Bitcoin, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency News

Years later, when we look back to 2020, we might call it “The Year of Cryptocurrency,” for we get to not only experience the third halving of Bitcoin but also witness an unprecedented surge of Stablecoin supply since March. Up to September 12, the total market cap of four major...

Microstrategy seems be doubling down on Bitcoin after the company purchased another 16,796 BTC worth $175 million. Microstrategy’s Total Bitcoin Holdings Worth $425 Million Tweeting on Tuesday (September 15, 2020) the company’s CEO Michael Saylor announced the addition of 16,796 BTC to its stash. Although BTC’s value has risen and...

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with the State of Wyoming Division of Banking to develop solutions to combat money laundering and other financial crimes.  Blockchain Technology to Be Used to Track Transactions Chainalysis, in a detailed press release on September, 17,  revealed...

A KISSPatent report on Sep 17 reveals that more blockchain patents were filed in H1 2020 than the whole of 2019 and Alibaba will soon eclipse the New York-based technology company, IBM, as a single largest holder of patents. In another twist, most blockchain patents were filed by traditional Fortune 500 companies and China...

Kava—a cross-chain DeFi lending platform for digital assets, has released a proposal for Harvest, an open and trustless crypto-agnostic money market with its governance token, HARD.  The Harvest testnet v1 was launched on September 15 when internal testing and external audits were completed. Introducing Harvest Harvest utilizes Kava’s blockchain and...

Enjin--a blockchain-chain based video game community and development platform, and Digital Entertainment Asset (DEA)--a Singapore-based entertainment platform allowing users to build websites, forums, or dApps for gamers, are joining hands to establish the first of the kind NFT Awards to showcase curated "nifties" use case to the mainstream audience as...

A new report, published in September 2020, by crypto forensics company Chainalysis says that Turkey is the undisputed cryptocurrency king in the middle-east region and also accounts for the highest total transaction volume in the region. The report was published this week. According to the Chainalysis 2020 Geography of Cryptocurrency...

Paxful crypto exchange has shuttered operations in Venezuela citing United States sanctions, which bars Americans from doing business with the Nicolas Maduro-led nation, according to reports on September 15, 2020. Paxful Leaves Venezuela  Paxful, a leading peer-to-peer (P2P) United States-based bitcoin (BC) marketplace has announced that its services will no...

The total crypto market cap added $12.6 billion to its value since Monday morning and now stands at $349.2 billion. The top ten coins were all in green for the last 24 hours with ether (ETH) and Ripple’s XRP being the best performers with 4.2 and 3.8 percent of gains...

The total crypto market cap added $7.2 billion to its value since Monday morning and now stands at $335.2 billion. The top ten coins were mostly in green for the last 24 hours with ether (ETH) adding 6.7 percent to its value while Bitcoin SV (BSV) lost 2.2 percent. At...

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and core dev/researcher Danny Ryan had submitted a formal proposal detailing the various implementations in the much-awaited network upgrade, ETH 2.0, according to a September 16 tweet by ETHBoston co-organizer Justin Leroux. https://twitter.com/0xMidnight/status/1306079395241758721 Phase 0 to Launch Before the end of 2020 Two months after deploying...

More Ethereum (ETH) whale wallets have emerged over the past few days despite the over the 30 percent decline in the spot price. 68 New Ethereum Whale Wallets Emerge It appears the optimism of big-money crypto players has not been dampened by the recent market selloff. Tweeting on Sunday, cryptocurrency...