Kraken – a popular cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2011 by Jesse Powell – has recently offered its books to auditors to show them the company has heavy reserves of BTC, ETH, and Tether on file. Kraken Has Tried to Do a Lot of Good Kraken was founded in San Francisco, CA, which appears to be the ultimate hosting grounds for many crypto businesses considering this is long where Coinbase was stationed before deciding it was going to operate on a fully remote business...
Read More »This Is the Only Chart That Matters Post-Merge, Argues Arthur Hayes
Arthur Hayes – the co-founder and former CEO of one of the most popular cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges (BitMEX) – has laid out some thoughts on Ethereum’s Merge. In a recent tweet, Hayes argued that the only thing that matters (price-wise, seemingly), for ETH after the Merge is its net issuance. To those unaware, Ethereum’s transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake introduced a dramatic shift in the cryptocurrency’s issuance model. The summarized calculations of...
Read More »Arix (ARIX) Is Now Available for Trading on LBank Exchange
INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, Sep. 15, 2022 – LBank Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, has listed Arix (ARIX) on September 15, 2022. For all users of LBank Exchange, the ARIX/USDT trading pair is now officially available for trading. As one of the most efficient DeFi aggregators, Arix (ARIX) enables users to access the most liquidity, lowest slippage and best exchange rate across Ethereum, BSC, and Polygon. Its native token ARIX has been listed on LBank Exchange...
Read More »Bitcoin Growth was Outdone By Ethereum in August
Late August saw a huge flip in the digital currency arena. Bitcoin – the world’s largest number one digital currency by market cap – fell by several thousand dollars and eventually dipped below $22,000 for the first time in about three weeks, while Ethereum – the world’s second largest cryptocurrency and the main competitor to bitcoin – ultimately rose 100 percent from its June low of under $1,000 per unit and managed to surpass bitcoin’s level of growth. Ethereum Is...
Read More »Bitcoin Norwegen: Nationalbank setzt auf Ethereum
Die norwegische Zentralbank Norges Bank hat bekannt gegeben, die Ethereum Blockchain für ihre Zentralbankwährung (CBDC) verwenden zu wollen. Dies repräsentiert einen entscheidenden Schritt in der Entwicklung digitaler Währungen in Ländern. Der Quellcode soll als Sandbox auf Github veröffentlicht werden. So stelle man eine Schnittstelle zum Testnetzwerk her. Bereits im Mai kündigte Norges Bank an, dass die Ethereum-Technologie in Zukunft eine...
Read More »Suspension of Withdrawals: Poolin Brings in IOU Tokens to Mitigate the Impact
Poolin, the embattled crypto mining pool service provider, will offer freshly-minted IOU tokens to its users whose assets are frozen after the platform suspended withdrawals last week. The distribution of IOU tokens will be made today, the 15th of September. Poolin’s IOU Tokens The IOUs will be minted under the ERC-20 protocol on Ethereum, the China-based company said in an official statement on its website. “The team has come up with the IOU-tokens scheme to minimize the...
Read More »Scams Impersonating Vitalik Buterin Mount Amid the Merge
The excitement around the Ethereum Merge is tremendous for the PoS proponents and the community of the second-largest cryptocurrency. It also presents a very lucrative opportunity for fraudsters, who tried to take advantage even before the event. Ethereum foundation had earlier warned the community to be on high alert for scams trying to take advantage of users during this transition. But that has not stopped these malicious entities from hacking the official Twitter handle...
Read More »Cardano’s Charles Hoskinson Hits Back at Jack Dorsey Over PoS Debate
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s latest tweet did not sit well with the Cardano creator, Charles Hoskinson, who squarely aimed at the Bitcoin proponent and said the Merge will kick off an “era” where all proof-of-stake (PoS) networks will be unfairly categorized as being similar to Ethereum. His tweet read, “Now begins the Era of everyone assuming that all Proof of Stake works like Ethereum’s Proof of Stake. The maxis will attack Cardano for slashing and label all the...
Read More »Ethereum Collapses Below $1500 Following The Merge
Ethereum just experienced its first hint of post-merge price action. Unfortunately for bulls, it was to the downside. After clinging to roughly $1600 over the past 24 hours, Ethereum has now slipped over 5% lower within the past two hours. Likewise, Bitcoin has lost its $20,000 level once again. Ethereum was trading for about $1587 at roughly 14:19 UST on Thursday. It rapidly descended after that, falling as low as $1456 just an hour later. At the time of writing, Ethereum...
Read More »Ethereum Proof of Work Fork Pumps and Dumps After Merge
While Ethereum’s long-anticipated Merge seems to have hardly dented its price at the time of the upgrade, one of its speculative offshoots experienced a storm of volatility. Ethereum PoW (ETHW) – an Ethereum hard fork backed by a group of Ethereum miners – soared in value during the upgrade. However, it tanked to all-time lows just hours later. The ETHW Rollercoaster According to live price data from CoinGecko, ETHW rallied from roughly $30 at 21:30 UST on Wednesday to...
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