Kazakhstan’s Ministry of the Economy wants to tax crypto mining in an effort to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. A proposal made by the government of Kazakhstan aims to impose a 15% flat-rate tax on crypto mining. The plan would use any funds accumulated through the tax to deal with the COVID-19 crisis in the […]
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Dan Morehead is more conservative in his Bitcoin price predictions than his firm Pantera Capital, though both agree that it will hit $100,000. Pantera Capital is the oldest Bitcoin investment firm in the United States. When the company’s founder, Dan Morehead, was asked to make a Bitcoin price prediction during a recent interview, he first […]
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New data shows Sunday evening is the best time to buy Bitcoin at a ‘discount’. Recent data shows that Sunday evening is the best time to buy Bitcoin (BTC) according to Capriole digital asset manager Charles Edwards. As shown below, historically, BTC saw higher returns on Sunday evenings into early Monday morning. Bitcoin shows higher […]
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Someone hacked the digital court hearing of the alleged 17-year-old Twitter breacher. The teen behind July’s massive Twitter breach had a digital courtroom hearing on Aug. 5. The trial was postponed, however, due to a highly irregular breach in the hearing’s Zoom call. During a “Zoom bombing,” infiltrators “broke into the call to interrupt the proceedings,” […]
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After the somewhat imperfect launch of the Medalla Eth 2.0 testnet, developers discuss what initially went wrong. Following the successful but imperfect launch of the Medalla testnet, the first community testnet for Ethereum 2.0, developers spoke on the issues and needed improvements highlighted by the event. In an Eth 2.0 Dev call held on Aug. […]
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Traders Big Cheds & Big Chonis offer expert TA on the next move for Bitcoin and altcoins. Will Bitcoin break the next resistance at $12,000? Which altcoins are looking promising (and which aren’t)? Tune in now to this week’s Crypto Markets Live to find out! Trading experts Big Cheds and Big Chonis apply their signature […]
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The funding rate is an essential mechanism to allow derivative instruments to track the spot price of their underlying asset. Since the “digital Sleeping Beauty,” Bitcoin (BTC), woke up about two months after its third halving in mid-May 2020, we have read a lot about the “funding rate” of digital assets futures — from good […]
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Many Russian citizens now face exploitation on the dark web after their Blockchain voting data was accidentally leaked in early July. Passport data from 1.14 million Russians is now available for sale on underground shops via the dark web. This data was stolen from citizens who voted in the country’s recent constitutional reform referendum, which […]
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Bitmain announces three-month Antminer order delays, citing “external interference on company operation.” Bitmain, the world’s largest Bitcoin (BTC) mining hardware company, is postponing its product orders amid ongoing internal conflicts. As officially announced on Aug. 6, Bitmain will be delaying their June and July 2020 Antminer orders by at least two or three months due […]
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Polkadot is releasing a testnet specifically designed for its sharding implementation. The Polkadot (DOT) project launched a testnet to evaluate its planned sharding implementation based on parachains. The key component that separates shards from being just many independent blockchains is communication. Shards need to be able to communicate with their peers to enable cross-shard token […]
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