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Kraken stirring the Ripple pot: Is it Ripple or XRP and why does it even matter?

One of the oldest cryptocurrency exchanges on the market, Kraken, announced that they’ll introduce XRP and Bitcoin Cash BCH margin trading on its platform. The addition will expand their margin offering to 8 assets, as these two will now be tradable alongside Bitcoin (XBT), Ethereum (ETH), Ethereum Classic (ETC), Augur (REP), Monero (XMR), and Tether […] The post Kraken stirring the Ripple pot: Is it Ripple or XRP and why does it even matter? appeared first on CaptainAltcoin. дальше »

2018-12-31 23:46


Roger Ver still trying to buy the future for the trouble-plagued Bitcoin Cash (BCH)

Earlier this year, controversial Bitcoin Cash maximalist Roger Ver released a video in which he offered a platform called OpenNode to switch from Bitcoin-based Lightning Network to Bitcoin Cash. As a quick reminder, OpenNode is a recently introduced Bitcoin payment processor which looks to leverage the LN capabilities to enable instant Bitcoin transactions with minimal […] The post Roger Ver still trying to buy the future for the trouble-plagued Bitcoin Cash (BCH) appeared first on CaptainAltcoin. дальше »

2018-12-30 22:00


Ripple’s XRP is most mature (and most hated) cryptocurrency, claims analyst

Popular London-based audit, assurance, tax and financial consulting company called PricewaterhouseCoopers (or PwC) recently had some positive words about XRP. The speed, simplicity and cheapness of cross-border transactions that this Ripple-made cryptocurrency offers has apparently impressed the higher-ups at PwC, especially Henri Arslanian, a crypto-focused employee of the company. дальше »

2018-12-27 22:11


Post-Christmas market recovery: Polymath (POLY) leading the way ahead of Tron (TRX) and ChainLink (LINK)

After reaching $146 billion on 24th, the whole market took a dive and trimmed $18 billion to drop to the weekly low of $127 billion on 25th before bouncing back up to the current $131 billion. The modest push to the north was led by Polymath, a platform that aims to be “Ethereum for security […] The post Post-Christmas market recovery: Polymath (POLY) leading the way ahead of Tron (TRX) and ChainLink (LINK) appeared first on CaptainAltcoin. дальше »

2018-12-26 07:52


Bitcoin Cash (BCH) on the brink of an abyss while Bitcoin Core releases new update

Bitmain fires entire BCH-focused Copernicus team A tweet made by a Chief Strategy Officer at Blockstream and former BTCC Chief Operational Officer Samson Mow suggests that Chinese Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain followed up on recent downsizing reports and laid off its entire Copernicus team, which was working on the development of Bitcoin Cash client. дальше »

2018-12-26 07:18


Bitcoin mining greener than gaming and many other industries, a study reveals

Recently we’ve heard many Bitcoin deniers criticize the cryptocurrency for its alleged energy wasting. From Guardian to New York Times, many news outlets belonging to the “old establishment” failed to realize why exactly Bitcoin uses as much energy as it does, why that energy usage is good and why it’s not even that wasteful when […] The post Bitcoin mining greener than gaming and many other industries, a study reveals appeared first on CaptainAltcoin. дальше »

2018-12-26 07:16


Is XRP Really More Decentralized Than Bitcoin And Ethereum, as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse claims

Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of San Francisco based startup Ripple, has focused a lot of his efforts in the past to defend the cryptocurrency his company made, XRP. Many critics pointed out in the past that XRP is a heavily centralized cryptocurrency, mostly due to the way its validator network is structured and due to […] The post Is XRP Really More Decentralized Than Bitcoin And Ethereum, as Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse claims appeared first on CaptainAltcoin. дальше »

2018-12-26 07:08


Nano protocol passes security audity while another altcoin project on the verge of bankruptcy

Another day, another Cardano AMA Charles Hoskinson, the CEO of IOHK (entity currently in charge of Cardano development), recently held another surprise AMA on his official YouTube channel. During the AMA, first Charles addressed the IOHK Summit events which were previously an employee-only ordeals; from the year of 2019, the Summit will be open to […] The post Nano protocol passes security audity while another altcoin project on the verge of bankruptcy appeared first on CaptainAltcoin. дальше »

2018-12-26 00:24


Research: “Justin Sun’s pre-announcement on average pushes the price of Tron (TRX) up by roughly 23%”

How effective are Justin Sun’s marketing gimmicks?  In a well-researched essay on marketing stunts pulled by Tron’s founder Justin Sun, TheBlock dug out some interesting findings. After introducing Sun and his reputation of a world-class announcer of announcements, the author drops couple of value research bombs on how Sun’s tweets influenced the price movements of […] The post Research: “Justin Sun’s pre-announcement on average pushes the price of Tron (TRX) up by roughly 23%” appeared first on CaptainAltcoin. дальше »

2018-12-25 03:02


Newsflash: Bitcoin Cash survival in jeopardy while Lightning Network development soars

Bitmain could fire up to 50% of its staffers which doesn’t bode well for BCH Chinese cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain is not faring that well at the moment. This current environment of low crypto prices caused a sharp drop of interest for new mining equipment, and companies like Bitmain have felt that the most. дальше »

2018-12-25 23:48


What will be a success for Litecoin (LTC) in 2019? Probably just staying alive.

Litecoin has been in existence since 2011. The market was swept with new altcoins (shitcoins?) in the last two years which saw Litecoin drop behind in media coverage and buyer’s attention. Once second largest cryptocurrency, Litecoin got pushed down by new projects one by one to its current 7th position in the rankings of crypto […] The post What will be a success for Litecoin (LTC) in 2019? Probably just staying alive. appeared first on CaptainAltcoin. дальше »

2018-12-24 03:45


Icon (ICX) had a terrible 2018 with miserable on-chain activity. Team releases new roadmap with no clear deadlines which is a big red flag

Icon was one of the most hyped projects entering this year with huge expectations pinned to the “korean Ethereum”. The whole year was marked with strong bear grip of the crypto market, squeezing out the joy, motivation but also money out of both altcoin team projects and their supporters. дальше »

2018-12-23 16:28


Facebook to join crypto world, IOTA invents new cryptography hash function while Coinbase expands their services

Facebook to use cryptocurrency for WhatsApp transfers Bloomberg reported today that popular social media giant Facebook intends to dip its does deeper into the waters of cryptocurrency. According to unnamed sources, Facebook is working on making a cryptocurrency that will let users transfer money via the WhatsApp messaging app. дальше »

2018-12-22 21:53