Monthly global searches for Bitcoin are reportedly 350% higher than in late 2017. According to data collected by Brad Michelson, a senior marketing manager at major trading and investment platform eToro, monthly global volume for Bitcoin searches in December 2017 bull run was lower than in November 2020. Citing data from SEO data provider SEMrush, […]
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There has been a threefold improvement in the quality of data on crypto rankings site CoinMarketCap, according to a new report, but wash trading remains a thorny issue. The Blockchain Transparency Institute, or BTI, has published its market data integrity report for 2020. This report found a threefold improvement in the quality of data on […]
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Bithumb legal issues do not stop in South Korea. A judge in the Seoul Central District Court dismissed two claims filed by individuals against the controversial crypto exchange, Bithumb. The individuals were seeking $126,000 and $38,000 respectively for damages related to a data breach incident back in 2017. According to Fn News, plaintiffs Hong and […]
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Andrew Hamilton, the CEO of legal firm JPB Liberty, is ready to file a class-action lawsuit seeking billion in damages from the social media “cartel” that sought to kill crypto in 2018. Andrew Hamilton, a lawyer with a background in computer science, is spearheading a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media and search giants Google, […]
Continue ReadingBinance taking the top spot on recently purchased CoinMarketCap has raised concerns among executives from other top crypto exchanges. For an industry that is supposed to be based upon decentralization, it appears to be getting crowded at the top, with a number of companies transforming into unspoken oligarchs, each wielding huge influence — or at […]
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While Facebook’s Libra project appears to have stagnated after facing international pushback from regulators, rival blockchain platform Celo is gaining momentum. Klaytn, the public blockchain platform developed by Ground X, an affiliate of the major South Korean internet company, Kakao, joined Celo’s Alliance for Prosperity on May 8. Celo, a distributed ledger technology, or DLT, […]
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A cryptocurrency staking app which offers 1.5% daily returns might be a Ponzi scheme related to one that exit-scammed two years ago. A cryptocurrency staking wallet that offers users as much as 1.5% daily returns is bearing striking resemblance to a Ponzi scheme. That’s according to a Medium article published on April 19 by Jan […]
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Blockchain is an amazing technology, but there are pros and cons to its mass adoption. Let’s have a look at both perspectives. Yes, that’s the question we are asking today. Is blockchain technology necessary? The answer is tricky. To arrive at the conclusion takes an unbiased perspective. Bankers and people in the stock market will […]
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Huobi joins Binance and LG Electronics as a member of the Klaytn Governance Council, a part of Kakao’s public blockchain project. Huobi is the latest firm to join the Klaytn Governance Council, a part of Kakao’s public blockchain project which runs its distributed network under the shared governance. The council grows According to an early […]
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In the wake of CCN’s Google saga, CT looks at which centralized companies have been hostile to crypto firms in the past. On June 10, one of the top cryptocurrency media sites, CCN, initially announced that it would shut down, citing a June 3 Google Core Update for stifling its traffic. Writing on the website, […]
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