Crypto Biz: Riot increases Bitfarms stake in takeover strategy

Major decentralized finance (DeFi) player MakerDAO (MKR) partnered with payment processor Simplex to create a fiat on-ramp for its Dai (DAI) decentralized stablecoin.According to an announcement on Mar. 3, the partnership makes it possible to buy Dai with the credit and debit cards of Simplex’s partner firms. Maker’s business development representative in Europe, Gustav Arentoft,…

Data from Grayscale Investments shows that the firm’s assets under management soared from about $1.9 billion at the end of 2019 to over $3.5 billion by the end of June 30, 2020. The correction in the U.S. dollar (DXY) and the possibility of further weakness due to continued money printing by the U.S. Federal Reserve could…

Many investors believe a significant price swing is about to happen, as the next Bitcoin (BTC) halving is now less than 15 days away. Despite its demonstrated and incredibly long term potential, no one knows for sure how exactly Bitcoin’s price will respond during and after the third halving. Fortunately, this time, the market has matured…

Blockchain security firm Asymmetric Research privately disclosed the vulnerability to Circle, which has since been addressed.

Blockchain security firms SlowMist and CertiK also believe the crypto wallet drainer Angel Drainer was involved in the estimated $238,000 exploit. 37 Total views 2 Total shares The team behind Balancer, an Ethereum-based automated market maker, believes a social engineering attack on its DNS service provider was what led to its website’s frontend being compromised

An allusion to the start of this year’s bullish progress comes as $40,000 refuses to go quietly as resistance. 766 Total views 108 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) futures open interest is mimicking the start of the BTC price bull run, data shows.As BTC/USD hovered near $40,000 on Thursda, a fresh bullish report from Stack Funds…

Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase has applauded the efforts of crypto analysts and citizen journalists amid the fall of FTX. 213 Total views 3 Total shares Coinbase CEO and co-founder Brian Armstrong have applauded the work of citizen journalists and blockchain analysts surrounding the unfolding FTX crisis and its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.In a…

The role of blockchain developer is the most rapidly growing emerging job in the United States, according to the 2018 U.S. Emerging Jobs report by LinkedIn released on Dec. 13.In the course of preparing the report, LinkedIn used data from its Economic Graph to analyze the positions that companies are hastily hiring for, as well…