Testnet of Facebook’s Much Vaunted Stablecoin Only Executes 6 Transactions per Second
The Facebook fronted stablecoin, Diem (formerly Libra)’s dismal testnet results undercut the assertion that the digital currency is a threat to global financial stability. This is the conclusion that can be deduced from a Diem blockchain explorer update which shows...
Ethereum Addresses Holding 1 ETH Tops All-Time High
The number of Ethereum addresses holding at least one ETH ($593) has again hit an all-time high. Data released today by metrics site Glassnode showed that the figure now stands at 1,175,681. Why? Because the price of Ethereum has soared this year and mania around the...
BTC nerves, XRP bombshell, Libra rebrand: Hodler’s Digest, Nov. 28–Dec. 5
The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — one week on Cointelegraph in one link! Coming every Saturday, Hodlers Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The...
Hong Kong Crypto Exchange Founder Taken Amid China’s Crackdown on Fraudulent Bank Accounts
The platform will close all its over-the-counter (OTC) trading services because of the risks related to uncertainties from China’s regulatory policies/ Source: coindesk
Bitcoin Stagnates, Still Up 10% This Week
The price of Bitcoin continues to rise, though the gains have been coming less regularly over the past few days. It’s up just 0.57% today, after falling by almost 4% yesterday. Its current price is 19,119. Bitcoin’s recent stagnation is a blip in the scheme of...
Huobi Global looks to become key player in Polkadot ecosystem
Huobi and the Web3 Foundation are pouring resources into supporting projects on Polkadot Two announcements from Huobi Global on Friday indicate that the cryptocurrency exchange is angling to become a key player in the growth of the Polkadot network. In a pair of blog...
Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Paul Tudor Jones Expects Bitcoin’s Market Cap to Grow Beyond $500 Billion
Famed hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones has updated his view on bitcoin. Envisioning a bullish future similar to “the metals complex where you have precious crypto,” he says that $500 billion is the wrong market cap for bitcoin, given all the “possibilities that it...
Could Bankers Cut in Line for the COVID Vaccine?
The American Bankers Association (ABA) has requested that a slice of initial COVID-19 vaccines go to bank workers. Could crypto protect those workers instead? The definition of essential The United States currently has nearly 15 million confirmed coronavirus cases....
Facebook’s Diem stablecoin is an existential threat to traditional banking
Stablecoins are an integral part of the future of the financial system. And Facebook’s Diem, formerly Libra, is part of that future. Facebook, it is reported, could launch its long-awaited digital currency as early as January 2021 in the form of a U.S. dollar-backed...
Libertarian Ron Paul Wants to Legalize Bitcoin and Abolish the IRS
Former presidential candidate and libertarian Ron Paul thinks that the best way to deal with Bitcoin is to legalize it. The ex-Libertarian Party congressman for Texas today said on the Stephan Livera podcast that he is interested in the cryptocurrency because it is...
Apple Co-Founder Wozniak’s New Venture Lists Token to Help Fund Energy Efficiency Projects
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has launched Efforce, a company that facilitates investments in energy efficiency projects via cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Source: coindesk
CME Leveraged Funds Double Down on Shorts as Bitcoin Maintains $19,000
Short open interest for leveraged funds grows on CME as likely hedge trades continue to increase. Source: coindesk
Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak Opens Blockchain Firm
Computing legend Steve Wozniak turned his attention to green tech and blockchain by co-founding Efforce. Steve Wozniak is now taking aim at the $241 billion energy efficiency market. The Apple co-founder announced the public launch of Efforce, a blockchain-driven...
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak's Cryptocurrency Takes Off
Grizzled engineer and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has launched a cryptocurrency for Efforce, the environmental crypto-investment platform he joined last year. WOZX tokens appeared for the first time on the HBTC exchange yesterday, and they’re coming to Bithumb...
Congresspeople speak out against Tlaib's anti-stablecoin bill
But the bill is unlikely to become law any time soon. On Wednesday night, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib introduced a bill before the U.S. House of Representatives looking to make fiat-pegged stablecoin operators abide by the same rules and registration requirements...
Ethereum ETF to debut on the Toronto Stock Exchange
First conceived by Vitalik Burterin in Ontario, Ethereum is now available to Canadians in the form of an ETF. Next week, Canadian digital asset investment manager 3iQ will be launching an IPO for the world’s first Ethereum ETF, The Ether Fund, on the Toronto Stock...
Crypto-Friendly Travel Site Travala Posts 503% Revenue Increase, 72% of Bookings Paid With Cryptocurrencies
Travel booking website Travala saw an increase in revenue of over 503% in November compared to the previous year. Out of all bookings, 72% were paid with cryptocurrencies, with bitcoin being the most popular choice. A Record Month for Travala The up and coming...
XRP price: Will the Flare Network airdrop trigger a rally to $1.00?
XRP has broken out of a multi-year bear market but old resistance zones must now flip to new support for the rally to continue. As Bitcoin (BTC) has been in the spotlight in recent months, the altcoin XRP (XRP) has been doing reasonably well in its own right....
India Plans to Tax Income From Bitcoin Investments: Report
The country's income tax authority is tracking investors making money amid the ongoing bitcoin price rally and is all set to demand taxes, two sources familiar with the matter told The Economic Times. Source: coindesk
Total DeFi Addresses Break Past One Million As Crypto Heats Up
The number of individual addresses involved with decentralized finance (DeFi) is now greater than one million, according to data compiled on Dune Analytics. That number, which began the year at less than 100,000, has shot up over the course of this year as DeFi...
Yearnify Finance (YFY) Hidden Gem – Decentralized Finance Project, Pre-Sale Round 3 Is Now Live
PRESS RELEASE. Yearnify Finance is a community-centered DeFi-project, modeled to take the successful features of Yearn Finance (YFI), and improve upon them. Yearnify aims to bring the true value of yield farming finance accessible to all users, yearnify offers the...
Bitcoin traders nervous after $19.5K rejection — Here are the bear, bull scenarios
The price of Bitcoin is consolidating around $19,000 as traders brace for a possible pullback. The price of Bitcoin (BTC) was rejected by the $19,500 resistance level yet again on Dec. 4, with traders becoming increasingly uncertain about what's next for BTC/USD....
Microstrategy Buys More Bitcoin, Now Holding BTC Worth Over $780 Million in Treasury
Nasdaq-listed billion-dollar company Microstrategy has made its third large bitcoin purchase. The company now holds about 40,824 bitcoins, worth over $780 million at the current price. Microstrategy’s Third Bitcoin Buy Microstrategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR) has bought more...
Is XLM Consolidating Before a Breakout?
The Stellar (XLM) price is consolidating inside a symmetrical triangle right below a long-term resistance area. While it is possible that XLM breaks down from the triangle and reaches a slightly lower low, the long-term trend seems to be bullish and XLM is expected to...
MicroStrategy Buys $50 Million in BTC
Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor announced in a Tweet on Dec 4 that the company bought about 2574 bitcoins. The company reported the purchase,at an average price of about $19,427, with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In the Form 8-K filing,...
JD.Com Says It’s Accepting China’s Digital Yuan for Latest Lottery
Chinese e-commerce firm JD.Com says it's become the first online platform to accept the nation's central bank digital currency. Source: coindesk
It’s time to mature: We need compliant decentralized finance
It’s up to the community to educate regulators and help them build a framework that achieves and maintains both sides’ goals. The crypto space is an incredible, albeit risky, learning environment. Its volatility serves as a dire warning to those who like to test how...
Darknet Market Crypto Revenues Hit All-Time Highs in 2020
A study revealed that darknet markets have astonishing figures so far in 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic, but the dynamics changed compared to the last year’s numbers. Darknet Vendors Surpassed $800 Million in Revenues Despite Covid Pandemic According to the...
Uncomfortable Truths of Trading And What to Watch Out For
There are some uncomfortable truths about trading crypto, which many people refuse to acknowledge. For instance, everybody — no matter how they play the market — is part of an emotional scheme. That means you, too. Thierry Gilgen, CEO of MachinaTrader, takes a deeper...
Grayscale Bought Almost $140 Million BTC in 24 Hours
Betting Big on Bitcoin Grayscale, the Bitcoin Trust custodian and digital asset manager, has added another $140 million worth of Bitcoin to their Bitcoin Trust portfolio within the last 24 hours. Grayscale made the purchase of 7,188 Bitcoins in just one day. This...
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