Category : CoinJournal

Craig Wright’s crypto lawsuit far from finished

The crypto lawsuit involving Bitcoin SV’s Craig Wright takes another turn as the case will continue in court despite calls for a delay It is not the first time Craig Wright’s name has been in the media in relation to Crypto and from the looks of it,...

Yearn.finance (YFI) and Aave (LEND) price analysis

YFI/USD and LEND/USD are 46% and 50% off their peak prices in August. Tokens in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space continue to post losses as the crypto market hits price correction phase. According to the ranking index on CoinMarketCap, all the...

Ethereum price analysis: Bulls aiming for $350 after 7% dip

As BTCUSD holds the $10,000 level, the second-largest cryptocurrency Ethereum looks to follow suit with bulls defending the key area around $330. Over the past 24 hours, the Ethereum token has faced huge volatility amid heavy selling to see prices sl...

Bermuda Stock Exchange to launch first-ever Bitcoin ETF

The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) will now have the world’s first BTC Exchange-traded fund (ETF) available to investors The BSX made an official statement on September 18, announcing that the Bitcoin ETF will be referred to as Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto I...

Iranian Bitcoin miners to enjoy special electricity access

The Iranian Government has granted cryptocurrency miners exclusive access to electricity from three power plants in the country The Iranian Government has been increasing efforts to ensure that cryptocurrency mining and trading becomes very favourabl...

Bitcoin touches $10,650 as altcoins get bashed

DigiByte (11.89%) and Orchid (30%) defy the trend as Bitcoin drops to $10,653. Ethereum, Ripple, ChainLink, and Polkadot all in red too. The week has started with most altcoins struggling for meaningful moves, and action looking more likely to depend...

Mining Difficulty Jumps 11.3% as Miners sell more amid BTC/USD stagnation below $11,000

Mining difficulty jumped 11.3% to hit 19.31 T, the highest ever as miners continued to sell more Bitcoin that they mint. Just how difficult it is for miners to mint a block of transactions has increased 11.3% to bring the difficulty metric close to 2...

Tron apologises for a Twitter blunder

The Tron Foundation has offered an official apology following its mistaken gaffe that claimed the company had a user base of 10 billion Tron founder’s Twitter account recently posted a tweet – that has since been deleted – saying the comp...

Crypto exchange bitFlyer Europe partners with PayPal

Virtual currency exchange bitFlyer Europe recently announced PayPal integration that will allow its PayPal users to fund their bitFlyer accounts The integration with global payment platform PayPal will now make it easier and safer for millions of Pay...

MicroStrategy CEO embraces Bitcoin maximalism

Company bought roughly 17,000 bitcoins as the company makes it its primary reserve currency In the past, MicroStrategy and its CEO had criticised Bitcoin; now the company has now turned to the cryptocurrency as its primary reserve currency. The CEO o...

Ethereum Price: ETH/USD Eyes $400 as Miner Fees Hit New Highs

Miners post bumper harvest on Ethereum as Uniswap activity pushes fees to record highs Ethereum price is eyeing a match back to highs of $400 after posting a sharp 7% rise in the past 24 hours. As of writing, the cryptocurrency is trading around $386...

Uniswap (UNI) price jumps 135% to $6.00 highs

UNI/USD price has touched highs of $6.00 as total value locked jumps to $1.40 billion. UNI/USD has touched highs of $6.08 on Coinbase, despite fears that airdropping over $1,500 worth of UNI tokens to users would see users looking to cash in on the g...

New hardware wallet feature that prevents Bitcoin dusting attacks

Nano S and Nano X maker Ledger recently announced an upgrade to its software suite that will offer better privacy and control over virtual currency transactions The new feature, Coin Control, is designed to help prevent dusting attacks. Dusting attac...

Number of daily ETH transactions hit new all-time high

The 1.4 million transactions witnessed on the Ethereum network on Thursday 17 set a new high exceeding the previous record achieved back in 2018 Ethereum’s previous all-time high was set in early January 2018. Between January 3 and January 11 that ye...

Tether’s market cap reaches $15 billion thanks to DeFi boom

The total market cap of Tether (USDT) has increased nearly fourfold in 2020, thanks in part to the boom of the decentralised finance (DeFi) sector The increasing popularity and market cap of the DeFi sector are resulting in a mass minting of USDT coi...