Cryptocurrency

The last five days have been very bullish for the crypto-market, with the world’s largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, pumping by over 15% over the aforementioned time period. In fact, BTC’s latest pump had the crypto climb by over $1,500 on the charts, with BTC even breaching the psychological…

Founder and CEO of Filecoin, Juan Benet, took to Twitter to clarify that Justin Sun’s accusations of a Filecoin exit scam were completely false. This was with regard to Justin Sun’s tweet regarding the appearance of 800,000 FIL tokens on major exchanges, which were supposed to be vesting. Benet…

Quick Take We preview what we are watching ahead of digital asset public company earnings This research piece is available to members of The Block Genesis. You can continue reading this Genesis research on The Block. 3Q 2020 Earnings Preview: PayPal and OCC clarity put…

Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank Fabio Panetta said in a speech at the ECB conference on Thursday that a digital euro, or the Eurozone’s potential CBDC, could become necessary with evolving consumer preferences, especially if people became reluctant to use cash. In his…

Filecoin miners that installed the latest network upgrade are now able to access 25% of their block rewards immediately without vesting. Filecoin's network lead Molly posted in the project's Slack channel on Wednesday that the Lotus 1.1.0 was available for download, which is a mandatory upgrade…

Earlier this month, the U.K's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) banned the sale of cryptocurrency derivatives and exchange-traded notes to retail users, sparking concern that the regulator didn't listen to feedback on the proposal. The ban will take effect in January of next year, affecting crypto…

Quick Take Sportscard sales dropped nearly 80%, from $1 Billion in annual sales to roughly $200 million, but has rebounded back to $1 Billion in recent years Logic, a popular rapper, recently purchased a mint-condition first edition holographic Charizard Pokemon card for $220,574. Firms like…

A new report from Bloomberg indicates that payments giant PayPal is shopping for potential crypto company acquisitions. Crypto services firm BitGo was named in the outlet's report, which characterized the talks as ongoing and cited unnamed people familiar with the matter. Though a full article…

2020 has turned out to be quite a year for the DeFi space. DeFi’s rapid growth over the course of the year saw it cross the $12 billion-mark in terms of total value locked, with the same bullishness positively impacting popular Bitcoin (BTC) tokenization protocol – Wrapped BTC (WBTC). WBTC, the…

To the delight of bullish investors, a surging market was the highlight of the day, with many of the industry’s altcoins closely aping Bitcoin’s own price movements. At press time, Bitcoin was being traded near the $13,000-level, having risen by over 4.5% in the last 24 hours. Further down the…

National Police of Tenerife arrested Santiago Fuentes who is accused of defrauding up to 32,000 people in an alleged bitcoin scam, amounting to the tune of about 850 million euros (over $1 billion). The accused is the director of a called ArbiStar 2.0, which is based in Playa Las Americas.…

Disclaimer: The findings of the following article are the sole opinion of the writer and should not be taken as investment advice Chainlink and most of the market’s altcoins suffered a brutal crash after the DeFi craze came to a halt. However, there seems to be a revival coming for these altcoins,…