US Bitcoin reserve has pundits in tailspin as Trump inauguration looms

A new mining concept is facing criticism in the blockchain sphere. Dr. Elias Strehle of the Blockchain Research Lab and Lennar Ante of the University of Hamburg recently warned that blockchain nodes engaging in exclusive mining “have no incentive to forward new transactions to their peers.”They speculated that crypto miners may instead be incentivized to…

Earlier this week, initial members of the Libra Association formalized a governance structure after holding their inaugural meeting in Geneva. The transition happened just days after seven high-profile participants, including Visa, eBay and Mastercard, chose to leave the organization.Libra’s setback happened amid general regulatory upheaval in the crypto industry: In October alone, United States authorities…

Every trader aims to buy low and sell high, but only a few are able to muster the courage to go against the herd and purchase when the downtrend reverses direction. When prices are falling, the sentiment is negative and fear is at extreme levels, but it's at times like these that the inverse head and…

Players can mint a non-fungible token that acts as their access pass and play the classic game Asteroids on the blockchain.

A group of five Democratic senators has reportedly rejected President Joe Biden’s nominee, Saule Omarova, to head the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). Omarova’s nomination as a bank regulator was initially opposed by three members of the Senate Banking Committee — Senators Jon Tester, Mark Warner, and Kyrsten Sinema — on a phone…

Former NFL player Joe Theismann thinks Bitcoin has drifted to the back burner, out of the public’s microscope. “It’s sort of been pushed way on the back shelf,” Theismann told Bloomberg in a Jan. 30 podcast interview. “I’m not saying that there isn’t a possibility for it to rise again at some point, but I think that…

Ethereum (ETH) has the most developers working on its base protocol of all cryptocurrencies, not counting community project developers, according to a report by crypto asset management firm Electric Capital. The report was published in a Medium post on March 7.Per the post, the company fingerprinted over 20,000 code repositories and 16 million commits to…

The amount of Credit Karma Tax filers that reported short-term crypto losses in the first month of 2019 surged more than fivefold over the same period in 2018, the firm revealed on April 3.Credit Karma Tax, a tool launched by San Francisco-based personal finance firm Credit Karma back in 2016, offers a free tax filing…

Bitcoin (BTC) may have recovered to $11,700 but miners could soon spark a price plunge, data warns.In an update on Aug. 14, on-chain monitoring resource CryptoQuant identified a spike in mining pool outflows. BTC price: CryptoQuant expects a “little pullback”Aftering remaining stable this month, mining pool outflows have begun to grow, with 802 BTC in aggregated…