Ether could outperform Bitcoin after spot ETF launch: Kaiko

Bitcoin (BTC) has been profitable as an investment 98.2% of the days since its creation, data from holdcalc.com as of July 1 indicates.Counting 3830 days back — to January 4, 2009, one day after the coin’s Genesis Block was hashed  — holdcalc’s data suggests that on 3671 of these, it was profitable to buy bitcoin…

Fortress Investment Group has increased its offer to purchase claims from creditors who lost money in the infamous $480 million Mt. Gox hack. The group, which aims to profit by eventually recovering the Bitcoin (BTC), upped its offer on the cryptocurrency to 88% of the estimated account value.Cointelegraph has reported previously how Fortress calculated offers…

The region's traders are highly aware of scams and avoid them. Blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis has found that crypto traders in Africa are less likely to have sent tokens to, or received tokens from, known scam addresses than traders in other regions in the past year.In the Chainalysis “2020 Geography of Cryptocurrency Report”, the firm…

A new blockchain system will be used to manage and track COVID-19 exposure among students and staff in multiple charter schools across California state. 1780 Total views 12 Total shares The new applications and measures being implemented by public health authorities across the world during the COVID-19 pandemic have sparked debate over how to balance…

A Bitcoin (BTC) experiment on the Isle of Man involving the Lightning Network, 25 schoolchildren, and a promise of a milkshake has yielded interesting results. At Willaston School on the Isle of Man (a British Crown Dependency nestled between the United Kingdom and Ireland), 25 year-6 students, one teacher and one teaching assistant participated in the…

A new Web3 initiative aims to build a ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence system on the blockchain. 106 Total views 1 Total shares BlockGPT, a recently-launched Web3 company, announced the launch of its ‘chat to earn’ artificial intelligence (AI) service and related blockchain ecosystem on May 11. According to the company, BlockGPT aims to create a decentralized, token-governed…

Andy Milenius, formerly the chief technology officer at MakerDAO, published an open letter dated April 3 explaining his concerns over the project’s internal conflicts. MakerDAO is the  company behind the decentralized algorithmic Ethereum-based stablecoin DAI as well as the governance token Maker (MKR).In his 24-page-long letter, Milenius describes a conflict between his ideas of equal…