Source: Adobe/Song_about_summer The fifth-largest crypto network by market capitalization, Bitcoin Cash (BCH), is halving its mining rewards tomorrow for the first time while the network is seeing a drop in hashrate ahead of the event. The halving will likely lead some BCH miners to switch over to Bitcoin (BTC), but this may be a temporary…
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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. Exchanges news Poloniex has announced the creation of a new token-launching platform, dubbed LaunchBase. According to the announcement, it will collaborate with projects, community members and Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy…
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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. _________________________________________ Binance Listings: Binance KRW (BKRW) Removed trading pairs: Read more »Pay, Trade, Buy…
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The market sentiment is on the rise. While the week starting with March 16, which followed the market plunge, saw a six-month low of 4.21, we’re now seeing the market sentiment go up for the third week. The combined moving average 7-day market sentiment measure, sentscore, for the top 10 coins, is now 4.95, compared…
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The “central bank of central banks” and multiple analysts think that the fear of the coronavirus transmission via cash and banking cards may shorten the road to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). People are afraid of using cash, says the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in their recent bulletin. The scientific findings conclude that the…
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Source: Adobe/Photo-maxx The South Korean central bank, the Bank of Korea (BOK) is “one step closer” to launching a pilot for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) and could start piloting a token as early as December this year – in line with central banks in other regions, which are also thought to be on…
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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. Ripple & XRP news Nik Bougalis, a Ripple engineer responsible for XRP’s server software, said in a GitHub submission that a group of Ripple developers including himself had designed a new…
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The Maker Foundation will start transferring the governance power and risk management capacity to the community in the next few years. As the first step, it will release an initial draft of the new governance paradigm for the community to vote on. Following the delivery of multi-collateral Dai (MCD), the next step and the ultimate…
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Tokyo prosecutors have formally charged two men with handling stolen cryptoassets as part of the investigation into the January 2018 hack on crypto exchange Coincheck – still the biggest crypto heist in human history. Per media outlet Nikkei, the two men, an Osaka-based 39-year-old and a doctor, aged 30, from Obihiro, Hokkaido, under the terms…
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South Korean decentralized finance (DeFi) players have called for calm after some experts claimed that forthcoming legislation could effectively hamstring the nation’s fledgling DeFi market. Many industry insiders have expressed alarm over a recent amendment made to a digital finance act pertaining to peer-to-peer (P2P) financing, due to come into force in August this year.…
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