The first woman to gain more than a million YouTube subscribers is now going all-in on bitcoin to promote financial freedom to her loyal fanbase. “I kind of view bitcoin as similar to YouTube, which…

Finance Redefined: One hack to bring down a…
Finance Redefined is Cointelegraph's DeFi-centric newsletter, delivered to subscribers every Wednesday. The Alpha Homora and Cream Finance hack has made a gigantic mark in the DeFi space this week. It is the largest single hack…

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Remains Around $48.5K Amid Flat…
Bitcoin faced choppy markets for most of Tuesday after briefly trading above $50,000 for the first time during early U.S. trading hours. With some remaining bullish, other analysts and traders warned about near-term price correction.…

Cream Iron Bank $36M Flash Loan Attack: Markets…
Following the Cream Iron Bank flash loan attack, preliminary findings of a probe have shown that contracts and markets still function normally. As a result, markets have now been re-enabled while the asset borrowing function…

Luxurious Pro Network Token Officially Listed on PROBIT
PRESS RELEASE. The LUXURIOUS PRO NETWORK TOKEN is now officially listed on PROBIT, a globally reputed professional digital currency exchange. Officials from both the organizations have expressed their opinion in this regard. “In my opinion,…

Major correction for DeFi as Bitcoin rejected again…
The decentralized finance or DeFi market saw a steep correction over the last 12 hours as Bitcoin (BTC) was unable to break the $41,000 level. Meanwhile, analysts say that the profits from major DeFi tokens…

WallStreetBets Coin becomes #1 on CoinMarketCap… kind of
The influence of Reddit’s r/wallstreetbets sub has apparently spread to the cryptocurrency space, after a new coin appeared at the top of CoinMarketCap’s rankings on Jan. 29. Dubbed WallStreetBets (WSB), the new coin apparently gained…

ALPHA surges 152% in one week: Whats behind…
ALPHA, the governance token of Alpha Finance Lab, has surged 152% in the past week. It is now the 85th most valuable cryptocurrency in the global market, breaking into the top 100 in a short…

Chainlink (LINK) Eyes Another Record Peak as Bitcoin…
Chainlink (LINK) was soaring high in the early European trading session Thursday as traders continued to seek hedge in the cryptocurrency market against a choppy Bitcoin. The LINK-to-dollar exchange rate surged to $24.9, up 15.16…

DeFi tokens bag double-digit gains as bears pin…
Today Bitcoin (BTC) price continued to face selling pressure in the $32,500 to $33,000 resistance cluster and this led to a mild 3% to 5% pull back from most altcoins. Despite the recent revelation that…

DeFi Mania Continues: Some Tokens Show Over 300%…
The week began on a high note for the DeFi space–led by ETH, a number of cryptocurrencies across the board have been posting impressive gains. That is, until today: today, markets are seeing red across…

Clothing the Naked Emperor – the Blockchain Potential…
Prasaga is a Foundation-based organization and the creator the DataGrid Blockchain, a new native chain and coin project, embracing developers, miners, and token holders. DGB will be language agnostic, allowing developers to have full code…

Analyst Lyn Alden Says Ethereum Is Still an…
A bitcoin (BTC) strategist and investor remain skeptical towards the Ethereum protocol, considering it an “unfinished product.” Lyn Alden, an advisor for the dollar cost averaging BTC investing app Swan Bitcoin, believes the network lacks…

Noise.cash: Social Microblogging App Fueled by Bitcoin Cash…
For quite some time now, bitcoin cash users have been leveraging the web portal read.cash in order to write blog posts, connect with like-minded individuals, and earn bitcoin cash for providing popular content. Now the…

Stablecoins, ‘Unsung Heroes’ and Other Institutional Crypto Takeaways
It is clear that crypto is having its institutional moment. The investment decision is moving from speculation to allocation, and we are witnessing the maturation of crypto and digital asset investors in the process. In…

Stablecoins, ‘Unsung Heroes and Other Institutional Crypto Takeaways
It is clear that crypto is having its institutional moment. The investment decision is moving from speculation to allocation, and we are witnessing the maturation of crypto and digital asset investors in the process. In…

Bitcoin’s 2020 In Tech
Seemingly undisturbed by 2020’s craziness, and largely unfazed by bitcoin’s wild price swings that concluded with new all-time highs in December, Bitcoin’s technical community continues to plow ahead. Bitcoin’s software and the many projects around…

Synthetix (SNX) Hits Record High amid DeFi Correction;…
Synthetix’s native token SNX emerged victorious on the day its rival decentralized finance tokens turned lower. The SNX-to-dollar exchange rate hit a fresh record high of $8.68 on Wednesday as a flurry of uplifting fundamentals…

New Zealand’s Past, Pūtea and Future: CBDC Vs.…
Currently, there is global attention focused around the evolution of money. The trend of exponentially evolving technology is disrupting finance and governance is impacting all corners of the world. In my home country of Aotearoa,…

BCH Collectibles: RPG Blockchain Game Built on Bitcoin…
In the near future, a non-fungible token collectible game is coming to the Bitcoin Cash ecosystem. The project dubbed “Enter the Sphere” aims to bring its NFT collectible universe to Bitcoin Cash by leveraging the…

Hash Watch: The Highly Anticipated Bitcoin Cash Fork…
The Bitcoin Cash community has been patiently waiting for weeks for the November 15, 2020 upgrade and the day is finally here. Every six months the Bitcoin Cash network upgrades, but this time around, a…

‘Formula E’ racing title among four NFT-powered games…
Blockchain gaming firm Animoca Brands has announced a licensing agreement with electric single-seater car racing championship Formula E to develop a blockchain-powered motorsports game featuring non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The Formula E game will utilize Animoca’s…

Trader Claims Uniswap’s UNI Will Plunge to $2.00…
Uniswap’s UNI token has been struggling to garner any sustainable upwards momentum over the past few days and weeks, with each rally being met with massive inflows of selling pressure that force its price lower.…

First Mover: OKEx Private Key Snafu Sends Bitcoin…
Bitcoin (BTC) fell 2% Friday, the most in three weeks, after the market was spooked by the announcement that the cryptocurrency exchange OKEx had suspended withdrawals because founder Mingxing “Star” Xu was reportedly taken into police custody. The executive…

DeFi Pulse unveils safety ratings to allow users…
Decentralized finance (DeFi) analytics platform DeFi Pulse has launched new safety ratings in alpha to enable users to compare the risks of on-chain protocols. However, the ratings system is still in development and does not…

Ethereum 2.0 Rolls on With Prysm Client Web…
Following the Spadina testnet failure at the end of September, the Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 rollout looked in serious jeopardy. Billed as a dress rehearsal for ETH 2.0 genesis, core developer Danny Ryan reported several…

Sats-Earning Platform Carrot Wants To Reward The World…
Of its many potential applications, bitcoin as a medium for rewarding microtasks is one of its most exciting. This implementation takes advantage of the technology’s natively digital qualities, its relative freedom from borders and its…

Money Reimagined: Trump, Crypto and Fairer Taxes
For Democrats, it was a moment of truth. For Republicans, it was “fake news.” Among some members of the crypto commentariat, there was a very different reaction to The New York Times’ recent scoop on…

First Mover: Nine (Bullish) Bitcoin Predictions for Final…
A lot of crypto investors like to think of bitcoin as a bet on higher inflation, or as a futuristic hedge on some imagined economic-armageddon scenario – Gold 2.0, as they say. Lately, it’s looking…

Bitcoin price unfazed after $150M hack of major…
In an official statement, KuCoin Global CEO Johnny Lyu confirmed a major hacking attack on Sep. 26. The breach affected the firm’s Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and ERC20 hot wallets, after private keys were leaked.…

The emergence of cryptocurrency hedge funds
I started exploring Bitcoin first in 2012 and, still today, I am fascinated by the opportunities and future potential digital assets pose as an emerging alternative asset class. One of the most relevant recent developments,…

3 Reasons Bitcoin Just Tanked Below $11K for…
Bitcoin prices tumbled 6.2% Thursday, falling below $11,000 for the first time in a month. The price drop trimmed the largest cryptocurrency’s 2020 rally to 50% and sent digital-asset market traders and analysts scrambling to…

Crypto Long & Short: The Surprisingly Sunny Outlook…
Every epic tale needs a tragic hero, and one of the top candidates for that role in this century’s dramatic passage so far has to be the hedge fund manager. Toppled from their masters-of-the-universe pedestal…

15 Ways to Stay Sane While Trading Crypto
This is not a guide of how to trade crypto. This is not about how to make money, how to invest, or where to find alpha. But if you’ve dabbled in crypto-trading? Then you know…

Blockchain Bites: Ripple’s Rebuff, DeFi’s ‘Degens’ and China’s…
Both the U.S. and China are advancing on their central bank digital currency (CBDC) designs, there’s a new smart contract language for Bitcoin and the Department of Justice (DOJ) seized millions worth of crypto from…

First Mover: As Wall Street Goes Topsy-Turvy, Crypto…
As the coronavirus takes its devastating toll on the U.S. economy, financial pros are increasingly confounded by the markets. The economy is in its worst shape since the early 20th century, and stocks are soaring. The U.S. government’s…

Chainlink Partnership Proposes its Own Take on Human…
Chainlink (LINK), in partnership with a video game called War Riders, has introduced human readable Ethereum (ETH) names. These names will use a different approach than the Ethereum Name Service, or ENS. Removing friction for…

This Model Shows Bitcoin’s Next Big Breakout is…
Bitcoin’s prolonged bout of sideways trading is bound to end eventually, and all the signs are suggesting that the next large trend-defining movement could take place in the coming days or weeks. This recent price…

Developer Reveals Layer-Two Private Messaging and Payment System…
On July 4, 2020, the Bitcoin Cash proponent Cain published an interview with the blockchain developer, Shammah Chancellor, about a new project called Stamp Chat. At its basic level, “Stamp is a prototype of a…

All Inflation? In Bitcoin Terms, Stocks Never Recovered…
Bitcoin (BTC), in fact, crushed stock markets during the Covid-19 recovery with equity “growth” simply down to inflation, fresh data argues. Charts showing stocks denominated in gold and Bitcoin in 2020 show that far from…

On-Chain Analyst: Next Drop May Be Last Time…
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) is consolidating below $9,200, which has acted as a key support level since late May. According to Cole Garner, if BTC breaks down to the $7,000s, it may be the…

Simple Ledger Protocol Universe Is Thriving: Lottery, Mint,…
It’s been close to twelve months since we reported on the vast Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) universe built on top of the Bitcoin Cash chain. At the time, there were 2,700 unique SLP tokens created,…

Crypto Community Seeks an Edge With Mind-Bending Designer…
They could replace your morning coffee, so the saying goes on morning show broadcasts. Nootropics, sometimes called smart drugs, are a class of performance-enhancing supplements that are seeing widespread use in the tech and crypto…

Bitcoin’s Forks Have Trounced Bitcoin This Year
While bitcoin has outperformed gold and the S&P 500 index in 2020, data shows even better returns among leading bitcoin “fork” cryptocurrencies. These cryptocurrencies are created by copying the Bitcoin source code repository through a…

The Mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto Allegedly Leveraged a Russian…
4,171 days ago in 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto invoked the Bitcoin network after sharing the white paper with people since Halloween 2008. Just recently, it has been discovered that Nakamoto leveraged a Russian proxy to obfuscate…

Samson Mow’s Infinite Fleet Game 2020 Launch Backed…
Prominent Bitcoin figures are working together to ensure the alpha release of Pixelmatic’s Infinite Fleet space adventure game is launched by the end of 2020. Infinite Fleet, under the leadership of Blockstream Chief Strategy Officer…

CryptoKitties Creators Launch Token-Powered NBA TopShot in Beta
Dapper Labs, the team behind the Ethereum-based non-fungible token (NFT)-powered game CryptoKitties, has launched its forthcoming NBA TopShot game in beta. Cointelegraph experienced a sneak preview of the game, which allows players to own, trade…

Blockchain Bites: Your Ultimate Guide to Consensus Distributed,…
As the sun rises on the second day of Consensus: Distributed, CoinDesk TV will draw to a close. We kicked off our virtual event with a 24-hour non-stop live stream featuring more than 50 programs and dozens…

Chainlink Nears Key Support After Being Battered by…
Although Chainlink has been one of the most bullish cryptocurrencies throughout 2019 and 2020, its short-term price action has lagged against that of Bitcoin and many of its other peers. The crypto is flashing some…

CoinJoin’s First Steps: How Dark Wallet Paved the…
CoinJoin. Trustless mixing. Anonymity. Bitcoin Magazine’s September 2013 cover — all black with hints of golden fingerprints — needed only four words to announce a powerful new privacy tool. At a time when industry representatives…

Crucial Moment for BTC, Bull Run Prediction, Halving…
Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a…