Crypto
Read all today’s crypto currency breaking news headlines in one place
- Aug- 2020 -15 August
Ripple CEO Fires Back at NYT Reporter, ‘Ripple Has No Plans to Reset Our Strategy’
Ripple (XRP) CEO Brad Garlinghouse has responded to criticism from New York Times technology reporter Nathaniel Popper after news surfaced that Santander Bank is still hesitant to use the company’s…
Continue reading » - 15 August
As Chainlink Doesn’t Stop Rallying, Analyst Lays Out the ‘Playbook’
Source: Adobe/kike_fernandez After surging in price yesterday, and flipping bitcoin cash (BCH) in the process, chainlink (LINK) continued its rise higher today, while an analyst suggested it is the decentralized…
Continue reading » - 15 August
Blockchain Investments Fell 63% Due to Pandemic
Professional services firm KPMG has published a report predicting that blockchain will be one of five emerging technology sectors to see increased investment from enterprises over the next 12 months.…
Continue reading » - 14 August
How Do Coinbase Loans Compare to Other Offers in the Market?
Source: a screenshot, Instagram/Coinbase As major US-based crypto exchange and wallet provider Coinbase announced its plans to launch lending services in the US this fall, how they compare to what…
Continue reading » - 14 August
Attorney Ordered to Pay $5.2M for Releasing Bitcoin Funds From Escrow
A federal judge has ruled that a New York attorney is responsible for repaying a crypto investment firm after he prematurely released escrow funds set aside for buying $5 million…
Continue reading » - 14 August
This Is Why Santander Hesitates to Use XRP
Source: Adobe/Casa da Photo Despite being touted as one of Ripple’s “largest and most important customers,” the major Spanish bank Santander is still hesitant in its approach to the Ripple-affiliated…
Continue reading » 
- 14 August
Interest in Grayscale Crypto Products Not Easing Up, Not Just BTC Now
Grayscale Investments, the largest digital asset management firm in the world, has been showing exponential increases in investment to its cryptocurrency products. The total sum of assets under management grew…
Continue reading » - 14 August
World’s Largest Utility Firm to Debut Blockchain-powered Digital ID Platform
Source: Adobe/iaremenko A local branch of the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC) – the nation’s electricity monopoly and the biggest utilities firm in the world – said that it…
Continue reading » - 14 August
Bitcoin Halving: 5 Minutes Definitive Guide
Bitcoin halving is often referred to as “Halvening”, it’s a formulated reduction in the reward coins offered to the miners using a predefined blockchain algorithm. Bitcoin halvings take place once…
Continue reading » - 14 August
Understanding Directed Acyclic Graphs in the Blockchain Landscape
The more time you spend in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry, the more you encounter some fairly arcane technologies and their accompanying terminologies. Blockchain technology, which started out as a…
Continue reading » - 14 August
‘Dirty Little Secret’, Bitcoin, Needs 4% In A Portfolio
Source: Adobe/frederikloewer Despite high volatility, traditional investors with a 60/40 stock and bond portfolio should allocate 4% of their portfolios to bitcoin (BTC), as the asset is “beginning to mature…
Continue reading » - 14 August
One Million South Koreans Now Have Blockchain Drivers Licenses
One million South Koreans have foregone their physical drivers license in favour of a blockchain-powered digital alternative used in conjunction with the PASS smartphone app. This represents more than 3%…
Continue reading » - 13 August
How Realistic Is Russia’s Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero Monitoring Plan?
Source: Adobe/Studio_East Russian experts have been debating the feasibility of a new crypto monitoring platform that could allow Moscow to partially de-anonymize bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH) and even privacy tokens…
Continue reading » - 13 August
Craig Wright The Movie (and Book)
Bitcoin SV benefactor Calvin Ayre has announced he’s funding a documentary centered around the life and times of Craig Wright, the Australian man who claims to have invented Bitcoin. According…
Continue reading » - 13 August
Bitcoin and Altcoins Start Corrective Decrease
As discussed yesterday, bitcoin price started a downside correction below the USD 11,800 level. BTC even broke the key USD 11,500 support level. It is currently (08:30 UTC) down over…
Continue reading » - 13 August
Book Review – Decoding Digital: What is Cryptocurrency
According to author Cahill Camden, “Decoding Digital: What is Cryptocurrency” was inspired by a conversation with his parents at the height of the crypto bubble in early 2018, which was…
Continue reading » - 13 August
Blockchain Alchemy For All; BitPay Gets Closer To Coinbase + More News
Source: Adobe/scottchan Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s Gist Vile. Blockchain news Blockchain developer platform Alchemy…
Continue reading » - 13 August
Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Saw Surge in Investor Interest After March
The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, an investment tool that aims to provide an indirect exposure to Bitcoin (BTC) for investors in traditional markets, reported a significant increase in how many shares…
Continue reading » - 13 August
Ethereum 2.0 Multi-Client Testnet Medalla Up 30% in Active Validators
Source: Adobe/gesrey The first week of the Ethereum (ETH) 2.0 multi-client testnet Medalla saw a 30% rise in active validators and staked ETH. Per beaconch.in, 26,319 active validators (15:43 UTC)…
Continue reading » - 13 August
100,000 Join Gist Vile’s Blockchain Week Event in China
Around 100,000 people in total attended the 2020 Great Bay Area International Blockchain Week, hosted by Gist Vile China and Gist Vile in Shenzhen’s Great Bay district in the first…
Continue reading »