Monero-Style Privacy Is Ready for Ethereum – Who Will Implement It?

news At least one potential U.S. presidential candidate thinks cryptocurrencies might be widely used in the future. Starbucks chairman emeritus and former CEO Howard Schultz, who announced Sunday that he was considering making a run for the highest office in the U.S., has previously said that he sees cryptocurrencies as a future part of a…

May 18, 2020 at 10:37 UTCUpdated May 18, 2020 at 11:23 UTCCredit: Shutterstock/PhawatBitcoin Battles for $10K as Gold Prints Over 7-Year HighBitcoin's attempt to scale the psychological resistance of $10,000 looks to have stalled again, even as gold soars to new highs.The top cryptocurrency by market value is currently trading around $9,630 at time of…

Feb 6, 2020 at 19:45 UTCUpdated Feb 6, 2020 at 19:49 UTCOpen Positions in Bakkt’s Bitcoin Futures Jump to Record HighsWhile bitcoin hit fresh three-month highs on Wednesday, open interest in monthly bitcoin futures on the Intercontinental Exchange's (ICE) Bakkt platform jumped to record highs. Open interest, or the number of open futures contracts, rose to…

Over a million dollars'-worth of bitcoin was hidden in a picture – and there's still some left to be found. Called the 310 BTC Bitcoin Challenge, a pseudonymous user going by the name "Pip" stashed a total of 310.61 BTC (worth $2,011,267 at press time) into four digital wallets earlier this month – with the…

news Another participant is entering the decentralized finance (DeFi) fray. The Sequoia-backed data management startup, Band Protocol, announced Monday the mainnet of its decentralized trading app. The dapp functions as a brokerage – without a centralized authority to confirm prices or collect fees – for ether-denominated binary options. Dubbed BitSwing, users can take long or…

Dec 26, 2019 at 19:53 UTCUpdated Dec 26, 2019 at 20:34 UTCYouTube erroneously purged cryptocurrency education videos from its video-sharing platform this week but claims to have reinstated them, according to a spokesperson. Content creators, however, are telling a different story.Responding to allegations that it had intentionally deleted content from cryptocurrency education channels ChrisDunnTV, Crypto…

Web3 music platform Tune.FM said Wednesday that it has secured a $50 million capital commitment from the Global Emerging Markets (GEM) Group. The news comes just eight months after Tune.FM shared it had raised $20 million in a funding round. Tune.FM, which describes itself as a decentralized music-streaming project atop the Hedera Hashgraph blockchain, aims

Apr 21, 2020 at 17:17 UTCUpdated Apr 21, 2020 at 17:30 UTCBlockchain Bites: DeFi Hacker Is Back, Oil Craters and Big Tech Won’t Sue YouThe dForce hacker has returned nearly all of the stolen funds from this weekend's $25 million exploit, China confirms its digital yuan wallet test while big tech vows not to sue…

Millions worth of tether (USDT) stablecoins appeared to be selling off on popular Uniswap and Curve pools Thursday morning, sparking early signs of concern among traders.USDT balances on Curve’s popular 3pool, a stablecoin swapping pool made up of USDT, USDC, and DAI, rose to over 72% early on Thursday – suggesting traders had exchanged tens…