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More Americans have heard of Dogecoin than Ethereum: Survey

In just over five years since it launched, Ethereum introduced the world to smart contracts, decentralized finance, yield farming and non-fungible tokens, and has long stood just behind Bitcoin as the second-largest blockchain project by market capitalization. Dogecoin (DOGE) is a meme cryptocurrency which has provided no innovation, has no real raison d’etre, and is only popular […]

Mobile crypto ‘mining’ app possibly connected to personal data leak

Pi Network, a cryptocurrency mining app for mobile users, may have been connected to 17GB worth of personal data leaks, a Vietnamese news outlet reported on Monday. The treasure trove of personal data was apparently taken from the Know Your Customer checks of users of Pi Network, according to the person who posted it to […]

Litecoin price hits $400 all-time high but LTC rally at risk of overheating

Litecoin (LTC) has broken the $400 mark reaching a new all-time high price of $414 on Bitstamp on May 10.  The problem with buying Litecoin is that it has become too expensive in a very little period. The world’s tenth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization is worth 215 percent more than it was at the beginning […]

Ether dazzles, Dogecoin fears, Elon Musk’s big night, Bitcoin boosts Square

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Altcoins rally as bulls pile into large-cap tokens and layer-one […]

Altcoins rally as bulls pile into large-cap tokens and layer-1 projects

The cryptocurrency market provides investors with another day of ‘altseason’ as the majority of altcoins in the top 100 on CoinMarketCap rallied today. Several large-cap tokens reached multi-year highs and this all took place as Bitcoin (BTC) price struggles to hold any of the news-event-driven gains that it has accrued throughout the week.  One of […]

LTC price hits 13-month high against Bitcoin — All-time high next for Litecoin?

Litecoin (LTC) prices surged by up to 35% to hit a one-year high against Bitcoin (BTC) this week, prompting analysts to predict an extended upside momentum for the remainder of the ongoing monthly session. LTC/BTC 1-week candle chart (Binance). Source: TradingView The LTC/BTC exchange rate touched 6,358 sats during the Asia-Pacific trading hours. The pair […]

Is China softening on Bitcoin? A turn of phrase stirs the crypto world – Cointelegraph Magazine

They were only two seemingly innocuous words: “investment alternatives.” But when applied to Bitcoin — the seminal cryptocurrency — by an official from the People’s Bank of China in a recent panel discussion, they reverberated like a firecracker. “A remarkable step for BTC,” Lennix Lai, director of financial markets at OKEx, calls the statement. Michael […]

Is the bull run over? BTC loses $50,000 as transaction fees surge

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Bitcoin tumbles 10% in 12 hours and falls below $50,000 […]

North American crypto miners prepare to challenge China’s dominance – Cointelegraph Magazine

Springtime is coming to the North American cryptocurrency mining industry. With access to robust capital markets, cheap power, a stable political climate and increasing participation of technological innovators, industrial-grade mining operations are burgeoning in the United States and Canada, providing competition to Chinese mining pools that now control more than half of the world’s hashing […]

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