A potential bespoke stablecoin launch would come as part of Huobi’s expansion plans for the year, presented at a members-only event in Singapore this week.
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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Most of the top 20 cryptocurrencies are seeing slight to moderate losses, with Bitcoin hovering over $3,570.
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Despite a significant uptick in the creation of decentralized crypto exchanges in 2018, their centralized counterparts continue to control the vast majority of ...
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Cryptocurrencies are seeing price weakness across the board, with the top ten coins losing between 3 and 6 percent on the day, and Bitcoin down to around $3,570...
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At the end of the week, with Brexit looming, the cryptocurrency markets could face some uncertainty.
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All the top 20 cryptocurrencies are seeing moderate to major losses, with Bitcoin approaching the $3,550 mark again.
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Ethereum core devs have reportedly postponed the activation of Constantinople hard fork until late February.
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Winklevoss Capital’s Sterling Witzke claimed that institutional investors are not ready to take the big plunge into crypto. Do the charts support this?
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A new cryptojacking malware reportedly has the ability to disable cloud-based security measures to avoid detection on Linux-based servers.
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Chinese exchange ZB.com saw an 80 percent surge in 24-hour traded volume to seal top exchange ranking on CoinMarketCap, surpassing Binance.
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Stellar’s XLM token becomes the ninth digital asset to launch with Grayscale, executives citing investor demand as motivating the move.
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Cryptocurrency company Circle has released its third audit attestation of the USD reserves backing its USDC stablecoin.
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Crypto markets are stable today, with most top ten coins seeing mild losses over the 24 hours to press time.
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Despite the market-wide price plunge last year, cryptocurrency trading volumes have actually increased in 2018 vs 2017.
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Independent security analysts at ICORating have given 16 percent of the world’s biggest crypto trading platforms an A rating, and none an A+.
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