tether’s innocence in a laundry list of other... 6 min read →
One of the first major investment banks to enter the cryptocurrency sector, Goldman Sachs has been hinting at launching a Bitcoin trading desk since June. Following news of a delay, Goldman Sachs CFO Martin... 2 min read →
Founded by Ethereum Co-founder Charles Hoskinson, Cardano (ADA) is poised as a third-generation blockchain with a focus on propelling mass adoption. 2 min read →
