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On June 21, the price of bitcoin core (BTC) crossed the $ 10,000 mark for the first time since March 08, 2018. At the moment BTC has a $ 180 billion dollar market capitalization as the cryptocurrency gathered more than 166% over the last six months.
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In April, Coinbase launched the Coinbase Card, a Visa debit card that lets customers in the UK spend crypto as effortlessly as a typical debit card tied to a bank account. Now, according to a recent report by CNBC, Coinbase is expanding access to the crypto debit card to include Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Ireland […]
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Ever since cryptocurrencies started gaining value, hackers have targeted exchanges that provide digital asset trading and malicious entities have siphoned billions of dollars worth of bitcoin since 2011. So far, over 1 million of the world’s BTC has been stolen from exchanges and traders continue to leave vast quantities of funds on centralized trading platforms.
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Bitcoin was barely a year old and trading for less than a penny. Excitement for the world’s first cryptocurrency was still largely bottled up in the infant hobbyist forum Bitcointalk, itself barely half a year old. Here, OGs effervescent with enthusiasm compared notes on economic philosophy, technical knowledge and the new cryptographic beast that Satoshi Nakamoto created. Satoshi himself was still active on the forum, too, as the earliest adopters shared their visions for the future of money.
A little over a year ago, our web portal launched a new market cap aggregator, Markets.Bitcoin.com, which showcases the top 500 cryptocurrency market valuations. More recently we’ve added some great data to Markets.Bitcoin.com so people can get information on not only the price of their favorite coins, but also real-time charts featuring transactions per day, 24-hour volume, and the current number of coins in circulation.
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San Francisco-based cryptocurrency giant Coinbase reportedly now supports more than 30 cryptocurrencies on its digital asset custody platform, Coinbase Custody. Now more than 30 crypto assets available on Coinbase Custody 🙌https://t.co/oiKktOmsKA — Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) May 6, 2019 According to a recent announcement, Coinbase has been using a combination of client demand and its own internal […]
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Each Sunday, we breakdown the most important crypto market news from the past week for SludgeFeed Premium members, including key events and stories you might’ve missed from a variety of news outlets. Top Headlines This Week 🔥 Bitfinex Used Tether Reserves to Mask Missing $ 850 Million, Probe Says New York State Attorney General Letitia James said Hong […]
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On April 27, Electron Cash founder Jonald Fyookball revealed a new milestone for the Cashshuffle protocol when he announced the release of the Cashshuffle JS library. According to Fyookball, the software is a “major step” toward Cashshuffle being implemented into other light wallets.
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Cryptojacking — the process of infecting computers with malware to mine cryptocurrency — has declined alongside prices during cryptowinter. But like any dextrous organism facing extinction, the virus and its propagators are adapting.
According to a report by cybersecurity analytics firm Symantec, cryptojacking incidents have plummeted 52 percent since January 2018, but the method of delivery, the execution and the targeting schemes have grown more sophisticated.
Specifically, Symantec’s latest report focused on Beapy, a cryptojacking campaign sweeping through Asia by taking specific aim at business and enterprise. Using a software exploit called EternalBlue, which was developed by the United States’ own NSA, the virus is spread via email. Symantec first tuned into the growing threat in January of this year.
Blockchain compliance startup Chainalysis has added support for Binance’s native token BNB and three stablecoins to its transaction monitoring tool.
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On April 16, RSK Labs chief scientist Sergio Demián Lerner published a new research study concerning the earliest blocks mined on the Bitcoin network. The report concerning one of Bitcoin’s earliest miners provides strong evidence to suggest that a single miner processed 22,000 blocks. Additionally, Lerner has released a new website called Satoshi Blocks that aims to help crypto enthusiasts visualize mining during the protocol’s earliest days.
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Grayscale Investments, a digital asset management firm founded by Digital Currency Group, announced Friday that it has completed its quarterly review to update the weightings of its Digital Large Cap Fund (DLC). 3/ Although no new assets qualified for inclusion following DLC’S Quarterly Review (3/31/19), the below table highlights how DLC’s weightings have changed from […]
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Josh Rossi describes festive nights of playing poker with a who’s who of the early bitcoin scene.
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Last week, Microsoft (MSFT) published its 2018 Bing ad quality year in review, where it detailed the previous year’s data and efforts to improve the search engine’s advertising products. In the report, Microsoft revealed that it suspended nearly 200,000 accounts from the Bing Ads platform, doubling the number from 2017. Additionally, 900 million bad ads […]
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Charles Hoskinson, the co-creator of both Cardano (ADA) and Ethereum (ETH), had a humbling Friday in New York City. The journeyman traveler, who commonly documents his trips around the world on social media, was all set to go live for an interview with Yahoo Finance, as part of a larger NYC media tour. However, Hoskinson […]
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The true size of the cryptocurrency market may be as little as 5 percent of its officially reported total. Coinmarketcap (CMC), the leading market data website, has been accused of unquestioningly publishing crypto exchange figures, despite compelling evidence of manipulation by many trading venues including a glut of Asian platforms. Now, a number of market data websites have ramped up pressure on exchanges to provide accurate figures.
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Japan’s top financial regulator has shared with news.Bitcoin.com some stats pertaining to cryptocurrency exchange registrations. Out of 23 new applications the regulator has received, two have been approved so far. In addition, there are over 140 more companies interested in entering the market.
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The Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) approved the applications for two new cryptocurrency exchanges this week — one from Rakuten Wallet Co. Ltd. and the other from Decurret Co. Ltd.
There are 2,121 digital currencies tracked on market websites with a net valuation of around $ 140 billion. Statistics for the end of Q1 2019 show mineable digital assets to be the most valuable cryptocurrencies on the market today, with the top eight mineable coins representing 68 percent of the entire cryptoconomy.
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The number of open town hall meetings for the Indian crypto community to voice regulatory suggestions has grown from four cities to eight. The organizer of the meetings has shared details with news.Bitcoin.com. Meetings will be hosted in four new cities in April and the best suggestions for crypto regulation will be submitted to the government, the organizer has explained.
Also read: Indian Supreme Court Set to Hear Crypto Case on March 29
