The past four weeks have seen impressive movement in the altcoin markets, creating optimism that the long, slow valuation decline may finally be at an end. Most alt prices both in fiat and against Bitcoin have either increased or moved sideways since early August. Other indicators are also fueling the speculation that the altcoin bear…
The United Nations Security Council has concluded that the North Korean government has been using cryptocurrency to evade international sanctions, and is behind a series of cyberattacks on Asian exchanges. According to the Nikkei Asian Review, which claims to have access to a soon-to-be-released report, North Korea may have as much as USD $670 million…
A fifty-one percent attack has been launched against EthereumClassic (ETC), causing a single malicious player to take control of the network. Several blocks have been re-written, resulting in double spends for what could be several hundred thousand dollars worth of the platform’s tokens. In response, a number of exchanges, including CoinBase, have suspended withdrawals. Also,…
One undeniable fact of the crypto revolution is that the vast growth in platforms is certain to continue unabated. There are currently more than fifteen hundred cryptos, with many more under development. When the ICO boom began last year, new coins easily drew attention and investment. Such is no longer the case, as the market…
Cryptocurrency market has been in a dilemma since the inauguration of coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum, over which one to support, and which one is better than the other. While Bitcoin is purely a currency, constructed over block-chain, making it decentralized and reliable, more than governmental banking systems, while Ethereum isn’t just a coin or…
Bitcoin IRA, a cryptocurrency based investment provider, has added Litecoin, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, BCash & Ripple to its offerings. The company has made this move to enable customers to take advantage of the rising value of altcoins and greater diversity in the crypto space. Bitcoin IRA launched in 2016, and has seen significant growth as…
A few months ago, due to growing unrest because of the DAO attack, the Ethereum team made a compromise by creating a hard fork, one with the DAO hacker's Ethereum on it, and the other without, and thus creating Ethereum and Ethereum Classic,
with the latter holding the hacker's tokens. While most of the Ethereum community…
Ethereum classic, if you didn't already know, is a result of the hard-fork that Ethereum conducted July 20, 2016. The hard-fork happened due to issues relating to the DAO hack. Now that there are two chains where Ethereum classic is plagued by the occasional replay attacks and similar issues,but the question is will Ethereum classic survive on its…