Early this morning, crypto markets almost universally experienced a price drop at around 5 am UTC. Yesterday's crypto market rally was broken after the flash sale and markets have somewhat recovered and are now relatively stabilized.  Crypto Twitter is still catching on, with only a few users experiencing confusion about the situation.  How can the entire crypto…
When Satoshi Nakamoto published the groundbreaking Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008, it obtained much fanfare amongst the cypherpunk community. A pre-programmed step ensures the limited supply of 21 Million BTC will certainly decrease its supply entering the market via a scheduled quadrennial block incentive halving, called The Halvening. Fast forward to 2020, the decentralized digital money…
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Corporate blockchains don't get a lot of love by the crypto community, and rightly so, we rarely have a stake in these systems, nor we are incentivized in any way to care about them.  They are important regardless, even if it's not for obvious reasons. Applying open-source blockchain networks is not feasible for businesses, as that…
Information leaked to Bloomberg suggests that China is preparing for the first real test for the state-sanctioned digital currency via the Didi Chuxing app, an Uber-equivalent in China.  The ride-hailing application is integrating the digital yuan as a payment method, enabling citizens to use DRMB to pay for rides and potentially more in the future, according…
Over the past 30 days, miners have been coming back to BTC in troves, and on Jul. 8, broke the all time record of 126 Exahashes.  One reason behind the spike is the implementation of the latest mining hardware as a response to the increased difficulty-to-reward ratio caused by the halving event in May.   Newer…
Starting on July 11th, Youtube started to present ads featuring BTC giveaway scams to viewers, a clear violation of trust and integrity in the network. Whether this was an inside job or a fault in the algorithm, is not clear.  We reached out to Youtube for comment, but no response was given by the time of…
The scammer is linked to over $1 mil USD in stolen digital assets  While difficult to estimate the total damage caused by the scammer, Energi Defense claims to be able to link him to at least $1,000,000 USD in stolen assets. 
 An equivalent of $500,000 USD of these digital assets is…
Elections are very important for the functioning of a democratic society, and they are difficult to organize because of their scope, size, and importance. History is full of mistakes when it comes to elections, such as that case with the confusing ballot design creating obscurity in the accuracy of the votes.  Keeping things simple and secure…
Disclaimer: This is a press release and it is to be taken at face value. crypto-news.net is only a mediator is sharing information supplied by the company or companies mentioned in the press release. Use this information at your own risk.  JUNE 2, 2020 – (Tokyo, Japan) GINKAN Inc., which manages SynchroLife, the restaurant discovery social…
