Bitcoin comes back to life — Does data support a rally to $100K and higher?

Millennials are big on crypto with 77% wanting to learn more. 924 Total views 13 Total shares A survey by credit card giant Mastercard has revealed that four in ten people plan to use cryptocurrency for payments within the next year.The survey, published on May 4 and titled ‘Consumer Appetite for Digital Payments Takes Off’,…

Multiple teams, protocols and chains mean 1inch is growing fast 2663 Total views 13 Total shares Decentralized finance platform 1inch announced on Thursday a rebrand to “1inch Network” — a facelift designed to better reflect the current and future state of the multichain, multiprotocol platform as it continues to grow, according to 1inch co-founder Sergej…

Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX is implementing major changes to the weights of its indices later this month, according to an announcement published today, Nov. 1.The exchange says the update is a bid to ensure that users trade against a reference price that “more closely reflects the market consensus price of underlying assets.”New weightings and new…

Bitcoin (BTC) remains pinned below $27,000 and the recent weakness of the past few days has increased calls from analysts for a fall to the low $20,000 levels. While anything is possible, the bulls are unlikely to give up the $25,000 support without putting up a fight.Glassnode’s lead on-chain analyst Checkmate said in his comments…

Polygon's NFT market continues to attract users, though the demographic is more aligned to gaming companies and developers than collectibles as on the Ethereum network. 847 Total views 24 Total shares The number of nonfungible tokens (NFT’s) sold on the layer-two protocol Polygon reached an all-time high last month at just short of 2 million. According…

Cross-border payments do not appear to be a priority as countries all over the world to engage with their own digital currency projects, a new report says.While global governments are competing to become the first country in the world to issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC), no CBDC project really focuses on cross-border payments,…

Michael Lewis painted an overwhelmingly positive picture of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried in his new book, "Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon." 132 Total views 8 Total shares I haven’t read Michael Lewis’ The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, but I find it difficult to believe that the author

The Shellbot cryptojacking malware has gone through an update and come out with some new capabilities, technology news website TechCrunch reported on May 1.Per the report, these findings come from Boston-based cybersecurity firm Threat Stack. The company claims that Shellbot, which was first discovered in 2005, has received a major update.The original Shellbot was capable…

Bitcoin Core developer Peter Wuille has introduced new Bitcoin (BTC) smart contract programming language dubbed Miniscript.Wuille, a creator of major Bitcoin network upgrade SegWit, announced the Miniscript project website on the mailing list message for Bitcoin developers on Aug. 19.As noted in the statement, Miniscript was developed and implemented by Wuille, Andrew Poelstra and Sanket…