Monthly Archives: May 2021

According to Edward Evenson, a Bitcoin miner from Slush Pool, Chinese BTC miners are on the move. 4230 Total views 4 Total shares Edward Evenson, head of business development at Slush Pool owner Braiins, reports that a large number of Chinese BTC mining machines equivalent to Quebec’s entire output are currently en route to North…

OKEx, Crypto.com, and LocalBitcoins have integrated Brazil’s PIX instant payments system. 2028 Total views 2 Total shares Increasing numbers of offshore cryptocurrency exchanges are embracing Brazil’s instant payments infrastructure, PIX.On May 28, OKEx announced a strategic partnership with local payments firm CuboPay, allowing it to facilitate Tether ($USDT) purchases in exchange for Brazilian real via…

Govt agencies want more tools to trace suspect crypto transactions. 2986 Total views 1 Total shares The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control has requested another subscription to Chainalysis analytics software in order to step up its blockchain transaction surveillance efforts.In a public notice sent out on May 26, the agency confirmed its intention to…

Dfinity, the team behind the Internet Computer protocol, or ICP, has fired back at critics of its decentralization and privacy features in an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit yesterday.The team sought to assure that the project’s foundation does not have control over the majority of voting power, emphasizing that decentralization is a priority for the…

The NFT sector has seen exponential growth, tripling in transactions since January and pushing through the market crash this month. 1016 Total views 2 Total shares The popularity of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, shows little sign of slowing down, despite the extraordinary marketwide crash that wiped more than $1 trillion off the crypto market cap.According…

Metalla Royalty & Streaming CEO Brett Heath has warned that crypto will “lead the charge into the next financial crisis” and questioned the true intrinsic value of Bitcoin. 620 Total views 1 Total shares The CEO of precious metals royalty and streaming company Metalla Royalty & Streaming, Brett Heath has warned that crypto will “lead…

Binance beefs up blockchain analytics amid a surge in DeFi exploits. 1665 Total views 6 Total shares Cryptocurrency and blockchain intelligence company CipherTrace has announced analytics support for Binance Smart Chain (BSC) amid a rise in attacks and vulnerabilities on protocols running on the network.In an announcement on May 27, the firm stated that it…

This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industry’s most important news, including influential projects, changes in the regulatory landscape, and enterprise blockchain integrations. China regulations, FACT or FUD? Normally, this weekly column takes a broad look at all the developments, news, and even gossip from within…

It is not the first time Uniswap governance has been dominated by a whale. 658 Total views 3 Total shares The effect of whales on Uniswap governance is a topic of hot debate once again after Harvard's blockchain group threw a massive amount of voting power behind its own proposal.The proposal, made on May 27…