The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

IOHK, the company behind the Cardano blockchain, has officially rolled out Marlowe Playground, an application-building platform that allows non-programmers to build financial smart contracts on Cardano.

As the weekend approaches, Bitcoin price appears set to close out the month with a remarkably strong performance which has many bulls calling for a new all-time high above $20,000 in the near future.

The United States tax authority doesn't seem to be very efficient when it comes to tracking down who owes crypto taxes - for now.

Oct 30, 2020 at 20:59 UTCUpdated Oct 30, 2020 at 21:09 UTC.Crypto lender Celsius is producing a series of experiments over the next few months that would test what it would look like for the company to decentralize some of its operations.

Bundesbank seems to be coyly flirting with blockchain technology.

Bitcoin's hash rate is down on the year, though the price remains largely unaffected.

The Pokemon-inspired Axie Infinity has grown to become the number one nonfungible token, or NFT, game on the Ethereum blockchain, with over 7,000 on-chain active monthly users.

Bitcoin trading around $13,354 as of 20:00 UTC. Gaining 0.14% over the previous 24 hours.

The Irani government will now allow imports to be paid for using Bitcoin, as per a recent report in local publication ISNA. The move is the first-of-its-kind and marks an important milestone in Bitcoin's history.

Filecoin miners are paying large investors an annual percentage rate as high as 40% to borrow FIL, the closely-held native token required to participate in the decentralized storage network.

You can't just mine crypto for profit using other people's systems without them approving it.

Oct 30, 2020 at 19:22 UTCUpdated Oct 30, 2020 at 20:59 UTC.The MakerDAO community is voting Friday on a proposal to change its governance system to harden it against flash loan attacks.

Only, it's not ready to be deployed yet because Bitcoin developers have differing opinions on the best route to activation.

Oct 30, 2020 at 19:14 UTCUpdated Oct 30, 2020 at 20:00 UTC.Bequant is adding New York-based Solidus Labs' surveillance tools to its digital asset services business.

Oct 30, 2020 at 19:00 UTC.Was it an allusion to the Reformation or something to do with the ancient pagan tradition of Samhain?

Bitcoin's rally from $10 to $100, a 10-fold rise, took only 122 days after it had spent 100 days above $10. Similarly, a move from $100 to $1000 happened in two days, and the rally from $1,000 to $10,000 was completed in 150 days.

Verizon unveiled "a blockchain-based, open-source newsroom product designed to raise the bar for corporate accountability," today according to a public statement.

Oct 30, 2020 at 18:09 UTCUpdated Oct 30, 2020 at 18:30 UTC.Days before a U.S. presidential election marred by court fights over vote counting and partisan allegations of rampant mail-in ballot fraud, Overstock.com is once again touting what it calls a solution: blockchain voting.

Oct 30, 2020 at 18:05 UTC.The INX cryptocurrency and security token exchange intends to trade on the Canadian Securities Exchange once it wraps up its initial public offering.

The Crypto Volatility Index, or CVX, is now live as a beta test and proof of concept.

Another characteristic bitcoin shares with older forms of money, and not the electronic kind that sits in your bank account, is that it is a bearer asset.

The phenomenon of modern information flow has gotten an enormous amount of attention since the last, similarly godawful election cycle, in many ways forcing regular people to think in the uncomfortably paranoiac manner that cybersecurity pros and blockchain programmers, in particular, are well accustomed to.

Although the correlation between Bitcoin and U.S. stocks has declined in recent weeks, the probability that the rising risk-on market sentiment could buoy BTC remains high.

Oct 30, 2020 at 16:58 UTCUpdated Oct 30, 2020 at 18:06 UTC.Ethereum's "Berlin" hard fork remains a few months away at best, according to the All Core Developers bi-weekly call held Friday.

Ether sharesGenesis Capital saw the share of bitcoin in its loan portfolio drop as the share of ether loans increased to 12.4% of its total loan book this quarter.

Oct 30, 2020 at 16:36 UTC.Daily volumes for bitcoin options have hit lifetime highs on crypto derivatives exchange Deribit due to increased activity in deep "Out-of-the-money" call options, or bullish bets.

That being said, scaling decentralized e-voting systems is a complex task.

One of the biggest focuses of this past year in DeFi has been the rapid rise of Wrapped Bitcoin, tBTC, and other projects that allow investors to deposit their BTC in exchange for an Ethereum-based token representing a claim on that Bitcoin.

Two years ago, venture capitalist and noted Bitcoin investor Tim Draper publicly stated that Bitcoin will hit $250,000 by 2022.

Oct 30, 2020 at 15:33 UTCUpdated Oct 30, 2020 at 15:46 UTC.The U.S. Library of Congress' law division has beefed up its cryptocurrency legal resources to meet a spike in demand for information on the topics.