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The mention of Dogecoin still got a few cheers from the socially distanced audience. 633 Total views 11 Total shares Bill Maher did not hold back criticizing cryptocurrencies from Bitcoin to Dogecoin, implying the whole space was fake and yet still required an incredible amount of real energy.Speaking in the New Rules segment on his…

Bitcoin (BTC) is struggling to sustain above $50,500 but that has not stopped the altcoins from following in Ether's (ETH) footsteps after the top-ranked altcoin hit $4,000 on Sept. 3. This has pushed Ether’s market dominance above 20% while Bitcoin’s dominance has shrunk to 41.1%.However, Bitcoin’s hesitation in the past few days has not altered…

Tether’s (USDT) has just surpassed XRP in market capitalization, becoming the third biggest cryptocurrency in the moments leading into the Bitcoin halving.Sitting with a market cap of $8.79 Billion it is now bigger than XRP, whose market cap is roughly $8.6 billion. USDT is currently second only to Ether (ETH) as the largest altcoin in…

Crypto exchange Algodex and wallet provider MyAlgo have both suffered security breaches in the last few weeks. 278 Total views 2 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTAlgorand-based wallet provider MyAlgo has again urged users to withdraw their funds after a February security breach which doesn’t appear to have…

An eventful week for Bitcoin this week. It ended down nearly 5 percent but at one point, things were looking much worse. A collapse to $8,900 sparked talk of a three-month correction—which could be exacerbated by the expiration of more than 100,000 Bitcoin options next Friday. So far at least, the correction appears to have largely…

Some new upgrades to keep in mind. 2103 Total views 22 Total shares The Binance Chain mainnet, a blockchain software system developed by Binance and its community, is scheduled to do a hard fork upgrade around August 28 at 6:00 AM UTC. According to the company’s post on August 23, the full node runners on the…

Major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase recently unveiled a new feature on its platform designed to save users money on transactions fees.According to a blog post released by the exchange on March 13, Coinbase would immediately begin offering Bitcoin (BTC) transaction batching for its customers.The move taken by Coinbase, which “requires no action from customers”, will allow…

The nonfungible token (NFT) market is growing. According to a new report by analytics platform DappRadar, NFT trade volume soared past $10 billion during the third quarter of 2021, a sevenfold increase from the previous quarter’s figure. Although a significant slice of that action comes from runaway hits like NBA Top Shot, CryptoPunks and gaming…

Bitcoin appears in no mood to celebrate despite Japanese stocks fully recovering from a historic drop.