Tagged: btc

October 24, 2020 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The system-wide Ethereum 2.0 upgrade is now just a few weeks away. As the date of the planned update gets closer, the ETH price keeps rising. Ethereum (ETH), the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap and adoption, has surged 15% this past week (trading at… Read More

October 21, 2020 @ 10:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Decred (DCR), a cryptocurrency that focuses on ensuring security and achieving scalability, is launching DCRDEX, which is the first “decentralized” digital asset exchange of its kind. DCRDEX won’t be charging trading fees and it’s reportedly the first non-custodial exchange to use a new order matching… Read More

October 20, 2020 @ 9:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The digital commerce sector is on track to surpass $4.6 trillion globally within the next two years, according to an update shared with Crowdfund Insider. Amazon, Walmart, and Costco alone are expected to generate sales and revenue valued at around $1 trillion during 2020. As… Read More

October 19, 2020 @ 9:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The development of the Bitcoin (BTC) protocol and decentralized finance (DeFi) networks is somewhat similar but also very different, according to a report from OKCoin. The exchange notes that application developers are focused on supporting the growth of Bitcoin and DeFi. They aim to create… Read More

October 18, 2020 @ 5:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Many decentralized finance (DeFi) assets have experienced a strong bounce or recovery as Ethereum (ETH) fundamentals appear to look “stronger than ever,” according to a report from OKCoin. The report pointed out that DeFi tokens have been following Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum’s (ETH) price movements…. Read More

October 17, 2020 @ 7:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers at OpenNode, which aims to offer a simple and reliable payments stack for business, have revealed that they’ve introduced a feature that allows users to split the settlement of a single payment across both Bitcoin (BTC) and local fiat currency. The company notes… Read More

October 16, 2020 @ 3:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase is launching Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) on Coinbase Pro, the digital asset trading platform for professional traders. WBTC trading will not be available to Coinbase.com users or via other mobile app platforms (for now at least). As confirmed by the exchange,… Read More

October 16, 2020 @ 2:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  We recently spoke to Meltem Demirors, the Chief Strategy Officer at CoinShares, a digital asset treasury management firm that manages over $1 billion in assets. Demirors talked about how financial markets reacted after US President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19. She also discussed… Read More

October 14, 2020 @ 9:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jay Hao, CEO at OKEx, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges, has provided a breakdown of the number of Bitcoins (BTC) held by major entities. Since the pseudonymous virtual currency’s genesis (or very first) block of transactions was mined back in early 2009, there… Read More

October 14, 2020 @ 6:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, has again surged past the $11,000 mark as US stimulus talks begin and institutions start to allocate more funds to the leading digital asset. As noted by the OKCoin team, Bitcoin has managed to break out this past week, after… Read More

October 13, 2020 @ 3:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HASHR8 Inc., a cryptocurrency mining and media firm that aims to support the “decentralized growth” of hashrate (or computing power used to secure digital currency networks) while enhancing the security of blockchains, has introduced Compass – which is a platform that will match Bitcoin (BTC)… Read More

October 11, 2020 @ 10:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Marco Falke, a Bitcoin Core maintainer, is the recipient of OKCoin’s Independent Developer Grant. According to the crypto exchange, Falke has become one of the most prolific contributors to the ongoing development of the Bitcoin (BTC) protocol. Currently, Bitcoin (BTC) has a market cap of… Read More

October 9, 2020 @ 4:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lightning Network (LN) node operators that may be running LND versions released before the October 1, 2020 version 0.11 update are now being asked to immediately upgrade their software. This, after a potentially serious vulnerability was recently identified in the source code of the protocol…. Read More

October 6, 2020 @ 6:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Joel Edgerton, COO at bitFlyer, a crypto-asset exchange that’s licensed to operate in Japan, the United States, and Europe, recently shared his views about the court case and charges brought against the Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), a leading digital asset derivatives exchange. Edgerton also shared… Read More

October 5, 2020 @ 11:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Monica (Appelbe) Long, SVP of Marketing at American Fintech Ripple, says that we’re all in the midst of a global climate crisis—”one that is impossible to ignore.” Long confirms that efforts are being made by many countries to “avert the worst-case climate scenarios.” Organizations and… Read More

October 4, 2020 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainalysis, a leading blockchain analysis and security firm, has provided an update regarding the recent KuCoin exchange hack, which led to around $280 million in digital assets being stolen (according to estimates confirmed by many industry participants). Chainalysis noted that on September 25, 2020, hackers… Read More

September 30, 2020 @ 11:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ryan Flowers from OpenNode notes that the value of a single Bitcoin (BTC), the flagship cryptocurrency, keeps increasing and there will be more businesses that will accept BTC payments. Flowers points out that this has been the case in the past with larger corporations taking… Read More

September 30, 2020 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem has reached new heights during the past few months, as many projects have launched and large amounts of capital has been invested into these so-called decentralized platforms. The Coin Metrics team confirms that most DeFi solutions have been launched on… Read More

September 29, 2020 @ 10:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kadena, the first blockchain tech-focused firm to come out of J.P. Morgan’s Blockchain Center for Excellence, confirmed in August 2020 that they had performed major updates to their scalable layer-1 public blockchain network. Kadena’s developers claim that they have one of the fastest blockchain platforms… Read More

September 26, 2020 @ 5:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jay Hao, CEO at OKEx, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, notes that it seems everyone in the blockchain space is talking about carrying out a “fair launch.” He goes on to ask, “what exactly is ‘fair launch’ and is it a better model for token distribution?”… Read More