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Bitcoin News & Updates / Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi Hit by Latest Musk Tweet

« on: June 04, 2021, 02:58:26 PM »

The cryptocurrency market has reacted to an Elon Musk tweet yet again.Bitcoin’s price dropped 7.6% from yesterday’s $39,250 closing to lows of $36,250 following a tweet from Elon Musk.

The Tesla and SpaceX founder, who has 56.5 million Twitter followers, posted a meme alluding to a relationship break-up with the hashtag “Bitcoin” and a broken heart emoji last night.source

Bitcoin News & Updates / CIO Claims The Government Will “Stop The Music” On Bitcoin

« on: June 03, 2021, 07:26:05 PM »

Sentiment has sharply switched bearish on Bitcoin, and those that never liked the cryptocurrency in the first place are now out in droves doing further damage to the coin’s rep.
The latest to add to fuel to the flames of FUD in crypto, is Amundi CIO Pascal Blanque, who says Bitcoin is a “farce,” is a product of stock market bubble, and soon enough, the government and regulators will “stop the music.”source

Kraken / Crypto exchange Kraken launches mobile app in the U.S.

« on: June 03, 2021, 07:22:56 PM »

Crypto exchange operator Kraken has launched a new mobile app in the U.S., targeted at retail investors.
The app is available on both Andriod and iOS platforms and allows users to invest as little as $10, Kraken announced Wednesday. The Kraken app has already been available in Europe since January of this year.
With today's launch in the U.S., the app is now available in all countries except for Crimea, Cuba, Iran, Japan, North Korea, and Syria, said Kraken. As for the U.S., Kraken does not provide services in New York and Washington.read

Crypto Exchanges / OKEx Supports Mina Protocol, the Lightest Blockchain Protocol Ever

« on: June 03, 2021, 07:20:48 PM »

The global crypto exchange and derivatives trading platform, OKEx has announced its latest addition to the list of supported blockchain projects. The recent one to make the cut is Mina Protocol, the lightest blockchain protocol in the industry. Its native token MINA’s listing went live on June 1, 2021, at 00:30 UTC, marked by the launch of the MINA/USDT spot trading pair.

The Mina Protocol is developed keeping the requirements of dApps in mind. The protocol sports a blockchain the size of two tweets – around 22 KB as against its counterparts whose average blockchain size is currently calculated to be in hundreds of GBs and growing.source

Kraken / Kraken Is Still ‘On Track for a Direct Listing’ in 2022, Says Dan Held

« on: June 01, 2021, 12:05:55 PM »

American cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is still on track to make its public market debut through a direct listing scheduled for 2022. As reported by Coindesk, citing the company’s Head of Growth, Dan Held, who made an appearance at this year’s Consensus, the public listing plans has not been impacted by the recent correction in the global crypto market.
“Everything seems to still be on track for a direct listing sometime in 2022, but I don’t have any idea of what timing that might be,” he said.source

Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) / SushiSwap Deploys Layer 2 Scaling on Arbitrum Platform

« on: June 01, 2021, 11:28:49 AM »

Decentralized exchange (DEX) SushiSwap has made a move to the Layer 2 scaling platform Arbitrum in its latest effort to avoid Ethereum’s costly network fees. SushiSwap has already made moves to distance itself from Ethereum with a multi-chain roadmap which included deployment on Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, Fantom, and Moonbeam.source

Bitcoin News & Updates / Bitcoin Muted While Ethereum Surges, Why BTC Could Soon Break $60K

« on: May 09, 2021, 11:46:10 PM »

Bitcoin price started a fresh increase above the $56,500 resistance zone against the US Dollar. BTC is now approaching a major break, with a major hurdle near $60,000.

Bitcoin is showing positive signs above the $56,500 and $58,000 resistance levels.
The price is now trading well above $58,000 and the 100 simple moving average (4-hours).
There is a major contracting triangle forming with resistance near $60,000 on the 4-hours chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).
The pair is likely to accelerate higher once it clears the $60,000 resistance zone in the near term.source

Bitcoin News & Updates / What Edward Snowden Thinks “Dragon Level” Wealth Will Do To Bitcoin

« on: May 09, 2021, 03:11:00 AM »

Former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) computer consultant Edward Snowden talked in the Ethereal Virtual Summit 2021. The main subject, Privacy Coins, NFTs, decentralization and its relationship with freedom.

A clip of the Summit was shared by Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) for the Human Rights Foundation and Oslo Freedom Forum, via his Twitter account. The video sparked a debate around Bitcoin’s privacy failures.

Snowden said that Bitcoin has failed in this category and its potential upgrade, Taproot, could even make it worse, contrary to popular belief. Gladstein called the clip “a disaster”, he was particularly against Snowden’s comments on Taproot and his classification of BTC’s Lightning Network as “shenanigans”. Gladstein said:

Taproot is a privacy upgrade currently being activated which lays the groundwork for much more powerful privacy stuff like SigAgg. All designed by devs. And yes LN is part of Bitcoin’s global privacy evolution and is def not IMO “shenanigans”.source

Uniswap / Uniswap V3 Arrival Signals Bright Future For the DEX

« on: May 06, 2021, 10:32:25 AM »

Just slightly ahead of Curve Finance, Uniswap holds the number one position as the most popular decentralized exchange. Uniswap V3 upgrade should boost this precarious lead even further.

By pioneering automated market makers (AMMs) in November 2018, Uniswap cleared the way for the decentralized future of finance. One without the influence of hedge funds as market makers, exchanges, and clearing houses, all in one corruptive package.source

Uniswap / What's the features of UNISwap v3

« on: May 06, 2021, 10:30:17 AM »

1. Traders – The swap interface now routes trades through Uniswap v3 and will provide an alert when a better exchange rate is available on Uniswap v2.

2. The Uniswap analytics platform — info.uniswap.org — now tracks v3 performance.

3. Liquidity providers – The liquidity pool interface now supports the creation of Uniswap v3 positions with multiple fee tiers and concentrated liquidity. ranges. Each position is represented as an NFT and comes with a unique piece of on-chain generative art.

4. Developers – Devs can begin building on Uniswap v3 immediately. Initial documentation and example projects can be found here.

For a full description of v3’s features, refer to Uniswap’s March announcement blog post.

Uniswap / Ethereum-based AMM Uniswap has launched V3 on mainnet

« on: May 06, 2021, 10:28:09 AM »

Today, the team of Uniswap, a non-custodial automated market maker (AMM) implemented for the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), officially announced that Uniswap v3 has been deployed to the Ethereum mainnet. All of the applicable contract addresses can be found here.

Naturally, Uniswap v3 is the most powerful version of the protocol to date; with increased capital efficiency for liquidity providers, better execution for traders, and superior infrastructure.

Audit reports for the core and periphery contracts can be found here and here. After 6 weeks, the Uniswap v3 bug bounty offered up no major findings.source

Uniswap / Uniswap v3 Became a ‘Uniflop’ on Opening Day

« on: May 06, 2021, 10:25:51 AM »

The highly-anticipated version 3 Uniswap upgrade may have fallen flat on its first day. Traders have been reporting high fees and technical difficulties using the platform.

The launch of Uniswap v3 has been one of the most eagerly awaited events in the crypto calendar this year. The upgrade was finally rolled out on May 5, but many of the much-needed speed and cost improvements were missing.

Users have been flocking to crypto social media to air their experiences with the revamped decentralized exchange, and not all of them have been positive.source

Solana Forum / Solana Hits its First $1 Billion Milestone in Total Value Locked (TVL)

« on: May 05, 2021, 11:10:31 PM »

While DeFi is enjoying a re-pricing following Ether’s new highs, the total value locked in the entire ecosystem has gone past $100 billion and aiming for a $150 billion mark now. Ethereum no doubt remains the leading layer 1 blockchain with almost $90 billion TVL followed by Binance Smart Chain’s (BSC) $56 billion. Coming at the third spot is Solana which has now surpassed $1 billion. The TVL on Solana (SOL) was highest last week at $1.33 billion, up from just under $150 million two and a half months back, as per Solana Project.source

Bitfinex / Bitfinex Lists DOGE Pairs for Margin Trading

« on: May 04, 2021, 03:13:52 PM »

As Elon Musk's favorite meme cryptocurrency, DOGE, is gaining traction in the crypto community and getting pumped by billionaire Mark Cuban, one of the leading crypto exchanges, Bitfinex, has announced that Dogecoin is now available for margin trading on the platform.
The following pairs with DOGE have been added for margin trading: DOGE/USD and DOGE/USDT.

Trading started at 9:00 a.m. UTC.

On Monday, DOGE surged to fifth place on CoinMarketCap, surpassing Twitter social media giant by market cap value.

Today, it briefly reached a new all-time high of $0.49 on the Bittrex exchange.

On June 9, 2020, Bitfinex listed Dogecoin as MDOGE (MegaDogecoin), under the DOG ticker against the USD, USDT and BTC.

One MDOGE is equal to 1,000,000 DOGE.source

Coinbase / Sotheby's to Accept Bitcoin and Ethereum After Partnering with Coinbase

« on: May 04, 2021, 03:11:32 PM »

Sotheby’s CEO Charles F. Stewart has announced that the leading auction house will start accepting Bitcoin and Ethereum during the Tuesday broadcast of CNBC's "Squawk Box."

Art lovers will be able to bid for Banksy's "Love is in the Air" with crypto next week, which is expected to be a historic auction.

It has inked a partnership with cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase to process cryptocurrency payments.source