Slashing is one of the big risks of staking on ETH 2.0, find out how to avoid it. One of the most prominent figures in the decentralized finance community has suffered validator penalties on the Ethereum 2.0 network after a mishap with his DappNode’s power button. DeFi protocol Synthetix founder, Kain Warwick, reported on Twitter […]
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“The Woz” makes a big impression in the crypto space as his newly-launched token WOZX records 26X gains after only five days of trading. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s new token, Efforce (WOZX), almost doubled in price today after an astonishing run that saw the price increase around 26X in the past week. WOZX will open […]
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Police have charged Coinbit chairman Choi Mo and two unnamed executives with fraud and forgery related to market manipulation and prosecutors are preparing the case. South Korean authorities have charged executives of what was once the country’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbit, over market manipulation allegations. According to news outlet News1, prosecutors are preparing a case […]
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More than 100,000 Ether, valued at $60 million, has already been locked up for Eth2 staking using Kraken within four days of the exchange launching the service. Just four days after it launched its Eth2 staking service, customers of the popular U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken have deposited more than 100,000 Ether, worth north of $60 […]
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Bitcoin price ended its consolidation phase by closing below $18,300 but will traders buy the dip? After spending the last few days trading in a tightening range, Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped from its pennant structure and closed below the 20-day moving average ($18,600). Crypto market daily price chart. Source: Coin360 Since topping out at $19,888 […]
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The DocuSign CEO estimates the cost of providing the firm’s e-signature and digital identity services are 13X higher using blockchain technology. Daniel Springer, the chief executive officers at electronic signature technology company DocuSign, says the firm isn’t likely to incorporate additional blockchain technology anytime soon as current infrastructure is far cheaper. In a Quartz report […]
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“I think a new investor could put 5% into Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s not going back to zero.” Galaxy Digital founder and CEO Mike Novogratz is encouraging investors to devote a larger percentage of their portfolios to crypto. In an interview with CNN’s Julia Chatterley today, Novogratz said he had “changed his tune” on previous advice that […]
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Banking executive says JPMorgan has been active in blockchain for a while. Contrary to public perception, JPMorgan Chase has always been pro-blockchain, says the multinational investment bank’s head of wholesale payments, Takis Georgakopoulos. In a live discussion with Nasdaq reporter Jill Malandrino at this year’s Blockshow in Singapore, Georgakopoulos said JPMorgan has always viewed the […]
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Institutions still fear Bitcoin’s criminal persona, its volatility, and other factors. Although a number of big players have picked up bags of Bitcoin (BTC) in 2020, multiple aspects still avert institutions from investing on a wide scale, according to Robert Li, an analyst for Draper Dragon, a Draper Venture Network fund. “I think there are […]
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Crypto prices are down across the board but a surge in DeFi sector growth appears to be pushing Compound’s COMP token higher. The price of COMP, the governance token of the decentralized finance (DeFi) giant Compound, has been surging while the wider crypto market has entered a correction. Despite the ongoing cryptocurrency market slump, the […]
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