How Vitalik Buterin’s pluralistic vision could reshape blockchain governance

Major exchanges scramble to disassociate themselves with XRP as Ripple tries to regain control of the narrative. 3071 Total views 25 Total shares Cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex announced on Dec. 29 that it will be removing all XRP markets starting from Jan. 15, 2021. Trading pairs affected are BTC/XRP, ETH/XRP, USDT/XRP and USD/XRP.The announcement comes just…

Tuesday, Oct. 1 — After signs of recovery in recent days, Bitcoin (BTC) has maintained its price above the $8,000 mark. However, the top 20 coins chart on Coin360 is showing mixed signals, with modest gains and losses.Cryptocurrency market daily overview. Source: Coin360Bitcoin is up 2.23% over the last 24 hours, and is trading at…

Altcoin Bitcoin Cash (BCH) has surged 10% in the past 24 hours after it emerged mining giant and major supporter Bitmain had fired a senior executive.Wu to staff: do not talk to Micree Ketuan ZhanIn a translation of an email from Oct. 29 quoted by crypto news outlet CoinDesk, Bitmain co-founder Jihan Wu said that…

But not everyone’s on board with the crypto ETF train. Critics argue that Bitcoin-linked ETFs could be even worse than centralized exchanges for the crypto market. Their main beef? There’s zero possibility of withdrawing the underlying instrument. This means the holders are never able to take advantage of the single most important feature of Bitcoin:…

Ether price (ETH) spent the last two months stuck in a rut and even the most bullish trader will admit that the possibility of trading above $4,400 in the next couple of months is dim. Of course, cryptocurrency traders are notoriously optimistic and it is not unusual for them to expect another $4,870 all-time high, but…

Blockchain equities inflows reached a recent high of $15 million as well. However, total trading volume dropped. 520 Total views 2 Total shares A third straight week of positive digital asset inflows has fully corrected nine previous weeks of outflows for the market, according to a report from CoinShares published on July 10. This week’s inflows…

Scam letters purporting to be from the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are trying con cryptocurrency taxpayers and others out of their funds.According to a Forbes report published on August 5, bogus letters are attempting to capitalize on the public’s lack of familiarity with legitimate IRS correspondence and soliciting payments by using threats of…

Polkadot’s canary network, Kusama, is set to see decentralized finance hub Karura become the first parachain. Karura network has emerged as the winner of the maiden Kusama parachain slot auction.According to an announcement issued on Tuesday, Karura pulled support from over 15,000 entities who staked Kusama (KSM) tokens in favor of adding the decentralized finance…

With governments increasingly looking at launching their own digital currencies, you might worry that crypto just can’t compete with national financial infrastructures.Not so, says Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin. Buterin spoke with Block TV podcast on March 4 about his predictions for the future of currency — specifically the fate of decentralization.He claimed that digitalization is…