A crowdfunding campaign raised more than $50,000 in the first two days toward the creation of viral videos promoting Bitcoin Cash. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) advocate and CEO of BitcoinBCH.com, Hayden Otto, has launched a fundraising campaign to create viral videos promoting BCH to mainstream audiences — after failing to win over crypto converts to the […]
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Yam Finance claims to bring fairness to farming with new elastic supply token. The latest craze in the DeFi sector is a new yield farming protocol called Yam which promises ‘equal opportunity’ staking with no premine, no founder shares, and a zero value token at launch. The experimental Yam Protocol is the talk of Crypto […]
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The final token sale for NEAR Protocol was postponed after CoinList exchange was overwhelmed by traffic. The highly anticipated tokensale for decentralized application (DApp) platform NEAR Protocol was postponed by 24 hours after CoinList — the exchange hosting the offering — went down around the scheduled launch time. Originally scheduled for 10 am ET on […]
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The DeFi boom continues with a new decentralized derivatives exchange token mooning hours after it was launched. The latest DeFi token to moon is for the decentralized derivatives exchange Serum ,which surged by four figures following its launch and exchange listings. The Serum Project is a new, non-custodial DEX that launched on August 11 and […]
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CME Bitcoin futures set a new open interest high at $841 million, further highlighting growing institutional interest in BTC. Today the open interest on Chicago Mercantile Exchange Bitcoin (BTC) futures reached a new all-time high at $841 million. Although this can’t be deemed bullish on a standalone basis, it does signal that professional investors’ interest […]
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IBM could teach banks a thing or two about DeFi. In a Cointelegraph interview, director of IBM financial services and digital assets, Nitin Gaur, shared how the technology company is helping financial institutions to capitalize on the DeFi movement. Gaur — the author of Blockchain for Business — says it is essential that banks understand […]
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Jameson Lopp explains why attacks on Bitcoin won’t work and that he expects China’s mining dominance won’t last. China accounts for more than half of the world’s Bitcoin mining capacity but Jameson Lopp, the co-founder and CTO of Casa, has hosed down fears that Chinese miners are a threat to Bitcoin in a blog post […]
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Grayscale Investments released a 30-second TV spot on its nine crypto trusts on major news networks this Monday. Amid sky-high expectations, the latest television ad from Grayscale Investments has proven a disappointment to many Bitcoiners. The 30-second ad is running on business and finance cable TV channels and there were hopes before it was unveiled […]
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Stealing Bitcoin from Tor users is easy. According to recently published research, an attacker has found vulnerabilities in the Tor browser network that might have allowed them to steal Bitcoin (BTC) from users. Tor was developed by the U.S. government for anonymous internet communication and has since been adopted by privacy advocates. Because of its […]
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The agenda for the Democratic National Convention, or DNC, does not include prior democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang as a speaker, leaving the politician surprised. Known in the crypto industry for his comments on the burgeoning asset class, former presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s name does not appear on the DNC’s latest speaker list, according to […]
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