After a stellar start of the year, bitcoin and altcoins have let off the gas pedal and undergone a correction which began in the middle of February. As a result, the last month of winter was a bit of a mixed bag for all coins. Bitcoin once again fell below USD 9,000 mark and dragged…
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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. Blockchain news Ripple, an American blockchain company focusing on payments technologies, is working on new features that will expand the XRP Ledger’s functionality and allow third-party users to add new Read…
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Source: iStock/Ja’Crispy Litecoin (LTC), the cryptocurrency created by Charlie Lee to be the “silver to Bitcoin’s gold” back in 2011, may be about to see more real-world use as more than 13,000 ATMs in South Korea enable LTC withdrawals directly to Korean won (KRW). The Litecoin Foundation said it has teamed up with the South…
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With the broader crypto market still in consolidation mode after a sell-off that has rattled the market over the past two weeks, the decentralized oracle service Chainlink (LINK) is already rebounding from the slump. As of press time on Friday (11:17 UTC), LINK is trading at USD 3.0, up 4% over the past 24 hours.…
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The IOTA (MIOTA) mainnet has been on pause for two weeks now, yet MIOTA is still trading. The question asks itself at this point really: how? Following the discovery that the Trinity Desktop wallets have been compromised, starting with January 25, the Coordinator, a node run by the IOTA Foundation for network protection and transaction…
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U.S. District Judge wasn’t persuaded by the argument that the continuance of the case against Ripple, an American blockchain company focusing on payments technologies, would mean turning the broader USD 500 billion XRP market on its head, and the case continues. As reported in January, Ripple claimed that the continuation of the case against the…
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Yesterday, we discussed the chances of more losses in bitcoin below the USD 9,200 and USD 9,000 support levels. BTC/USD did decline heavily and broke many supports near USD 9,000 and USD 8,850 level. It tested the USD 8,550 support area and it is currently (09:00 UTC) correcting higher. Similarly, there were significant losses in…
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Tezos (XTZ), the 10th most valuable cryptoasset by market capitalization, is once again outperforming the broader crypto market today, with double-digit gains even as other assets like bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH) both saw losses of around 4% over the past 24 hours. As of press time on Thursday (10:43 UTC), XTZ was up about…
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Have EOS block producers turned autocrats? Or is EOS the most decentralized blockchain platform out there, an example of representative democracy? From one extreme to the other, this is the debate we find led online today, following what the EOS Israel community dubbed "EOS fifthing." A proposal on EOS was made, approved, and executed on…
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While both bitcoin and the broader crypto market is seeing a fresh wave of selling today, one little-known Canadian altcoin stood out from the rest of the market with double-digit returns over the past 24 hours. As of press time on Wednesday (12:54 PM UTC), AION – the native asset of the blockchain platform known…
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