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An illuminating conversation unfolded on X this week about XRP Ledger’s smart contract features. A Ripple expert corrected some misconceptions that Ripple is not as feature-rich as its competitors. Are Ripple Use Cases Limited? If you ask Google Bard or any AI chatbot why XRP price hasn’t shown the kind of gains Bitcoin (BTC) and Solana (SOL) have this year, it might tell you it’s because Ripple doesn’t have as many use cases: “While XRP is initially designed for fast and...

Foreclosing on a vacant home in Baltimore can take two to three years, according to a report in the Baltimore Sun. It’s a legally arduous process in Maryland. Foreclosure requires city officials to wait on title searches to verify the entire ownership history of the house. As a result of the multiple title searches required for each step in the process of acquiring, fixing up, and selling a home, you’d be lucky to get everything done in four or five months. Meanwhile, the...

The widely anticipated approval of over a dozen spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States could be a sell-the-news event that would cause the price of BTC to move in the opposite direction. According to the latest weekly report from market analytics platform CryptoQuant, the prediction is substantiated by market participants sitting on high unrealized profits from BTC’s recent ascent. A Sell-the-news Event Applicants for the spot Bitcoin ETFs have been in...

Apple, which announced its Vision Pro headset in June, saw its share price grow by 55% in 2023. Meanwhile, Amazon stock gained 79% as its AWS division pushed for AI-focused products. But these leading “Magnificent Seven” tech stocks did not make it into the top ten by yearly returns for 2023. The tech industry stocks that did were all Bitcoin mining stocks. Moreover, Wall Street’s top ten performers this year included not one, not two or three, but four Bitcoin mining...

2023 is at its end and can be easily categorized as a positive year for the cryptocurrency sector, especially its end. Many digital assets recorded triple- and even quadruple-digit gains, which leads to the question of what could happen in the next 12 months. According to a popular AI chatbot – Perplexity – several altcoins, alongside Bitcoin, stand out as the ones to watch in 2024. Will 2024 Be the Year of Bitcoin? As reported earlier, the primary cryptocurrency outperformed...

As altcoins surge in various directions, it’s noteworthy that the market has not undergone a 25% drawdown in the past 12 months for 234 consecutive days, marking the lengthiest streak since 2011. Even as altcoins continued to fly across the board, Bitcoin has emerged as a winner and one of the top-performing crypto assets so far. Data also suggest that Bitcoin currently holds the top position among blockchain networks in terms of transaction fees over the past seven days....

On Dec. 25, BitMEX Research published a complete list of cryptocurrency-related exchange-traded products (ETPs) It reported that there were 150 crypto-related ETPs across the world with $50.3 billion in assets under management. The firm noted that it could be useful in “determining the extent to which the spot Bitcoin ETF cannibalizes existing ETPs or attracts new capital into the cryptocurrency space.” Cannibalizing Crypto ETPs  Funds could simply flow from these existing...

A blockchain developer, Murat Çeliktepe, has shared a distressing incident recounting a holiday experience that resulted in the loss of $500 from his MetaMask Wallet to an individual posing as a ‘recruiter.’ Notably, Çeliktepe was initially contacted on LinkedIn under the pretense of a genuine web development job opportunity. Developer Falls Prey to Coding Job Scam During the purported job interview, the recruiter instructed Çeliktepe to download and debug the code from two...

The amendments for spot Bitcoin ETF applications continue, with BlackRock naming Jane Street Capital and JPMorgan Securities as the authorized participants for its own exchange-traded fund, should it receive the green light from the US SEC. What’s particularly interesting is the involvement of JPM, whose CEO just recently urged the US government to close down Bitcoin. JPM, Jane Street Named as APs Global financial behemoths, such as BlackRock, Fidelity, VanEck, and Valkyrie,...

Catalyx, a crypto trading platform based in Canada, suffered a security breach that resulted in the loss of customer funds in its custody. While the exact value of the loss is not mentioned, the platform has halted crypto and fiat withdrawals amid ongoing investigations. Catalyx Suspends Trading and Withdrawals CatalX CTS, the operator of Catalyx, announced the incident in a press release, stating that the breach likely involved an employee. The company investigating the...