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Review: Documentary Film - Monero Means Money
16.5.2020
The film, Monero Means Money, went from drawing board to premiere in just one week, and even briefly topped the U.S. box office, albeit largely due to the COVID-19 lockdown… but is that a good thing?
Venezuela Appears to Have Hard Forked The Petro
16.5.2020
Signs indicate that Venezuela’s state-backed cryptocurrency quietly underwent a hard fork earlier this month
Someone Was Propping Up the Bitcoin Cash Hashrate at a Loss in April
16.5.2020
Data indicates that someone was propping up Bitcoin Cash at a loss prior to the halving
Time For ETH to Rise and Shine as Futures Trading Now Available in US
16.5.2020
ErisX rolls out CFTC-regulated, physically-settled ETH futures contracts to U.S. traders, but positive spot price action is not a certainty
Another Exchange Delists Monero Amidst Ongoing Sex Scandal
15.5.2020
Another cryptocurrency exchange delists XMR in South Korea in the midst of the Nth room sex scandal case
Telegram Investor Backs Durov Crypto Return to ‘Kick Zuckerberg’s Ass’
15.5.2020
Pavel Durov. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/durov.
An investor in Telegram’s aborted Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain platform says he believes the project’s mastermind is not yet ready to walk away from his failed initial coin offering (ICO) – and backed Telegram to return to the crypto...
Bithumb Delists Monero as Telegram Nth Room Rape Video Anger Festers
15.5.2020
South Korean crypto exchanges have said their final farewell to monero (XMR) after Bithumb, the last major trading platform still trading in the token, officially delisted it yesterday. The so-called privacy token has endured a torrid past few weeks in South Korea, after media outlets unearthed...
Coinbase Report Suggests Bitcoin Acts as a Gateway to Altcoins
15.5.2020
Bitcoin acts as a gateway to altcoins, with only 24% of investors keeping the faith, according to research from Coinbase
Coinbase Says That 60% of Its Bitcoin Buyers Go Into Altcoins
14.5.2020
Major cryptoasset exchange Coinbase claims that although most of its users initially favor bitcoin (BTC), the vast majority also go on to trade altcoins and other digital assets.
In a blog post, the platform claimed,
“Among customers with at least five purchases, 60% start with bitcoin but just...
Price Analysis 5/13: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, LTC, BNB, EOS, XTZ, XLM
13.5.2020
The recent correction in Bitcoin has not dented the upward trend and a retest of $10,000 seems likely
Some Bitcoin Miners Flock to Bitcoin Cash And Bitcoin SV
13.5.2020
While it might take weeks until we have a clear picture of the Bitcoin network after its third halving, it looks like some of its miners have already turned to Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV).
BCH saw its hashrate almost doubling on the day of BTC's halving, on May 11. As reported, after...
Mysterious Stablecoin Rally Marked With Regional Differences
13.5.2020
Strong and unexplained worldwide growth in the use of stablecoins following crypto’s Black Thursday on March 12 is also marked with certain regional differences.
The combined market capitalization of all stablecoins has “almost doubled” since the market crash in March, despite an initially sharp...
Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 is 'On track' With 0 Deadlines
13.5.2020
A recent mistake by Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum (ETH), confirmed that Phase 0 of Ethereum's next version, Ethereum 2.0 (ETH 2.0) will not launch this July, but it might happen in Q3.
Buterin appeared at the CoinDesk’s Consensus: Distributed conference this Monday, where he replied...
Breaking: Telegram Abandons Telegram Open Network and GRAM Tokens
12.5.2020
Telegram CEO announces the end of Telegram Open Network and Gram following regulatory battle
BitPay Onboards Client With 1M Customers, ECB Focuses On Retail CBDC + More News
12.5.2020
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Major crypto payment processor BitPay announced the first large international furniture brand to go live...
Could Stablecoins Trash Cash in the Race to Deliver COVID-19 Payouts?
12.5.2020
With governments all over the world looking for ways to mitigate the financial damage of the coronavirus outbreak, many thinkers are openly asking if cash, already looking outdated before the pandemic, is the right tool for the job in a pre-vaccinated world.
In South Korea, both the private and...
Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 19
11.5.2020
Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today.
Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know...
Crypto Market Sentiment Drops in 7 Days, Even Bloodier in 24 Hours
11.5.2020
The crypto market sentiment is not having a good day, or a good week for that matter. Not only has the combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure, sentscore, for the top 10 coins dropped from last week's 5.88 to 5.67/10 this week, as crypto market sentiment analysis service Omenics...
Litecoin an Unlikely Champ as Crypto Hedge Funds Continue to Diversify
11.5.2020
Hedge funds are finding new uses for cryptoassets that do not involve investment, per a new report, with litecoin (LTC) earmarked as an unlikely altcoin champion for funds.
These were the findings of a joint research paper released by PwC and Elwood Asset Management and shared with Cryptonews.com...
Litecoin Foundation Migrates to BitGo’s Multi-Signature Wallet
11.5.2020
The Litecoin Foundation announced on May 7 that it would migrate from the multi-sig Electrum-LTC wallet to BitGo’s multi-sig wallet