Big miners pose a growing threat to Bitcoin

Turkey has established the country’s first university-level blockchain center, aiming to close the blockchain expertise gap and ensure wide deployment of the technology, local news outlet Daily Sabah reported August 3. The Istanbul Blockchain and Innovation Center (BlockchainIST Center) was inaugurated at Bahçeşehir University (BAU). According to the center’s director Bora Erdamar, BlockchainIST is set…

Many traders frequently express some relatively large misconceptions about trading cryptocurrency futures, especially on derivatives exchanges outside the realm of traditional finance. The most common mistakes involve futures markets’ price decoupling, fees and the impact of liquidations on the derivatives instrument.Let’s explore three simple mistakes and misconceptions that traders should avoid when trading crypto futures.…

Authorities in the province say crypto mining is inimical to China's environmental conservation efforts. 352 Total views 24 Total shares Hebei, a province in Northern China, is the latest jurisdiction in the country to read the riot act to crypto miners and traders.According to Reuters on Tuesday, the province's cyberspace commission has announced plans to…

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of top crypto exchange Binance, announced that the platform will launch futures trading in September.Zhao voiced this statement on Twitter during an “ask me anything” session on Aug. 28.According to Cointelegraph Japan, the company also “announced its focus on the staking business.”As Cointelegraph reported on July 2, Zhao revealed the company plans to…

Some of today’s most prominent artificial intelligence projects are being trained to “basically lie,” according to Musk.

Court documents showed Stanford University research scientist Andreas Paepcke and former Stanford Law School dean Larry Kramer signed on as sureties to SBF’s $250-million bond. 985 Total views 7 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTA federal judge has allowed identities of guarantors who signed on sureties for former…

We ask the buidlers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector for their thoughts on the industry… and throw in a few random zingers to keep them on their toes!This week, our 6 Questions go to Alyssa Tsai, founder and CEO of Panony — an incubator, investor and adviser for blockchain and Web3 business.My name is…

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has frozen the assets of Meta 1 Coin, an alleged crypto scam backed by a former state senator that promised investors returns of up to 224,923% without ever having any actual tokens. Per a March 20 announcement from the SEC, the regulator initially froze Meta 1’s assets on…

Charles Hoskinson, co-founder and CEO of IOHK, the blockchain firm behind Cardano (ADA), said that he expects the coin to see a hard fork in mid-February.During a livestream on Jan. 17, Hoskinson noted that he expects Cardano’s consensus algorithm to be upgraded with a hard fork next month. He said that he has “pretty high…