The developers of Monero (XMR) recently discovered a bug capable of exposing transactions of its users. Even though the team is working to fix it, they have announced that users’ privacy is at risk as long as the bug remains. The Monero team made this announcement through their official Twitter account. They called it a…
Last week, Dogecoin exploded with an 800% intraday move. On-chain data looking closely at daily active addresses, however, suggests that the pump and dump was almost entirely driven by Robinhood buyers. Here’s what this means for both sides of the coin. Dogecoin Reignites Retail Interest in Crypto After 800% Rally Dogecoin’s recent rally lived up…
Another week, another round of Crypto Tidbits. Bitcoin has seen quite the tumultuous week,The cryptocurrency started off the week with a bang, collapsing from ~$9,700, the weekly open price, to a low of $8,100, in a dramatic sell-off that liquidated over $200 million worth of long positions on BitMEX and hundreds of millions of more on…
The highly cited stock-to-flow model, designed to assign a theoretical value to Bitcoin based on the asset’s hard-coded digital scarcity, may not be mathematically sound, according to the CIO of Arcane Assets, Eric Wall.Wall not only claims the S2F model is flawed, but has offered up an alternative, dubbed the Reddit Rainbow chart, that could…
If you’ve perused the “cryptocurrency” subreddit, you have likely heard the rumors that Ethereum is being used by Reddit — the giant social media forum with dozens of millions of users.This discussion began with a post from “MagoCrypto,” who on Wednesday posted a video showing that on his Reddit app on his Android (Samsung), there…
Despite Bitcoin’s extremely strong performance in 2019, crypto assets as a class didn’t fare too well. Sure, some altcoins like Litecoin managed to surge by hundreds of percent. But, the aggregate market capitalization of cryptocurrencies that aren’t BTC managed to register a slightly negative performance last year, with altcoin projects in Ethereum and XRP actually…
If you take a look at CoinMarketCap, it’s easy to get overwhelmed; the site claims there are over 5,000 crypto assets in existence, from those as relevant as Bitcoin and Ethereum to those as obscure as Embercoin and, uh, PepeCash.Each coin purports to have its own viable use case, meaning that theoretically, it has the…
Back at the tail end of the crypto hype bubble in 2017, it wasn’t uncommon to find posts throughout the cryptocurrency community that demonstrated what a small investment made in Bitcoin at the beginning of the year would have brought savvy investors for riches. Just as the bubble began to pop, a Reddit user attempted…
In a few short days, the crypto industry will touch down in New York City for the annual Consensus expo – a conference that brings together the greatest minds and companies across blockchain and crypto to discuss the future of the industry, hold discussion panels, and show off new products or make announcements. In the…
During Bitcoin’s widely publicized bull run of 2017 which sucked up retail investors into its massively inflated bubble, the price of the first ever crypto reached a peak of $20,000. Now that the bubble has popped and the market has entered a state of anger and despair, more people than ever are writing obituaries for…