Category : Cryptocurrencies

Ethereum Hacks on the Rise Again as Price Remains Below $100

Port scanning attacks mean some Ethereum users and miners can lose their holdings to hackers

The Daily: Uber Meets Bitcoin, Basis Stablecoin Shuts Down

In Thursday’s installment of The Daily, we report on a highly anticipated stablecoin project that’s failed before it’s even launched, and explore the strangely centralized world of crypto Twitter. First though, we’ll start with the news that a third...

P2P Markets Report: Latin American Markets Continue to Post Record Volume

This past week has seen Latin American peer-to-peer markets continue to set records for trade volume. For the week ending Dec. 8, Argentina and Venezuela posted a new record for Localbitcoins trade when measured in fiat, while Colombia, Peru, and Ven...

Benchmark University Study Shines a Spotlight on Crypto Assets

Judge Business School, a subsidiary of the University of Cambridge, has published its second annual report into the cryptoconomy. Its inaugural report surfaced in April 2017, just as crypto mania was exploding. A lot has happened in the ecosystem sin...

Benchmark University Study: Millions of New Crypto Asset Users – Most Remain Passive

Zebpay Exchange Now Live in 21 European Countries

Zebpay, formerly one of India’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has launched in Europe. Euro deposits, withdrawals, and trading are now live in 21 countries. While the exchange is not accepting new registrations from India, existing users can...

This New Lightning Wallet Allows You to Receive Tips Without Running a Node

n nn nn A new program to set up Lightning Network micropayments, tippin.me, has recently entered beta testing.The developer for this project described some of its details on a Reddit thread to the r/Bitcoin subreddit....

Bitwala Is Offering German Citizens Joint Crypto and Fiat Banking Accounts

n nn nn German blockchain startup Bitwala has launched crypto banking in Germany.After securing 4 million roughly $4.5 million from VC firms Earlybird and Coparion in September of 2018 to develop a crypto banking solut...

Major Stablecoin Basis to Close, Return Funds to Investors: Sources

Major algorithmic stablecoin project Basis to shut down operations and return the majority of the $133 million it raised in April, sources report

Japanese Exchange Bitpoint Launches Trading Platform in Panama

On Wednesday Dec. 12, Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint announced the launch of a crypto-to-fiat trading platform in Panama. The regulatory-compliant exchange will offer USD pairs with top cryptocurrencies like bitcoin cash, ethereum, bitcoin...

Hyperledger Onboards 12 New Members Including Alibaba Cloud, Deutsche Telekom and Citi

12 new organizations have joined the blockchain initiative Hyperledger, including Alibaba Cloud, Citi and Deutsche Telekom, among others

Report: Court Ruling to Return Mistakenly Sent Cryptocurrency Could Set Precedent

A blog post from the University of Oxford Faculty of Law notes the possible precedent for lost and stolen crypto claims following a recent trial in Canada

Google Trends Reveals One of the Top Questions of 2018 — ‘What Is Bitcoin?’

Google has just published its annual Year in Search query statistics for 2018 and the biggest question of last year was “What is Bitcoin?” According to Google Trends, searches for the term “Bitcoin” have declined rapidly since 2017, but web users que...

AriseBank Founders to Pay $2.7 Million in Fines to Settle ICO Fraud Charges

A U.S. federal court has ordered the founders of crypto startup AriseBank to pay $2.7 million for allegedly defrauding hundreds of investors in its Initial Coin Offering

Report: Lightning Network Still Way off Being Ready for Commercial Use

The Lightning Network (LN) is a second-layer protocol that was long promised as a solution to BTC’s scalability problem. However, the off-chain system is still very far from being able to support actual commence according to a new review by bus...