Investment firm ETC Group plans to list a Bitcoin ETP on Germany’s Xetra digital stock exchange in late June. London-based ETC Group will list the first crypto exchange-traded product on Germany’s Xetra digital stock exchange this month. Traders in the UK, Italy and Austria will also be able to deal in shares of the new […]
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Cointelegraph interviewed Konstantin Kladko, CTO at Skale, to learn about his controversial opinion on why Ethereum layer-two solutions are unlikely to work out. Cointelegraph spoke with Konstantin Kladko, the CTO of the Skale Network, a blockchain platform based on Ethereum (ETH). Kladko holds a PhD in Physics from the Max Planck Institute and a Masters […]
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Russian police arrested a 30-year-old crypto miner who they accuse of stealing over $494,000 in electricity from the state power network. Police arrested a resident in Makhachkala, Russia, on June 9, who allegedly created an illegal massive crypto-mining structure that connects around 500 platforms to the local power supply network. According to the June 6 […]
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Can Bitcoin’s network handle mainstream adoption? As Bitcoin (BTC) continues to pick up mainstream traction, the asset’s blockchain scalability remains an issue, according to Decred co-founder Jake Yocom-Piatt. “There is enough demand for on-chain Bitcoin transactions during peak demand times to completely fill blocks and drive fee rates up substantially,” Yocom-Piatt told Cointelegraph, noting the struggles […]
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The last time this much Bitcoin was withdrawn from exchanges, the price rose 88%. If this pattern repeats, we would see Bitcoin go to $18,000 by the end of August. June 8, 27,000 more Bitcoins (BTC) were withdrawn from the exchanges than deposited, the last time there was such a significant outflow, Bitcoin appreciated 88%. […]
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Distributed ledger technology has the potential to solve a lot of economic and social problems, but there are some that we have to solve ourselves. The crypto community was rightly aghast at the “Bitcoin Will Save Us” poster donned by a protester against racial injustice in Dallas last week. Christ pic.twitter.com/BmRmlZnMWa — Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) […]
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$1 Billion worth of BTC stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 could be dumped onto the market by the thieves, while apparently a few BTC found their way back to the exchange. Recently, some of the 120,000 Bitcoin (BTC) that were stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 started moving again. Here is what has been happening with […]
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Zilliqa may be due for a correction after monstrous gains as (ZIL) price is running into some considerable resistance levels on the charts. While the price of Bitcoin (BTC) has been consolidating under $10,000, several altcoins have shown tremendous rallies such as Theta Token (THETA) and Zilliqa (ZIL). Zilliqa, in particular, the 40th-ranked cryptocurrency by […]
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Vending machines operated by major Asia Pacific soft drink bottler and distributor Coca-Cola Amatil will now be accepting payments in crypto. Vending machines operated by major Asia Pacific soft drink bottler and distributor Coca-Cola Amatil will now be accepting payments in crypto. The development follows a new deal with digital asset platform Centrapay, announced on […]
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South Korea’s second-largest city, Busan, will let its citizens access government services using a blockchain-based identification app developed by Coinplug. Busan, the second-largest city in South Korea, has launched an identification app that uses a public blockchain to verify citizen information. The app was developed by Coinplug, a Korean startup working within the regulatory sandbox […]
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