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Hashstack is proud to launch its Open Protocol testnet to bring under-collateralized loans to DeFi. Disrupting decentralized finance from within will help eliminate efficiencies and make lending more accessible to a broader audience. Under-collateralized Loans For DeFi Hashstack.Finance is changing…
Bitcoin gained the most in more than three months as investors show signs of renewed risk appetite following a volatile week across financial markets. The largest cryptocurrency by market value jumped as much as 9.8% to $40,573, the most since…
Crypto Mining in Russia and Regulatory Changes Russia’s Siberia region demonstrated an unprecedented growth in electricity consumption in the recent weeks, following uncertainty in the government regulation of Bitcoin mining in the country. According to the Russian news agency TASS,…
The price of bitcoin closed the week on a softer note, dropping by four percent versus last week’s close to around $6,300. Bitcoin’s correction was caused by “Dr. Doom” Nouriel Roubini’s statement in front of Congress where he called the…
The price of bitcoin remained firm over the course of the past week, gaining three percent helping BTC move back up towards the $7,000 mark. Once again, cryptocurrency regulations were a big topic in several jurisdictions, including the U.S., the…
The price of bitcoin closed the week three percent higher, around the $6,500 mark, as bulls managed to regain the upper hand to allow bitcoin to remain above its most recent $6,000 resistance. In the past seven days, blockchain media…
The price of bitcoin rallied by roughly five percent boosted by the positive the momentum for cryptographic assets over the week of May 28-June 3 while some smaller altcoins experienced 51 percent attacks. South Korea’s announcement to recognize cryptocurrencies as…
After a three-month bear market, it looks like the tide is finally turning for cryptoassets. The price of bitcoin has rallied for a second week in a row, by almost 10 percent week-on-week pushing towards the $9,000 mark. The prediction…
The much-anticipated G20 talks on global cryptocurrency regulations took place at the beginning of this week in Buenos Aires. The result of these talks was that no immediate regulation will be put in place and that more information on this…
Is this the start of a bullish market for ETH? The weekly chart below shows for the first time, a Kumo breakout, that is a close outside of the Ichimoku cloud; it is a bullish one with ETH-USD closing above…
Bitcoin breaks the $1000 handle again, after a harsh reaction to the PBOC announcement of the inspection of Chinese exchanges in January. Also, Bitcoin Unlimited reaches new highs in popularity amongst Bitcoin miners despite building an invalid block and forfeiting…
Two important, related events have secured Bitcoin’s place as one of the most important assets in the world. Firstly, a deterioration of the situation in Venezuela. Following the decommission of Venezuela’s largest bill, December 17/18 saw protests and lootings. People…
An interesting malaise of events is turning the tide in favor of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general. Search terms for “Earn Bitcoin” are at all time highs, demonetization in India has not, surprisingly, led to lower interest rates but the…
Bitcoin Core’s scaling solution is making headway, with the percentage of blocks signalling SegWit support reaching for 20 percent, as shown below, with pools such as Slush, BitFury and YourBTCC supporting the protocol change. Bitcoin users may have noticed that…
The presidential race in the US is now over and ended with a victory for the Republicans, driving a short-term jump in Bitcoin’s price. Of course, uncertainty lies ahead, but the response from investors is pretty optimistic with regard to…
Last week saw the eighth anniversary of Satoshi Nakamoto’s white paper on bitcoin as experts debated on online communities and social media whether or not the cryptocurrency was intended as a store of value or a payment settlement network. Also,…