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BitMEX Launches New Fork Monitoring Website to Keep Track of Bitcoin Forks
BitMEX just launched a website to make it easier to keep tabs on hard and soft forks on the Bitcoin blockchain. According to a recent blog post, the research arm of BitMEX is sponsoring a new website,...
View ArticleAnother Report Says Crypto Mining Uses More Power than Traditional Mining
A report published today has stated that mining $1 worth of Bitcoin requires more electricity than mining almost any material traditionally dug from the earth. The authors state that between three...
View ArticleCrypto Exchange Bitstamp Aims to Get 1,250 Times Faster with Tech Upgrade
Crypto exchange Bitstamp is getting a new matching engine developed by Cinnober, whose clients are mostly traditional stock and commodity markets.
View ArticleMainstream? Gwyneth Paltrow Promotes Bitcoin Investing Guide on Twitter
Celebrities and cryptocurrency have a long and complex history together. Seemingly everyone from boxers to rappers has publicly supported or even endorsed various types of cryptos, from ICOs to bitcoin...
View ArticleBitcoin Bulls Win Battle at $6,400 Resistance, Resume Range Trading
Bitcoin shed some of the gains made earlier in the day, erasing $40 from its daily high at $6,500. The BTC/USD pair trades at $6,460 in a ranging market with support at $6,300. A significant bearish...
View ArticleBancor’s Cross-Chain DEX Between Ethereum and EOS is Now Live
Bancor, a popular decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol on the Ethereum blockchain announced in September that they’d build a bridge to the EOS network. The new platform, called BancorX, is now live....
View ArticleOnly 19% Chance Bitcoin Price Breaches $10,000 by June 2019: Traders
A drop in the bitcoin price’s daily moves has lowered the market’s expectations of reclaiming a five-figure valuation anytime soon. Options Traders Not Bullish on Bitcoin Skew — a crypto analysis blog...
View ArticleThailand Government to Use Blockchain to Tackle Tax Avoidance
The government of Thailand has announced plans to adopt distributed ledger technology to fight tax avoidance. Director-general Ekniti Nitithanprapas said the Revenue Department intends to use...
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Colorado and California Just Elected Pro-Bitcoin Governors
Following the 2018 midterm elections, the U.S. will see two new pro-Bitcoin governors sworn into office. Jared Polis (D-CO) and Gavin Newsom (D-CA) both won out against their respective Republican...
View ArticleUS Election Sees Crypto-Friendly Politicians Win Governor Races
The U.S. now has four governors who are friendly to, if not outright proponents of, blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
View ArticleCFTC Chair Says Distributed Ledger Tech Can Aid Market Watchdogs
CFTC chair Christopher Giancarlo explained how DLT can be used to help the agency more efficiently regulate markets during a speech Wednesday.
View ArticleHackers Infiltrate 600K Websites Through StatCounter in Search of Bitcoin
Cybercriminals have hacked one of the largest website traffic analytics platforms on the web, and with it have injected malicious code into over 600,000 websites in an attempt to gain access to...
View ArticleAs ‘Plasma’ Stalls, SNARKs Become New Hope for Scaling Ethereum Now
As work on ethereum’s Plasma scaling solution proceeds, some developers are hailing a form of cryptography used by zcash as an alternative.
View ArticleHackers Exploit Tracking Service to Infiltrate Bitcoin Exchange Gate.io
Statcounter is one of the oldest third-party user tracking services on the web, having existed since 1999. Beginning as a simple statistics and visitor counting service, Statcounter over time grew into...
View ArticleWill Recent Economic Sanctions Drive Iran to Cryptocurrency?
A recent FinCEN advisory has stated that the re-imposition of economic sanctions on November 5 could drive Iran to get more serious about the cryptocurrency experiments it began in 2013. Could Iran...
View ArticleMaduro Bankrupted Venezuela — Now He’s Launching a Petro Savings Plan
The Venezuelan government has recently launched a Petro savings plan that allows the country’s citizens to put their money into the oil-backed cryptocurrency and “save by means of a certificate.”...
View ArticleBank of Israel Doesn’t Recommend Launching Bank-Backed e-Shekel
The central bank of Israel has published a summary of the work of its interdepartmental team to examine central bank digital currency and its eventual use in the country’s financial system. The...
View ArticleWar: Bitcoin Cash Startup Launches Mining Pool to Attack Altcoins & BCH Forks
A prominent bitcoin cash startup has launched a mining pool designed to attack altcoins and BCH forks that it does not believe fulfill Satoshi Nakamoto’s original vision for the cryptocurrency....
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Amazon and ConsenSys-Built Kaleido Launches Full-Stack Marketplace
Blockchain software-as-a-service (SAS) project Kaleido has launched a marketplace to provide its users with a “full-stack enterprise platform.” Their “Blockchain Business Cloud” now features a “new...
View ArticleColorado Regulators Crack Down on Four More ICOs
The state’s “ICO Task Force” has now issued 12 cease-and-desist orders since May of this year.
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