Former Monero maintainer Spagni to surrender for South Africa extradition
Riccardo Spagni, the former maintainer of the privacy coin Monero (XMR), also known as Fluffypony, faces extradition to South Africa months after his arrest by...
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6 Questions for Annabelle Huang of Amber Group
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Crypto prices continue to tank, lawsuit takes aim at Binance.US, and Celsius moves $320M worth of digital assets: Hodler’s Digest, June 12-18
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Regulations and exchange delistings put future of private cryptocurrencies in doubt
The core principles of cryptocurrency were based on financial independence, decentralization and anonymity. With regulations being the key to mass adoption, however, the privacy aspect...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, ADA, XLM, XMR, MANA
The bears are trying to extend Bitcoin’s (BTC) record of nine consecutive red weekly candles to ten weeks, but the bulls are trying to avert...
Monero enters ‘overbought’ danger zone after XMR price gains 75% in two weeks
Monero (XMR) price may witness a sharp pullback by June because its 75% rally in the last two weeks has left the gauge almost “overbought.”...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, BNB, XMR, ETC, MANA
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has declined for eight consecutive weeks, the first such losing streak since 1923. On May 20, the S&P 500 briefly...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, ALGO, XMR, XTZ, THETA
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq have declined for five consecutive weeks, indicating that traders continue to reduce exposure to risky assets. Bitcoin’s (BTC) close...
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Gaming is now one of the most profitable sectors of the entertainment industry, with consumer spending in the United States growing 8% in 2021 to...
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Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, DOT, XMR, APE, CAKE
Bitcoin (BTC) and several altcoins are trading in a tight range during the weekend, suggesting that investors are undecided about the next directional move. Traders...
Monero ‘falling wedge’ breakout positions XMR price for 75% rally
Monero (XMR) price dropped by nearly 10% three days after establishing a week-to-date high around $290 on April 24. Nonetheless, several technical indicators suggest that...
Monero’s crypto of choice as ransomware ‘double extortion’ attacks increase 500%
A new report by blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace highlights the growing role that privacy-focused cryptocurrencies such as Monero are playing in the rising tide of...
Monero community reaches consensus for July hard fork
As told by Monero (XMR) developers over the weekend, on July 16, the Monero network passed a community consensus to initiate a mainnet hard fork...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, NEAR, FTT, ETC and XMR
Bitcoin (BTC) dropped from a high of $47,200 on April 5 to a low of $42,107 on April 8, indicating a possible selling by short-term...
Privacy coins are surging. Will regulatory pressure stall their stellar run?
Recent weeks saw a massive surge of the so-called privacy coins’ prices — namely Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), Zcash (ZEC) and Haven Protocol (XHV). As...
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“The Market Report” with Cointelegraph is live right now. On this week’s show, Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss the best top coins to buy in a...
Bitcoin‘s got 3 strikes, but investors remain calm despite price drop
After Bitcoin (BTC) faced its third consecutive rejection, investors became more confident in adding altcoin positions. For the leading cryptocurrency, the path to $50,000 appears...
Haven Protocol (XHV) shows strong signs of bottoming out after crashing 90%
Haven Protocol (XHV) showed signs of returning to its bullish form as its price doubled in just five days of trading. What’s pumping Haven Protocol?...
Monero, Kyber Network and Tornado Cash break out as traders pile into privacy protocols
Stocks and cryptocurrencies saw a notable bounce on March 9 even though war, rising inflation and historically high oil prices have investors uncertain about the...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, XRP, NEAR, XMR, WAVES
Bitcoin (BTC) plunged below $40,000 on March 4 and has been trading below the level throughout the weekend. Although the crypto price action has been...
Monero community concerned as leading mining pool nears 51% of ecosystem’s total hash rate
On Tuesday privacy coin Monero (XMR) mining pool MineXMR’s hash rate surpassed over 1.4 GH/s, accounting for 44% of the hash rate of the XMR...
Crypto City: Guide to Dubai
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New Year’s wishes for the young, ambitious blockchain community
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Can blockchain solve its oracle problem?
A paradox lies at the heart of smart contract-enabled blockchain networks. They are democratic (distributed), tamper-free (immutable) and transparent, but in order to realize anything...
Introducing the Trivergence: Transformation driven by blockchain, AI and the IoT
I first used a computer in 1970 — just over 50 years ago. For my undergraduate thesis in psychology, I had asked 300 students to...
Top crypto winners and losers of 2021
The year 2021 has undoubtedly been a bull market with Bitcoin (BTC) raising the all-time high price bar several times this year. But not all...
SiennaSwap adds Bitcoin, Monero trading pairs in push for privacy-focused DeFi
Cross-chain DeFi protocol Sienna Network has enabled Bitcoin (BTC) and Monero (XMR) trading pairs on its decentralized exchange, giving users the ability to transact privately...
What is Mimblewimble and how does it work?
What is Mimblewimble? Mimblewimble is a privacy-oriented decentralized protocol that uses a novel way of structuring and storing transactions on the blockchain. It was designed...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, DOT, UNI, LINK, XMR
Bitcoin (BTC) has continued to trade near the $55,000 level. The sharp rally in Bitcoin has pushed its market dominance from 40.70% on Sep. 12...
Shanghai Man: Looking deeper into China’s biggest ban yet
This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industry’s most important news, including influential projects, changes in...
Shanghai Man: RMB stablecoin in Shanghai, Evergrande FUD, and FTX gains ground
This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industry’s most important news, including influential projects, changes in...
Monero’s former maintainer released from US custody
Riccardo Spagni, the former lead maintainer of the privacy coin Monero, has reported that United States officials have released him after more than a month...
Monero price rises 20% after Atomic Swap implementation
Monero (XMR), the largest privacy-focused cryptocurrency by market capitalization, has posted a 20% price surge following the launch of the Atomic Swap implementation program last...
Monero’s former maintainer arrested in the US for allegations unrelated to cryptocurrency
Riccardo Spagni, the former maintainer of the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency, was arrested last month in Nashville, Tennessee on fraud charges tied to alleged offenses in...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, UNI, LINK, SOL, XMR
Bitcoin’s (BTC) 43% rally from $29,482.61 on July 21 to $42,316.71 on July 30 has invigorated the bulls who had been sitting on the sideli....
Newly found Monero bug may impact transaction privacy, developers warn
Developers of privacy-oriented cryptocurrency Monero (XMR) have identified a bug that could potentially impact users’ transaction privacy. On Monday, the official Monero Twitter account warned...
Tory Bryant
Award-winning artist Tory Bryant joins DKleine to chat about her recent entry into the NFT scene following years of experience developing 3D printing technologies used...
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Brothers Nicholas and Brendan Overstreet of the luxury fashion and accessories brand, Boysterous, join DKleine to talk about the recent launch of Boysterous NFTs on...
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British artist Damien Hirst uses NFTs to blur the boundaries between art and money
“I used to give a lot of art away to people,” reflects Damien Hirst at one of his sprawling west London studios. “And they’d always...
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Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, ADA, THETA, XMR, AMP
The U.S. Federal Reserve’s plans to advance its timeline for rate hikes to 2023 has led to profit-booking in the U.S. stock market, gold, and...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, MATIC, EOS, XMR, AAVE
Bitcoin (BTC) is struggling to sustain any price level during the current pullback, indicating a lack of demand at higher levels. Does this mean that...
Privacy coin Monero pumps 31% amid US taxation plans
Coinciding with news that United States President Joe Biden’s proposed tax plan would require tax reporting on business transactions exceeding $10,000, the value of privacy...
Griff Green: Doge-loving hippy hacker steals crypto before bad guys can
The organizer of The Robin Hood Group — which once stole 10% of all circulating ETH from under a black hat hacker’s nose — wants...
Is China softening on Bitcoin? A turn of phrase stirs the crypto world
They were only two seemingly innocuous words: “investment alternatives.” But when applied to Bitcoin — the seminal cryptocurrency — by an official from the People’s...
J. R. Willett launched the first ICO… but still has a day job
ICOs? He held the first one. Stablecoins? He dreamed of them by accident. Vitalik Buterin tried to get him on board to help launch Ethereum,...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, ETH, BNB, XMR, CAKE
Corrections in a bull phase are usually a bullish sign as they reduce the frothy excitement and allow stronger hands to enter the markets. However,...
Atomic swaps and network upgrades send Monero (XMR) price to a 3-year high
As the 2021 bull market cycle unfolds with decentralized finance and nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, being two of the biggest driving forces for growth, old-school...
You can make money playing in virtual worlds: Gabby Dizon
Gabby Dizon — co-founder of Altitude Games and Yield Guild Games — thinks the science fiction-inspired virtual reality Metaverse is being created all around us...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, XLM, MIOTA, XMR, XTZ
Bitcoin’s (BTC) hesitation near the all-time high suggests that the bulls and the bears are waiting for a trigger to start the next trending move....
Bitcoin’s comeback, XRP doubles in a week, Coinbase’s big profits: Hodler’s Digest, April 4–10
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and...
NFTs: Overpriced crap or new art history?
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Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, ETH, VET, XMR, FTT
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Sam Bankman-Fried: The crypto whale who wants to give billions away
Like many people in crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried is in it for the money. As the founder of quant trading firm Alameda Research, exchange FTX and...
What are privacy coins and how do they differ from Bitcoin?
Cryptocurrencies are typically pseudonymous, but not necessarily private. Bitcoin (BTC) and other assets run on blockchains, with each transaction posted publicly online. During a transaction...
Privacy coin season? Dash price gains 100% in a week as Monero, Zcash flip bullish
The strength of the cryptocurrency market appears to be spreading to privacy-focused coins. The calm price action of Bitcoin (BTC) often sets up an intense...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, BCH, EOS, XMR, XTZ
Demand and supply metrics determine the price of an asset and data from Glassnode, an on-chain data firm, shows that Bitcoin’s (BTC) liquid supply has...
Monero community wants Elon Musk to add XMR as Tesla payment option
The Monero community has posted a proposal to add XMR as a payment option on the Tesla website. Shortly after Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors hinted...
Researchers detect new malware targeting Kubernetes clusters to mine Monero
Cybersecurity researchers at Unit 42, the intelligence team at Palo Alto Networks, have published a profile of a new malware campaign that targets Kubernetes clusters...
Grayscale prepares for DeFi future with new cryptocurrency trust filings
The largest Bitcoin (BTC) and cryptocurrency asset manager in the world, Grayscale, could be set to move into the decentralized finance space after documents for...
Regulators dial up the heat: Dash, ZEC and Monero reach boiling point?
On New Year’s Day, the U.S.-based crypto exchange Bittrex announced via Twitter that it was delisting three leading privacy coins: Monero (XMR), Zcash (ZEC) and...
Wrapped Monero launches as exchanges crack down on privacy coins
Crypto custodian BTSE has launched an ERC-20 token that represents Monero (XMR) on the Ethereum blockchain, giving investors new exposure to the privacy-centric coin. Represented...
Heavy hitters of crypto call for users to comment on proposed FinCEN wallet rule
A number of players are encouraging individuals to speak out against FinCEN’s new crypto rules before comments close next week. Crypto exchange Coinbase and the...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, LTC, BCH, XMR, THETA
The supply and demand equation determines the price of an asset. In the past few months, the uptick in institutional demand for Bitcoin (BTC) has...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, ETH, XMR, XEM, AAVE
December is proving to be another blockbuster month for Bitcoin as the flow of institutional investors injecting funds into Bitcoin continues to increase. Business intelligence...
19-year-old Ukrainian politician reports crypto holdings of $24M in Monero
A newly appointed official in Ukraine has officially declared his cryptocurrency holdings, including a significant amount of privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero (XMR). Rostyslav Solod, a 19-year-old...
Bulls eye the $19.5K resistance but low volume keeps Bitcoin price sideways
Today was a relatively uneventful day for Bitcoin (BTC) as the price continues to consolidate into a tighter range. As mentioned by Cointelegraph contributor Rakesh...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, ETH, XMR, VET, AAVE
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price has been hovering near the $19,000 level for the past few days. Whenever the price consolidates near the all-time high, it is...
Bitcoin theft is likely to surge in meager post-COVID economy: Report
Cryptocurrency-related fraud and theft are likely to grow in the post-COVID-19 world, according to a new report by cybersecurity and antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab. Securelist,...
Cypherpunk Holdings becomes 9th-largest public holder of Bitcoin
Cypherpunk Holdings (CSE:HODL), a privacy-focused Canadian investment company, has upped its stake in Bitcoin (BTC). The company disclosed Thursday that it has added 72.979 BTC...