While shares in Riot Blockchain and Hive Blockchain eclipse Bitcoin’s YTD gains, other mining firms have not fared so well — with Canaan crashing nearly 70%. The share price of Bitcoin (BTC) mining firms Riot Blockchain and Hive Blockchain has produced enormous year-to-date (YTD) gains, with stock in Riot nearly doubling while Hive tripled over […]
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Blockchain Australia has appointed a new CEO in an effort to improve blockchain awareness and application across Australia. The new head of Blockchain Australia, Steve Vallas, has announced that he will focus on building up confidence in blockchain and improving the image of blockchain technology among businesses and governments. Vallas replaces Nick Giurietto who led […]
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Balaji Srinivasan has promised a $1000 BTC bounty to anyone who can get Recode’s Kara Swisher to retract a story on COVID-19. Balaji Srinivasan has offered $1000 in Bitcoin to the first Twitter user who can get Vox’s technology news website Recode to retract a story about Silicon Valley’s ‘overreaction’ to COVID-19 in February. The […]
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The Bank of Japan announced on Thursday that it would experiment with a CBDC to check its feasibility from a technical perspective. The Bank of Japan has announced it will begin experimenting with a central bank digital currency (CBDC) to check its feasibility from a technical perspective. BoJ wants to digitize cash but it remains […]
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Huobi has become the first major exchange to run a Chainlink node in an effort to improve data authenticity and integrity. Major cryptocurrency exchange Huobi will integrate their price data with Chainlink’s ecosystem in an effort to improve its own data integrity and provide more accurate price information. While Binance was the first major exchange […]
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BRD, Ledger Live, and Edge are among the wallets vulnerable to a new double-spend exploit, but some believe the vulnerability is inherent to Bitcoin itself. On July 2, crypto security firm ZenGo identified a double-spend exploit targeting several popular Bitcoin (BTC) wallets, dubbed ‘BigSpender’ Of nine cryptocurrency wallets tested by ZenGo, BRD, Ledger Live, and […]
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Two weeks after announcing it had purchased a record 17,595 Antminer S19 ASICs, Core Scientific has announced an expanded partnership with a multi-billion hedge fund. United States-based crypto mining host Core Scientific has announced that the $5.3 billion asset manager and hedge fund Horizon Kinetics has upgraded its investment to access Bitmain’s news Antminer S19 […]
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Bittrex CEO Bill Shihara will expand his role at cashback rewards platform StormX from investor to board member. Bill Shihara, founder and CEO of Bittrex crypto exchange, is joining the Board of Directors for Seattle-based blockchain startup StormX. According to an announcement from StormX, the addition of Shihara to the board comes after the CEO […]
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The IRS is looking to expand its investigative capabilities around privacy coins, layer-two solutions, and sidechains. The United States’ Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seeking information and tools to help it trace transactions using privacy coins, layer two protocols such as Lightning Network and side chains like Plasma and OmiseGo (OMG). A June 30 request […]
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Bitcoin’s recent price action could relate to miner selling. Mike Alfred, co-founder and CEO of data analytics outfit Digital Assets Data, recently pointed toward miners as a potential catalyst for recent Bitcoin (BTC) price activity. “It is tough to say definitively, but it appears as though the miners’ actions are having a direct, immediate impact […]
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