Category : Rumours

Report: China’s national blockchain project could adopt Ethereum after Chainlink onboarding

China’s surging ahead with its blockchain aspirations even as the world grapples with the basic regulation around distributed systems and digital currencies. Moving into public blockchains A fund manager revealed Sunday the country will soon onboard...

China: Banks and Alipay won’t shut Bitcoin accounts, 70 percent of firms see blockchain as an economic boost

Reports on China shutting down bank accounts for individual Bitcoin traders and OTC firms are unfounded and untrue, a local investigation found this week. Dispelling FUD China Times said Wednesday the country’s national and central banks were not clo...

Ethereum devs confirm ETH 2.0 will NOT go live in July, despite widespread rumors

Ethereum’s much-awaited move to a PoS consensus algorithm, the so-called 2.0 or “Serenity” update, just got longer. Project developers confirmed late on May 12 any purported shipping dates were a clear case of miscommunication. It’s not coming...

Top-40 altcoin Digibyte rumored to be close to a 51 percent attack [UPDATED]

UPDATE (27 Apr. @18:42 UTC): After publishing, Digibyte founder Jared Tate informed via a series of tweets rectifying the various points reported in this article. We certainly aim to present all the publicly available sides of any story without direc...

[Update] Top-40 altcoin Digibyte rumored to be close to a 51 percent attack

[Update] After publishing, Digibyte founder Jared Tate informed via a series of tweets rectifying the various points reported in this article. Needless to say, CryptoSlate’s authors report exclusively based on facts, social posts, and community...

[UPDATED with comments from Digibyte founder Jared Tate] Top-40 altcoin Digibyte rumored to be close to a 51 percent attack

Binance CEO dismisses Shanghai police raid news as “pure FUD,” says rival crypto exchanges are paying for disinformation

The chief executive of Binance, one of the world’s top crypto exchanges, has vociferously denied reports that the firm’s Shanghai office has been raided by Chinese authorities. Incredibly, CEO Changpeng Zhao claims Malta-based Binance, in fact, has n...

VeChain (VET) surges after rumors about a vaccine tracking system in China

VeChain has been on a rampage surging nearly 185 percent in the last 22 days. The spike appears to be correlated with rumors that link the company with China’s launch of a nationwide vaccine tracking system. Despite the bullish impulse seen lately, s...

OpenLibra announcement overshadowed by core team member’s questionable past

The launch of OpenLibra, a permissionless and open-source fork of Facebook‘s cryptocurrency, was overshadowed by fraud accusations toward one of the core team members. Crypto startup Wireline casts shadow on OpenLibra launch This year’s...

Telegram’s Gram token could go live in October (after $1.7 billion ICO)

After months of anticipation, messaging app Telegram is inching closer to launching its Gram token. The “first batches” of the cryptocurrency are set to be delivered to investors ahead of the Oct. 31 deadline, according to a report from t...

Binance’s Changpeng Zhao addresses “KYC leak FUD,” 25 BTC bounty offered

News resurfaced that Binance’s know-your-customer (KYC) data had been hacked and uploaded into a Telegram group, dubbed “Find Your Binance KYC.” Several images of people holding their identities for the exchange’s verification process were post...

Leaked GitHub image show Cardano transitioning to a decentralized network in under three months

Leaked images from the Cardano GitHub show the protocol transitioning from centralized nodes to the more community-run decentralized network, with Ada staking, in under three months. From “federated” to decentralized nodes Cardano is a “t...

Cardano transitioning to a decentralized network [UPDATED]

Update, July 24, 0800 PST: IOHK contacted CryptoSlate indicating the information had not been leaked because the GitHub is “already and very deliberately in the public domain.” IOHK reaffirms that the project is on schedule to be delivere...

Will BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes debate Bitcoin skeptic Nouriel Roubini?

The 2019 Asia Blockchain Summit could be preparing to host a debate between BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes and crypto-skeptic Nouriel Roubini. Hayes vs. Nouriel The Asia Blockchain Summit is considered the biggest blockchain event in Asia, and this year it...

Google showcases Chainlink implementation with its cloud services, LINK skyrockets 70%

Google used Chainlink’s features in a showcase implementation to bridge communication between blockchains and cloud-based services. The announcement took LINK to a new all-time high, surging 70 percent within an hour of the release. Google integrates...