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In hopes of regaining the support of the cryptocurrency community after the ‘apolitical’ stunt, Coinbase has decided to fund ‘at-least’ two Bitcoin Core developers. This sponsorship act marks the debut for Crypto Community Fund, the exchange’s new grants program. Coinbase Shows Support For Bitcoin Development In a blog article released yesterday, Manish Gupta, EVP of Engineering at Coinbase, announced plans to sponsor at-least ‘two Bitcoin developers who contribute directly...

Bitcoin continues to struggle and has dropped by another 1% to about $11,300. The alternative coins bleed out and have wiped out most of the recent gains. These developments could be attributed to news that the popular exchange OKEx has seized withdrawals and is cooperating with a “public security bureau in investigations where required.” Bitcoin Loses Another 1% As reported a few days ago, the primary cryptocurrency marked a 5-week high of about $11,700. Since then, though,...

Polkadot is one of the biggest cryptocurrency projects, currently ranked eight in terms of total market capitalization. Now, the team has revealed that trustless wrapped Bitcoin will come to its ecosystem in early 2021 through Interlay – a framework designated to allow permissioned and permissionless blockchains to connect and interact. Polkadot’s BTC-Relay Effort Known as Interlay, the framework that has been under development since 2018 aims at allowing various permissioned...

Twitter chief Jack Dorsey has urged his followers to donate Bitcoin to support the protest over police brutality in Nigeria. Earlier today, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, showed his support for the ongoing #EndSars protest over police brutality in Nigeria. Dorsey, a Bitcoin proponent, encouraged Bitcoiners to make BTC donations towards the fight against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in the largest black nation. #EndSars: The Genesis SARS is a unit of the...

The deadline for submitting a rehabilitation plan for reimbursing Mt. Gox creditors has been delayed once more – this time to December 15th, 2020. As CryptoPotato reported before, the Tokyo District Court had issued an order indicating that the submission deadline was until October 15th.  Nobuaki Kobayashi, the Mt. Gox rehabilitation trustee who has been designing the plan for more than a year, announced the delay earlier today.  The statement reads that as “there are...

Apart from a brief spike to above $11,500, Bitcoin has remained relatively calm around $11,400 in the past 24 hours. Most alternative coins have marked minor losses, with Ethereum dipping below $380 and Ripple beneath $0.25. Bitcoin Stays Around $11,400 As reported yesterday, Bitcoin traded around $11,400, despite US President Donald Trump’s call for additional economic stimulus. In the past 24 hours, BTC initiated a leg up towards its daily high of $11,550 (on Binance)....

The research added that around 14% of the total supply is currently held in accumulation addresses. The findings by on-chain analytics firm Glassnode report that there has been a steady up trend in Bitcoin accumulation since the beginning of 2019. The chart overlays price action and the two do not appear to be correlated as prices have been sideways on that long time frame. The balance in accumulation addresses fell sharply during the massive bull run in 2017 as long term...

Despite a promising start to the week, the bullish Bitcoin traders have struggled to maintain momentum. In the last few hours, bears have successfully overcome the intra-week support (white line), which was helping to keep BTC in an uptrend, and are now threatening to drive prices back towards the 0.5 Fibonacci level at $11,150. Looking at the 4-hour chart, we can see that the decline was foreshadowed by a significant divergence between the RSI and the price action (yellow...

Brainwallets, especially those generated with passphrases from popular culture references, might not be as safe as previously imagined. Pop Culture References Make for Vulnerable Keys According to a report published by BitMEX Research on Oct. 13, brainwallets might be easy to crack with hackers purportedly setting up servers to crawl the blockchain in search of victims. A brainwallet or “mind wallet,” as the name implies, refers to storing Bitcoin (BTC) in a user’s own brain...

The leading digital asset manager, Grayscale Investments, continues with its growth after registering its third consecutive record-breaking quarter with over $1 billion of inflows. Somewhat expectedly, the Bitcoin Trust remained the most widely chosen company product. $1 Billion Entered Grayscale In Q3 2020 Grayscale released its Q3 2020 report earlier, noting that the total investments into company products in those three months alone accounted for $1.05 billion. Adding the...