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$8.8 Trillion Traded in Cryptocurrency Spot and Futures Markets in Q1: Reports
27.4.2020
The combined total trading volume in the cryptocurrency spot and futures markets amounted to approximately $8.8 trillion in the first quarter, according to two new industry reports. The amounts represent a massive 314% quarterly increase for futures trading and 104% for spot trading. Further,...
Binance Sees 2,000% Employee Increase in Under 3 Years
24.4.2020
Binance recently broke the 1,000 employee mark, showing tremendous growth since its ICO
Institutional Investment Builds in Q1 2020, Sentiment Toward Crypto Funds Changing
23.4.2020
Grayscale holds 1.7% of the Bitcoin supply and that says a lot about institutional demand for crypto
Building a Scalable CSS Architecture With BEM and Utility Classes
21.4.2020
Maintaining a large-scale CSS project is hard. Over the years, we’ve witnessed different approaches aimed at easing the process of writing scalable CSS. In the end, we all try to meet the following two goals:
Efficiency: we want to reduce the time spent thinking about how things should...
Corona Money Printing Worries – Housing Prices Slide Downwards First Time in 10 Years in Northern Europe
19.4.2020
Real estate price reports from March in northern countries like Denmark and Sweden now show negative developments for the first time in over 10 years. If furloughed workers continue into unemployment, the effects on the housing markets will be even more significant, says Claudia Wörmann...
Bitcoin Volatility-Tracking Options See 25% Monthly Volume Increase
16.4.2020
Delta Exchange announced that $8M of Move contracts were traded on the platform over the past 30 days, a 25% increase over the last month
Bitcoin’s Third Halving: Survey Shows 50% of Miners Expect a Price Increase
10.4.2020
The block reward halving for BTC is 32 days away and crypto businesses and mining operations are steadily preparing for the event. Today, Bitcoin’s hashrate is hovering just above 100 exahash per second (EH/s) and one year after the 2016 halving, the digital asset’s price and hashrate...
Q1 Crypto Trade Volume Jumps 61%, Bitcoin’s Price Performance Trumps Equity and Gold Markets
9.4.2020
For well over a month now, a great number of countries have been living under lockdowns and stay-at-home orders due to the coronavirus outbreak. Meanwhile, central banks like the Fed, Bank of England (BoE), and European Central Bank (ECB) have funneled trillions into the hands of private financial...
Market Update: Traders ‘Buck the Trend’ Pushing Crypto Market Cap Above $200 Billion
7.4.2020
Digital currency markets have been rising again as the entire market capitalization of all 5,000+ coins has jumped above the $200 billion mark. The increase in crypto trade volume and coin values has followed alongside the recovery traditional equity markets saw on Monday. On Tuesday, most of...
No More Relief for Bitcoin Miners - Mining Difficulty to Increase Again
7.4.2020
The previously expected even bigger relief for the Bitcoin (BTC) miners is not coming. Instead, starting tomorrow, Bitcoin mining difficulty, used as a measure for how hard it is to compete for mining rewards, is set to increase as more miners turned their machines on in the past two weeks....
Nationwide Lockdown: Indian Cryptocurrency Exchanges See Signups and Trade Volumes Increase
3.4.2020
India is currently under a nationwide lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak. News.Bitcoin.com talked to executives of local cryptocurrency exchanges to find out the impact of the lockdown on cryptocurrency trading. They revealed that more people are actually trading cryptocurrencies on their...
Spain’s Tax Authority Sending Notices to 66,000 Cryptocurrency Owners
2.4.2020
The Spanish tax authority has reportedly started sending notices to about 66,000 cryptocurrency owners in the country. This number represents a massive increase from the 14,700 tax letters the agency sent to crypto owners last year. The letters will continue to be sent until the end of June despite...
Top Ripple Dev Publishes Method to Increase Privacy Using ‘Blinded Tags’
2.4.2020
Nik Bougalis, the software engineer that leads the C++ team at Ripple, published a proposed method for using “blinded tags” to heighten privacy on the XRP ledger
Institution-Focused Crypto Trading Platform Reports 737% Revenue Increase in 2019
31.3.2020
BC Group revealed that its OSL digital assets trading platform had been its largest 2019 earner, accounting for 44% of the Group’s revenues — up from just 6% in 2018
US Cash in Circulation Sees Biggest Increase Since the Y2K Bug Panic, Fed Reserve Data Indicates
30.3.2020
U.S. currency in circulation has experienced its largest increase in over 20 years
Manitoba Regulator and Police Warn of Increase in Bitcoin Scams
26.3.2020
Manitoba’s securities regulator has issued a warning against crypto scams after an increasing number of locals have been victimized by virtual currency fraud
‘Buy Bitcoin’ Searches Skyrocket, Exchange Volumes Spike, Crypto Account Signups Swell 83% As Coronavirus Fears Heighten
22.3.2020
Exchange data and statistics from Google Trends, Twitter, and Baidu show that despite the recent price drop people are looking to buy bitcoin. During the week of the crypto market massacre that started on March 12, Coinbase broke traffic records and witnessed considerable trade volumes. Similarly...
Waves Claims 70x Increase in Smart Contract Speed Amid Enterprise Upgrades
17.3.2020
The upgrade will allow entities across platforms that use Waves’ technology to copy data across multiple blockchains
Demand for 'Internet Dollars' to Increase - Circle CEO; Not All Celebrate
16.3.2020
While the current Covid-19 pandemic is already hurting the global economy, it's actually beneficial for stablecoins, and it's proving that they work, claims the CEO of crypto financial services firm Circle, Jeremy Allaire. Not all stablecoins have had a reason to celebrate though.
With the rise...
Attempts to Increase Bitcoin's Supply Would End Up With Another "Bitcoin"
14.3.2020
A famous painting by a Belgian Surrealist artist, René Magritte. It says: This is not a pipe.
Bitcoin's supply cap is one of its biggest selling points. Limiting the network to almost 21 million BTC, the cap makes Bitcoin a ‘deflationary’ currency.
Naturally, people have been questioning whether...