Glassnode: Over 60% of Bitcoin has not moved in a year In brief Data from market intelligence firm Glassnode shows over 60 percent of Bitcoin supply has not been moved in over a year. The last time this much Bitcoin was HODLed was just before 2017’s bull run. Coin Metrics suggests another way of calculating
EFF guide to keeping digital devices safe during protests resurfaces Protests rocked cities across the US this week after an African American was brutally killed by a police officer in Minneapolis on Monday. Starting in Minneapolis and making their way to the White House, the protests came just as the US started to open up
An old privacy trick could solve Bitcoin’s privacy problem A Bitcoin developer just resurrected a dormant privacy protocol that could be the silver bullet for Bitcoin’s anonymity issue. And it can be put into action without changing Bitcoin’s source code. Chris Belcher, a UK-based developer with hundreds of commits across various Bitcoin projects like Electrum
The man who builds Blockchain Islands In 2016, a software engineer-turned-management consultant came up with a concept for a futuristic economic system, as part of a blockchain course he was doing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. By the following year, the tiny country of Malta had adopted Steve Tendon’s dream as its revolutionary blockchain
This week in crypto: Facebook, Minecraft, Zoom and Goldman Sachs This week in crypto, Facebook’s wallet for Libra’s wallet gets a fresh lick of paint; crypto comes to Minecraft; and Brave creates its own Zoom; and Goldman Sachs stays out of crypto. All in a week’s work! Goldman Sachs says no to Bitcoin Goldman Sachs,
Russian post-office head arrested for illegally mining crypto Russian police have arrested the former head of a regional post office who used his branch’s computers to mine cryptocurrencies. “According to the investigation, since September 2019, the suspect installed and illegally connected computer equipment for the extraction of cryptocurrency to the power network in the branch
Citi Banking chief condemns treatment of George Floyd “I can’t breathe. Those words were George Floyd’s last.” What sounds like a front-page lede for a major broadsheet is actually the opening of a blog post from Mark Mason, the Chief Financial Officer of Citi, one of the largest investment banks in the US. When it
Bitcoin recovers from downward price spiral Bitcoin’s price has spent the week recovering from a downward spiral that began last Wednesday. Though down and out at the start of the week—a hangover from a rough weekend—Bitcoin managed to pull it all back and come out on top as the week comes to a close. Bitcoin
MakerDAO’s MKR token surges in price following Coinbase listing The price of Maker (MKR), the governance token for the MakerDAO stablecoin, increased by 20% after Coinbase Pro announced yesterday that it would support the token. In the past week, it’s increased by over 50%, according to CoinMarketCap data. MKR started the week at $343; as
At $50 billion, Zoom’s market cap is double that of Ethereum For the hundreds of millions living under lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, Skype, Facetime, WhatsApp or the trusted telephone will not suffice. Only Zoom will do. So popular has the video conferencing software become, that its market cap on Friday soared above $50
