Few events in the crypto industry have had such a profound and long-lasting impact as the Bitcoin Pizza Day did. Celebrated every year on May 22, it is seen by many not only as a pivotal point in the history of cryptocurrencies but as the day that helped change the world forever. But, how ...
50 Bitcoins which were the block reward of block 3654 mined in February 2009 were moved today. The news brought frenzy into the market with many speculating it was Satoshi Nakamoto—the anonymous creator of Bitcoin who has moved his coins. The coins were moved by an early adopter but the...
The Steem network has been the topic of many controversies in the past few months, as it put forward the problem of centralization in the blockchain industry. The blockchain, which hosts the Steemit social media platform, was purchased and taken over by Tron earlier in February in what many de...
Chinese police have recently busted a major cryptocurrency scam suspected of using cryptocurrency OTC transactions for money laundering. The scammers created a forged Huobi website to defraud, and then carry out OTC money laundering by a group to transfer the money obtained from the fra...
tBTC, a tokenized Bitcoin project launched on the Ethereum network, has been shut down after only two days. The announcement about tBTC being put to sleep was made by Matt Luongo, the CEO and founder of Thesis. Earlier today, Luongo took to Twitter to say that the company decide...
Visa has filed a patent to digitize dollars and there is an indication that the global payment service provider may be using the Ethereum platform to launch its project. A copy from the patent documents gave the hint though no official position has been made in this regard apart from that Vis...
Price predictions are the crypto industry’s favorite game—everyone from stock market veterans to small day traders constantly racing to give their take on why a price of a digital asset is set to rise or fall. While Bitcoin’s price has often been tied with the performance of the stock and c...
Wrapped BTC (WBTC) surges as it becomes an accepted collateral asset Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) went live on Ethereum at the beginning of 2019. It is an ERC-20 token backed 1:1 with real Bitcoin and is intended to capture the benefits that can result from the tokenization of the B...
As the Bitcoin block reward halving has come and gone, the crypto industry has braced for the sharp market turnover many have expected to follow such a monumental event. Experts and analysts have been racing to give their predictions on how the market would react to the halving of block mining re...
Bitcoin has finally gone through its much-hyped adjustment that reduced the rewards for mining blocks. With miners now receiving only 6.25 BTC per each block found, many anticipated that the event will have a detrimental effect on the network’s hashrate and spark what could very well be a fata...
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