Source: iStock/Ja’Crispy While there is no clear reason why did litecoin (LTC) rally in the past 24 hours, it is now the best performing coin among the top 10 coins by market capitalization. After lagging behind bitcoin (BTC), LTC has now increased by almost 6% in a day (BTC is up 5%). The coin trades…
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Decentralized management platform Aragon One has begun onboarding jurors for its Aragon Court, set to launch in mid-February. Decentralized management platform Aragon One has begun onboarding jurors for its decentralized Aragon Court set to be launched in mid-February. Per Aragon’s official website, the company developed a community governed decentralized organization, with the objective of operating…
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Facebook’s Calibra is in search for two marketing specialists as the company continues the development of its Libra stablecoin project. Facebook’s Calibra is on the hunt for two marketing specialists as the company continues development of its Libra stablecoin project. The company is looking for a head of media, digital marketing and community and a…
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Triptych is a new ring signatures construction that could increase Monero’s anonymity set more than tenfold, though live implementations are still far off. The Monero Research Lab (MRL) has released Triptych in a Jan. 6 paper proposing trustless logarithmic-size ring signatures. As Monero’s core anonymity mechanism, research aimed at decreasing their size could improve the…
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Barely a day goes by without news coming out of South Korea’s cryptocurrency exchanges. The country has a wide array of trading platforms, mostly based in the affluent Gangnam region of Seoul, housed in plush, shiny new office buildings. But in this hyper-competitive, super-trendy trade, who pays the biggest salaries? Who hires the most staff?…
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The rules and regulations surrounding cryptocurrency are complex, but accurate reporting is crucial to avoiding penalties. The Internal Revenue Service is aware that millions of cryptocurrency transactions may still remain unreported. Taxpayers may think they will not be caught, and many Coinbase users may have thought their information would be protected until the John Doe…
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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 Alibaba subsidiary and AliPay operator Ant Financial has announced that its enterprise blockchain platform will move out of beta testing and go live in February. Per a report published…
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We asked experts about what to expect and what topics to follow in 2020. Alexander Zaidelson, CEO of Beam The biggest themes for 2020 will be privacy, the rise of confidential stablecoins — especially algorithmic ones — DeFi and wider adoption. Whale Alert We are still in the early adoption phase of crypto. When talking…
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The Singapore-based COSS cryptocurrency exchange has announced that it will deny its 200,000 customers from accessing to around USD 2 million worth of funds for the following three to four weeks while its site undergoes maintenance. On Tuesday, COSS told users there was no call for “panic,” but admits it had been planning its move…
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Data from various sites show that between 500 and a thousand coins have perished in 2019, and this number could in fact be higher. However, these sites disagree on whether 2019 saw fewer or more coin deaths than the year before. It’s not really possible to say how many dead coins are out there exactly,…
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