Alongside the development of its flagship product, Prysm, a sharding client for Ethereum 2.0, Prysmatic Labs has now published its ‘Ethereum 2.0 Testnet Update #1’ report, which outlined statistics on the test network and gave insights into how its stability and overall functionality can be improved. According to the report, in a span of justContinue reading “Ethereum 2.0 Testnet update reports upward-trending ‘finalized epoch’”

Software architect for Ripple and Xpring, David Fuelling, recently announced Hyperledger Quilt v1.0, which is a Java implementation of the Interledger protocol for sending payments across different ledgers. According to the post in question, much like what the Internet did for information, Interledger provides open protocols and standards for the interoperability of payments across anyContinue reading “Ripple’s Xpring announces Java implementation of Interledger, Hyperledger Quilt”

On November 15, COO of Bitwise Asset Management, Teddy Fusaro spoke to Cheddar about the Bitcoin halving scheduled to occur around May next year. During the interview, he said he expected its impact on BTC’s price to be the “topic du jour” of 2020, with the conversation intensifying as we move into the new year.Continue reading “Bitcoin’s supply/demand dynamics can’t change: Bitwise COO”

While the Ethereum network has not seen recent ETH values anywhere near the 2019 high of over $350, its current value is just a stone’s throw away from its value on this day last year. With a price-tag of $181.73 at the time of writing, ETH has a $19.8 billion market cap, and a daily tradingContinue reading “Ethereum could breach wedge to $170 by December”

Between the 23rd and 26th of September, Litecoin saw a drop in value from around $74 to $50, and has since been unable to rise above the $67 mark. LTC has been mostly consolidating between the $55 and $60 range, and is worth $58.22 at the time of writing. According to CoinMarketCap, Litecoin has aContinue reading “Litecoin likely to breach broadening wedge to $62 next week”

After having successfully completed its planned Heisenberg hard fork, Binance Chain, the blockchain project initiated by the Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange, recently published its monthly report regarding the updates made during the month of October. The report stated that Binance Chain, which has been running for just over five months now, had a recorded block heightContinue reading “Binance DEX recorded ~$50 million volume in October, claims report”

October saw XRP doing its best to record some gains in its price valuation, with it more or less remaining close to the $0.27 mark for most of the month and November as well. Yesterday, XRP dropped below the $0.27 support and had a price value of $0.267, at the time of writing. According toContinue reading “XRP could breach pennant and climb to $0.28 in a week”

At the recently held CoinMarketCap conference, The Capital, former editor of TechCrunch, Michael Arrington, took part in a backstage interview and spoke about Bitcoin, the U.S. dollar, and curing the “sickness” prevalent in the cryptocurrency industry today. At an earlier stage of the conference, Arrington had spoken about the top 100 coins, calling it aContinue reading “Bitcoin is largely driven by market manipulation: Michael Arrington”

The research team at Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, recently released a chart regarding the impact of the best performing days on the annualized daily average returns for Bitcoin. “Most of Bitcoin’s upside occurs on very few days — missing out can be painful. When in doubt, #HODL” According to Binance Research, investors not holding Bitcoin onContinue reading “Binance Research advocates #HODLing as it analyzes Bitcoin’s annualized returns”

On the second day of CoinMarketCap’s conference, The Capital, Blockstream’s Samson Mow shared his thoughts on proof-of-work, halving and the future of mining. On the sidelines of the same, Mow, in an interview, spoke about how ASICs have become commoditized, and gave his opinion of Ethereum and why he thinks proof-of-stake is “a joke.” “EveryContinue reading “Ethereum transitioning to PoS could assist TRON’s ascension: Samson Mow”

At the recent CoinMarketCap conference, former Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Paul Atkins, and visiting research fellow at the Center for Digital Financial Assets, Robert Greene, spoke to The Capital about crypto-financial instruments like Bitcoin ETFs, ICOs, and stablecoins. On the significance of Bitcoin ETFs, Atkins stated that the reason for its demand isContinue reading “Bitcoin ETFs could broaden accessibility: Former SEC Commissioner”

Recently, CEO and Founder of Casa, Jeremy Welch, made an appearance on the Citizen Bitcoin podcast to talk about security, the Lightning Network and the future of Bitcoin. During the podcast, Welch said that phase shifts happen historically, and though we haven’t seen any in a long time, Bitcoin represents something in terms of theContinue reading “Bitcoin use will always have its trade-offs: Casa’s Jeremy Welch”