Crypto exchanges Gemini and Kraken announced their support for the new Filecoin (FIL) mainnet. Both Gemini and Kraken will support the mainnet shortly after block 148,888 is mined.https://twitter.com/Gemini/status/1316365375337046020?s=20This is because rather than waiting for the token to launch, several exchanges are already preparing to list the coin. This shows the potential that many within the […]
Anthony Pompliano, the popular crypto analyst and permabull who’s mostly known for his “Pomp Podcast” has as of late started a new program called “Lunch Money” together with Polina Marinova in which the two of them discuss the current state of business news coming in and the state of the cryptosphere.Yesterday’s episode, lunch money #138 discussed a […]
Privacy coin Monero has known a very good month of October so far. The Monero price is up some 18% in the past week and has climbed some 80% in the last month. This is strange as blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis is warning that privacy tokens have a limited future. Chainalysis CEO Gronager said in […]
Some 2 million Chinese living in Shenzen have signed up to receive “red packets” containing 200 yuan ($30) in “digital yuan”. Officials had announced the plan to distribute the money just before “golden week” a fortnight ago, and it immediately proved very popular. By handing out “free” digital money to ordinary citizens in a lottery […]
A strange thing is happening in the cryptosphere these days apparently. Two of the most interesting personalities (Vitalik Buterin of Ethereum and Charles Hoskinson of Cardano) who know how to talk all things crypto and the technicalities behind it, are apparently trying to attract a wider user net as of late. Perhaps they are jealous […]
Such is the power of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook that any possible development of a “global stablecoin,” which is what most people would call a crypto with a possible 2 billion users, can herald a warning from the world’s biggest economies. According to a draft statement obtained by Reuters, the governments of the G7 will launch […]
Bitcoin and Tesla are doing a weird push and pull dance this year. From being named as the most viewed investments during the first half of 2020 in the US until a suggestion that came in for Bitcoin to be split just as Tesla stock was in order to make it more attractive, the futuristic terminology of […]
In a long medium post, an unknown group of investors have announced that they are starting a crowdfunded lawsuit against YFI creator Andre Cronje, the man who ever since the Eminence hack on 28 September went silent on social media for two weeks. As you may remember, Cronje, long seen as an example of how a DeFi […]
Over in the US, the Democratic leader of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is pushing for another round of stimulus payments to be sent out to struggling Americans who are out of work because of COVID-19.Unemployment has risen mostly in the service sector and small businesses, of which there are a lot in the Midwest. The […]
The news that one of Silicon Valley’s newest Unicorn companies, financial payments provider Square, was putting Bitcoin on its official balance sheet to be deposited with the US treasury came as a shock to many, and as a welcome sign to some. One of the latter ones was legendary trader Peter Brandt who stated that […]
