Cryptocurrency News

Crypto trading service Kraken has revealed the reason for the abnormal Bitcoin price on its platform was due to an order matching bug. Abnormal Bitcoin Price Spread on Kraken On Saturday (September 13, 2019), the XBT/USD trading pair on Kraken experienced a $2,000 takeaway in both directions. 1/3…

Golden toilets don’t come around very often, so when they go missing, people talk about it. Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan built the toilet he calls “America.” In true American fashion, somebody stole it. If that wasn’t American enough, it’s now trending on Twitter. WATCH THE THRONE: Thieves in…

At the Ethereal Summit Tel Aviv 2019, project lead Omri Ross said the new programming language will reduce the risks involved in settling financial contracts and enable the creation of new derivative products. eToro Aims to Put Derivatives on the Blockchain With Lira Programming Language written!-->…

Facebook’s Libra Coin has been all over the news the past few months as more tech giants invest in the network. However, many people in the cryptocurrency community are skeptical about the new stable coin, saying that Libra doesn’t have the properties that made Bitcoin what it is today. Issues with…

Famed rapper Nasir Jones (“Nas”) made a poor choice in backing a revolutionary new financial services product that provides “earned wage access” to employees. A variety of earned wage access companies have popped up in recent years, but only one of them has a model that is worse than the payday…

The largest bank in Venezuela, the state-owned Bank of Venezuela, appears to have launched services to facilitate transactions in the country’s state-issued oil-backed virtual currency, the Petro. According to Decrypt, Bank of Venezuela customers have reported a new module integrated into the…

AirSwap, a peer-to-peer token trading network built on Ethereum, has disclosed that it has found a critical vulnerability in its newly released smart contract. Under certain conditions, the vulnerability would allow an attacker to perform a token swap without requiring a counterparty to sign off on…

Square Crypto, the crypto initiative of payments company Square, has announced that it is giving a $100k grant to the BTCPay Foundation, the non-profit organization behind BTCPayer Server. BTCPayer Server was founded in 2017 by Nicolas Dorier, a bitcoin developer. The project is a self-hosted,…

Call of Duty Modern Warfare fans are in the trenches less than 48 hours after the beta became available for the PS4. Where do gamers draw the line? The controversial decision from developer Infinity Ward to abandon the in-game minimap. A workable radar is a staple feature of modern FPS games,…

Fresh off a promotional run peppered with successive controversies, Borderlands 3 is finally out, and players love it. Critics seem to agree, with the game racking up a more than respectable 85 rating over on review aggregator Metacritic. Borderlands 3 Earns Praise From Critics and Players Alike…

According to BTCC co-founder Bobby Lee, bitcoin price could reach $200,000 in a very short space of time from now. Bitcoin Will Exceed $20,000 Speaking to Yahoo Finance UK, the founder of China’s first bitcoin exchange platform declared that the bitcoin price could continue to reach greater heights.…

The CBOE Volatility Index, commonly known as the VIX, is supposed to be one of the most reliable indicators of investor sentiment on Wall Street. The number, which can range anywhere from 1 to 100, provides important insight into how well the S&P 500 Index is performing. So, when the VIX swung…