With Ether surpassing its $1,428 all-time high, Buterin is close to re-joining the class of crypto owners who hold $500 million or more in cryptocurrency. At the current ETH price,…
Continue ReadingMajor business magazine Forbes has featured Gemini co-founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss as the richest Bitcoin (BTC) billionaires. Compiled by Forbes crypto-focused reporter Michael del Castillo, the ranking provides a…
Continue ReadingGrants don’t always involve members of the community — and in some cases, the process can be rather opaque. In an article a few months ago, Lane Rettig said: “I…
Continue ReadingAccording to a Github post made today, user dawidkabani13 claims to have accidentally sent 4,005 Chainlink (LINK) — $53,226 at the time of publication — to an Aavegotchi (GHST) smart…
Continue ReadingTaking on debt is a complex personal decision that should not be entered into without great care and financial consideration. With Bitcoin‘s (BTC) recent return to all-time price highs, some…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency Indexes Are Set to Launch in 2021 by S&P Dow Jones Indices S&P Dow Jones Indices has made it official: they will launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021, becoming the…
Continue ReadingCentral bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, will be fairly easy to convert into cryptocurrencies in the future, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes. Speaking at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2020 on…
Continue ReadingAccording to various reports, the Bitcoin ABC pro-IFP chain has been under ‘attack’ for a number of consecutive days now. The mystery miner has been mining a great number of…
Continue ReadingDespite Bitcoin’s surge to re-test its 2017 highs, a combination of low on-chain transactions and diminished retail speculation has seen transaction fees remain low. The current fees of around $3.50…
Continue ReadingOn November 19, Hive.one, a project that maps the community clusters of Bitcoin and Ethereum social status using mathematics, announced the launch of a new algorithm version. Since the last…
Continue ReadingAt 9 pm EST tonight, Ethereum co-founder and figurehead Vitalik Buterin will face off against chess streamer National Canadian Team player Alexandra Botez in an match event live-streamed on Twitch. …
Continue ReadingBlockShow has unveiled the speakers for the upcoming cryptocurrency-related event taking place in Singapore in December. As previously announced, the Singapore FinTech Festival, or SFF 2020, is organized in partnership with…
Continue ReadingEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently answered a number of community questions as part of an “ask me anything,” or AMA, session on Reddit. During the AMA, hosted by the Ethereum…
Continue ReadingThis December the cryptocurrency community may see the first introductory phase of the highly anticipated Ethereum 2.0 consensus change. On Wednesday, the Ethereum Foundation published ETH 2.0 specifications explaining how…
Continue ReadingEthereum 2.0’s deposit contract is now live, heralding the imminent unveiling of the “world computer’s” second act. Released at 15:00 UTC, according to developer Afri Schoedon, the deposit contract is…
Continue ReadingThe controversial Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 1559 would have burnt 970,000 Ether (ETH) — with a total value of $360 million — in the last year, if it had been…
Continue ReadingIn the face of Ethereum’s recent rocketing transaction fees, its founder and chief scientist, Vitalik Buterin, called on users of the second-largest blockchain to move over to scaling solutions that…
Continue ReadingDecentralized finance is in full swing, and one of its biggest supporters appears to be the exchange Binance. The platform’s United States branch recently joined the Chicago DeFi Alliance, with…
Continue ReadingEthereum gas prices have set new records, with single DeFi transactions costing over $10 in fees. High fees are the result of congestion, as users pay ever higher fees to…
Continue ReadingEarlier today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury updated its Specially Designated Nationals List, adding several individuals and a number of cryptocurrency addresses. One of the individuals added was Artem Mikhaylovich…
Continue ReadingIn 2020 decentralized exchanges (dex) have grown quite mature compared to just a few years ago. One specific dex gathering a lot of steam this year in the defi world…
Continue ReadingGrowing Ethereum network transaction fees, which touched new highs recently, are a direct consequence of the increasing number of defi projects and yield farming. Yield farmers need to pay ETH…
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Continue ReadingEthereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has dismissed concerns that a 51% attack on Ethereum 2.0 would be ‘fatal’. The scenario emerged as a result of the burgeoning popularity of Yearn.finance’s yETH…
Continue ReadingEthereum miners are making a killing from transaction fees. In August alone, the miners raked in a total of $113 million in profit, up more than 3,660% from the $3…
Continue ReadingDecentralized finance (DeFi) has taken Ethereum by storm over recent months. This sector of the crypto and ETH economy has grown exponentially, both in terms of capital/dollar value and in…
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