Category: Altcoins
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Dogecoin (DOGE) surges over 100% as Bitcoin bull run takes BTC to $33,000
Bitcoin has exploded higher over the past 24 hours yet again, moving higher rapidly after passing the $30,000 price resistance level. As of this article’s writing, BTC trades for $32,000, though moved as high as $33,500 just hours ago. Bitcoin also traded as low as $30,000 two hours ago as a result of a rapid…
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Number of Addresses Holding ETH Reaches a New All-Time High at the End of 2020
A new milestone has been reached in the crypto sphere, as the number of addresses holding Ethereum hit an all-time high of over 51.4 million before the end of a turbulent 2020 year. Number of Addresses Holding ETH Hits a New All-Time High Per figures of data site Glassnode, there are now 51,491,730 addresses holding…
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Darknet Giant White House Market Drops Bitcoin, Supports Monero Payments Only
The prominent darknet marketplace, White House Market, has dropped bitcoin payments and now accepts monero only. The darknet marketplace administrators detailed that there was an issue with a payment processor blocking Tor exit nodes, but the full transition to monero was always planned. A number of crypto proponents have reported on the darknet marketplace, White…
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The world of Polkadot (DOT): A 2020 year in review
According to Gavin Wood, the founder and lead developer at Polkadot, The ambitious blockchain project has had a hugely successful year and will continue to be the most decentralized network on the market. Wood published a roundup of the company’s achievements in 2020 and shared the company’s plans for next year. Grant programs and treasuries…
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Uniswap (UNI) and Yearn.finance (YFI) shoot over 10% higher despite Bitcoin rally
Uniswap’s and Yearn.finance’s native coins, UNI and YFI, are finally moving higher after an extended slump. The two leading decentralized finance-focused coins are both up by over 10 percent in the past 24 hours as there has been positive technical and fundamental news for both. UNI and YFI are among the best-performing crypto assets of…
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Bitcoin-focused DeFi project with almost $500m in TVL to launch rebase token
Aside from algorithmic stablecoins, BadgerDAO has been one of the most widely talked about Ethereum DeFi projects over the past few weeks. This is largely due to the airdrop of free BADGER coins to tens of thousands of DeFi users. Even funds such as Three Arrows Capital and Alameda got involved, claiming their airdrop and…
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Bitfinex CTO: Tether Is Registered and Regulated Under FinCEN- USDT Not Next Target of the US SEC
The CTO at Bitfinex Paolo Ardoino has pushed back against rumours that the company’s Tether stablecoin may be the next target of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Bitfinex executive insists that the Tether stablecoin, whose market capitalization has now surpassed $20 billion, is a properly registered and regulated crypto. The Alleged Misinformation…
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Ripple Assails the SEC, Claims the $1.3 billion Lawsuit is an ‘Attack on the Entire Crypto Industry Here in the United States’
Ripple has hit back at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), accusing it of creating more uncertainty and failing in its duty to protect the crypto community. In panning the SEC’s decision to designate its XRP token as a security, the company claims the regulator’s lawsuit against it amounts to an attack on the…
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Nomura and Ripple Partner SBI Holdings Support XRP, Reject Token’s Categorization as Security
As XRP continues to plummet in value due to Ripple’s turmoil with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the token seems to find some support in Japan, as crypto exchanges in the nation have refused to delist it. Nomura and Key Ripple Partner Keep Supporting XRP, Reject US SEC Claims Per a report published…
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Governance in 2021: What the future holds for Cardano (ADA)
In a recent YouTube video, Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK, looked back at 2020 and how it helped shape Cardano into a future-proof, third-generation blockchain. With 2021 right around the corner, Hoskinson also laid out what next year will have in store for the blockchain, with governance being the central point of the project’s…