Cryptocurrency News
Overstock's 'Digital Dividend' Dominates Security Token Rankings
Coin Telegraph - 8 Jun 2020 17:07
Less than three months after its 'digital dividend' airdrop, Overstock's OSTKO is dominating the security token rankings for both market cap and volume.
Bitcoin Spenders' Basket 2x the Size of Conventional One - Beliani CEO
Crypto News - 8 Jun 2020 19:00
Crypto users purchase more furniture than other shoppers. This is the experience of Stephan Widmer, CEO of Beliani, a web-only international seller of furniture and home accessories, that served over 1 million customers ...
Pablo Escobar's Descendants Claim to Have Known Satoshi Nakamoto
Bitcoin.com - 8 Jun 2020 01:30
Reports stemming from the financial columnist, Greg Thomson and the family of Pablo Escobar, claim the Escobar’s know the mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Allegedly, the notorious Escobar’s say that Satoshi Nakamoto wa...
CoinMarketCap Metric Overhaul Keeps Owner Binance at the Top
Coin Desk - 8 Jun 2020 12:20
CoinMarketCap's new ranking system gives Binance a perfect score, even after it was criticized for favoring its new owner last month.
Coinbase Exchange Inaccessible Due to 5x Traffic Spike During Bitcoin Surge
Coin Telegraph - 8 Jun 2020 10:00
According to Coinbase, the exchange's autoscaling couldn't keep up with a 5x traffic spike experienced during a Biyvoin price surge to $10,000.
Brave Browser's Affiliate Link Controversy, Explained
Coin Desk - 8 Jun 2020 23:40
Privacy browser Brave was called out this weekend when users noticed that typing "Binance" resulted in an auto-complete ending in a referral link.
Monero-for-Bail Project Sees Increased Demand During Protests
Coin Desk - 8 Jun 2020 23:11
An initiative that mines the privacy coin monero, donating cash for bail money, has seen an uptick in users since the protests started in Minnesota.
Crypto News Outlet BlockTV Shuts Down, Citing Impact of COVID-19
Coin Desk - 8 Jun 2020 23:05
Cryptocurrency-focused media startup BlockTV has shut down operations due to the economic strains of the COVID-19 crisis, according to two former employees.
Former KFC Employee Built a Crypto Drug Empire, Lost It All Today
Coin Telegraph - 8 Jun 2020 23:00
The Leicester Crown Court confiscated over $2.29 million from an online drug kingpin who ran a darknet store from the attic of his home.
Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 23
Crypto News - 8 Jun 2020 22:00
Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today. Have we missed something? Do you have information ab...
Bitcoin Options Growth Outpaces Futures, Swaps
Coin Desk - 8 Jun 2020 21:36
Bitcoin options trading is growing faster than the futures and swaps market in 2020.
What Fintech Can Learn From Elon Musk and SpaceX
Coin Desk - 8 Jun 2020 21:22
A decade ago, few people believed Elon Musk could pull off a manned space launch, just as skepticism surrounds fintech and crypto today. What can the financial industry learn from SpaceX, asks ConsenSys' Lex Sokolin.
Chainalysis Can Now Track Your 'Privacy Coins' Zcash & Dash
Coin Telegraph - 8 Jun 2020 21:22
Chainalysis calls the 'privacy coin' bluff -- adds support for Zcash and Dash, calling Dash a 'privacy coin' is a 'misnomer.'
Why War Reporting Is the Right Mental Model for Today's Media, Feat. Jake Hanrahan
Coin Desk - 8 Jun 2020 21:00
The founder of Popular Front joins NLW for a discussion about protests, media and how the people being covered tend to not reflect divisive politics.
Price Analysis 6/8: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, LTC, BNB, EOS, ADA, XTZ
Coin Telegraph - 8 Jun 2020 20:21
Bitcoin price remains range-bound, but as miners sell fewer coins and the BTC reserves on the exchanges drops, a possible up move could occur in the next few days.
Bitcoin's Forks Have Trounced Bitcoin This Year
Coin Desk - 8 Jun 2020 20:03
Bitcoin has underperformed its three major fork currencies by as much as triple-digit percentage points so far this year.
Law Enforcement Is Starting to Make Criminals Doubt the Dark Web
Coin Telegraph - 8 Jun 2020 19:57
Trend Micro reveals dwindling confidence among darknet users in marketplaces due to security concerns.
Why Miner Maker Ebang's US IPO Raises More Questions Than Answers
Coin Desk - 8 Jun 2020 19:32
Bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer Ebang wants to raise $100 million through a U.S. IPO. But that could be a risky investment, CoinDesk Research's Matt Yamamoto reports.
Blockchain Bites: Coinbase Surveillance, Bitcoin Wargames, CoinMarketCap Drama
Coin Desk - 8 Jun 2020 18:35
The U.S. military conducted a war game involving bitcoin while Chinese police may have potentially frozen accounts linked to illicit transactions.
Wild, Wild East: Why the ICO Boom in China Refuses to Die
Coin Telegraph - 8 Jun 2020 18:16
“Chandler Guo was a beef salesman who now lives in a 100,000 square-foot California estate he calls the "Mansion of Chives" after a slang term associated with retail investors losing money.”
Lithuania Is Trialing a CBDC No One Can Use - And That's by Design
Coin Desk - 8 Jun 2020 18:15
The Bank of Lithuania's LBCoin digital collectible may be a gimmick, but its ambitions for blockchain tech are very, very real.
Bitcoin's March to $100K: A Number of Crypto Experts Who Believe the Price per BTC Touches Six-Digits
Bitcoin.com - 8 Jun 2020 18:07
A number of analysts believe that at some point in the future, Bitcoin prices will touch the six-digit zone or $100,000 or more per unit. This price point has been predicted by a variety of experts and analysts including...