Altcoin News

Ripple fans adamantly preach that the cryptocurrency runs on a decentralized network. A quick search of the term “Ripple Decentralized” on Twitter reveals hordes of accounts claiming that “The Standard” is decentralized in nature. Many are even ganging up in an attempt to prove their point. In addition, the Chief Technology Officer of Ripple Labs, […]

The Ripple-backed startup Coil is partnering with Mozilla and Creative Commons to launch a $100-million grant for content creators and developers. Coil is designed to give online publishers a way to directly monetize their work by allowing fans to reward them in both crypto and fiat currency. The new Ripple Backed Startup grant program is […]

The Ethereal Summit is currently taking place in Tel Aviv, Israel. One of the more interesting panels was that of Ethereum’s co-founder, Vitalik Buterin. Titled “Q&A On Ethereum 2.0 With Vitalik,” the discussion revolved around plenty of things concerning the future of the network, including scalability solutions – Vitalik Buterin: “This Is How I Eliminate […]

Ethermine has finally begun voting in line with Spark Pool and F2Pool and is now voting to raise the gas limit at ethereum blockchain. They state: “Given the current Ethereum network congestion we have started to test raising the block gas limit to 10M gas.” The limit is currently at 8 million gas accounting units […]

EOS Hacked – After an attacker used an ongoing exploit on EOS network to win every roll on a gambling dapp, the network has been frozen. So far, the attacker has managed to steal more than $110,000 worth of EOS. How EOS Hacked? An attacker used REX on the blockchain network to continuously win on […]

Litecoin hashrate has drops to 40%, implying miners are leaving the network. The reason for the same is likely to be the halving of the block reward on the 5th of August. LTC Lost 30% of its Mining Power in August The month of August saw Litecoin hashrate drops from 523 TH/s to a low […]

300 Million Tether (USDT) Had Just Reached Binance. Here Is Why. Tether has sent out another large portion of USDT towards Binance today. The issuer of the most popular stable coin has sent $300 million worth of USDT to the world’s largest exchange. According to the official page, it’s because they are conducting another chain […]

After delays, Linzhi has ordered the first chips for its new E1400 Ethereum mining ASIC. Testing on the unit, which hopes to smash the current MH/s rates of top-end Ethash mining kit, will begin in mid-November. A new range of high-performance Ethereum mining equipment is apparently in the pipeline, and – should its ambitions be […]

Stellar Planning to Airdrop 2 Billion XLM to Users of Messaging Platform Keybase Stellar Development Foundation (SDF, which is the non-profit organization founded in 2014 by Jed McCaleb (co-founder of Ripple and its former CTO) and Joyce Kim to “support the development and growth of the open-source Stellar network”, announced on Monday (September 9) that […]

100 Million XRP was transferred to Ripple Co-founder Jeb McCaleb from Ripple Lab’s wallet address, as reported by the Whale Alert twitter account. Many are investors are worried about a potential sell-off which could drive the price down below its current rate of $0.26. Jed Who? Jed McCaleb is currently the CTO of Stellar, the […]

Is the World’s Second Most Popular Cryptocurrency Dying a Slow Death? Ethereum, the world’s second most cryptocurrency after Bitcoin, is gradually losing its foothold in the market. It’s market capitalization has almost halved since the end of June, and it is trading at just a fraction of its all-time high. Are all the crypto-flipping enthusiasts […]