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Market Shrugs, Price Nightmares and 20 Crypto Jokes
14.12.2019
Let’s see what happened this week in the Cryptoverse. Matic and some other Binance IEOs rallied, but then Matic droped a nightmarish 66%, seeing even Binance investigating it; Tezos entered the Top 10 club; Zcash prepared for Blossom, but then XRP became the only green one; BTC dev says that...
Is HEX a Scam or Just Something that Looks Really, Really Like a Scam?
12.12.2019
Richard Heart. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Richard Heart
"Oh, it looks like a scam, I know that," says Richard Heart, the founder of the controversial new cryptocurrency HEX. Speaking to Tone Vays' Bitcoin Law Review podcast, he admits that, "if you don't look into it, it looks like every...
Ledger Live Adds Support for Tezos and Staking, Adds Features to Hardware Wallets
10.12.2019
Ledger Live adds support for XTZ and Tezos Staking, letting users securely grow their digital assets on a single platform
Meet the Fastest Cryptocurrency in the World; She has Four Legs
9.12.2019
While the crypto media, Cryptonews.com including, often talk of the crypto market in racing terms, and many crypto projects aim to win the transaction speed race, we could not miss an opportunity to talk about a real race and the fastest Cryptocurrency.
If you're ready to hear it, the world’s...
Crypto 2020: Technology Trends Next Year and Beyond
8.12.2019
Crypto is ten years old now, but how significantly has its underlying technology changed since its birth? At the most basic and abstract level, things are still fundamentally the same, in that (real) cryptocurrencies still rely on distributed and cryptographically secured consensus networks...
This is How Crypto Market Data Providers "Deflate" Fake Trading Volumes
8.12.2019
Several research studies have suggested that fake trading volumes are rampant in the crypto markets. Trading volume inflation is reportedly a much more common occurrence than previously believed, which has made it challenging for market data providers to deliver accurate data.
In this article,...
Brazil, Japan, Istanbul and 20 Crypto Jokes
7.12.2019
This week in the Cryptoworld: CryptoBridge is shutting down, while Vertcoin experienced another 51% attack, Huobi strengthens ties with China , OneConnect Financial Technology aims to raise up to USD 504M in an IPO, Hive found itself in a peculiar situation, SBI is considering issuing XRP...
Ethereum’s Top DEX Is Rebooting With New Scaling Features
5.12.2019
IDEX is launching a new DEX built on a layer 2 scalibility protocol made possible through Ethereum's Istanbul hard fork
State of JavaScript 2019 Survey
3.12.2019
Well, hey, look at that — it's time for this year's State of JavaScript survey!
You have taken this survey last year. Or in 2017. Or in 2016. It's been going on for a little while now and it always lends interesting insights into things like the features developers are using, the popularity...
The Bitcoin Halving Debate: Has the Market Priced In This Major Event?
3.12.2019
One of the most contentious topics in crypto right now is next year's Bitcoin (BTC) halving. From around May, miners will receive only BTC 6.25 (USD 46,000) as a reward for every block they confirm, and the crypto community is currently at odds over whether the resulting reduction in supply...
Check out 13 Crypto/Blockchain-Related Companies from the Fintech100
1.12.2019
Thirteen crypto and/or blockchain-related companies are on the list of the best and the most promising financial technology (finthech) companies in 2019.
A fintech venture capital (VC) firm H2 Ventures and “big four” accounting firm KPMG published their Fintech100 annual report recently, which...
5 Ways to Stack Bitcoin Sats
1.12.2019
The term “stacking sats” has become one of the biggest memes in the Bitcoin (BTC) community in 2019. Not a day goes by where you don’t see the hashtag #stackingsats on Crypto Twitter. And, for good reason.
Dollar-cost averaging bitcoin - even with small amounts - could turn out to be a lucrative...
BeatzCoin’s VibraVid Platform Introduces New Features After Latest Upgradation
30.11.2019
The fast-growing, newly launched blockchain-based music and video platform, VibraVid.io has broken the news to its customers about the successful completion of a major upgradation process, which was subjected to a new release that went live on November 29, 2019. As per the official announcement...
Crypto 2020: Security Trends Next Year and Beyond
30.11.2019
Cryptography is the cornerstone of informational security, but not everything is entirely secure in the world of cryptocurrency. Crypto-exchanges are still subject to fairly regular attacks and hacks, while even cryptocurrencies are confronted with the rare 51% attack.
How will this picture change...
Hack Worries, Roller Coaster and 20 Crypto Jokes
30.11.2019
The Cryptoworld was hit this week with major news that Upbit lost ETH 342,000 (USD 53 million). The week started badly with BTC tumbling below USD 6.7K, but it rallied 10% some 7 hours later, with altcoins moving upwards too, then it dropped below USD 7K again and rallied another 10% two days...
European Crypto Exchange Bitbay Ends Monero Trading due to Anonymity Features
27.11.2019
Authorities around the world are trying to stamp out online anonymity in various ways, sacrificing users’ privacy for alleged security. One of these ways is forcing digital asset exchanges to drop support for some cryptos, as European venue Bitbay is now the latest to do with monero. Also...
Ethereum Name Service - What’s Human Readable Domain Name Good For?
24.11.2019
Nick Johnson and Alex Van de Sande of the Ethereum Foundation began experimenting with a solution to replacing the hex addresses employed in the Ethereum blockchain with human-readable addresses. Following burgeoning interest from the market for the solution, the Ethereum Name Service (ENS)...
Crypto 2020: Institutions to Pick Bitcoin, Retail to Stay in Altcoins
23.11.2019
Both institutional and retail investments are indispensable if crypto is to grow, but it's likely that in 2020 we'll see different kinds of investment from different demographics. As experts tell Cryptonews.com, institutional investors might become more important next year and are likely to focus...
Leaked Passwords, Miner Capitulations and 20 Crypto Jokes
23.11.2019
This week saw personal data and passwords of GateHub wallet users leaked online, as well as discussions about 80,000 Bitcoins stolen from Mt. Gox. We learned that BTC may dip below USD 7K before the halving (and it did), and miners may or may not be capitulating. Meanwhile, Ethereum managed...
Embracing the Universal Web
21.11.2019
There are constantly new features appearing in browsers—from subgrid to variable fonts to better developer tools. It's a really great time to be re-thinking everything we know about design on the web. Responsive design has served us well over the years, but it's still rooted in the limitations...