Category: Ethereum

If 2021 has taught us anything about digital currencies, it’s that big banks and major payments providers are now feeling more comfortable with Bitcoin (BTC). While the CEO of PayPal and other large corporations are expressing excitement for crypto payments and salaries paid in Bitcoin, executives from Visa, JPMorgan and ING all agree that Bitcoin is

Fire up your tractors: The farmer’s almanac of decentralized finance is indicating that DeFi Summer 2.0 could feature some healthy yields across the ecosystem.  Multiple common metrics used to gauge the health of the DeFi space are pointing toward a looming bull market, but perhaps most promising of all might be the surge in Curve’s

r/Wallstreetbets, or WSB, a subreddit famous for organizing a pump for Dogecoin (DOGE) and the GameStop short squeeze, is enacting a crypto discussion ban after officially allowing the topic for a single day. Subreddit moderator u/bawse1 announced Thursday that WSB has now banned crypto discussions forever, following a Bloomberg article titled, “WallStreetBets Bows to Crypto.” Just

For several years, one of the biggest hurdles to blockchain adoption has concerned the fact that it’s a rather technical space. Experienced developers find it daunting to build decentralized apps using this technology. Meanwhile, consumers unaccustomed to tokens and crypto wallets often struggle with user interfaces that are far clunkier than what mainstream platforms provide.

Panelists at a DeFi-focused talk held at the BlockDown conference on Thursday expressed their optimism at the past and future growth of decentralized finance, but highlighted the hurdles to adoption due to congestion on Ethereum. The panel, titled “DeFi’s newest waves,” featured Anton Bukov, co-founder of 1inch Network, Ajit Tripathi, head of institutional business at

A Miami-Dade County commissioner is backing a new resolution to allow residents to use cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) to pay local taxes. According to a Thursday document acquired by The Miami New Times, county commissioner Cohen Higgins has brought a resolution to Miami-Dade’s Infrastructure, Operations, and Innovations Committee, calling for the establishment of a 13-member

The OpenEthereum client for Ethereum, formerly known as the Parity client, is reportedly malfunctioning for a number of users on Thursday afternoon UTC, including the popular block explorer Etherscan. According to multiple user reports on Github, the OpenEthereum client has been stuck on block 12,244,294, or just 294 blocks after the Berlin hard fork was

Crypto strategist Scott Melker is detailing his current outlook on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and XRP. Melker says BTC’s dip to around $62,000 after Coinbase hit the stock market on Wednesday is no surprise. “That’s a really, really classic textbook trade, something like that. Now, as you know, when you’re trading these, you don’t put it

Major U.S. asset manager Grayscale has just surpassed $50 billion in cryptocurrency assets under management for the first time. Grayscale’s AUM is creeping ever closer to the $57 billion holdings of the largest commodity ETF. MILESTONE: We just reached $50 billion AUM. Yet another reason to #GoGrayscale. pic.twitter.com/Jrk7n6TAOI — Grayscale (@Grayscale) April 14, 2021 The

Popular analyst and trader Nicholas Merten is unveiling the key reason that’s powering Binance Coin’s current parabolic ascent en route to becoming the third-largest crypto asset. In a new video, Merten tells his 428,000 subscribers that the recent delay in the deployment of Optimism, an update for Ethereum to make it faster and more cost-efficient,