Poloniex has launched support for Binance Coin and Binance USD, despite CZ’s recent vocal criticism of Justin Sun over his handling of Steem. Poloniex, a veteran exchange that was recently purchased by a consortium including Tron founder Justin Sun, has launched Binance Coin (BNB) and Binance USD (BUSD) pairings. As of June 6, BNB and […]
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As protests rage throughout the United States, this week’s biggest moves in crypto law were behind the scenes. Cointelegraph’s weekly newsletter on the latest in law, policy and regulation for the crypto and fintech industry. Editor’s note A lockdown spring is giving way to a protest summer in the U.S., and this will be an […]
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Charles Hoskinson believes that this complex cryptographic technique could have helped avoid the Bitcoin Civil War that led to the formation of Bitcoin Cash. In a Cointelegraph interview, Charles Hoskinson said that in his opinion, recursive snarks could be a solution for the Bitcoin’s (BTC) scalability problems. Intellectual dishonesty Hoskinson believes that there was a […]
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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian recently announced his planned actions to fight racism. Alexis Ohanian, a millionaire tech entreprenuer and co-founder of online social platform Reddit, recently publicized plans for his personal fight against racism. These include his desire to see a member of the black community replace him at his current board position. “I’ve resigned […]
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Bitcoin may not break $10,000 for some time as several metrics point to possible pullbacks to under $9,000. Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at $9,687 representing a 0.87% loss in value in the last 24 hours and 1 % for today’s session Looking at performance relative to its peers, Ether (ETH) and XRP are both underperforming […]
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Moscow citizens will be able to vote on Vladimir Putin’s Constitutional amendments via a blockchain-powered system. Russia’s upcoming e-voting on the Constitutional amendments will be implemented using blockchain technology. Moscow citizens will be able to cast their votes on Vladimir Putin’s Constitutional amendments online via blockchain-powered e-voting. As announced on the Moscow government’s official website, […]
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Does the blockchain space make excuses for its problems? As part of a blog post detailing a different approach to blockchain transaction scaling, Waves Smart Contracts head of development, Ilya Smagin, noted the blockchain space often makes excuses for its shortcomings. “One of the things blockchain people are good at is explaining why user restrictions […]
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The Antminer T19 by Bitmain may not have a big impact on the Bitcoin network, and it comes out amid the firm’s internal and post-halving uncertainty. Earlier this week, Chinese mining-hardware juggernaut Bitmain unveiled its new product, an application-specific integrated circuit called Antminer T19. The Bitcoin (BTC) mining unit is the latest to join the […]
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Although not designed as an investment vehicle, Bitcoin’s rise in value has made it the best currency investment you could have made in the last 1,200 years. Bitcoin (BTC)’s value appreciation over the past 11 years sets it apart from virtually all of the world’s fiat currencies. Central banks around the globe continue to churn […]
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As exchange volumes and the crypto market resumes growing by all measures in May 2020, the USDC stablecoin saw its Bitcoin trading volume plummet by 78%. A June 5 report compiled by CryptoCompare and shared by BitMEX Research shows that a positive trend in cryptocurrency exchange volumes began in 2020, though USD Coin’s (USDC) market […]
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