The asset has overtaken the network’s market cap following an announcement that PayPal intends to integrate crypto. Since PayPal announced adding Bitcoin (BTC) to its platform, the asset’s market cap has exceeded that of PayPal itself. Ironic? At press time, Bitcoin holds a market cap of $239,877,416,968, just recently surpassing PayPal on AssetDash’s list of […]
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Bitcoin odds are “repricing quickly,” says Skew as one analyst highlights the current price pump’s “organic” nature. Bitcoin (BTC) has a 7% probability of beating its $20,000 all-time highs by the end of this year, data shows. According to data from on-chain analytics resource Skew, as of Oct. 22, Bitcoin options were moving in favor […]
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Sergey Nazarov: there is a demand for Chainlink VRF from other chains like Matic. Chainlink’s verifiable randomness function, or VRF, has made its way to the Ethereum (ETH) main net. VRF will provide a decentralized source of randomness for the project’s decentralized ecosystem. A trusted source of randomness is essential for many applications, such as those […]
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Analysts expect a profit-taking pullback in the Bitcoin market after BTC hits $13,000 upon the PayPal news. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) surpassed $13,000 for the first time since June 2019. The optimism around PayPal supporting crypto purchases led the overall market sentiment to brighten within a short period. Immediately after the PayPal news was […]
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The German state-funded energy project uses DLT to enable transparent market transactions. A blockchain-based energy trading platform backed by German tech giant Siemens is being publicly demonstrated in a Bavarian municipality today. The so-called “Pebbles” project — short for “peer-to-peer energy trading based on blockchains” — is holding a virtual demo of its blockchain-based marketplace […]
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It scores highly among the possible options to counteract inflation. Famed Wall Street investor and billionaire Paul Tudor Jones said that he likes Bitcoin “even more than I did then,” referring to his initial investment announced in May 2020. Jones praised Bitcoin on CNBC’s Squawk Box morning show, revealing that he holds a “small single-digit […]
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Bitstamp is replacing its CEO for the first time since the company’s establishment. Bitstamp, one of the world’s oldest and largest cryptocurrency exchanges, is replacing its CEO for the first time. Nejc Kodrič, the firm’s CEO who co-founded Bitstamp back in 2011, is stepping down from his position. He will be moving into a new […]
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Member-led working groups are helping define security standards for tokenized use cases. Tokenization has given rise to the “Internet of Value,” an era in which financial assets — or any assets with underlying value — can be easily transferred peer-to-peer over the internet. While revolutionary, tokenization has largely remained a concept embedded strictly within the […]
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Scam websites posing as famous crypto projects ask for private keys so they can steal users’ funds. Decentralized finance yield farming platform Yearn Finance has a doppelganger that is tricking visitors into sharing the private keys of their cryptocurrency wallets. The scam website of Yearn Finance perfectly copies almost every aspect of the original yearn.finance website […]
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The price of Bitcoin rose to $20,000 in 2017 and crashed. According to Glassnode, the same top signal has emerged, but this time feels different for several reasons. In 2017, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) reached as high as $20,000 and crashed rapidly. Now the same on-chain top signal has reemerged, according to researchers at […]
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