Category : Crytocurrency

Russian Gold Stockpile Grows as Analysts Warn of Global Recession

Following sanctions imposed on Russia, Putin is supporting a mass gold stockpile expansion and a sale of U.S. debt holdings. With a trade war blazing, and sanctions laid across countries to force North Korea and its associates into submission, what h...

Report: Bitmain Plans to Set Up 200,000 Crypto Mining Machines in China

Major cryptocurrency mining hardware producer Bitmain is reportedly planning to install 200,000 units of mining equipment in China

MakerDAO Voters Support Raising Ethereum-backed Loan Interest Rates to 7.5 Percent

MakerDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization that provides crypto collateralized loans, polled its community on whether to increase interest rates and by how much. The community voted to increase rates by the maximum that was proposed, 4.0 perce...

Vitalik Buterin Cashed Out Large Sums of ETH During 2017 Crypto Frenzy

Ethereum mastermind Vitalik Buterin, who holds 350,000 ETH in his main wallet address, allegedly cashed out $40 million worth of ETH between June 2017 and February 2018. The findings came to light by Alex Sunnarborg, a founding partner of the crypto...

Newsflash: Dow Surges 250 Points to Race Past 26,000

The Dow Jones Industrial Average opened to sharp losses on Thursday and then promptly began a massive recovery that achieved what few on Wall Street thought it would today: cross the 26,000 mark on the back of a blockbuster rally. Dow Reverses Early...

Why Square’s Bitcoin Hiring Spree is Crucial for Crypto Adoption

Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Square, the $32.7 billion mobile payment giant based in the U.S., revealed that Square would fund three to four developers and a designer to work on the open-source protocol of Bitcoin and the crypto ecosystem. Independent of...

Theresa May Creating Dangerous Divisions as UK Heads Over the Cliff

British Prime Minister Theresa May is entering dangerous territory after blaming members of Parliament for Brexit delays last night, stoking an already febrile atmosphere across the country and drawing comparisons with the Steve Bannon-led Trump admi...

Narcotics Dealers Dump Dark Web for Telegram & WhatsApp

As law enforcement increasingly cracks down on centralized dark-web markets, online narcotics dealers are migrating to encrypted messing apps like Telegram and WhatsApp, according to a new report from the Independent. Citing the findings of an anonym...

Dan Berkovitz: CFTC Is Working Hard on the Bakkt Application

U.S. CFTC commissioner Dan Berkovitz says the futures and options markets regulator is working hard on the Bakkt proposal. While he’s refused to provide an approval deadline, he did say that the agency is not anti-crypto or anti-blockchain. CFT...

Not Just BNB: Up 120%, Huobi’s Crypto Exchange Coin Is Breaking Out

Huobi Token (HT) is the latest native exchange cryptocurrency to flash more than 100 percent price growth year to date.

China’s Alibaba Partners With Chinese Software Giant to Promote Blockchain Development

Chinese e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with software giant Aerospace Information to promote blockchain technology

WSJ Falsely Overstates ‘$9 Million’ ShapeShift Money Laundering Claim: Analysis

Blockchain investigation and cybersecurity firm CipherBlade has done its own research, the results of which seem to exonerate crypto exchange ShapeShift from a scathing report in The Wall Street Journal. Shapeshift CEO Erik Voorhees was the first to...

Bitcoin Fraudster Duped Italian Investors out of $300,000 in Gold & Crypto

Gold and bitcoins worth of hundreds of thousands of euros are the spoils of an elaborate online fraud discovered by the postal police in Liguria, Italy. Bitcoin Scam Artist Impersonated Swiss Crypto Firm Local sources reported that the Italian author...

Canadian Crypto Enthusiasts Get One-on-One with Regulators

Crypto enthusiasts in Canada are giving regulators their ideas about how to monitor the space. This will include the practice of short-selling. The Canadian Securities Administrators and the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada filed...

PewDiePie Rockets Back to YouTube Throne Despite New Zealand Controversy

PewDiePie once again reigns supreme on YouTube. Indian music corporation T-Series briefly managed to open up a nearly 11,000 subscriber lead, before an epic rally pushed Felix Kjellberg back into pole position, even as he continues to face controvers...