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IOHK CEO Charles Hoskinson has replied to critics calling Cardano a scam that has not been able to develop any smart contracts since its launch. Baseless Allegations Drive Investors Away  Responding to comments made by Bankless podcast co-owner David Hoffman, Hoskinson noted that over the years, podcasters had used their platform to level baseless allegations on Cardano, calling it a “scam.”  “It is one thing to say you’re skeptical [about Cardano]. It’s another to call [its...

IOHK, the company behind Cardano, has partnered with Orion Protocol, becoming the first liquidity aggregator of the Cardano blockchain.  Orion has provided a non-custodial gateway to the crypto market by aggregating liquidity from crypto exchanges into a single DeFi platform. The partnership with Cardano comes after a series of integration to other protocols, such as Binance Smart Chain, Avalanche, and Elrond.  Cardano’s Bridge to the Crypto Market This partnership provides...

On March 31, Cardano will become a fully decentralized platform, this means that over 1,800 community pools will be responsible for block production.  Since the release of the Shelley update in July 2020, Cardano was slightly criticized by the DeFi community for issuing their own blocks while its SPO (stake pool operator) was being developed, instead of leaving the production to the community. Now the protocol is ready to become a fully decentralized platform. Cardano’s...

The founder of Cardano, Charles Hoskinson, tuned in through another video, explaining some of the next steps ahead of the team. In the laid-out roadmap, he outlined that a testnet for the long-awaited smart contracts on Cardano should be rolled out in late April or early May.Cardano Smart Contracts Getting CloserAt the time of this writing, Cardano’s native cryptocurrency, ADA, is trading at around $1.20 and sits on a market cap of almost $40 billion. This makes it the fourth-largest project...

While doing the necessary work on the upcoming hard fork Alonzo, Cardano’s founder Charles Hoskinson said that his project would also focus on NFTs and NFT marketplaces. He noted that Cardano has already carried conversations with several such marketplaces about potentially transitioning to its blockchain.Cardano and the NFT ManiaNon-fungible Tokens (NFTs) are undoubtedly the hottest trend in the cryptocurrency space this year. It enabled representatives of other industries, such as artists,...

As the co-founder of Ethereum, Charles Hoskinson has always held a top spot in the crypto industry.Hoskinson Offers Another BTC-Related DishRecently, Hoskinson was one of a few investors to suggest that bitcoin could reach the six-figure range in the year 2020. Alongside individuals such as Ross Ulbricht of Silk Road fame, Hoskinson was quick to suggest that the world’s number one cryptocurrency by market cap could potentially hit $100,000 by the time the year was finished.Given that bitcoin...

Bitcoin has taken another turn for the worse and is presently trading at approximately $6,160 at the time of writing.Bitcoin May Not Have a Good Year in 2020Both crypto ad stocks have fallen further after U.S. President Donald Trump warned that the first two weeks of April could be very difficult for Americans, bringing more coronavirus-related deaths and further damage to the country’s financial and economic infrastructures.But for the most part, this is still short-term damage. Everything...

Ethereum price goes up as bulls seem like waiting for major bullish action. The developers are teasing the community with ‘big code update’ and prepare several possible upgrades, both controversial and useful.Since the lows of Q4 2019, Ehtereum price and network has gained significant steam. The hash rate, transactions per day, and the number of active addresses all rising. The network currently consists of around 7,100 public nodes. During the last 24 hours, ETH shows $3,71 billion of the...

2020 is literally right around the corner. In what will be the final posting for Live Bitcoin News during 2019, let’s conclude our end-of-year series and examine how bitcoin might maneuver throughout the next 12 months, and how 2020 may stand in terms of bitcoin prowess.The Bitcoin Price Is Slated to Go BigWe’ve yet to begin the year, and already analysts and industry experts are going crazy with their price predictions for the world’s leading digital currency. Allegedly, this is the year...

The outsiders may believe fancy Telegram graphs showing Bitcoin‘s decentralization levels and metrics. However, many of that stats supply data from a parallel reality. Because you cannot claim full decentralization when the majority of the industry is maintained by the same three to five companies. The will of the investors, not the cyberpunk spirit, changes the price of coins or destroys companies.There are at least seven influential people in the crypto space, including investors and...