Category: Altcoin News
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Dead Coin Walking: BitConnect Set to Be Delisted from Last Crypto Exchange
BitConnect’s BCC token is set to be delisted from the last cryptocurrency exchange that still traded it, meaning it’s about to become a dead coin over a lack of liquidity. Surprisingly, the token still has a market cap of over $6.6 million. TradeSatoshi, a little-known cryptocurrency exchange with a daily trading volume of about $1.16…
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Interview: Blockchain Startup Havven Brings EOS its First Stablecoin
Havven, a decentralized payment network and stablecoin, has decided to launch on the EOS blockchain and will airdrop half of its new HAV tokens on the EOS blockchain to existing HAV holders on Ethereum. Havven wants to ensure that the payment network’s success does not depend on one blockchain. The Havven/EOSIO partnership was announced at the…
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Bitcoin Cash ‘Chain-Splitting’ Bug was Detected by Bitcoin Core Dev.
It has emerged that the “unknown person” who notified Bitcoin ABC developers of a vulnerability in Bitcoin Cash which would have resulted in the unintended split of the altcoin’s network is actually a Bitcoin Core (bitcoin’s primary software implementation) developer. In a Medium blog post, Corey Fields revealed that he was responsible for anonymously and…
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Interview: Dash CEO Ryan Taylor on Why Cryptocurrency Doesn’t Need Wall Street to Grow
Dash CEO and former Wall Street executive Ryan Taylor spoke out about the recent Wall Street activity seen in the cryptocurrency space recently, with ICE establishing a bitcoin market and financialization coming in from other avenues of the traditional finance world. Dash CEO Explains Why He Left Wall Street to Go All in on Crypto…
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Web Browser Brave to Add Cryptocurrency-Based Twitter and Reddit Tipping
Those thousands of hours you spent crafting witty memes while you should have been doing your algebra homework may finally earn you more than retweets and Reddit karma. CNET reports that Brave, the privacy-centric web browser launched by Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich and funded by an initial coin offering (ICO), plans to roll out Reddit…
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Yale Economists Share Strategies to Strongly Forecast Bitcoin Returns
At the time when the cryptocurrency industry has recorded a loss of more than $30 billion, two Yale economists believe traders can strongly forecast the volatile market using “potential predictors for cryptocurrency returns.” Aleh Tsyvinski and Yukun Liu published a new study, titled “Risks and Returns of Cryptocurrency,” after researching factors that could accurately predict the…
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Bad Timing: ‘Thousand-Year Cryptocurrency’ Metronome Blames Bear Market After Pedestrian ICO
Bad timing and a less than spectacular user experience — that’s what cryptocurrency startup Bloq says is to blame for the pedestrian $12 million raised through the metronome (MTN) initial supply auction (ISA), referred to by nearly everyone but the company as an initial coin offering (ICO). Bloq made this assessment in a lengthy post-mortem…
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IOTA Price Technical Analysis: No Room for Recovery
The IOTA token value on Wednesday tumbled by over 20% against the US Dollar. The IOT/USD pair in July had established a monthly high at 1.254-fiat. But owing to the cryptocurrency market’s poor health, the pair failed to sustain its peak and fell towards 0.881-fiat. The level proved to be a decent support and influenced IOT/USD…
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Coinbase Begins Taking Ethereum Classic Deposits, Raises Buy Limit to $25,000
It’s been a tough week for most cryptocurrency investors, as the groundbreaking news that the world’s largest stock exchange operator is launching a bitcoin market failed to translate into bullish price movement. For ethereum classic supporters, however, the week could not have gone much better. Coinbase Pro Begins Taking Ethereum Classic Deposits Over the past…
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Chinese Investor Sues OKCoin over Bitcoin Cash from Last Year’s Hard Fork
A Chinese investor has filed a lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin regarding more than 38 bitcoin cash that he claims the platform failed to distribute to him following last year’s hard fork, according to a charge sheet on LegalWeekly. The plaintiff, known only by the pseudonym Feng Bin, claims he was expecting to get the…