Bitcoin price drops 10% as hackers exploit Binance’s API keys
Welcome to another rollercoaster day for the cryptocurrency community. In just a few minutes, bitcoin price crashed from $10,740 to $9,690, which represents a 10.8 percent...
Top Ten Crypto Websites
The internet is full of crypto sites. The moment you type ‘crypto’ into any search engine, hundreds, if not thousands of crypto sites show...
Mainnet Merge Announcement
Ethereum is moving to proof-of-stake! The transition, known as The Merge, must first be activated on the Beacon Chain with the Bellatrix upgrade. After...
SWITZERLAND APPROVES FIRST BITCOIN-CRYPTOCURRENCY ETF WITH TICKER $HODL
The Bitcoin ETF $HODL, offered by Amun Crypto, will begin trading on Switzerland’s Six Swiss Exchange beginning next week. The ETF’s earnings will be...
Coincheck Hacked: “The Biggest Theft in the History of the World”
This morning, the Japanese crypto exchange platform Coincheck was hacked and had 526 million XEM (c. USD 400 m) stolen.
It has nothing to do...
Hashing Ahead: A Look at Bitcoin Mining in 2020
The December 2019 report on the Bitcoin mining network from CoinShares Research, a division of the digital asset management firm, presented an industry in good...
First Came Bitcoin. Then Came Bitcoin Lenders
The woes of an early bitcoin investor. Until recently, people who paid virtually nothing for the virtual currency and watched it soar had only...
Russia’s Biggest Bank Pilots Money Transfer on an IBM Blockchain
Sberbank has piloted the Russian banking industry’s first ever payment transaction over a blockchain.
Sberbank, Russia’s biggest bank by assets, has executed a real-time money...
Bitcoin: A Casual and Non-Technical Explanation of Concepts Behind the Currency
What follows is a fairly simple and mostly true description of the way Bitcoin works using a couple of real-life examples but without using...
Proof of Keys Explained: Bitcoin’s First Planned ‘Bank Run’ Is Today
Do your bitcoins really exist?
The answer might seem like an obvious “yes,” but the brewing “Proof of Keys” movement, launching today, argues the answer...