Zcash Sets Stage for ‘Sapling’ Upgrade With New Software Release

If there was a bitcoin marketing team, the last month would be as good as it gets for them.Confidence in banks in the U.S. and Europe has been decimated and people are scrambling for an alternative to protect their dollars. Enter bitcoin (BTC), an asset that was created for entirely this purpose – a truly…

Wallet data tracked by Kaiko show slower growth in the on-chain bitcoin whales or millionaires.The slower growth rate indicates several things, including profit-taking by investors.The ongoing bitcoin (BTC) bull run is characterized by Wall Street’s embrace of the long-awaited spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Still, the rally is producing “millionaires," however, at a slower rate than

Aug 14, 2020 at 12:33 UTC(ggTravelDiary/Shutterstock)CME Rises in Bitcoin Futures Rankings as Institutional Interest GrowsThe Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has leapt up the listings to become the third-largest bitcoin futures exchange by number of open contracts. As of Thursday, open interest (or open positions) on the CME stood at $800 million – up nearly 120%…

Money is flowing into the crypto market through stablecoins or the U.S. dollar-pegged tokens for the first time in over a year, according to data tracked by blockchain analytics firm Glassnode.The 90 day net change in the supply of the top four stablecoins – tether (USDT), USD Coin (USDC), Binance USD (BUSD) and Dai (DAI)

news Social media behemoth Facebook is advertising for five more blockchain-related positions – adding to the 20 positions already posted by the company in the last month or so. The new blockchain-related positions, all of which are based at the company’s Menlo Park HQ in California, include: production manager, business operations manager, data scientist, software engineer and growth product…

Aug 16, 2020 at 21:01 UTCUpdated Aug 16, 2020 at 21:31 UTCCrypto Long & Short: The Surprisingly Sunny Outlook for Crypto Hedge FundsEvery epic tale needs a tragic hero, and one of the top candidates for that role in this century’s dramatic passage so far has to be the hedge fund manager. Toppled from their…

news Bitfinex has removed its $10,000 minimum equity requirement to start trading on the cryptocurrency exchange, enabling a broader range of investors to participate. The company, based in the British Virgin Islands, cited “overwhelming demand from a wide variety of traders” for the change. “We simply could not ignore the increasing level of requests for access…

Multichain , one of the largest bridging protocols in the crypto world, said it is ceasing operations following the detention of CEO Zhaojun and his sister by Chinese police.Multichain said it has been forced to take this action "due to lack of alternative sources of information and corresponding operational funds," in a thread on its…

Tweet volume for the shiba inu-themed cryptocurrency surpassed previous records for bitcoin, according to TheTIE.(CoinDesk archives)Jan 29, 2021 at 10:40 a.m. UTCDogecoin Becomes Most Mentioned Crypto on Twitter Ever as Price SoarsTwitter mentions of the dogecoin cryptocurrency rocketed to record levels after prices hit all-time highs Thursday.According to digital asset data firm TheTIE, the massive…