Cryptocurrency News
Overviews and analyses of the latest news events
Bitcoin Cash hard fork update! Who’s winning – BCH ABC or BCH SV?
This week the crypto markets and communities have been facing the contentious hard fork of Bitcoin Cash that started Nov 15, 2018! For the first time since Bitcoin Cash (BCH/BCC) came into existence August 2017 (by means of a hard fork from Bitcoin BTC), the Bitcoin...
SharkPool wants to KILL all altcoins & ICOs for Bitcoin Cash (BCH)
In the midst of all the drama surrounding the upcoming Bitcoin Cash hard fork, a controversial new initiative came out called SharkPool. This initiative basically wants to organize mining hashpower to attack altcoins because they are considered “acts of...
IDEX (Decentralized Exchange) will fully enforce KYC/AML procedures
In a Medium article “Decentralized” exchange IDEX operator, Aurora Labs CEO Alex Wearn explained to its community that the exchange will fully enforce KYC/AML procedures for exchange users in order to comply with regulations. Also they have started to...
Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Hard Fork Update – Will a chain split happen?
A couple of months ago we published an explainer video on Youtube about the controversy around the upcoming hard fork around the 15th of November. Now that date is approaching several major parties have spoken out which version they will support. Other...
Rumors of Coinbase IPO while the company lays off staff
Coinbase is the largest digital asset exchange in the United States. So it’s no surprise that the company’s actions are closely watched by most all cryptocurrency investors and that rumors about the company’s future circulate on a regular basis. The latest...
SEC setting up for a Bitcoin ETF to be approved in 2019?
In a recent interview that SEC Commissioner Kara Stein had on Bloomberg she told the interviewers that the SEC has been carefully considering all past Bitcoin ETF proposals, applied for by the various crypto funds. So far none has been approved by the SEC,...
Chinese mining manufacturers negatively impacted by US-China trade war
As the US continues its trade war with China, since June crypto mining manufacturer Bitmain’s Antminer S9 was categorized as “electrical machinery apparatus”. This means that Bitmain’s ASIC miners are now subject to 30% import tariffs, where previously...
Blockstream’s Liquid Network – What is it and how does it work?
Last week Blockstream (a company that develops a lot of innovation for Bitcoin and has a lot of Core developers on their payroll) launched the Liquid Network since the 27th of September 2018. Liquid is supposed to be a second layer solution (similar as...
USD Tether (USDT) loses it’s peg to $1 due to FUD! (News & Analysis)
USD Tether (USDT) has been a news article topic quite frequently now, but market circumstances today forced us to pick up the topic once again! Due to recent FUD (Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt) around Tether and Bitfinex (about which we reported recently...