Bitcoin (BTC) has been experiencing a volatile price action since late April, with significant fluctuations in its value. At the time of writing, the cryptocurrency has experienced a 3% decline in the last 24 hours…
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Experiences This Year’s Largest Epoch…
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty dropped this week at block height 685,440 and saw the largest negative drop of the year losing close to 16%. Overall the global hashrate has dropped around 2% since the price fell…
How Ethereum Could Power A CBDC, According To…
Yao Qian, a member of The China Securities Regulatory Commission, presented a case where a possible Digital U.S. dollar and the Digital Yuan run on top of Ethereum’s network. The government official spoke on The…
Visualizing Bitcoin’s Future Price Cycles With the Power-Law…
There’s a number of tools, charts, and models traders use to help them forecast bitcoin price cycles and our last article discussed leveraging the Golden Ratio Multiplier. The following editorial discusses another method of bitcoin…
Binance Smart Chain Faces yet Another Flash Loan…
Belt Finance, a Binance Smart Chain-based decentralized lending protocol, lost $6.3 million in a flash loan attack last week. The attackers took advantage of a series of inefficiencies in the smart contract to manipulate the…
Andreessen Horowitz Discusses Raising Third Crypto Fund to…
In May 2020, back when the crypto economy was still tumultuous from the coronavirus outbreak fears and gloomy global financial outlook, in general, the private venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) revealed the 500 million-dollar…
Last Week In Bitcoin: Billionaires, Texas, And Mining
Last Week In Bitcoin is a new segment covering the week that occurred in Bitcoin, with all the important bits and some analysis. Summary Despite what the charts and current price may say, last week was…
COMIT Network makes Monero / Bitcoin atomic swaps…
COMIT Network, an open protocol facilitating ‘trustless’ cross-blockchain applications, has announced that peer-to-peer atomic swaps between Monero (XMR) and Bitcoin (BTC) are now available on mainnet. This allows users to trade XMR for BTC without…
Marathon’s Bitcoin Mining Pool Will ‘No Longer Filter…
On Monday, the publicly-listed enterprise mining firm Marathon Digital Holdings announced the company has adopted the latest codebase offered by Bitcoin Core developers that features Taproot. Marathon is now signaling for Taproot according to the…