The former CEO of Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt, now a Republican senator for Georgia, has been rewarded with a new appointment despite recent controversies. The former CEO of Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt and a current Republican senator for Georgia, Kelly Loeffler, has been rewarded with a new appointment despite recent controversies. In a tweet published […]
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Binance Chain is launching a second, smart contract-enabled chain that will use Ethereum’s Virtual Machine to let its developers build decentralized apps. Binance Chain developers have proposed specifications for a new blockchain that would enable complex smart contract functionality within the Binance Coin (BNB) ecosystem. The specifications are available in its white paper, released on […]
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Regulators will need an action plan the next time a macroeconomic crisis hits crypto markets and the pandemic has sparked unexpected and revealing patterns among traders. The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked unexpected and revealing patterns among cryptocurrency traders, according to new research. In their paper entitled “How Crisis affects Crypto: Coronavirus as a Test Case,” […]
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In the run-up to the halving, the well-known prediction theory is facing its biggest ever test, with its end-of-year price target now at $30,000. The creator of the stock-to-flow (S2F) Bitcoin (BTC) price model says that the upcoming block reward halving will decide if it lives or dies. In a series of tweets on April […]
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Membership numbers for Telegram crypto groups have dropped significantly since 2018 — but interest on Twitter is up so far this year. Cryptocurrency-related tweet volume and membership figures for Telegram crypto groups have both taken a dive since 2018 — but there are promising signs that social media engagement is starting to turn around. Joshua […]
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An Ethereum domain name is being used as sole loan collateral for the first time, as Rocket LP DAO turns the “brantly.eth” domain into and NFT. Rocket LP DAO, a 4-month-old loan provider that uses non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as collateral, issued a $1,000 loan this week, backed by only one Ethereum domain name — brantly.eth. […]
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Riot Blockchain is relocating a portion of its operations to a facility operated by Coinmint in New York despite it comprising the epicenter of the U.S. COVID-19 pandemic. Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm Riot Blockchain has entered into a deal to relocate a portion of its mining operations to a facility in New York operated by […]
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European researchers have published a paper detailing an attack that can be used to deanonymize channel balances on the Lightning Network. Researchers from the Norwegian University and the University of Luxembourg have published a research paper detailing an attack that can deanonymize transactions broadcast across Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. The Lightning Network emerged as a controversial […]
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A controversial, blockchain-based digital health passport could enable employees currently in lockdown to go back to work. Oracle has partnered with Vottun, a company that specializes in the certification and traceability of data on the blockchain, to release a digital health passport that could enable employees currently in lockdown to go back to work. The […]
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Researchers are using AI and Blockchain to manage lockdown efforts and predict how the pandemic will evolve. A Spanish research team of more than 100 people is developing an app that uses AI and blockchain to predict the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic and to help manage lockdown measures. The app, which has the support […]
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