Blockchain

The Bitcoin community celebrated as the layer 2 payment system reached a total of over 3,400 BTC locked. That is an equivalent of around $141 million. Bringing near-zero fee BTC payments, Lightning’s adoption rose dramatically over the last year. During the same period, bitcoin became significantly more utilized as a network and an investment asset by investors and large companies as the crypto bull run went on. However, growth has been slowing since November’s crypto crash....

Popular blockchain protocol Polkadot recently announced the allocation of over $20 million in DOT to stimulate the development of its ecosystem and the highly anticipated Web3. Polkadot Allocates $21M For Ecosystem Development In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, Polkadot noted that the bounty proposal, dubbed the Polkadot Pioneers Prize, is a series of challenges that have been carefully created to push technical innovation on its network. The first two challenges...

In what is arguably one of the biggest 360s the world of crypto has ever seen, India has announced that it will not be banning crypto. Rather, it will tax crypto-based income, work to regulate the space, and is even planning to launch a virtual version of the country’s currency called the digital rupee. India Is Set to Regulate Crypto This is one of the biggest changes a country has ever exhibited when it comes to crypto. There was a long period when India had a very...

Benedetto Vigna – Chief Executive Officer of Ferrari – opined that the blockchain and NFT industry are niches that “deserve some attention.” As such, the exec hinted that the luxury sports car manufacturer might continue with its cryptocurrency endeavors in the future. ‘Blockchain and NFT Can Be Interesting for Us’ While outlining the Q4 2021 results during the recent earnings call, Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna asserted that the firm will focus on the Web3 universe in the...

Is Linus Torvalds the man who invented bitcoin? Torvalds Has Become the Object of the Satoshi Obsession For the past several years, many crypto traders have sought to find out the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the man behind bitcoin (the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency by market cap). For some, the mystery is something that needs to be figured out soon. It’s become an obsession, but the questions behind Nakamoto’s identity usually leads to a dead end, and...

Bitcoin is a limited currency. It is finite and all set to run out someday. While the asset will likely always remain in circulation to some degree, there are only 21 million units of BTC, and about 90 percent of that has already been mined and added to the blockchain. Nayib Bukele – the president of El Salvador – sees this as a good thing. Nayib Bukele Things Bitcoin Is Going to Shoot Up in Price While bitcoin may be limited and thus very concentrated in the future,...

Capitrade launchpad is the first cross chain IDO launchpad on Terra Network which in full operations will assist early blockchain project to raise funds in a decentralized manner. Capitrade Lauchpad released brought a high demand in CDE token seed sale making it the right to interested investors to buy CDE Tokens before it sells out. To purchase CDE tokens, click on the link to make your purchase https://capitrade.cc/sale/ Further Development of Capitrade Launchpad It...

The number of unique wallets on the Cardano blockchain holding ADA has hit a new all-time high, surpassing the previous record from December 2021. ADA Wallets Hits 3 Million In a tweet today, the Proof-of-Stake blockchain announced that it had hit 3 million ADA wallets less than two months after it recorded a total number of 2.5 million addresses. 🎉3 MILLION #ada WALLETS!🚀#Cardano #CardanoCommunity pic.twitter.com/5iEjq89X8b — Cardano Community (@Cardano) February 3, 2022...

[PRESS RELEASE – Perth, Australia, 3rd February 2022] Ninja Syndicate has partnered with Mati Greenspan as an advisor on their upcoming Web3 project Supremacy, a series of metaverse Play-to-Earn games. Greenspan, Founder and CEO of Quantum Economics, is one of the top cryptocurrency analysts in the world. The partnership signals confidence that the Australian-based game studio is set to make big waves in the metaverse. Cointelegraph named Greenspan one of the Top 100 Notable...

Trust Machines, a new venture co-founded by Stacks inventor Muneeb Ali and Princeton University Computer Science professor, JP Singh, has recently raised $150 million to expand the Bitcoin ecosystem as a Web3 platform. Bitcoin to Become a Web 3 Platform In a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the company noted that its goal is to create the largest ecosystem of BTC-based applications that “unlock Bitcoin’s potential as a final settlement layer for computing platforms and...