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What Is Litecoin Cash?

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Forks of existing cryptocurrencies have become the new hot commodity these days. In the case of Bitcoin, there has only been one successful fork so far, whereas everything else has taken a backseat. In Litecoin’s case, the first major “fork” to be created will be aptly known as Litecoin Cash. It is a SHA-256 fork … Read more

Myetherwallet Relaunches as Mycrypto Following a Hostile Twitter Takeover

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Myetherwallet, the web’s most popular client-side ethereum interface, has announced a surprise rebrand. The service will henceforth be known as Mycrypto following an acrimonious split. The sudden move took one half of the Myetherwallet team by surprise, who claims the “Twitter handle was changed without knowledge or permission of MEW’s founder”. It has also emerged … Read more

Coincheck Faces Pressing Questions in the Wake of the World’s Biggest Hack

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It was, by any reckoning, a huge haul. Between $400 million and $534 million dollars of NEM stolen, depending on whether you go on its value at the time or once the market had reacted to the news. At a press conference on Friday afternoon, the stunned Coincheck team painted forlorn figures as they came … Read more

What Is Bitcoin Private?

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The number of existing and upcoming Bitcoin hard forks continues to grow at an alarming rate. In fact, it seems the next fork is always just around the corner. Bitcoin Private, for example, is one of those upcoming forks, but these tokens will not be issued to BTC holders. That in itself is a rather … Read more