It’s been hard to ignore the discussion around CheckTemplateVerify (CTV) over the past few weeks as it has apparently been generating a divide in the Bitcoin community with developers, users and companies taking sides on whether the activation of the proposed upgrade would be a net positive or negative to the network. Amid the discussion, however, many misconceptions surfaced on…
After a grueling two weeks for the Terra community, the team behind the project announced revisions to their proposed revival plan for Terra (LUNA) and TerraUSD (UST). In a Tweet, Terra shared three major revisions to the proposed Terra revival and redistribution plan. These include increasing the genesis liquidity, introducing a new liquidity profile for pre-attack LUNA holders and decreasing…
Bitcoin (BTC) may fall more than 40% from last week’s bottom, new data warns as one analyst confronts what he says is now a bear market. In a series of tweets on May 20, popular trader and analyst Rekt Capital argued that BTC/USD should dive to near $20,000 to conform to historical norms. Death cross BTC price target now $22,700…
Cosmos (ATOM) emerges as the biggest gainer among the top cryptocurrencies this May 20, brushing aside the fears about its association with Terra (LUNA), an algorithmic stablecoin project whose market valuation fell by 99% last week. Cosmos TVL down from $10M to $155K ATOM’s price increased by over 10% intraday to almost $12. The gains appeared as a part of…
The rise and fall of the Terra blockchain and family of related tokens is both one of the most convoluted and one of the most important stories happening in crypto right now. Assembled here is a plaintext explanation of what Terraform Labs built, why it got so big, why it imploded, what it means for the markets, and what you…
Memes aside, what is the significance of Bitcoin Pizza Day? When Bitcoiners buy pizza on May 22 every year, what exactly are they celebrating? We all know the story, and we’ve all probably wondered, “Does Laszlo Hanyecz regret buying two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoin in 2010?” Hanyecz says no, he doesn’t regret it, but most normal people would argue that…
Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH), continues to face downside risks in a higher interest rate environment. But one analyst believes that the token’s next selloff move could turn into a bear trap as the market factors in the possible release of the Merge coming August. ETH to $4K? Ether’s price could reach $4,000 by 2022’s end, according to a technical setup…
Celebrate the 12th Bitcoin Pizza Day together with Cointelegraph. Many crypto bull runs ago, Laszlo Hanyecz, programmer and early Bitcoin (BTC) miner, made history on May 22, 2010, when he traded 10,000 BTC for two large pizzas. It was the first real-world cryptocurrency transaction and legitimized Bitcoin in a major way. Check out Cointelegraph Store for the hottest crypto swag Inspired…
This is an opinion editorial by Shinobi, a self-taught educator in the Bitcoin space and tech-oriented Bitcoin podcast host. On December 15, 2021, Bitcoin Magazine announced that every attendee of the Bitcoin 2022 conference would receive a free hardware wallet from Arculus. Arculus advertises itself as the “Arculus Secure Crypto Cold Storage Wallet,” and engages in quite a bit of…
The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, has warned that a lot of crypto tokens will fail and many crypto investors will get hurt following the collapse of terra (LUNA) and stablecoin terrausd (UST). SEC Chair Gensler’s Warning After LUNA and UST Collapse U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler expressed his concerns Wednesday…
