Bitcoin price suddenly dived below $10K on Saturday leading many to speculate that a well-known Bitfinex whale trader could be the reason for the pullback. Late Saturday night on Feb. 15, Bitcoin (BTC) price briefly reclaimed the $10K mark after a tumultuous day of trading that saw the price drop 5.35% to $9,853. The possibility […]
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CEO Arthur Hayes appeared to describe the altcoin as a “turd” hours before traders saw the XRP price flash crash by more than half. BitMEX continues to field major criticism and even anger from traders who lost huge amounts of money in a flash crash involving altcoin XRP. The crash, which occurred at 14.00 UTC […]
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Blockstack’s claim of having one million verified users has been questioned extensively, which prompted Cointelegraph to investigate its blockchain data. Blockstack PBC announced on Jan. 29 the completion of its “Milestone II” that unlocked $6.8 million from its 2017 initial coin offering. The project claims to have on-boarded one million verified users, an achievement that […]
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Tron partners with Steemit, a major blockchain-based blogging and social networking website that will be moving to Tron’s network. The Tron Foundation, a cryptocurrency firm that is known for hyping its long ledger of partnerships, appears to have entered a particularly important one today. The maintainer of major cryptocurrency Tron (TRX) has just partnered with […]
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Twitter users churn out 75,000 posts mentioning Bitcoin in a single day, as price action sees mainstream consumers pay fresh attention. Bitcoin (BTC) hitting $10,000 catapulted it back into mainstream consciousness — but internet consumers were paying attention before, data shows. Statistics from monitoring resource Bitinfocharts reveal that in early February, mentions of Bitcoin on […]
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Poloniex introduces “partially localized” version of Poloniex for Russian speaking users on its platform. Russia is apparently becoming a more attractive market for cryptocurrency firms as another major crypto platform is adding Russian language support. Poloniex, a popular crypto exchange originally based in the United States, has begun adding the Russian language on its platform […]
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Co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital and noted crypto advocate Anthony Pompliano has been suspended from Twitter. As of press time on Feb. 13, the Twitter account of the co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital and noted crypto personality Anthony Pompliano has been suspended. Pompliano, known to the crypto community as “Pomp,” is a noted supporter of […]
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Decentralized finance, commonly referred to as DeFi, has changed dramatically in a short time span, and more changes are to come this year. Newcomers to decentralized finance, or DeFi, would be hard-pressed to believe how much the industry has grown, changed and matured in just over a year. At the end of 2018, Maker returned […]
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Bangladesh-based Bank Asia has joined Ripple’s RippleNet blockchain-based financial services network. Bangladesh-based Bank Asia has joined Ripple’s RippleNet blockchain-based financial services network. The partnership was only recently discovered after a Twitter user pointed out the Bank Asia logo in an official Ripple document on Feb. 10. Still, the partnership must be well over a month […]
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The founder of cryptocurrency wallet provider DropBit has been arrested and charged with laundering over $311 million with Bitcoin privacy tools. Larry Harmon, the CEO of Bitcoin media site Coin Ninja and founder of crypto wallet provider DropBit, is facing federal charges related to his use of Bitcoin privacy tools. United States federal prosecutors are […]
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