August 2020 | Page 2 of 171 | Last Cryptocurrency News Feed

What the Fed’s New Inflation Policy Means for Stablecoins

Aug 31, 2020 at 20:28 UTCFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell (Wikimedia Commons)What the Fed’s New Inflation Policy Means for StablecoinsAlexander Lipton is the CTO of Sila, a visiting professor and Dean’s Fellow at the Jerusalem Business School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Connection Science Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On…

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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Over $11.7K; Uniswap Passes $500M in Daily Volume

Aug 31, 2020 at 20:25 UTCCoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Over $11.7K; Uniswap Passes $500M in Daily VolumeBitcoin is trending upward and volume on decentralized exchange Uniswap is soaring to an astounding new high. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $11,724 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 0.61% over the previous 24 hours.Bitcoin’s…

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Here’s why the Head of the Chechen Republic has such a strong disdain for cryptocurrencies

Kadyrov does not seem to understand cryptocurrencies very well. The Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov shared some harsh comments about cryptocurrencies amid growing interest in the technology amongst Chechnya’s citizens.According to Pravda, Kadyrov claimed that the media is presenting crypto “as the new gold,” provoking what he calls a kind of Bitcoin (BTC) “fever”:"People take loans,…

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Decentralized Oracles on Top of Bitcoin’s Network: RIF Gateways and Chainlink Integration

IOV Labs has announced the integration of RIF Gateways & Chainlink’s decentralized blockchain oracles into its ecosystem, thus enabling developers to access critical price feeds and data resources generated outside the blockchain network. Decentralized Oracles on Top of Bitcoin’s Network The firm’s smart contract platform, the RSK Network, is designed to leverage Bitcoin’s hash power…

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Bitsonar Whistleblower Says Law Enforcement Faked His Murder in Attempt to Protect Him

Aug 31, 2020 at 19:10 UTCThe SSU detains the alleged contract killing buyer. (Screenshot/YouTube)Bitsonar Whistleblower Says Law Enforcement Faked His Murder in Attempt to Protect HimThe whistleblower from defunct cryptocurrency firm Bitsonar has reappeared after going missing for three days in Kyiv, Ukraine, saying law enforcement faked his kidnapping – and murder – to foil…

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US Stock Market Cap to GDP Ratio Reaches 190%, Eclipsing Dot-Com Bubble High

Aug 31, 2020 at 19:00 UTCUpdated Aug 31, 2020 at 19:15 UTC(Nuthawut Somsuk/Getty Images)US Stock Market Cap to GDP Ratio Reaches 190%, Eclipsing Dot-Com Bubble HighThe booming stock market is driven by perception of the Federal Reserve’s commitment to high prices and growing individual trading, but how sustainable is it? For more episodes and free early access…

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Real Or Ruse? This Bitcoiner Lost 1400 BTC ($16M) After Installing An Old Electrum Wallet

An anonymous Bitcoin investor by the name “1400BitcoinStolen” claimed on Sunday that he lost 1400 BTC after “foolishly” installing an old version of the popular Electrum wallet, but turned out to be a phishing scam. A Trap Explaining the unfortunate incident, the victim said he had not been able to access the funds since 2017.…

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Yearn, YAM and the Rise of Crypto’s ‘Weird DeFi’ Moment

Yearn, YAM and the Rise of Crypto’s ‘Weird DeFi’ MomentThe Takeaway: Decentralized finance (DeFi) started out by imitating the regular financial world, but the way its pieces can be mixed and matched has become so easy that new entrants are starting to get strange. Yearn Finance (YFI), YAM, Spaghetti, Based, whatever today's variant is –…

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TeraExchange Reinstated as Swap Execution Facility by CFTC Order

Aug 31, 2020 at 17:53 UTCUpdated Aug 31, 2020 at 18:29 UTCCFTC logo (Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock)TeraExchange LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tera Group Inc., was reinstated as a swap execution facility through a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) order on Monday. According to the press release posted on the CFTC website, TeraExchange was deemed…

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Mysterious Bitcoin mining pattern potentially solved after seven years

We may not know who Satoshi Nakamoto was, but at least this is one mystery we think we can solve. We reported last week about the latest findings of Sergio Dermain Lerner, who is known for his discovery of the so-called "Patoshi pattern". His latest research suggested that Satoshi Nakamoto likely used a single pc…