With the advent of Ethereum, and then subsequently the DeFi industry, adoption became a much hotter topic as the newly created tokens promised all of the possibilities and financial freedom without banks and institutions to control them. And now, as we’ve entered into the second half of 202...
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...
A court in Shenzhen city has passed sentence for an Ethereum theft case recently, ruling that Ethereum token is protected by law as legal property with ‘economic value’, and Chinese citizens are not barred from owning and transferring them. Li, the defendant, took the position as a bloc...
March 2020 witnessed the most volatile day in the price of cryptocurrency ever. Hence it was no surprise the Ethereum DeFi dapp category – as tracked by DappRadar also experienced an all-time high in terms of daily active unique wallet activity. As previously discussed. 12 March 2020 sa...
Previously reported that Ethereum is expected to implement the controversial EIP 1057, ProgPow, in July, changing its mining algorithm in favor of GPU mining. However, according to A Jian, the editor in chief of Ethfans, the EIP-1057 protocol involving ProgPow was not without ...
Chinese crypto exchange Huobi has been heavily favored in PlusToken withdrawals with nearly 50% of all withdrawals sent to the exchange, according to a study released by Elementus, a New York-based blockchain infrastructure firm. As 8btc reported earlier this month, PlusToken’s mass bi...
Bitcoin has seen its price moving close to $6,000, remaining unaffected by the U.S. president Donald Trump’s Chinese Tariff threat which has led global assets especially stocks in red chaos. Despite the widespread assumption that trade talks are progressing smoothly and the bilateral neg...
F2Pool, world’s second largest crypto mining pool based in China, has recently released an analysis that about 13 million graphics cards (GPU) have been put into crypto mining, among which 8 million are in active operation at present. GPU miners mainly focus on ETH and ZEC before ...
The bitcoin rich list has recently seen 105 new wallets coming up with a balance of 8,000 BTC in each. The addresses, in total, are holding a whopping 840,000 bitcoins, which accounts for over 4.8% of the total coins in circulations, with the value at more than $3.2 billion. The 105 address...
China’s center for information and industry development (CCID) has revised its public blockchain ranking for this month, moving Bitcoin up six places, from the 19th place in the previous month to the 13th spot, while EOS and Ethereum are still favored. The seventh monthly Global Pub...
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