Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Crypto adoption news Major venture capital fund Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has predicted a fourth crypto bull cycle, driven by high-quality projects. According to a blog post, the firm analyzed 10 years…
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Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today. Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know here. _________________________________________ Atomars Listings: Aeternity (AE) Bilaxy Listings: Celo Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy Bitcoin…
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Source: iStock/da-kuk Crypto market sentiment went for a dive in the first week after the Bitcoin (BTC) halving event on May 11. Crypto market sentiment analysis service Omenics shows that the combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure, sentscore, for the top 10 coins dropped from last week’s 5.67 to 5.08/10 this week. While the…
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The South Korean central bank has sped up its digital currency issuance progress, per a new report, with officials to begin a tech review several months ahead of schedule. According to Chosun, the central Bank of Korea (BOK) says it has conducted a study of the technological advances required in order to roll out a…
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Pavel Durov. Source: A screenshot, Instagram/durov. An investor in Telegram’s aborted Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain platform says he believes the project’s mastermind is not yet ready to walk away from his failed initial coin offering (ICO) – and backed Telegram to return to the crypto fray with renewed vigor. In a column for Forbes…
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South Korean crypto exchanges have said their final farewell to monero (XMR) after Bithumb, the last major trading platform still trading in the token, officially delisted it yesterday. The so-called privacy token has endured a torrid past few weeks in South Korea, after media outlets unearthed evidence that the admins of a notorious sexual exploitation…
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Major cryptoasset exchange Coinbase claims that although most of its users initially favor bitcoin (BTC), the vast majority also go on to trade altcoins and other digital assets. In a blog post, the platform claimed, “Among customers with at least five purchases, 60% start with bitcoin but just 24% stick exclusively to BTC.” It means…
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While it might take weeks until we have a clear picture of the Bitcoin network after its third halving, it looks like some of its miners have already turned to Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Bitcoin SV (BSV). BCH saw its hashrate almost doubling on the day of BTC’s halving, on May 11. As reported, after…
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A recent mistake by Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum (ETH), confirmed that Phase 0 of Ethereum’s next version, Ethereum 2.0 (ETH 2.0) will not launch this July, but it might happen in Q3. Buterin appeared at the CoinDesk’s Consensus: Distributed conference this Monday, where he replied to the question if Phase 0 is coming this…
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Strong and unexplained worldwide growth in the use of stablecoins following crypto’s Black Thursday on March 12 is also marked with certain regional differences. The combined market capitalization of all stablecoins has “almost doubled” since the market crash in March, despite an initially sharp reduction in market capitalization for other cryptoassets. “As of May Read…
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