Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week...
Month: May 2020
Trading Bitcoin Vs. BTC Futures — Which Is Best for You?
There’s an increasing number of exchanges offering futures contracts trading. So far there’s Binance, FTX, Bitfinex, Bybit, and Kraken, to name just a few. Volumes are also picking up across the board and it appears that retail traders are growing more interested in experimenting with...
Advancing Policy: Regulator and Industry Coordination Key to Swift Implementation
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success” — the words of Henry Ford give expression to the spirit of collaboration that defines human progress. His ethos around unity extends to many societal strands, including endeavors of profit, community...
Top 5 Cryptocurrencies to Watch This Week: BTC, BNB, XLM, XMR, TRX
Although the Bitcoin (BTC) halving generated a lot of interest proceeding the event, it has failed to kickstart a trending move after completion of the event. This suggests in hindsight that the event was priced in. However, the top-ranked cryptocurrency on CoinMarketCap has not given...
John McAfee Calls His Own $1M Bitcoin Price Prediction ‘Nonsense’
John McAfee, an eccentric cryptocurrency advocate and British-American entrepreneur, in a tweet called his own previous prediction of Bitcoin price hitting $1 million a total “nonsense” adding that people who believed his “absurd” forecast should “wake up”. McAfee used the whole North America continent GDP...
For the Blockchain Industry, the COVID-19 Clock Is Ticking
Blockchains reached a feverish level of hype following the ICO mania of 2017. Peddled as the panacea to the world’s ills, many of such promises ill-intentioned, initial coin offerings raised enormous sums of funds within minutes as the public’s focus shifted to the wild world...
Crypto Funds in Demand, Institutions See Bitcoin as Alternative Hedge
While the theater world has Waiting for Godot, the crypto sphere has its own drama: Waiting for the Institutional Investor. Recently, there have been some promising sightings. Grayscale Investments has been buying up Bitcoin (BTC) at a great rate in recent months. Indeed, since the...
Conquering Decentralized Finance: Enter the Custodians
The future of finance is decentralized. Striving to facilitate that prognosis, decentralized finance — or DeFi — is quickly shaping into an alluring prospect for investors and companies alike. Looking to harness this decentralized ideal, rivals to the Ethereum-centric sector are feeling the fear of...
Art Piece Titled “I Can’t Breathe” Sold for Crypto at Auction
Osinachi, a self-taught Nigerian digital and crypto artist, has sold his latest “I Can’t Breathe” digital art piece on May 31 for 7 Etherum (ETH), about $1,703 at press time on a blockchain art social network site SuperRare. Funding goes to a cause Osinachi’s piece...
Blockchain Bites: Magic’s Raise, Compound’s Distribution and Trump’s Twitter War – CoinDesk
The case for decentralized platforms has never been clearer, as President Donald Trump goes on the offensive against big tech platforms like Twitter and Facebook, said lawyers and technologists surveyed by CoinDesk. Meanwhile, decentralized identity service Magic has raised $4 million from heavy-weight investors including...