XRP Token Surges on Positive Outlook in Ongoing Ripple vs SEC Case

opinion Hunter Hillman is the head of growth at Connext. Steven McKie is a co-founder of Amentum Capital. Eric Olszewski is an ethereum developer. Over the past few months, we have noticed a significant number of articles proclaiming the imminent failure and collapse of the ethereum platform due to its inability to scale and its…

Gerald Cotten, founder and former CEO of QuadrigaCX. (Original image by Trevor Jones)QuadrigaCX Users’ Law Firm Launches Blockchain Analytics InvestigationCanadian law firm Miller Thomson has hired consultancy firm Kroll to perform blockchain analytics work in relation to the ongoing dissolution of QuadrigaCX, the exchange which failed last year after its CEO Gerald Cotten was reported…

news Proxima Media, a firm founded by film producer Ryan Kavanaugh, has raised $100 million for a token that allows investment in media content. The new token, called Proxicoin, received the notable backing from VC firms Step Ventures and the Central Wealth Investment Fund of Hong Kong, Proxima announced Thursday. Proxicoin is built on the ethereum…

Dec 23, 2019 at 12:00 UTCUpdated Dec 23, 2019 at 12:18 UTCWhen Reality Shares ETF Trust, a branch of Blockforce Capital, pulled its filing of a proposed exchange-traded fund made up of 15 percent bitcoin and 85 percent global currencies, many observers assumed the company made a mistake. It turns out the U.S. Securities and…

Prices fell by 6% in the seven days to Jan. 17, a weekly fall not seen since the first week of September. Bitcoin prices for the last week(CoinDesk 20)Jan 18, 2021 at 11:14 a.m. UTCUpdated Jan 18, 2021 at 11:17 a.m. UTCBitcoin Struggles to Recover After Biggest Weekly Price Loss Since SeptemberBitcoin is up only…

Jun 18, 2020 at 12:15 UTCUpdated Jun 18, 2020 at 12:18 UTCDefying gravity (lucas_moore/Shutterstock)First Mover: As US Stocks Defy Economic Gravity, Bitcoiners Shudder at March MemoryCrypto traders are homing in on a pattern that’s becoming weirdly familiar: Stocks fall, bitcoin falls; the Federal Reserve makes a new stimulus announcement, stocks rise, bitcoin rises.  No one…

Thursday's CPI report showed further signs of cooling prices although inflation is far from the Fed's 2% goal. However, the Fed might be more focused on the labor market, which could become a threat if it slows down significantly more. Odds for a rate cut in September have increased to nearly 95%. Markets, including crypto

news EOS has been clogged up by a giant airdrop for a token called EIDOS – and it’s not clear the token is even good for anything. In fact, it seems as though the people behind the token are trying to make a point. The token seizing up the network is called EIDOS. Its promoted…

news Two Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) have been approved for inclusion in ethereum’s next major upgrade, Istanbul. These are the first two code changes to be officially approved for the Istanbul upgrade, which is tentatively targeted to activate on ethereum mainnet in October. In today’s bi-weekly call, developers discussed which of the nearly 30 EIPs…