Cash or crypto? FTX creditors to vote on how they're paid back

Bitcoin (BTC) refused to let $20,000 support die for good on March 11 as the weekend opened to a battle for lost ground.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBitcoin shakes off USDC depegData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD circling $20,200 at the time of writing.A brief dip below the $20,000 mark overnight was…

A code for the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain’s first-stage transition to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus algorithm could be completed by June 30, as stated in an Ethereum core developers meeting on May 2.In a bi-weekly call, Ethereum researcher Justin Drake claimed that the developers team expects to prepare code specifications for phase zero by the end…

In a promising sign for the DeFi space, another project devotes itself to complete user compensation following an exploit 445 Total views 13 Total shares In a blog post on Saturday night, Warp Finance — the latest decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol to suffer a smart contract exploit — announced promising strides towards recompensating users following…

SFC reportedly held discussions with the country's crypto ETF issuers about providing staking services via licensed platforms

Everywhere you look these days, there’s turbulence in the economy. A bitter trade war is seeing the United States and China slap ever-increasing tariffs on goods on a tit-for-tat basis. Over in the United Kingdom, never-ending uncertainty shrouds Brexit, with politicians in Westminster and Brussels at an impasse over the country’s imminent departure from the…

Bitcoin (BTC) miners are sending record amounts of BTC to centralized crypto exchanges.In a June 27 tweet, on-chain analytics platform Glassnode reported an all-time high in Bitcoin miner revenue sent to exchanges.Percent of miner revenue sent to exchanges. Source: Glassnode.It noted that there was currently an “extremely high exchange interaction,” from Bitcoin miners which had…

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The Ex-COO of ‘Chinese Google’ Baidu and blockchain bull Qi Lu has joined Y Combinator (YC) to run the company’s new China-based division, according to a blog post August 14.   Y Combinator –– the major Silicon Valley-based entrepreneurial accelerator that funded such startups as Dropbox, Airbnb, Coinbase, Reddit, among others –– announced that is has…