With major exchanges suffering outages and hacks, and some abruptly suspending withdrawals, are wallet platforms a more compelling alternative? One of the biggest trends in recent months has seen Bitcoin flow out of exchanges into wallets. Generally, this is interpreted as a bullish sign — indicating that investors are optimistic about further growth in cryptocurrency…
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Switzerland’s Crypto Valley is continuing to grow despite the Covid-19 pandemic, with its top 50 companies increasing in value by more than $200 billion in less than one year. A report compiled by a Swiss venture capital company has revealed that the value of the largest fifty firms operating in the country’s famed Crypto Valley…
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What’s an exchange’s next move after falling victim to a security breach? This is a step-by-step guide to following a crypto thief’s tracks through analytics software. It’s every exchange’s worst nightmare: Falling victim to a security breach. An incident can disrupt a trading platform’s operations for weeks, affect customer confidence and damage a carefully cultivated…
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While Telegram’s token project is dead, the blockchain still lives. TON Labs and China’s Blockchain-based Service Network are collaborating to build applications on the Telegram-built TON protocol. According to an announcement issued on Monday, the partnership grants BSN developers access to TON technology. As with other instances of adapting public networks to the BSN China…
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A return to proof of work mining, a blockchain built to be fork resistant, and the chance to develop in multiple programming languages. Lessons from history — and an eye to the future. Cointelegraph is following the development of an entirely new blockchain from inception to mainnet and beyond through its series, Inside the Blockchain…
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Criminals often presume that blockchain transactions are anonymous, but it is possible to untangle and uncover fund flows using analytics tools. How does anti-money laundering compliance software work for crypto businesses? Given how many transactions are made on blockchains every day at high speed, automation is key. Manual monitoring is impractical because of these dizzying…
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The Indian crypto industry sees a brief panic over the government’s plans to ban “private cryptocurrencies” and explore the need for a CBDC. The Indian Crypto community has been involved in discussions with the government about how it should perceive cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology before finding ways to regulate the industry ever since the government…
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Germany recognizes the importance of blockchain, but how did it act in 2020, and what effect will this have on its blockchain ecosystem? Germany has a very diverse, active blockchain ecosystem of companies and enthusiasts, especially in the city of Berlin. And an important step in the development of this ecosystem has been taken by…
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Amazon and eBay don’t appear to be in a hurry to start accepting crypto. Does the digital assets sector need to create a platform of its own? When Satoshi Nakamoto released the whitepaper for Bitcoin, his vision was simple: Creating a form of electronic cash that enables payments to be sent without a bank’s involvement. Few…
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A summary of the events that marked 2020 in the Spanish crypto space and opinions from different people of the industry who lived it from the inside. The year 2020 will go down in history for how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the Spanish economy. Beyond that, however, there have been important events from a governmental…
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