Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Proposals in crypto help communities make consensus-based decisions. However, for decentralized music platform Audius, the passing of a malicious governance proposal resulted in the transfer of tokens worth $6.1 million, with the hacker making away...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) has rebounded 40% against Bitcoin (BTC) after bottoming out locally at 0.049 on June 13. Now, the ETH/BTC pair is at two-month highs and can extend its rally in the coming weeks, according to a classic technical p...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The ongoing cryptocurrency bear market has triggered a massive decline in Bitcoin (BTC) mining profitability as BTC mining expenses outpace the price of Bitcoin.
Closely tied to the drop in the BTC price, Bitcoin mining profitability has been tankin...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Consensus algorithms are processes where validators (also known as nodes or miners) within a blockchain network agree on the current state of the network. This mainly entails agreeing on whether a transaction submitted by a validator is authentic. F...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The heavy involvement of the sports ecosystem is what expedited nonfungible tokens’ (NFTs) mainstream adoption as the teams and players leveraged the technology for fan engagement. However, sports fans revealed their interest in moving beyond the hy...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Yat Siu, the co-founder of crypto/NFT venture fund giant Animoca Brands, labeled the recent Minecraft NFT ban as “hypocritical” and emphasized that nonfungible tokens (NFT) can be inclusive, despite arguments to the contrary.
As previously reported,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The difficulty in mining a block of Bitcoin (BTC) was reduced further by 5% to 27.693 trillion as network difficulty maintains its three-month-long downward streak ever since reaching an all-time high of 31.251 trillion back in May 2022.
Network di...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The Bank of Central African States, or Banque des États de l'Afrique, which serves Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo, could be closer to releasing a central bank digital currency (CB...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
FTX and Alameda Ventures want to offer Voyager Digital customers a chance to start a new FTX account with an opening cash balance funded by an early distribution on a portion of their bankruptcy claims, FTX announced in a statement Friday. To accomp...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
NFT Steez chats with Crypto Raiders about the state of blockchain gaming and how to prioritize fun over “financialization” when it comes to NFTs and P2E models. Blockc...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The mood across the cryptocurrency ecosystem is noticeably brighter on July 22 after a week of gains helped traders put the events of the past two months behind them and look toward a positive future.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and Trading...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of key decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you some of the major developments over the last week.
This past week, the DeFi ecosystem saw several new developments relate...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Experienced crypto traders know that bull markets are for selling and bear markets are for accumulation, but the latter can be difficult amid a backdrop of surging inflation that saps the purchasing power of fiat currencies.
As the crypto market he...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
About eight months ago, I vouched pretty strongly for Su Zhu to be included in the prestigious Cointelegraph Top 100. My reasoning was pretty straightforward: Zhu was not only an influential figure on social media, but he ran arguably the most rever...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
In a downtrend, when markets do not respond negatively to bearish news, it is a sign that the selling may have reached exhaustion. Reports of electric vehicle maker Tesla dumping 75% of its Bitcoin (BTC) holdings in the second quarter only caused a...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Candidates for state and local offices in California will once again be allowed to accept donations in cryptocurrency after a ban was lifted by the state's Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) on Thursday. The ban was imposed in 2018.
Californ...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
It has been a volatile yet positive week for cryptocurrencies, as traders ignored the warnings from crypto winter veterans that there was more downside in store and jumped back into the market at the first sign of rising prices.
Evidence for the re...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Cryptocurrency exchange Zipmex has resumed withdrawals from its trade wallet after two days, but said transfers, deposits and trade will continue to be disabled from its Z Wallet.
In a Friday announcement, Zipmex said its Thailand-based users could...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The Ukrainian government will be using the proceeds of sales from an online nonfungible token, or NFT, museum to restore artwork in the real world.
According to a Friday announcement and information shared with Cointelegraph, Ukraine’s Ministry of C...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The previous $19,000 Bitcoin (BTC) support level becomes more distant after the 22.5% gain in nine days. However, little optimism has been instilled as the impact of the Three Arrows Capital (3AC), Voyager, Babel Finance and Celsius crises remain un...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The latest episode of Market Talks welcomes Nicholas Merten, the founder of DataDash, one of the largest cryptocurrency YouTube channels.
Merten is an international speaker, thought leader and crypto analyst. He has utilized his 10-plus years of exp...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Ethereum Classic (ETC) has been outperforming its arch-rival Ethereum's native token Ether (ETH) during the current crypto market rebound with the ETC/ETH pairs at 10-month highs.
Why is ETC beating ETH?
ETC's price has risen to $27 on July 22, amou...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Bitcoin (BTC) took a step back as Wall Street trading began on July 22 after recovering most of its previous losses.
BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView
BTC bulls fail to sustain assault on multi-week high
Data from Cointel...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
The Metaverse has been become one of the biggest buzzwords in the blockchain and crypto, as it promises to provide a more immersive, interactive and collaborative experience than what the internet has accomplished to date.
This promise of a new wor...