Scalability is still a point of concern for Bitcoin — but clever minds continue to produce innovative proposals to resolve bottlenecks. One of the specific scalability concerns is the growth of the unspent transaction output (UTXO) data set held by Bitcoin nodes. This is the list of all (fractions of) bitcoin in existence and details…
CGEX, the Malta-based crypto exchange opened by South Korean Coinone, will shutter its services next month. The exchange posted a termination notice late last week, saying that it would terminate all of its services on September 18, 2019. Coinone established CGEX in October 2018, as a crypto-to-crypto exchange that connects and shares the order book…
Fidelity Charitable, the humanitarian division of financial services company Fidelity Investments, has crossed the $100 million threshold in donations via cryptocurrencies. The revelation was made in its annual report, which showed crypto donations totalling about $106 million since 2015, when this asset class was added as a donation option. The charitable organization accepts donations in…
This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. One of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Binance, has announced a plan to launch an open blockchain project called “Venus,” an initiative to develop localized stablecoins and digital assets pegged to fiat currencies across the globe. As per the announcement published on August…
Summary: After a very strong round of selling that dropped the price almost $2,000 in just a couple of days, the market managed to find support at an important macro level. The support rally marked a third, higher high for our current market and it rallied on very high volume and spread. The market is…
U.S. District Court Judge Beth Bloom has rejected Craig Wright’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit against him, primarily based on a perceived lack of credibility on his part. Craig Wright, the creator of Bitcoin Cash fork Bitcoin SV and the self-proclaimed true identity behind Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, has long been a…
Bakkt has announced that it will be launching its bitcoin futures trading platform in September 2019. In a blog post published on August 16, 2019, the cryptocurrency trading company announced that its long-anticipated futures product will be going live on September 23, 2019, following approval to create a qualified custodian trust company from the New…
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has completed the acquisition of Xapo’s custody business in a deal reportedly worth $55 million. Coinbase announced this acquisition on August 15, 2019, noting that the acquisition will help prop up Coinbase Custody, which has over $7 billion worth of assets stored for more than 120 clients. Xapo is a Hong Kong-based…
This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. Bitcoin’s recent dip under the $10,000 mark is alleged to be directly related to the incessant bitcoin sell-off caused by a $3 billion Chinese Ponzi scheme, and the dump may continue. The scam project, dubbed PlusToken, went bust early in July 2019 after…
Data gathered by Bloomberg reveals that, despite a recent global drop-off in cryptocurrency price, bitcoin is attracting investment from Argentina and Hong Kong. The report, published on August 13, 2019, examined the value of bitcoin trades on various cryptocurrency exchanges, including LocalBitcoins.com, claiming that bitcoin has been trading at a 4 percent premium in Hong…