Category: Cryptocurrency

Aug 09
Institutions flocking to Ethereum for 7 straight weeks as Merge nears: Report

“Greater clarity” around the Merge has driven institutional inflows into Ethereum products, according to a CoinShares report. 1075 Total views 20 Total shares Institutional investors are piling into Ether-based digital asset funds, which have recorded seven straight weeks of positive inflows, according to the latest CoinShares report.  Said inflows reached $16.3 million last week, adding […]

Aug 09
F2Pool co-founder responds to allegations it’s cheating the Ethereum POW system

The response comes after researchers in Israel alleged the mining pool has been manipulating Ethereum block timestamps to obtain higher mining rewards. 78 Total views 3 Total shares F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang has responded to allegations that his mining pool has been manipulating Ethereum block timestamps to “obtain consistently higher mining rewards.” The allegations came from […]

Aug 08
Has US inflation peaked? 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week

Bitcoin (BTC) goes into another key macro week in the United States with a welcome break to the upside. After avoiding a now-familiar breakdown around the weekly close, BTC/USD is surging higher at the time of writing on Aug. 8 to once more tackle resistance in place for two months. Can the bulls win out? […]

Aug 08
Six reasons why blockchain makes sense for commercial real estate: Deloitte

The study reveals that blockchain technology is well-positioned to take over more than 50% of the entire leasing and sale process across commercial real estate. 1418 Total views 14 Total shares Solutions built around blockchain technology offer several upfront benefits, including a censorship-resistant, irreversible distributed ledger. Deloitte’s study revealed blockchain’s position as a perfect fit […]

Aug 08
Korea Blockchain Week, Aug. 8: First-day takeaways from the Cointelegraph team

The fifth annual Korea Blockchain Week kicked off on Sunday, with more than 7,000 people attending Asia’s largest blockchain event of 2022.  The Seoul-based event is set to run its main-stage sessions on Aug. 8 and 9, while side events such as music festivals and nonfungible token (NFT) art galleries will go through until Aug. 12. […]

Aug 08
Bitcoin core contributor urges maximalists to take a different route

Matt Corallo urged the Bitcoin community to drop the us-versus-them culture, which leads to attacking projects other than BTC. 2407 Total views 84 Total shares There was once a time when Bitcoin (BTC) was the only crypto project that was not a scam, and advocating for only BTC made perfect sense. According to a Bitcoin […]

Aug 08
Cross chains, beware! deBridge flags attempted phishing attack, suspects Lazarus Group

deBridge Finance survives an attempted phishing attack, points a finger at the North Korean Lazarus Group, and warns the wider community to be on guard. 344 Total views 11 Total shares Cross-chain protocols and Web3 firms continue to be targeted by hacking groups as deBridge Finance unpacks a failed attack that bears the hallmarks of […]

Aug 08
Aurora Labs exec details ‘fascinating and devious’ crypto scam he almost fell for

A sharp-eyed escrow agent and a screenshot saved Aurora Labs’ head of product Matt Henderson from losing his tokens to scammers. 1051 Total views 5 Total shares Aurora Labs’ head of product, Matt Henderson, says there is a sophisticated over-the-counter (OTC) transaction scam running about that almost duped him into losing a stash of his […]

Aug 08
Vitalik: Layer-2 scaling will make crypto payments ‘make sense’ again — KBW 2022

“It’s a vision that has been, I think, forgotten a little bit and I think one of the reasons why it has been forgotten is basically because it got priced out of the market,” Vitalik Buterin said. 1356 Total views 18 Total shares Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has argued that crypto payments will once again […]

Aug 08
60 million NFTs could be minted in a single transaction: StarkWare founder

Zero-knowledge (ZK) rollup tech company StarkWare founder Eli Ben-Sasson says its new Recursive validity proofs could theoretically roll up as many as 60 million transactions into one on the Ethereum blockchain. The zkSTARK co-inventor made the comments to Cointelegraph during ETH Seoul on Aug. 7 after announcing the start of production of StarkWare’s new Recursive […]