The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Find the latest, and the most interesting, cryptocurrency news collected from around the net.

Germany-based gaming company releases RPG on the Litecoin blockchain
"It's the first major game that utilizes the Litecoin blockchain for all of its interactions," said LTC creator Charlie Lee.
DLCs Are Making Smart Contracts Private on Bitcoin
"Republican win"; "Democratic win." These are the parameters for the first smart contract escrowed bet placed on Bitcoin's mainnet.
Venezuelans are running out of crypto P2P trading options
What will happen to foreign P2P marketplaces operating in Venezuela?
eToro, BlockFi & Nexo capitalize on Brave ads for 'unmatched engagement'
What do eToro, Nexo, BlockFi have in common with underwear?
Binance, Huobi, OKEx Have FOMO for DeFi
Sep 15, 2020 at 19:22 UTCUpdated Sep 15, 2020 at 19:23 UTC.Centralized exchanges get DeFi FOMO, as decentralized exchanges challenge their dominance in crypto trading.
Crypto Esports Startup Unikrn to Pay $6.1M in SEC Settlement Over 2017 ICO
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission settled unregistered securities offering charges against online gaming and gambling platform Unikrn for conducting an initial coin offering in 2017.According to a press release Tuesday, the SEC alleged that between June and October 2017, Unikrn Inc. raised approximately $31 million through the UnikoinGold token sale in violation of registration requirements.
Algorand staking now compatible with Ledger wallet's desktop software
Self-custody staking arrives for Ledger's hardware wallets.
Oops: Who just spent $188,000 to send millions worth of Ethereum?
14, the multi-signature signatories behind SushiSwap - the controversial Uniswap fork that has become one of the largest Ethereum coins and apps within two weeks of its launch - bought back around $14 million worth of SUSHI. As reported by CryptoSlate, what happened was that the pseudonymous co-founder of the project sold a share of the developer funds, then in SUSHI, for ETH, then took off with the money.
How Zombie Companies Are Robbing Tomorrow's Economy
The percentage of companies that can't afford to pay the interest on their debt has reached a new all-time high in the wake of central bank intervention.
7.6B more ADAs were transferred to Binance with its price shedding 30%
Did ADA holders decide it was time to cash out some of the gains they made in the proceeding bull months?
Bitcoin CEO: MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor Explains His $425M Bet on BTC
MicroStrategy is prepared to HODL its bitcoin for at least a century.
Unikrn ICO faces further SEC action
Unikrn, an initial coin offering from 2017, faces action from the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
Polkadot indicator? Data shows Ethereum price follows it to the DOT
Anyone who's been in the game since 2017 will recall the heated discussions revolving around the Ether to Bitcoin flippening and the same commotion was caused by Bitcoin Cash and EOS flipping top blockchains as they moved into the top-5.Now traders' attention has shifted to Polkadot as the network is currently ranked top-5 cryptocurrency by market capitalization and it seems that its ascension to the top came out of the blue.
Blockchain gaming project seeks to go mainstream with new Matic Network migration
The company hopes to solve issues that were prevalent on its previous mainnet.
Kristin Smith: How Crypto Can Win Over Washington, DC
Policies enacted in the coming years related to securities laws, anti-money laundering and know-your-customer requirements, market integrity and taxes could smother our nascent industry, or they could lay the foundation for a flourishing and vibrant cryptocurrency and blockchain economy.
Fight fire with fire: MIT scholar suggests ETC counters 51% attacks
Not only has ETC been attacked three times within a month, but these assaults have been enabled with rented hashrate power.
Blockchain Bites: MicroStrategy's BTC Buy, Bitmain's Power Struggle, Paxful's Goodbye
MicroStrategy has put even more of its treasury into bitcoin, Paxful is pulling out of Venezuela and the Bitmain power struggle appears to have found a short-term solution.
Dapper Labs-USDC Integration Helps NBA Collectibles Game Clear $2M in Revenue Since June
Gamemaker Dapper Labs is using Circle's dollar-backed stablecoin, USDC, as a global settlement solution for its non-fungible tokens.
First ICO mandating buyers to 'use' tokens is successful, collects $5M
A new way of conducting token sales spearheaded by ConsenSys Codefi achieved its first success, with the planned sale of Skale Network tokens collecting just over $5 million.
Bitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 15, 2020
Sep 15, 2020 at 16:00 UTCUpdated Sep 15, 2020 at 16:09 UTC.With BTC crossing into bullish territory and a new smart contract-powered tokenized DeFi Index, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!
Tron legitimized a project before it pulled an exit scam, community says
Tron's primary DeFi project whitelisted what looks like a scam.
Bitcoin price charts hint $11K will likely cause trouble for BTC bulls
While Bitcoin has been showing weakness in recent weeks as BTC price dropped from $12,000 to $10,000, some light at the end of the tunnel is showing up.
Where does the next Japanese prime minister stand on crypto?
Yoshihide Suga has made few public statements on digital currency, but his stance on taxing crypto assets may prove to be the most insightful.
Polkadot DeFi developers may soon get a new oracle provider with historic data
Distributed storage project Bluzelle will be collaborating with the Web3 Foundation to bring its oracle system for use in the Polkadot decentralized finance ecosystem.
Security report finds Monero leads in "cryptojacking" exploits
A new cybersecurity report said privacy protocol Monero was used in most of the cryptojacking attacks traced this year.
BitPay decides to let all employees work from home permanently
Bitcoin payment and wallet company BitPay has chosen to take its company's working atmosphere remote, permanently.
Nearly 30,000 blockchain votes were recorded in Russian elections
Close to 30,000 votes were recorded on the blockchain during the Russian parliamentary elections in what appears to have been the biggest case of blockchain-based voting yet.
Galaxy Digital, IOSG Lead $1.2M Raise for Startup Creating Automated Ethereum Services
A Berlin-based startup creating a tech stack for automated Ethereum services, has raised $1.2 million in a seed round led by Polkadot backer IOSG Ventures and crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital.
Web 3.0 would enable new possibilities and opportunities
The decentralized data storage solution InterPlanetary File System, or IPFS, is a peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol that is designed to make the web "Faster, safer and more open." It allows users to download webpages and content that is stored across multiple nodes instead of from a central server.
State-by-state licensing for crypto and payments firms in the US just got much easier
New money transmitter licensing promises to roll 40 states into a single exam and license.
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