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Despite receiving nearly 500,000 answers telling her not to “go long on Bitcoin,” the actress portraying Arya Stark in the legendary Game of Thrones TV series, Maisie Williams, has gone against their advice and actually purchased bitcoins. Williams Defies The Critics And Buys Bitcoin As reported yesterday, the 23-year old actress took it to Twitter to ask her nearly 3 million followers whether or not she should “go long on Bitcoin.” The community didn’t disappoint, and over...

SpaceX’s Crew-1 spaceship flew 4 astronauts to space yesterday. But it seems the shuttle also dragged the bitcoin and cryptocurrency market along with it. As in what happens to be a revisit of 2017, BTC smashed past the $18,000 price mark pushing the total digital asset market cap north of $500 billion. The excitement was short-lived, however, as the cryptocurrency took a u-turn and decreased by more than $1,000 moments after touching its intraday high. Bitcoin Price Blasts...

The maiden halving event will cut the Zcash inflation rate from 25% to 12.5%, which is significant because the privacy-focused altcoin has been hampered by high inflation since its inception in 2016. A series of halvings every four years beginning with today’s one in around six hours’ time which will decrease inflation substantially. Zcash block rewards will also be cut from 6.25 to 3.125 ZEC per block. Messari crypto noted that it will also undergo its fourth network...

Bitcoin shows absolutely no signs of slowing down. After taking over $16,000 a few days back, the cryptocurrency is now trading well over $17,000 on its way to the former all-time high. The last time the price was this high, it only took six days to reach its ATH value. This happened back in December 2017. Bitcoin Price Blasts Through $17K It’s safe to say that bitcoin’s price has been on fire throughout the past couple of weeks. The cryptocurrency is up an astonishing 53% in...

The blockchain software giant ConsenSys has acquired the DLT development project Truffle for an undisclosed amount. The Truffle Suite addition is aimed at enabling ConsenSys to provide an even more comprehensive set of blockchain development tools to its customers. ConsenSys Acquires Truffle The New York-based blockchain company announced the new purchase in a press release shared with CryptoPotato earlier today. Although it hasn’t disclosed any specifics regarding the deal,...

The world just witnessed the deeply debated (only from the ones who lost) results of the 2020 US Presidential election. More than a week ago. Republican party members, including their leader and the 45th President Donald Trump, crying foul calling the polls rigged. Nonetheless, Joseph Biden will take up the coveted position as the leader of the nation. The election process was carried out using the good old paper ballot system. Could blockchain replace it and make the vote...

Amongst bitcoin and cryptocurrency fund management firms, Grayscale takes the top spot. And so it has proved again by now becoming the owner of 500,000 BTC worth $8.5 billion. This roughly equals 2.4 percent of the cryptocurrency’s total programmed supply. Grayscale Investments Owns Bitcoin Worth $8.5 Billion A few hours ago, Barry Silbert’s crypto fund management firm Grayscale dropped an update regarding its bitcoin stash, now amounting to a massive 500,000 BTC. Grayscale...

Months after the infamous hack on its platform, the social media giant Twitter has appointed a noted hacker as its head of security. Pieter Zatko, also known as “Mudge,” has also testified before Congress, educated President Bill Clinton about DDoS attacks, and worked in Google and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Twitter To Fight Hacks With A Hacker According to the Reuters coverage, the social media platform has appointed one of the “best-regarded...

Maisie Williams, the actress portraying Arya Stark in the Game of Thrones TV series, asked her 2.7 million followers if she should “go long on Bitcoin.” Apart from thousands of responses she received from the community, Barry Silbert, Mike Novogratz, and even Elon Musk weighed in as well. Arya Stark Looks To Buy Bitcoin? Born in 1997, Margaret (Maisie) Williams in an English actress that made her professional debut in 2011 as Arya Stark in the HBO medieval fantasy drama –...

It has been quite a year for Bitcoin, both in terms of price action and adoption. After recording its biggest daily price drop to $3,600 in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the cryptocurrency is now trading less than 25% from the all-time high of 2017. Analysts are bullish and believe that bitcoin is poised for even bigger moves, and the digital asset could reach higher highs if the current bullish trend continues. Bitcoin At $1 Trillion Market Cap Interestingly,...