In a Reddit post on Friday, Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum (ETH), outlined critical security concerns surrounding cross-chain bridges in the blockchain ecosystem. As told by Buterin, storing native assets directly-chain (Ethereum on Ethereum, Solana on Solana, etc.) provides a certain degree of immunity against 51% attacks. Even if hackers manage to censor or reverse transactions, they cannot propose…
Month: January 2022
Mozilla ‘Pauses the Ability to Donate Crypto’ After Complaints and ‘Environmental Impact’ Considerations – Bitcoin News
On December 31, the software community founded in 1998, Mozilla, announced it was accepting crypto-asset donations via Bitpay. However, shortly after the announcement, a number of people complained about the decision the company made. A week later, Mozilla has announced it is backing away from digital currency acceptance for now and has “paused the ability to donate cryptocurrency.” Mozilla Revealed…
President Biden sends CFTC nominations to Senate
The White House has officially submitted President Joe Biden’s nominations to fill two seats at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission with the upcoming departure of another commissioner. In a Friday announcement, the White House said it had sent Citi managing director Caroline Pham’s and Summer Mersinger’s names to the Senate for confirmation. Mersinger previously served as chief of staff to…
Ertha Partners with Cryowar – Sponsored Bitcoin News
sponsored Ertha, one of the most highly-anticipated metaverse projects, recently launched it’s native ERTHA token to much success on Huobi Primelist. The play-to-earn game made huge progress in 2021 and is now poised to deliver a one-of-a-kind experience to fans of NFT gaming later this year. Thanks to the project’s meteoric rise, Ertha has attracted the attention of some of…
Cosmos ecosystem tokens rally after Evmos promises Ethereum interoperability
The wider cryptocurrency market is facing another day of volatility and selling on Jan. 7 as Bitcoin (BTC) bears managed to break bull support at $42,000. The price of Bitcoin was pushed to a daily low of $40,620 before resources were exhausted. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro shows that 4 of the top 7 gainers of the day are part…
Why Bitcoin Is Having Such a Brutal Week
In brief The price of BTC has dropped over 11% in a week. Volumes were down the week after Christmas. In the days leading up to December 25, Bitcoin price prophets got an early Christmas present: BTC prices spiked back above $50,000 after languishing in the $40,000s. On December 27, the price kissed $52,000 under the mistletoe—its highest rate since…
Terra expanding UST and LUNA, and Aave Arc seeks institutional adoption, Dec. 31–Jan. 7
Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance newsletter. The new year is upon us, and the expectations for DeFi innovation, utility and mainstream adoption are greater than ever. Read on to hear about the inaugural stories of 2022. Reading this article, you’re only receiving a portion of the content from our DeFi newsletter. Drop your email below for…
Here are the most predictable tokens of 2021 – for those who knew where to look
Digital assets’ past performance is never a guarantee of future price movement. There are never two identical situations in the crypto marketplace, so even historically similar patterns of a token’s behavior can be followed by starkly different price action charts. Still, crypto assets’ individual history of price action often rhymes, giving those who can ready this history right a massive…
How Genie Is Driving Ethereum NFT Bulk Buying and ‘Floor Sweeps’
In brief Genie is a tool that lets users buy batches of Ethereum NFTs from across multiple marketplaces. It has generated over $125 million worth of trading volume to date. As the NFT market surges in the new year, including more than $1.4 billion in trading volume at leading marketplace OpenSea in less than a week, a new trend is…
Interest in Bitcoin and Ethereum Slides According to Google Trends Data, NFT Queries Skyrocket – Bitcoin News
While bitcoin, non-fungible token (NFT) assets, ethereum, and cryptocurrencies had an incredible year in 2021, none of the trends made it into Google’s “Year in Search” review. Currently, interest in bitcoin, in terms of Google searches has dropped considerably since the week of May 16th through the 22nd of last year. Search trends for the term “bitcoin” have slid 72%…