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Opera Lets US Users Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum with Apple Pay, Debit Cards

American users of the Opera mobile and desktop web browsers will be able to make faster and easier crypto purchases – with United States-based Android users now able to buy using their debit cards, and iOS users able to buy both bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH) directly from the...

, by Tim Alper

Friday 13 Strikes: Crypto Exchange Employee Makes USD 82,000 Fee Gaffe

Friday 13 proved to be an unlucky day for a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, and for one staff member in particular – with an employee error at Coinone leading to the platform apparently frittering away some USD 82,000 worth of ethereum (ETH) in fees on a transaction worth a fraction of...

, by Tim Alper

Crypto Exchanges Make Emergency Moves to Deal With Disrupted Transactions

Multiple crypto exchanges around the world struggled to deal with the unexpected crash that has seen bitcoin (BTC) crash to as low as USD 4,000 before rebounding to more than USD 5,500 – leading some to take “emergency measures.”A number of major exchanges suffered with technical...

, by Tim Alper

DeFi Goes Through Its Own Major Turbulence

The crypto market crashed, and the total value locked (TVL) in decentralized finance (DeFi) is not here for it. Nonetheless, it bounced back.TVL crashed 62% today, from USD 649.497 million to USD 244.398 million, before recuperating to where it currently (UTC: 10:24) stands: USD 641.6 million,...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Pre-crash Data: Number of Addresses with 1 Bitcoin Hit All-Time High

The Cryptoverse had welcomed another all-time high - that of, let's call them, wholecoinddresses (addresses with at least 1 bitcoin). The number of investors holding 1 Bitcoin (BTC) or more, known as wholecoiners, seems to be on the rise recently. Though we can't be sure how many investors in total...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Crypto Startup CEO, Attendee of Ethereum Conferences Diagnosed With Coronavirus (UPDATED)

Zhen Ju Yong (Zen), CEO and Co-Founder of Singapore-based distributed private key management solution, Torus Labs, said he has been diagnosed with Covid-19 virus and is currently staying at an isolated ward in a hospital. (Updated at 15:42 UTC: updates in bold.)"I fell ill yesterday and have just...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Ethereum Locked in DeFi Rises, While Flash Loan Holes Are Being Plugged

Due to a recent crypto market crash, Ethereum (ETH) locked in DeFi (decentralized finance) is on the rise, while industry players are fixing the flash loan manipulation problem and MakerDAO raises the governance delay.In early February, total value locked (TVL) in DeFi surpassed USD 1 billion. It...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Silver Lining for Bitcoin Amid Global Market Panic, Altcoins Purge Estimated

As global stock markets saw massive sell-offs overnight, cryptoassets also fell sharply, with both bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH) recording double-digit losses over this past weekend. However, some industry observers claim that crypto’s mainstream moment as a utility may finally be here,...

, by Fredrik Vold

Browse Decentralized Sites on Chrome With This Extension

Unstoppable Domains, a San Francisco-based company that's building blockchain domain names, has launched a Google Chrome web browser extension, saying it wants to bring censorship-resistant websites, based on the Ethereum network, to its users.Google Chrome is currently the most-used web browser in...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Ethereum Scalability Solution is Coming ‘Soon,’ says Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum (ETH) has a plan to fix its well-known scaling issue, and co-founder Vitalik Buterin says the solutions will start rolling out soon. In an interview with BLOCKTV this week, he said that scaling, a major Ethereum problem that's been pointed out many times, is something the team will be...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Ethereum Whales Accumulating, Bitcoin Futures Send a Sign

Both bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH), the first and second most valuable cryptoassets by market capitalization, may be about to see a surge in interest from investors, new data suggests.According to research from Santiment, a behavior analytics platform for cryptocurrencies, the 100 largest...

, by Fredrik Vold

Why is New Protocol by EY, ConsenSys, Microsoft Important for Ethereum

Major professional services firm EY has launched the Baseline protocol, a package of public domain blockchain tools for enterprises, which may contribute to greater enterprise adoption of the Ethereum network. Announced Wednesday, this new protocol claims to bring significant benefits to the...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

XRP Trades Lower While Ripple CEO Slams Bitcoin and Ethereum

XRP, the token associated with the California-based fintech firm Ripple, is down 1% today, while other major coins dropped 1%-4% today, despite good news from India.At pixel time (13:00 UTC), XRP trades at c. USD 0.233 and is also down 4.9% in a week, increasing its monthly losses to 7.5%. The...

, by Fredrik Vold

Ethereum’s Buterin Finds Bitcoin’s Stock-to-Flow Model Useless

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin has no love for the stock-to-flow model when it comes to predicting the price of the world's most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin (BTC). But some believe this dislike has roots much closer to home.Sharing two article titles on the possible effect of...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Ethereum ProgPow Battle Not Over Yet as Opposition Rises

The Ethereum programmatic proof-of-work (ProgPoW) opposition is not settling down. If anything, it seems to be rising, with an open letter and a Twitter hashtag dedicated to it now."NoProgPow," say many developers and ETH supporters, adding: "I do not support the inclusion of ProgPoW." With this...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

Ethereum ProgPow Set for July Amid Heavy Opposition

Ethereum core developers have announced rather suddenly that the long-discussed programmatic proof-of-work (ProgPoW) will be implemented as a part of the hard fork scheduled to follow the planned Berlin upgrade. This has once again split the community into different camps of opinion.Two years after...

, by Sead Fadilpašić

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