by abhinav agarwal | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
The new board members represent decentralized finance and institutional crypto alike. Source: coindesk
by rick d | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dramatic price swings and lucrative arbitrage opportunities appear to be attracting former forex traders to cryptocurrency. Some describe the still-young market as being similar to foreign exchange markets of the 1990s. This year has seen no shortage of alluring price...
by abhinav agarwal | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Bitcoin mining can help big energy companies produce more efficiently, increasing American energy independence in the process. Source: coindesk
by osato avan-nomayo | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
United States law enforcement has disrupted another darknet drug trafficking ring, recovering illegal narcotics, firearms, and millions of dollars in crypto and cash. Cryptocurrencies remain a popular payment method on the dark web for illicit drugs and other...
by abhinav agarwal | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
The European Central Bank said today that the term “stablecoin” can be “confusing, even misleading.” That’s because there are different types of stablecoins, said the bank, which use different stability methods to maintain their price. What’s more, these...
by abhinav agarwal | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
The US Department of Justice announced the results of a darknet market bust. So far, law enforcement have arrested 179 people and seized $6.5 million in crypto and cash, 500 kilograms of drugs and 63 firearms. In Operation DisrupTor (a play on words; Tor is a...
by abhinav agarwal | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
The supply of BitGo’s wrapped bitcoins (WBTC) topped 76,000 after setting an all-time record of nearly 21,000 WBTC minted within one week. Here’s why. Source: coindesk
by abhinav agarwal | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
It was a sea of red in the market yesterday. But while Ether slid by almost 10% and all DeFi tokens plunged even deeper, one project astonished the crypto world accelerating the 10x increase it had seen in the last seven days: $MEME A ticker most would pass off as a...
by gerelyn terzo | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
You don’t have to be around the cryptocurrency space long to know that DeFi is all the rage. And despite its reputation as the Wild West of crypto, bitcoin billionaire Cameron Winklevoss is coming to DeFi’s defense. Decentralized finance, or DeFi as it’s known, is a...
by michael kapilkov | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
The charges are reminiscent of events that took place during the “Silk Road” saga. Former police chief Yuri Zaitsev was recently sentenced to eight years in prison for acting as a bounty hunter for a dark web marketplace. In December 2018, Zaitsev was...
