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One of the big players in the Ethereum (ETH) mining sector, Hive Blockchain Technology, has announced plans to expand its digital mining GPU-based facility in Sweden.  According to the firm’s press release today, the initiative would boost Hive’s ETH mining capacity by more than 20%. At the same time, it would increase the firm’s gross mining ... Read more

Hive Boosts its ETH Mining Operations by 20% Despite Ethereum's PoS Plans

Hive Boosts its ETH Mining Operations by 20% Despite Ethereum&#8217;s PoS Plans

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The latest DeFi news and updates. Learn how decentralized finance protocols, powered by blockchain networks like Ethereum, is disrupting traditional finance.

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The last few days have been a nightmare for bZx, a decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol provider. Just a few hours after confirming that an exploit on its protocol towards the end of last week, resulted in the loss of 1,193 ETH, (appr.  $298,000), bZx co-founder Kyle Kistner confirmed on the project&#8217;s Telegram channel that ... Read more

Again!! DeFi Protocol Provider bZx Loses an Estimated $645K in ETH to New Attack

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Caroline is a zealous writer who recently picked interest in Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency community. She's always learning about the industry and aims to provide timely and accurate information about the latest developments in the crypto space.

An anonymous individual made a jaw-dropping move by manipulating Ethereum-powered decentralized finance (DeFi) app, Fulcrum, to pocket $360,000 worth of ETH. The breach reportedly took advantage of the recently invented flash loan feature on DeFi apps, where a single transaction is designed to lend and borrow assets for arbitrage ETH trading on exchanges. However, the ... Read more

DeFi What?? $360,000 in ETH Lost As Intruder Manipulates Fulcrum

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Roughly three years after ending support for margin trading, leading United States-based cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase has reintroduced the service according to a Wednesday announcement. Starting from Wednesday, customers in 23 U.S states using Coinbase Pro can trade with as much as 3x leverage, with the service also available to institutional traders using the platform in ... Read more

After 3 Years, Coinbase Just Rolled Out Margin Trading Again 

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Ibiam Wayas is an optimistic crypto news reporter who also enjoys graphics designing and tech writing.

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United States multinational investment bank, JPMorgan Chase, is seeking to merge its blockchain unit, Quorum with ConsenSys, an Ethereum-focused software technology company, per a report by Reuters today. Built on the Ethereum network, JPMorgan Chase Quorum is an open-source blockchain platform, with a global team of 25 people. ConsenSys merger with Quorum is said to ... Read more

Largest Bank U.S JPMorgan to Merge Its Blockchain Unit With Ethereum's ConsenSys

Largest Bank U.S JPMorgan to Merge Its Blockchain Unit With Ethereum&#8217;s ConsenSys

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Last year was an interesting one for smart contract platforms as the stiff competition continues in the DApp market, with the total on-chain transactions hitting $23 billion. While the Ethereum continues to hold its position as the market leader, possibly because of its first-mover advantage, the 2019 annual report published by DappReview, a DApp data ... Read more

TRON Outperforms EOS in DApp Market 2019; Ethereum Continues to Lead

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A Monday ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Vernon Broderick in New York means that if some pre-release conditions are met, then Ethereum developer, Virgil Griffith will be released from jail pending trial. U.S authorities arrested Griffith in November for allegedly helping North Korea learn how to use cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology to evade sanctions, ... Read more

Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Finally Released on Bail Under a $1M Bond

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The Ethereum Foundation has announced that the network will undergo a new block upgrade on Wednesday, January 1, 2020, besides the just-conducted Ethereum Istanbul Hard Fork, which occurred on block number 9,069,000. Per the update on Monday, the upcoming network upgrade dubbed, Muir Glacier is scheduled to be activated on the mainnet at block number ... Read more

Ethereum Network to Implement Another Upgrade 'Muir Glacier' on January 1

Ethereum Network to Implement Another Upgrade &#8216;Muir Glacier&#8217; on January 1

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Unlock Protocol now supports Ethereum (ETH) payments on Forbes Crypto, enhancing blockchain-based payment accessibility...

Unlock Protocol Enables ETH Payments on Forbes Crypto

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Emi Lacapra

Emi has known Bitcoin since 2014 when she received an email to invest in the new digital currency. She cleverly ignored it (ha!) although she was captured by the concept until she decided to invest time and money to become more educated about the technology and the economic implications of the new monetary system. She believes blockchain and Bitcoin will do great things in the future and change the lives of many, for good.

Surely Ethereum likes to choose the name of beautiful cities for their systematic upgrades or hard forks, how they are generally denominated.  After Byzantium, St Petersburg and Constantinople earlier this year, Istanbul (which is the new Byzantium and Constantinople by the way) was chosen for the scheduled upgrade at block number 9,069,000, occurred on Saturday, ... Read more

Ethereum Hard Forked into Istanbul. What Does It Mean and has it Affected ETH's Price?

Ethereum Hard Forked into Istanbul. What Does It Mean and has it Affected ETH&#8217;s Price?

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The Winklevoss twins-owned cryptocurrency exchange and custodian, Gemini has on-boarded Julian Sawyer from Starling Bank, to oversee its operations in the United Kingdom and Europe. According to the announcement on Wednesday, Julian will work as a Managing Director in charge of expanding the firm&#8217;s services across the UK and European markets. Speaking on interest to ... Read more

Starling Bank's Julian Sawyer Joins Gemini Exchange as Managing Director

Starling Bank&#8217;s Julian Sawyer Joins Gemini Exchange as Managing Director

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Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin calls Virgil Griffith’s North Korea trip 'admirable.' Learn more about his stance and the controversy...

Vitalik Buterin Defends Virgil Griffith’s “Admirable” North Korea Trip

Vitalik Buterin Defends Virgil Griffith’s North Korea Trip

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Crypto Mining News

LocalEthereum has been renamed LocalCrypto as it improves its services as well as adding new changes to its platform.

LocalEthereum Rebrands as LocalCryptos; LocalBitcoins not 'Private'

LocalEthereum Rebrands as LocalCryptos; LocalBitcoins not &#8216;Private&#8217;

UNICEF introduces a cryptocurrency fund, allowing donations in Bitcoin and Ethereum to support global humanitarian projects...

UNICEF Launches Cryptocurrency Fund for Bitcoin and Ether Donations

UNICEF Launches Crypto Fund for Bitcoin & Ethereum Donations

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Leading blockchain payments provider, BitPay announced in a press release Monday that its customers will soon be able to safely, and compliantly process payments on Ethereum (ETH). According to the announcement on Finance Yahoo, businesses can accept and process a purchase on ETH without the need for any integration or enhancements. The move as it ... Read more

BitPay Finally Adds Support for Ethereum (ETH)

Spanish multinational commercial bank, Banco Santander announced today that it had issued the first-ever end-to-end bond on the Ethereum blockchain. The bank reportedly issued about $20 million bonds, with a quarterly coupon of 1,98% while one of Santander Group&#8217;s units reportedly purchased the bond at market price.  According to the global head of Santander Corporate ... Read more

Santander Announces First-ever $20 Million End-to-End Bond on Ethereum

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The national stock exchange of the Republic of Seychelles, MERJ announced Tuesday, the first of its kind Initial Public Offering (IPO) of its tokenized shares, according to a press release shared with Coinfomania. The development is brought in collaboration with the US custodian Prime Trust, US broker-dealer Jumpstart, and London based blockchain provider Globacap, which ... Read more

Seychelles's National Exchange MERJ Launches World's First Tokenized IPO

Seychelles&#8217;s National Exchange MERJ Launches World&#8217;s First Tokenized IPO

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Crypto Wallet News

Cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider, Ledger has provided support for ERC-20 tokens on its Ledger Live app to give users an enhanced experience, according to an announcement from the firm today.   Following the latest update, it is expected that the Ledger Live v.1.14.0 will support over 1,250 ERC-20 tokens and 22 coins, and supposedly enables users ... Read more

Ledger Upgrades its Live App to Securely Support ERC-20 Tokens

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Crypto Regulation News

MERJ, the official stock exchange of the Republic of Seychelles, announced today that it is teaming up with U.S. broker-dealer Jumpstart and custodian Prime Trust to open its doors to accredited American investors seeking to take part in its equity offering. As per a press release shared with Coinfomania, MERJ’s tokenized security will be publicly listed on a ... Read more

MERJ Offers U.S. Investors Regulated Exposure to Tokenized Securities

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Russia is planning to leverage Blockchain technology to boost its capital administrative services. According to a report on Open Media today, Russia’s Information Technologies Department announced an opening to hire contractors that would build an Ethereum-based system for administrative services in Moscow. The contract budgeted at 56.96 million rubles (app. $860,000) would see qualified contractors ... Read more

Moscow to Create a Blockchain System for Transparency in Administrative Services

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Ethereum developer, Lane Rettig has lashed out on Ethereum&#8217;s Proof of Stake (PoS). He took to his Twitter post to argue that the PoS is not permissionless, giving that one has to receive the stake (Ether) from another person. The 36-year-old developer, who is working on eWASM, said that it might not have been a ... Read more

Developer Lane Rettig Blasts Ethereum's Proof-of-stake (PoS)

Developer Lane Rettig Blasts Ethereum&#8217;s Proof-of-stake (PoS)

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Germany-based end-to-end security issuance solution for asset tokenization, Fundament Group has received approval from the country&#8217;s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (BaFin) to distribute real estate bond within the state. The regulatory approval purportedly allows the startup to issue a proposed €250 million ($280 million) bond, which will be backed by a portfolio of properties in ... Read more

BaFin Approves €250 million Token Offering by Fundament

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As Ether continues to drop in price we analyze the reasons that might be behind this long-standing crisis. From a high of $1,433 of January 2018 to the most recent low of just over $84 of December 2018, the first alternative coin to BTC has been worrying its holdlers for quite a while now. Ethereum ... Read more

What’s Going on With Ethereum? Is Ether Set For an Imminent Failure or Is it Just FUD?

Crypto Exchange News

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance has quickly moved to quash any claims that his project is silently attacking Ethereum, with the hope of usurping it in the global crypto market ranking. CZ, as Crypto Twitter fondly knows him, was writing in response to an article that appeared on crypto news publication, CCN ... Read more

Not True — CZ Binance Refutes Ethereum Killer Allegations

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Opera has finally launched Opera 60 (Reborn3), which has an integrated crypto wallet supporting Ether (ETH) and some other ERC-20 tokens

Opera Finally Launches Web 3.0 Desktop Browser with Inbuilt Crypto Wallet

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Chairman of the U.S Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), Jay Clayton has confirmed in a letter that he agrees with earlier comments about the status of Ethereum (ETH) made in June 2018 by SEC Director of Corporation Finance, William Hinman. The letter which was a response to an inquiry by CoinCenter on whether Hinman’s statement ... Read more

Jay Clayton Affirms ETH is Not a Security

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Official Investigations into the hack of New Zealand based cryptocurrency exchange, Cryptopia has started according to a note published by the NZ Police Force today. The authorities still cannot say for sure, the amount of cryptocurrency stolen by hackers but can only confirm that it is a “significant amount.” The police statement also acknowledged that ... Read more

Update - Cryptopia Hackers Sent Money To Binance, Police Investigation Begins

Update &#8211; Cryptopia Hackers Sent Money To Binance, Police Investigation Begins

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Cryptopia, one of the major crypto exchanges in New Zealand, has announced the temporary shutdown of its services following a security breach of its server. The announcement which was made by Cryptopia today on Twitter revealed that a hack attempt was made on exchange’s server yesterday, which resulted in the loss of some of it’s ... Read more

Cryptopia Hacked! Exchange Halts Trading Services to Prevent Further Theft

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CapBridge, a global capital firm has received a Recognised Market Operator (RMO) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to exist as a private securities exchange in the country. According to a press release by the firm today, Nov 22, the new license was issued to CapBridge’s subsidiary CapBridge Platform Pte. Ltd and has ... Read more

CapBridge Gets RMO License In Singapore, Plans Security Token Listing

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Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has given a hint about the launch of the upcoming Ethereum  V2.0 at the Devcon4 conference, an Ethereum-centric event attended by some of the best and brightest players in the crypto industry, in Prague October 31. Buterin made this known during his keynote presentation at the conference, stating that the project ... Read more

Ethereum 2.0 Launch is Around the Corner, Says Ethereum Co-founder

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Hive Boosts its ETH Mining Operations by 20% Despite Ethereum’s PoS Plans