On November 19th, hackers breached Tether’s core treasury wallet and stole $31 million worth of its USDT currency. This theft is one of the largest to-date of a cryptocurrency. The Tether team acted quickly to neutralize the stolen coins, and no individual investors appear to have been victims. Nevertheless, this action has caused grave concern…

Investing in cryptocurrencies has enabled people to experience significant financial gains in a short period of time. Due to the somewhat secretive nature surrounding blockchain currencies, most casual observers would suspect that cryptocurrency assets are easily hidden away from all prying eyes; whether they come from official or unofficial sources. However, the practice of blockchain…

The cryptocurrency landscape has been flourishing over the past few weeks and continues to grow. The total market cap now exceeds 250 Billion USD with Bitcoin representing a little over half of this total. Ethereum's market cap has been slowly eroding from 30% down to below 15%, as Bitcoin Cash pushes above 10%. Altcoins have…

Right now e-Chat is running the ICO, which started on November 16 and finishes on December 30, 2017. e-Chat is a revolution in the sphere of finance and social interaction. They managed to develop a decentralized social platform with the multi-currency cryptowallet built into the platform. The decentralized architecture of this app distinguishes it from other…

Bitcoin continues to prove itself as a modern day success story and has just recently broken the $8000 mark. This sustained increase in value has attracted a lot of attention from traditional financiers, investors, and traders. It has also managed to catch the attention of some of the net’s more ingenious hackers. Crypto Trojan Earlier this month,…

A new development could have a major impact on Bitcoin, Litecoin, and other similar platforms. A group of researchers at Stanford University, University College London, and Blockstream have announced a method for making transactions truly confidential. Known as Bulletproofs, this technology would not only enable privacy, but it would also aid in scalability, enabling many…

UTN tokens by Universa project have sparked enormous interest where they were offered as a part of inter-project token swap (IpTS). The number of applications for tokens more than 5 times exceeded the supply, with the swap lasting for just 4 days (from 6 till 9 of November). The holders of ICOS tokens had an…

The increasing amounts of ICO and TGE based fundraisers are providing an ample amount of opportunity and risk to potential investors. ICO's are started almost every day, and this is one of the major issues. Since anybody can start an ICO, a platform that can manage all of the known information about the ICO/TGE is necessary.…

On Nov. 8, Mike Belshe, CEO of BitGo, announced that SegWit2x will not activate due to a lack of community support. He values "keeping the community together" more than increasing the blocksize or any technical improvements. Belshe feared dividing the community could "be a setback to Bitcoin’s growth." With just four brief paragraphs, Mike Belshe cancelled…

Ripple, American Express, and Santander Bank have announced a partnership that will use Ripple’s blockchain technology to facilitate cross border payments. This move represents the largest public partnership to-date between a cryptocurrency platform and a traditional financial institution. It is also a reflection of the growing adoption of blockchain technology across the financial realm. Regarding…