BitGo integrates Stacks for Bitcoin rewards, following institutional Bitcoin demand

Researchers have published evidence of what they claim is a coordinated pump and dump manipulation involving the Chainlink (LINK) token — the native cryptocurrency of Japanese messaging giant LINE’s service-oriented blockchain.A blog post published on Sept. 11 by AnChain.Ai researchers contains an analysis of apparently suspicious LINK token transactions between April 1, 2019, and July…

Monero has experienced its biggest single day gain in hashrate since its creation back in 2014. August 6, Monero (XMR) has experienced its biggest increase in hashrate since the network’s creation in 2014.Monero hashrate. Source: Coin Metrics.The Monero hashrate increased from 1.67 GH/s on August 5 to 2.2 GH/s on August 6. That 0.52 GH/s…

Cryptocurrencies have fees, but so do payment cards. 252 Total views 1 Total shares Credit card providers charge merchants a cut of the payments they accepted, called interchange fees or swipe fees. With two major card providers aiming to elevate rates, could crypto become an alternative? “Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. are planning to raise swipe…

Ether (ETH) options are having a fantastic year, with open interest on Deribit — the largest market for these options — having surged 315% to $158 million over the past two months, breaking the $150-million barrier for the first time ever. Even though Ether first came about only to serve the users of the Ethereum platform…

Some Vermont-based households can now sell their excess renewable energy to businesses through blockchain-based energy startup LO3’s platform.Vermont power utility Green Mountain Power and LO3 jointly launched a pilot project that enables homeowners with solar panels to sell surplus power to businesses served by the utility, industry-focused publication Microgrid Knowledge reported on Nov. 19.500 MWh…

Bitcoin is simply too slow to preserve historical norms this time around, trader Peter Brandt concludes in a frank appraisal of BTC price performance.

Jack Dorsey's controversial views about venture capital and Web 3.0 triggered a flurry of responses on Twitter this week. 751 Total views 28 Total shares When you're no longer at the helm of a publicly-traded company, you have more leeway to express controversial views. Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took to social media this week…

There’s no denying that the world is currently facing an unprecedented energy crisis, one that has compounded severely in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic so much so that countries across the globe — especially across Europe and North America — are witnessing severe shortages and steep spikes in the price of oil, gas and…

The Important Stories investigation seemingly contradicts Durov’s public claims.