There is more talk about stablecoins in the crypto universe and big-time financial institutions, govs and startups are launching their own digital assets. Could...
Altcoin News
An altcoin, or alternative coin, is pretty self-explanatory. An altcoin is every cryptocurrency alternative to Bitcoin – the first one. Altcoins may differ from Bitcoin in every possible way, such as mining mechanisms, coin-distribution methods or the ability to create decentralized applications.
Although Bitcoin is innovative and massively influential, it has some problems that developers are trying to fix with their own products. There is an altcoin that makes faster transactions, there is an altcoin that is less volatile, there is an altcoin that is more private and so on. There are more than one and a half thousand altcoins on the market at the day this text is written, according to coinmarketcap.com. Altcoins are playing a very important role by expanding boundaries of blockchain possibilities and the scope of applications.
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Of all the value locked in MakerDAO’s collateralized debt positions backing the old DAI decentralized stablecoin, 27% belongs to a single Ethereum address.
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Decentralized apps saw greater transaction volumes in 2019 but low user retention, and difficult to use apps still stall mainstream adoption push.
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by Joseph Birch
The U.K.’s tax agency is stepping up its blockchain analytics operations. If other countries follow, will it spell the end for anonymity in crypto?
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Litecoin creator Charlie Lee recently posited the concept of LTC miner pool donations to help boost funding.
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Tron’s protocol predominantly runs gambling DApps, showing a possible lack of interest in other network use cases at present.
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Leading Bitcoin Cash personalities and companies are forcing the community to introduce a tax on block rewards to fund development, amid strong criticism.
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The bulls have held the immediate support level on most major cryptocurrencies, which is a positive sign. This suggests that the sentiment is to buy the dips.
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Travala, a service that lets its users pay for hotel stays with digital currency, has expanded its crypto payment options by adding support of XEM tokens.
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The World Economic Forum has created what it claims is the first ever global consortium dedicated to designing a framework for the global governance of digital ...
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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse predicts that initial public offerings will become a more common feature of the cryptocurrency and blockchain space in 2020.
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by Helen Partz
Ripple’s quarterly sales dropped from $251.51 million in Q2 2019 to just $13.08 million in Q4 2019 due to removal of programmatic sales.
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by Tiago Vidal
Data shows Litecoin is not “digital silver” but a slight correlation between LTC and silver can provide insight into the digital asset’s future returns.
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by Helen Partz
Major global economists credit Facebook’s Libra with pushing the world to reconsider the U.S. dollar as the world’s anchor currency at WEF panel in Davos.
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At the World Economic Forum in Davos at a digital currency-centric panel, Calibra’s David Marcus focused on the issues of the unbanked as the primary use case.
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