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Something extremely rare is occurring, something we have not seen for two years. Ethereum is rising, while bitcoin is either not moving or even falling. Ethereum Up, Bitcoin Down. This state of affairs used to be common place. The ping pong of crypto, which seemingly applies only on the way up – or everyone is […]

Ethereum has been incurring significant upwards momentum over the past several days and weeks, with its price surging from its recent Ethereum Price lows of roughly $165 to highs of $215, which is the level at which it has incurred some selling pressure that has slowed its ascent. Analysts are now noting that it is […]

Ripple transferred 30 million XRP worth $8.5 million to its OTC wallet, which is used to distribute the cryptocurrency. XRP was trading at Ripple Price $0.30 a 19% high in the last 24 hours when Ripple made the transfer. Over the past few months, Ripple has faced criticism from the crypto community for its selling […]

Alternative coins or altcoins have been slowly bleeding over the last two years. Why Altcoins Overtake Bitcoin? This is especially true for altcoins in their bitcoin (BTC) pairs. Many are down by over 90% from their all-time highs. Some mid-cap coins have even breached their historical support levels and are printing fresh lows on an […]

For the first time ever, demand for the ethereum network has led to the aggregate collection of more Ethereum netowrk fees than bitcoin. According to Messari, $207,000 was paid in total for the usage of the ethereum network in the past 24 hours. While for bitcoin it was $180,000. That’s while the most common fee […]

Ripple gaining 16% over the last 24 hours, whereas Bitcoin fails to rise. The medium-term outlook of both the coins is likely to be bullish. Making an exception, Ripple has left Bitcoin miles away in last day’s price movement race. While BTC has made a cut of 0.19% in the last 24 hours, XRP gained […]

For the third consecutive day, Ethereum has been one of the top-performing crypto assets while its big brother has taken a break. A slight fall back for bitcoin was not mirrored for ETH so has the world’s second most popular crypto asset finally started to decouple? Ethereum Price Bullish? Ethereum Touches $200 Following a Ethereum […]

It looks like ethereum has come back to life and appears tempted to take the show from bitcoin, crossing $200 today (up 5%) while BTC is not moving. Why is Ethereum Rising? This reversal of fortunes – at least for now – is not that unexpected. Calls for an Altcoin Season have been on-going now […]

400 million USDT vanished away yesterday at Tether Treasury, according to Twitter user Whale Alert. Many investors fear that a steep downtrend in Bitcoin price is just around the corner. Will Bitcoin Crash? Should We Expect a Bitcoin Crash? On September 16, the crypto community found out that Tether had burned about $400 million worth […]

Bitcoin Addresses Worth $100,000 or More Hits All-Time-High The number of Bitcoin (BTC) wallet addresses holding a minimum of 10 BTC — worth over $100,000 to press time — has hit an all-time high, multiple data sources reveal. According to BitInfoCharts’ Bitcoin Rich List, as of Sept. 17, there are 157,210 addresses holding between 10 […]

Payment solution BitPay will soon accept ethereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, according to an announcement from the company today. With BitPay, subscribing businesses will be able to pay in bitcoin, bitcoin cash, and ether, along with a handful of stablecoins. Launched in 2011, BitPay settles both fiat and crypto payments in over 200 […]

Bitcoin has been facing a bout of sideways trading for the past several days, but today’s drop to below $10,200 may spell trouble for the cryptocurrency’s near-term price action and may point to the possibility that BTC will soon revisit its nearest level of major support at $10,000. This latest drop, although relatively minor, has […]

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 […]