Together with Stellar, Dogecoin passes Bitcoin Cash by market cap and leaves the struggling altcoin in 12th place. The fortunes of beleaguered Bitcoin (BTC) spin-off Bitcoin Cash (BCH) took a turn for the worse on Feb. 8 as it was chased out of the top ten cryptocurrencies — by Dogecoin (DOGE). Data from Cointelegraph Markets…
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Bitcoin’s explosive gains are strongly reflected by the number of days it has closed above $16,320. The Bitcoin (BTC) price, which is currently sitting at $16,320, has only been at this level or higher for 12 days in the coin’s entire 4,332-day history, representing just 0.28% of the cryptocurrency’s life. Crypto analytics platform Messari published…
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Bitcoin is facing selling at the $14,000 mark and this has resulted in several cryptocurrencies dropping below their support levels. China’s central bank governor Yi Gang has said that the nation’s digital yuan pilot projects have processed transactions worth over $299 million without any major problems. This suggests that China is much ahead of its…
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Bitcoin looks strong and the indicators point to a possible break above $14,000 while altcoins could underperform in the short-term. Bitcoin (BTC) has rallied about 90% year-to-date and has risen close to 191% from its March lows. The rise has been gradual without much fanfare, which suggests that crypto believers are the ones who have…
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With Bitcoin Cash poised to fork again in November, the BCH community is gearing up to do battle over the Bitcoin Cash brand. Bitcoin Cash figurehead Roger Ver has dramatically announced that Bitcoin ABC and its lead developer Amaury Sechet are “forking away from #BitcoinCash on Nov 15th”. Bitcoin ABC and @deadalnix have announced that…
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Bitcoin Cash (BCH) proponent Roger Ver says that he did not pay for a Hong Kong vending machine to avoid offering Bitcoin (BTC) as a payment option. After Roger Ver posted a video of a Hong Kong vending machine accepting Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and not Bitcoin (BTC), trader and YouTuber Tone Vays claimed Ver paid…
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The Bitcoin Cash halving triggered an 80% drop in hash rate over less than two days — leaving it vulnerable to a 51% attack. The recent Bitcoin Cash (BCH) block reward halving has wreaked havoc on the cryptocurrency’s hash rate — with an apparent miner exodus plummeting hash power more than 80% over two days.…
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Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision completed its first halving, reducing its block reward to 6.25 BSV. Bitcoin Satoshi’s Vision (BSV) just finished its first halving, roughly two years after forking from Bitcoin Cash (BCH) in 2018. BSV completed its halving at approximately 01:30 UTC. This event marks the reduction of the coin’s block reward from 12.5 to…
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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently said BTC and BCH are not the same, although previous tweets show he is not against BCH outright. In a recent tweet, Ethereum network co-founder Vitalik Buterin said Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) are not the same. “Bitcoin Cash is not Bitcoin,” Buterin said in a Feb 1 tweet…
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Leading Bitcoin Cash personalities and companies are forcing the community to introduce a tax on block rewards to fund development, amid strong criticism. Leading Bitcoin Cash (BCH) personalities, including Bitmain CEO Jihan Wu and Bitcoin.com CEO Roger Ver, proposed on Jan. 22 an “infrastructure funding plan” that would see miners donate 12.5 percent of all…
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