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A rapidly growing crypto market means that hacks and scams are accounting for less overall activity, and their percentage of total usage continues to decline. origin »
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Blockchain gaming continues to dominate sector activity as well as investment, having raised a total of $2.5 billion in Q1 of 2022.
2022-4-20 16:32 | |
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Tron (TRX) is evolving as the fastest-growing blockchain for USDT issuance. According to Tron Foundation Chief Executive Officer Justin Sun, over $12. 4 billion Tether (USDT) has been issued on the Tron network.
2021-2-15 13:12 | |
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Although the majority of stablecoins utilize Ethereum, Tron has established itself as an alternative stablecoin platform. The Tron platform is significantly smaller than Ethereum by total users and market capitalization.
2021-2-15 13:47 | |
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The total market cap of Tether (USDT) has crossed $15 billion for the first time. The expanding DeFi sector appears to be driving usage of the controversial stablecoin. The USDT market has increased by around $3 billion in the last month alone.
2020-9-18 19:14 | |
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An analysis of the 20 largest crypto assets by market cap determined that Bitcoin mining accounted for only 66% of total power consumption.
2020-8-8 08:16 | |
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The Ethereum network seems to be cracking under pressure as stablecoins and the DeFi ecosystem continue to expand. As a result, gas usage has skyrocketed to new highs along with network fees—so how can this be positive for Ethereum? As DeFi markets near $3 billion total value locked, the strains on the Ethereum network are […] The post Ethereum Gas Usage Tops All-Time High Amid DeFi and Stablecoin Tear appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2020-7-21 13:14 | |
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According to a research team that focuses on DeFi (decentralized finance), the usage of Ethereum (ETH) on decentralized financial networks is on the rise. The DefiPulse team said: “Total ETH locked in DeFi (currently 2.
2019-10-25 11:21 | |
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Roger Ver’s Bitcoin Cash seems to be stepping up in the race to accelerate mass adoption after the coin recently surpassed Bitcoin in retail spending in Australia. This was found after Bitcoin BCH, an online platform, released a report which tracked the total cryptocurrency usage in Australia for the month of September.
2019-10-14 15:30 | |
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The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance launched a new real-time index tracking the total electricity consumption of the Bitcoin network. The index, called Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index (CBECI), provides a real-time estimate of the total annual electricity usage of the Bitcoin network and enables live comparisons with alternative electricity uses in order to put numbersRead MoreRead More.
2019-7-8 09:00 | |
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Research has shown that the number of on-chain Bitcoin transactions has risen dramatically throughout 2019, nearing the volume of Bitcoin’s peak in December 2017. Even so, transaction fees are a fraction of what they were around bitcoin’s all-time high, likely due to the continued uptick of SegWit transactions on the network.
2019-5-8 00:53 | |
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Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.
2019-4-27 21:17 | |
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Bitcoin scaling solutions may be getting huge publicity in 2019, but the amount of money the network processes daily could already cause headaches for competitors. Bitcoin Usage Tramples Venmo As Morgan Creek Digital co-founder Anthony Pompliano noted on social media April 17, Bitcoin’s ‘on-chain’ transaction volumes grew to $7 billion per day earlier this week.
2019-4-18 16:00 | |
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The Bitcoin Lightning Network scaling protocol has passed a fresh landmark of 8000 nodes as a new solution launches to increase its mainstream usage. Lightning Rides Growth Highs Lightning, which continues to advance its presence as Bitcoin’s foremost scaling solution, hosted 8016 nodes at press time April 16 according to monitoring resource 1ML.
2019-4-16 20:00 | |
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It’s been more than ten years since the mining of the genesis block, but Bitcoin (BTC), the original cryptocurrency, remains the most popular coin, at least at the outset of 2019. Altcoins enjoy only a fraction of the usage that BTC gets every day.
2019-2-15 23:20 | |
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Darknet markets are going as strong as ever, if Chainalysis data is to be believed. In its latest Crypto Crime Report, published earlier this week, blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis reports that darknet market activity has nearly doubled throughout 2018.
2019-2-1 00:35 | |
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Cryptocurrency mobile wallet provider BRD wants to accelerate its international expansion, and it has secured $15 million to do it. The Series B funding round was raised from SBI Crypto Investment, a subsidiary of Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings.
2019-1-26 20:04 | |
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In the time-honored tradition of goal setting for the new year, Bitcoin Magazine has compiled a short list of seven possible New Year’s Resolutions for Bitcoiners as we head into 2019.
2019-1-2 03:22 | |
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Yet another tool is being added to Bitcoin’s growing number of privacy solutions. Thought up at a brainstorming event attended by Bitcoin developers and privacy researchers last summer, Pay to Endpoint (P2EP) is a relatively new trick that utilizes the well-known CoinJoin mixing technique to make blockchain analysis much harder.
2019-1-1 19:31 | |
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The sharp dip in price is hardly the only hurdle ahead of cryptocurrency mainstream adoption: Bitcoin usage among major merchants and payment processors has purportedly fallen 80 percent since the beginning of the year.
2018-11-21 14:41 | |
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This rather long meme, which has been circulating lately, makes fun of the views of Bitcoin supporters by listing commonly made statements and contrasting them with contradicting statements or developments.
2018-10-4 22:27 | |
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In 2016, the entire digital economy contributed 15. 5 per cent of total global GDP, or $11. 5 trillion. This was mainly driven by the increasing usage of a consumer-driven Internet. By 2025, that figure is expected to reach $23 trillion, or 24.
2018-9-25 23:36 | |
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Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger. While this is required for these systems to work, it comes with a significant downside: Privacy is often quite limited.
2018-9-15 20:21 | |
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Up to two-thirds of the total bitcoin market activity in a given day is made up of spam, mixers and other non-beneficial transactions, with only a third of daily bitcoin activity being an economically useful activity such as paying for goods and services.
2018-7-31 17:00 | |
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Blockchain-based payments processor Ripple release its Q2 2018 “XRP Markets” report, detailing the developments in the use of its native digital token XRP. Ripple Explains XRP Price Action Released on July 24, 2018, the report claimed Ripple Labs accounted for only 0.
2018-7-26 16:00 | |
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Although the ideas behind the current Ethereum protocol have largely been stable for two years, Ethereum did not emerge all at once, in its current conception and fully formed. Before the blockchain has launched, the protocol went through a number of significant evolutions and design decisions.
2018-7-21 23:03 | |
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A few months ago, this publication covered a story on Litecoin’s founder, Charlie Lee, who had predicted LTC would become the fourth largest cryptocurrency by total value. His prediction of the Litecoin price was based on his belief that LTC would find greater mainstream usage than other cryptocurrencies.
2018-7-20 21:06 | |
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Recently I had the fortune to have received an advance copy of Eric Posner and Glen Weyl’s new book, Radical Markets, which could be best described as an interesting new way of looking at the subject that is sometimes called “political economy” - tackling the big questions of how markets and politics and society intersect.
2018-7-21 04:03 | |
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The Curio defi project suffered an attack, and Cyvers Alerts experts estimated the damage at $16 million.
The OKX decentralized exchange (DEX) has been exploited for $400k in a suspected private key leak, according to blockchain security firm SlowMist. The exchange has pledged to reimburse affected users.
The decentralized finance protocol Balancer has been attacked, losing $238,000 in crypto assets. Users have been warned not to interact with the platform until further notice. The post Balancer Under Attack Again, Loses $238K in Latest DeFi Exploit appeared first on BeInCrypto.
JPEG Price Increases After Return of Stolen Funds.
The post Alchemix and JPEG’d Recoup Losses as Curve Finance Hacker Returns Stolen Funds appeared first on BeInCrypto.
A new ConsenSys fuzzing tool stress tests smart contracts with randomized inputs simulatinf transaction data. The post Fuzzing Could Boost DeFi Security After Major Hacks Rattle Industry appeared first on BeInCrypto.
Curve Finance, a decentralized finance platform, was exploited for over $50 million in a reentrancy attack, impacting several protocols and causing a $2. 3 billion drop in total value locked across the DeFi ecosystem.
Pink Drainer Hacker Group steals from DeFi platform Slingshot, victimizing 216 users through a phishing scam. The post Pink Drainer Hacker Group Targets DeFi Platform Slingshot, Steals Over $3.5M appeared first on BeInCrypto.