Cryptocurrency Analysis and News Portal
Byrne Hobart, a CryptoX columnist, is an investor, consultant and writer in New York. His newsletter, The Diff (diff.substack.com), covers inflection points in finance and technology. The bull case for bitcoin as a store of value is simple: at first nobody owns it. Then it’s owned by people who are some
Read More
On May 11, Chainlink (Link) announced the launch of a verifiable random function (VRF) that enables generation of on-chain trusted randomness. Ii is undergoing security review on the testnet where it is available for integration testing. Initially, it will work with the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain.Benefits to gamingAlthough this may sound
Read MoreGlobal crypto exchange, OKCoin, has added two new members to its top bass — Haider Rafique, Blockchain.com's former head of growth, and Megan Monroe-Coleman, Coinbase's previous compliance executive.Megan Monroe-Coleman comes on board as the outfit's global chief compliance officer, while Haider Rafique takes the role of global chief marketing officer, said
Read More
MakerDao governance, a decentralized community of MKR token holders that govern the Maker Protocol, has voted to pull Bitcoin onto the Ethereum blockchain by accepting Wrapped Bitcoin as a new collateral asset in the Maker Protocol, according to the official announcement on May 3. For the uninitiated, wBTC is the
Read More
Bitcoin (BTC) price has risen over the $9K mark for the second time in 24-hours. On Saturday the day bulls managed to push the price of the top listed crypto-asset on CoinMarketCap to $9,010 but the price quickly rejected at the top of the bull pennant and pulled back to
Read More
With the Bitcoin blockchain's once-every-four-years rewards halving now just two weeks away, some analysts are starting to fix their sights on the next upside target: $10,000. Source
Read More
Another day, another mainnet launch. Or at least, that’s sometimes how it can feel in the blockchain space, as every project seems to be scrambling to be the latest and greatest in balancing the trade-offs between speed, scalability and security. Unfortunately, many of them end up languishing with little development
Read More
Digital money transfer service, Azimo, has partnered with Siam Commercial Bank (SCB), the oldest bank in Thailand, to launch an instant cross-border payments service from Europe to Thailand through Ripple’s global payments network, RippleNet.According to an announcement on April 9, the solution aims to solve the challenges of expensive and
Read MoreBitcoin was born with the intention of having a currency free from the control of banks and governments. However, Bitcoin and most other cryptocurrencies are transparent and can be subject to analysis techniques that destroy users’ privacy. To avoid this type of surveillance, PenguinX has developed a Bitcoin mixer that
Read More
Digital identity solutions are on the rise as consumers seek security and accessibility in a digitized world. A new report from 360iResearch shows that the global digital identity market is expected to have reached about $37 Million by the end of 2025. As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc, this
Read More