Tuesday, May 20
Lead-up to BTC halving excites investors, brief mempool overload, exchanges barely holding on
30May Antoinette TurnerBy Antoinette TurnerNo Comments
PR Wire

Lead-up to BTC halving excites investors, brief mempool overload, exchanges barely holding on

BTC saw an unusual spike in activity yesterday, April 29th. In the past, 24 hours Bitcoin has risen up by 18.66%, the mempool was briefly overloaded, and some exchanges were barely keeping up with the activity.  Let’s start with the price. But before that, I just want to let you know that this is not financial advice, I’m not even a professional trader. I’m just a guy that’s invested 3+ years of his life writing about crypto and blockchain tech. If you ask Billy, yes, suddenly after all of the “blows to Bitcoin” the time for Bitcoin is nigh. Forbes is saying yes it’s going to $10k, Coinbase’s Daniel Cawrey says it’s FOMO time. I mean, it’s crazy, but this is what the news should look like if you ask Forbes. We also say that it looks like BTC is going to break $10,000. But we also don’t ha...
Read More
Welcome MinerGate xFast 1.5 — Official MinerGate Blog
30May Annette WeberBy Annette WeberNo Comments
PR Wire

Welcome MinerGate xFast 1.5 — Official MinerGate Blog

by MinerGate Mining Pool June, 24, 2019 Dear miners, The MinerGate team is working hard to bring you the best mining solutions and user-friendly services. Making MinerGate a multifunctional platform will allow our new users to understand all mining processes faster and benefit from the cutting edge technologies available for our seasoned miners. MinerGate xFast miner is a highly efficient and easily operated mining software that provides users with the highest hashrate compared to other mining equipment. It already is front line technology, but we decided to make it even better. The updates of xFas...
Read More
Kraken makes exchange better for U.K. traders and BCH community
30May Antoinette TurnerBy Antoinette TurnerNo Comments
PR Wire

Kraken makes exchange better for U.K. traders and BCH community

Photo by Philip Veater Kraken added support for 11 new trade pairs on their cryptocurrency exchange on the 30th of April, according to a press release published by the exchange. This new update increases the total crypto trading pairs to about 155, bringing Kraken closer to becoming a centerpiece in the crypto economy. What are the new trading pairs? The newly added pairs are based on GBP, BCH, and USDT, allowing traders to instantly exchange currencies in a single that previously required two trades, such as trading BCH for ETH. In addition to the increased flexibility, even more cryptocurrencies can now be traded directly for British pound sterling. Ether Pairs Pound Sterling Pairs Tether Pairs BCH/USDT LTC/USDT XRP/USDT USDT/JPY USDT/CHF Photo by KrakenIn March, Kraken announce...
Read More
Interview with the chat moderator — Official MinerGate Blog
30May Annette WeberBy Annette WeberNo Comments
PR Wire

Interview with the chat moderator — Official MinerGate Blog

by MinerGate Mining Pool June, 26, 2019 Recently, we released our very own loyalty token – the MinerGate Token.  It’s the token that we believe will empower all parts of the MinerGate ecosystem and positively engage the community in the project’s life.  A few tokens have already been delivered to the most active users as gratitude for their contribution. As well, there have been a lot of questions regarding ‘How can one obtain more/additional tokens?’. Of course more is coming, but currently, there are two ways: Trade and exchange them on HitBTC, EOSDAQ, BTEX, and DEXEOS;  Become a voice of MinerGat...
Read More
Top 3 Bitcoin mining news stories today
30May Antoinette TurnerBy Antoinette TurnerNo Comments
PR Wire

Top 3 Bitcoin mining news stories today

Image by 3D Animation Production Company from Pixabay We don’t often break news, as compared to the rest of the news community we are a small website. However, we do our best to provide you with the latest news, regardless of where the information comes from. We believe in giving credit where it’s due, so without further delay, here are the top 3 news stories about Bitcoin mining in the past week. It seems that Bitcoin miners were celebrating the international workers’ day with extra effort on part of the miners. In this lucky coincidence, Bitcoin miners managed to complete sixteen Bitcoin blocks in one hour, according to Coindesk and their source Blockstream. The onset of this industrious hour was noticed by Twitter user @Kexkey, where he spotted four blocks being completed in o...
Read More
Make CPU Mining Great Again — Official MinerGate Blog
30May Annette WeberBy Annette WeberNo Comments
PR Wire

Make CPU Mining Great Again — Official MinerGate Blog

by MinerGate Mining Pool February, 15, 2020 Monero (XMR) has successfully hardforked on November 30th, at block number 1978433. The fork has changed the CryptoNightR mining algorithm to the new RandomX Proof-of-Work algorithm.   Although the main aim of the upgrade was keeping Monero completely resistant to ASIC mining, thus maintaining the coin decentralized, RandomX has essentially moved XMR mining to CPU, which is no less important. What is the hard fork about? Being one of the top cryptocurrencies by market capitalization, Monero for sure is one of the most popular coins at the moment, not least...
Read More
US Court Freezes Assets Linked to Alleged $9M ICO Scam
28May Annette WeberBy Annette WeberNo Comments
PR Wire

US Court Freezes Assets Linked to Alleged $9M ICO Scam

A federal court has frozen all funds raised in a $9 million token sale the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused of being fraudulent. In a filing earlier this month, the U.S. District Court sitting in Austin, Texas, froze the assets of the individuals and entities believed to have received funds from the Meta 1 Coin initial coin offering (ICO). The court agreed with the SEC that the “Warner relief defendants” — Wanda Ironheart Traversie-Warner (“Traversie”), Alfred Dewitt Warner Jr. (“Warner”) and Ironheart Trust (“Ironheart”) — would try to “dissipate, conceal or transfer assets,” including by sending them offshore, unless the assets were frozen. The ruling, dated May 14, encompasses all the fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies linked to the Meta 1 Coin sale. The Warner r...
Read More
First Mover: Chainlink ‘Marines’ Are HODLing and Here’s Why You Should Care
28May Annette WeberBy Annette WeberNo Comments
PR Wire

First Mover: Chainlink ‘Marines’ Are HODLing and Here’s Why You Should Care

Bitcoin is so speculative and volatile that it doesn’t deserve to be considered an asset class, according to Goldman Sachs. Diving deeper into the realm of the more than 5,000 cryptocurrencies in existence, things get even more speculative – with traders often jumping on fast-moving and thinly traded tokens for a quick profit and then quickly moving on to the next hot trade.  That’s why it’s so notable that holders of one token, Chainlink (LINK), appear to be in it for the long term.  You’re reading First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily markets newsletter. Assembled by the CoinDesk Markets Team, First Mover starts your day with the most up-to-date sentiment around crypto markets, which of course never close, putting in context every wild swing in bitcoin and more. We follow the money so you don’t ...
Read More
Gemini First US Exchange to Integrate With Samsung’s Blockchain Wallet
28May Annette WeberBy Annette WeberNo Comments
PR Wire

Gemini First US Exchange to Integrate With Samsung’s Blockchain Wallet

Gemini has become the first U.S. crypto exchange and custodian to partner with Samsung, the companies announced Thursday.  Samsung Blockchain users in the U.S. and Canada can now connect to Gemini’s mobile app to buy, sell and trade crypto after the companies built an integration between the two applications.  With Gemini Custody, Samsung users can now also transfer their crypto into cold storage.  “Crypto is not just a technology, it is a movement,” Tyler Winklevoss, CEO of Gemini, said in a press release. “We are proud to be working with Samsung to bring crypto’s promise of greater choice, independence and opportunity to more individuals around the world. Now, Samsung Blockchain Wallet customers can buy crypto in a simple, elegant and secure way on Gemini.” Disclosure Read More The leade...
Read More
LG Joins Hedera Hashgraph Governing Council
27May Annette WeberBy Annette WeberNo Comments
PR Wire

LG Joins Hedera Hashgraph Governing Council

Electronics company LG joined Hedera Hashgraph’s Governing Council on Wednesday, becoming its 14th member. The addition edges Hedera toward its council’s long-term goal: tap 39 hands-on node runners to govern its enterprise-grade public ledger, Hashgraph. Hashgraph is an alternative to blockchain platforms with buy-in from Google, IBM, Boeing and University College London among others.  LG, a South Korean home appliance manufacturer, is the first such business and only the second based in Asia, after the Japan-based Nomura, to join. Those attributes add a fresh perspective Hedera’s telecom-heavy and Asia-light council, said Hedera CEO Mance Harmon. He said members “vote on just about every part of the business” of the limited liability corporation. “For that to be done well, we want to ma...
Read More