Bitcoin Hovers Just Above $3,600 as Crypto Markets See Another Slump Tuesday, Jan.15 — following a brief period of recovery yesterday, all of the top 20 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization are falling again.The only exception to this are two stablecoins Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC), which are currently in the green.Market visualization from Coin360As of press time, Bitcoin (BTC) is down 2.34 percent… Coinbase to Give Away Over $100 Million in XLM to Users Who Study Stellar Protocol United States cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has announced that it is giving away 1 billion Stellar Lumens (XLM) (about $106 million) to users that are willing to study the Stellar protocol.The news was revealed in a Coinbase blog post published on Tuesday, March 26.The move is part of Coinbase Earn, the exchange’s crypto-focused educational program.… Noted Tax Haven Cayman Islands Sees New Bills to Bring Local Crypto to FATF’s Heel In new legislation, the Cayman Islands is looking to clarify rules on crypto exchanges, including registration and sandbox licensing.906 Total views 32 Total shares On April 28, the legislative assembly of the Cayman Islands gazetted five new pieces of legislation governing crypto businesses — especially exchanges.How the new legislation would change the Cayman Islands’… Charles Hoskinson: Recursive SNARKs Could Help Bitcoin Scale Charles Hoskinson believes that this complex cryptographic technique could have helped avoid the Bitcoin Civil War that led to the formation of Bitcoin Cash.1004 Total views 35 Total shares In a Cointelegraph interview, Charles Hoskinson said that in his opinion, recursive snarks could be a solution for the Bitcoin’s (BTC) scalability problems.Intellectual dishonestyHoskinson believes… Reviving Tourism and User Privacy Via Blockchain-Based ID Systems Countries all over the world are feeling the impact of COVID-19, as travel restrictions have virtually put an end to tourism for this year.To put this into perspective, recent statistics from Hawaii’s Maui News found that in June of this year, 1,929 visitors came to Maui, while the island welcomed 287,449 visitors the same… White Hat Hackers Earn $32,000 for Finding Crypto Security Exploits in Last Two Months White hat hackers have earned $32,000 in bounties over the last two months by reporting security holes in crypto and blockchain projects, according to a report by Hard Fork on May 20.This lump sum of over $30,000 was distributed by 15 firms from March 28 to May 16 and documented in 30 public bug reports,… Major South Korean Satellite Operator KT SAT to Focus on Blockchain, Other New Tech The satellite operator owned by South Korea’s largest telecommunications company KT Corporation is exploring blockchain, local newspaper EDaily reports Friday, Nov.
23.KT SAT, which is reportedly Korea’s sole satellite communication operator with 50 years of satellite expertise, has set up a working group to address the use of major emerging technologies, including blockchain, in order… Put to Good Use: Ethereum Racks Up Serious Numbers to Set Benchmarks Ethereum’s dominance as the preeminent smart contract blockchain platform has been boosted by the popularity of decentralized finance and decentralized applications tokens in 2020, with ERC-20 tokens now accounting for nearly half of the assets on the blockchain.The smart contract platform has been in existence for just under five years and, in that space of… Tether Mints 300M USDT in Chain Swap, Corresponding Burn Still Awaits The operator of leading stablecoin USDT, Tether, minted 300 million USDT in a swap from the Bitcoin-based (BTC) tokenization protocol Omni to Ethereum, but the corresponding burn has not yet taken place.Whale Alert, a twitter account dedicated to reporting big cryptocurrency transactions, pointed out the coinage described above in a tweet published on Sept.12.… Leave a Reply Search.
