Ethereum Classic Price Struggles to Reclaim $10 Despite LocalCoinSwap Listing
It has been a relatively quiet second half of 2018 for Ethereum Classic. The forked version of Ethereum is still struggling for mainstream traction despite being offered to institutional traders through Grayscale Investments. Over the past few hours, ETC has lost a fair bit of value again, and reclaiming $10 will be a big challenge. Ethereum … Read more
The Daily: Kanye Teaches Opsec, Crypto Foes Joins Forces
The last 24 hours has been one of those all-too-rare periods in which the cryptosphere unites against a shared enemy. We’ll detail who in The Daily, right after we’ve discussed blockchain spam, Blockfolio’s new funding round, and how we learned an opsec lesson from Kanye West. Also read: Bitcoiners Shoot Down Roubini’s US Senate Testimony Coinbase … Read more
XRP Price Bounces Back Strongly as Gains Pile Up
As all cryptocurrencies try to reclaim some of their recently lost value, things will undoubtedly get very interesting later today. For XRP, the losses have piled up significantly over the past 36 hours. This also means the asset is usually one of the trading pairs to bounce back the quickest. Reclaiming $0.45 is not impossible … Read more
Crypto Price Watch: Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin (BTC), EOS, Ripple (XRP), Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Daily Roundup
The past 48 hours have been brutal for the crypto sector as a whole, with the price of almost all the top 10 altcoins dipping quite substantially within the aforementioned timeframe. In this regard, Bitcoin is currently trading at $6,337, thus showcasing a drop of nearly 5% since the day before. As a consequence of … Read more
US Court Issues Emergency Order Halting a Planned Initial Coin Offering
An American court has put a stop to an initial coin offering (ICO) by a company claiming to offer “the first licensed and regulated tokenized crypto currency exchange & index fund based in the US.” The ICO promoters even invented their own regulatory authority, which seems to have really irked the regulators. Also Read: The … Read more
0x Price Surpasses $0.75 as Coinbase Pro Listing is Imminent
Today may prove to be a rather interesting day for the cryptocurrency industry after all. Considering how there is a fair bit of positive momentum brewing once again, it will be rather interesting to see how all of the markets evolve. The 0x price is the first to note very strong gains today, primarily because … Read more
Largest South Korean Exchange Launches Crypto Market Indices
The largest crypto exchange in South Korea by trading volume, Bithumb, has launched two cryptocurrency market indices. One tracks all coins listed on the exchange while the other tracks only altcoins. Meanwhile, Upbit, the country’s largest crypto exchange by the number of coins listed, has two similar indices and sub-indices divided into three broad categories. … Read more
Funny New Advert Shows Bitcoin Is on Google’s Mind
Google, which currently sits on the fence with regard to cryptocurrency, took an opportunity to throw shade at digital coins like bitcoin and bitcoin cash during an advert for its new call-screening feature. In the minute-long segment, popular comedians dressed as Google employees mock crypto mining for wasting electricity and say that virtual currency is … Read more
Facebook Purge Continues: 559 Pages, 251 Accounts Removed Ahead of US Elections
Facebook’s Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy, and Oscar Rodriguez, Product Manager, announced that “Today, we’re removing 559 pages and 251 accounts that have consistently broken our rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behavior.” It is another decision to purge the world’s largest social media site of political speech, and it just might be a final … Read more
