Leah McGrath Goodman maintains her belief that Dorian Nakamoto was the founder of Bitcoin. Leah McGrath Goodman, the Newsweek journalist who named Japanese-American man Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto as Bitcoin’s founder in 2014, is doubling down on her claim. In an Aug. 25 episode of the Pomp Podcast with Anthony Pompliano, McGrath Goodman revealed details of […]
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Polkadot (DOT) price has increased by 200% in less than eight days and top crypto analysts believe the blockchain has a lot more to give. Spartan Black, a major cryptocurrency fund based in Asia, believes Polkadot (DOT) has more fuel left in the tank and could soar in the top-10 list of biggest cryptocurrencies by […]
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Bitcoin and altcoins are likely to remain range-bound in the short-term as the bulls and the bears attempt to assert their dominance. On Thursday, U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell is expected to deliver an important speech that will highlight a new strategy of targeting “average inflation.” This means that the Fed might allow inflation […]
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The halcyon days of state subsidized electricity are over. Officials from Inner Mongolia are mulling an electrical policy that would prevent cryptocurrency miners from using inexpensive, state-subsidized electricity. Per the Inner Mongolia Electric Power Group Co, the region expects to recover around 6.732 billion yuan ($977 million) in taxes and fees thanks to these new […]
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“Who doesn’t love a story of a humble badass who refuses the easy path of corruption, loses everything, and still refuses to give up?” Each week we ask the buidlers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector for their thoughts on the industry… and we throw in a few random zingers to keep them on their […]
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Blockchain could help shared device merchants avoid credit card fees, MasterCard says. MasterCard’s Singapore-based subsidiary filed a patent with the U.S. Patent Office detailing a payment system for using hardware devices that specifically mentions Iota’s (MIOTA) Tangle technology. The patent claim, published on Aug. 20, proposes a pay-as-you-go system that uses a “transparent data storage […]
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Boa, a new Uniswap token created by the well-known pseudonymous Ether whale Bill Drummond, briefly hit $100,000. On Aug. 25, the creator of the well-known Uniswap tokens Antiample (XAMP) and Tokens of Babel (TOB) launched Boa. The Ether whale’s projects have seen growing interest within the niche Uniswap market. A common theme among the projects […]
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In addition to the Indian P2P market surging in recent months, the country’s DeFi sector has been gaining momentum. Even as fears of another blanket ban on India’s digital asset market linger on, peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading within the Asian powerhouse is still surging, hitting all-time highs over the first week of August. This immense growth […]
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Bybit has also added support for the Vietnamese language on its platform. Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Bybit has added support for the Japanese yen and South Korean won in a bid to expand its roots in Asian markets. In an announcement on Aug. 26, Bybit said the addition of these two new fiat currency payment options […]
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The information will be used to develop regulation aimed at tackling the illicit use of cryptocurrencies. On Monday, two Democratic Representatives asked the Trump administration to provide more information on cryptocurrency recently seized from terrorists. According to an Aug. 26 report by The Hill, the request is related to the millions of dollars in crypto […]
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