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The total market cap for all ERC20 tokens running on Ethereum has topped $33 billion. The ETH market cap is around $26.8 billion.Ethereum market cap has been surpassed by the combined value of the decentralized apps (dApps) tokens built on the network. The Ethereum-based tokens used in decentralized finance (DeFi)
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Altcoins have been all the rage over recent weeks, rallying dozens of percent as Bitcoin has stalled in the $9,000s.No better has this been exemplified than in BTC dominance — the percentage of the cryptocurrency market made up by BTC. The metric was recently rejected at an important trendline, analysts
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Andreas Antonopoulos discussed how he desired to see Bitcoin have more “privacy features” in a recent live stream Q&A session published on Youtube on July 7. Antonopoulos discussed the privacy-centric coin monero and concepts like stealth addresses and ring signatures.Every once in a while, the well known cryptocurrency expert
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U.S. Dollar Coin, or USDC, is an Ethereum-based stablecoin launched in September, 2018. Its policies, including its technical and financial standards, are managed by a consortium called CENTRE, started by peer-to-peer payment company Circle and crypto exchange Coinbase. USDC represents fiat, or government money, on the blockchain. It is redeemable
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USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin project founded by Coinbase and Circle, has hit a major milestone in market capitalization.On July 3, 2020, USDC market cap broke the $1 billion threshold for the first time since the stablecoin was launched in October 2018. According to data from Coin360, the coin has
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Ghost Coin, the proof-of-stake privacy coin led by John McAfee, can now be used in vending machines in Hong Kong Disneyland.Ghost announced on Twitter that it partnered with crypto payment system ivendPay to deploy the coin in over 60 vending machines around Hong Kong, even those in Hong Kong Disneyland. “When
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On one hand, the bitcoin industry has matured to include traditional brokerages and institutional traders. On the other, bitcoin privacy tech is still shrouded in a legal gray zone. The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) took a strong stance on bitcoin privacy tech Wednesday by announcing its new Bitcoin Developer Fund. The
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Investing in Bitcoin (BTC) is now expensive, and getting your own through mining is nearly impossible for the average person. However, a new opportunity can be found in Bitcoin PoS. BitcoinPoS: The Best of Bitcoin and PoS Bitcoin Proof of Stake (BTP) was created by a team of developers that recognized the
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Tornado Cash, a privacy coin mixing tool for the Ethereum network, is now completely permissionless. According to the company’s blog post, from now on the code that runs the service will perpetually self-execute, which means that it is completely decentralized and unstoppable.Code is Now Law at Tornado.cashPrivacy on Ethereum has
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Volume for Samourai Wallet’s non-custodial Bitcoin mixer, Whirlpool, tripled last month, with the service processing more than $10 million worth of Bitcoin (BTC).According to data published to Twitter by Whirlpoolstats’ Matt Odell, March activity comprised 40% of the then-total volume produced by Whirlpool since its launch in May 2019.Whirlpool
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