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May 25, 2020 at 16:20 UTCUpdated May 25, 2020 at 16:26 UTCZcash’s First Halving May Solve Its Inflation ProblemMining reward halvings are a hot topic in the crypto markets, as they alter a cryptocurrency’s supply and often have a significant impact on prices.  Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency by market value, underwent its third halving on…

Bitcoin’s price surged Tuesday to a six-month high, climbing past $63,000 as ProShares’ much anticipated exchange-traded fund (ETF) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).The largest cryptocurrency has climbed 33% over the past month on expectations that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would approve the exchange-traded fund investing in futures contracts…

Thailand’s Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (DES) has told Meta's (META) Facebook to curb the number of fraudulent crypto investment scams being advertised on the site, or risk being expelled from the country.These fraudulent ads have affected more than 200,000 people, according to a statement published on the Ministry’s website. Chaiwut Thanakmanusorn, the Minister…

news The lightning network, seen as the future of bitcoin payments, is now a bit easier to monitor. This Wednesday, Lightning Labs released a new network analysis tool dubbed “Lndmon” that bitcoin lightning network users can use to pull up data about the state of their node and the rest of the network. The offering…

Sep 17, 2020 at 18:06 UTCUpdated Sep 17, 2020 at 18:33 UTCTotal supply of bitcoins tokenized on Ethereum since Jan. 2020Over $1 billion worth of bitcoin has been tokenized on Ethereum as the total supply of tokenized bitcoin (BTC) passed 92,600 on Thursday, or 0.42% of the total BTC supply. In January, less than 1,200…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest Prices(CoinDesk)Top StoriesBitcoin fell below $67,000 during the European morning, extending a drop from $72,000 that commenced on Friday. The decline follows $65 million in cumulative outflows from

Nov 16, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 16, 2020 at 2:42 p.m. UTC(The New York Public Library/Unsplash)MakerDAO Loans Can Be Gamed to Hold Out Funds From Liquidation, Startup FindsBorrowers can close debt positions on lending platform MakerDAO under the 150% collateral minimum with this one simple trick.A loophole in MakerDAO’s collateralized debt positions (CDPs)…

Amid a rekindling of Bitcoin development fervor, layer-2 network Stacks is looking to reinvent itself. As early as April 16, the major player in the Bitcoin L2 sector will kick off the release of its so-called Nakamoto upgrade, in the works for years – designed to dramatically increase the project's speed.This article is part of