UK Judge Rejects US Extradition Requests for Julian Assange, Wikileaks Holds $800K in Crypto
On Monday, a British judge rejected the U.S. request to extradite the Australian editor, publisher, and activist Julian Assange. Following the U.K. judge’s decision, the current president of Mexico,...
Kim Dotcom Says Bitcoin Cash ‘Great for Payments,’ Expects BCH to Cross $3K in...
On December 17, the internet entrepreneur and political activist Kim Dotcom spoke about bitcoin being a “great asset for storage,” and then further stressed that bitcoin cash was “great...
Bitcoin Mixing Concept Payjoin Makes a ‘Huge Mess’ for Blockchain Surveillance
On Jan. 24, Adam Gibson, author of Waxwing’s Joinmarket blog, wrote about an interesting Coinjoin concept called Payjoin. The protocol further obfuscates the ownership of UTXO inputs during a...
BCH-Based Openswap Client Will Feature Trustless Atomic Swaps
On Friday, Dec. 14, Bitcoin Cash developer Mark Lundeberg announced his new project Openswap, a fork of the Electron Cash client that features atomic swap functionality. Lundeberg’s been working...
Crypto Markets Rebound, BTC Taps Another All-Time High, Bitstamp Drops XRP for US Customers
The price of bitcoin and a myriad of digital currencies have seen some significant gains on Christmas day. Bitcoin touched another all-time price high at $24,662 per coin, while...
Block Propagation Startup Bloxroute Partners With Mining Operation Rawpool
On Thursday, Bloxroute Labs announced a partnership with the China-based mining operation Rawpool Group and global video communication software firm Yeecall. Both Rawpool and Yeecall plan to be the...
Simple Ledger Developers Publish Monthly Puzzle With Bitcoin Cash Treasure
In late November, the creators of the Simple Ledger Protocol announced the launch of Ledger Treasure, a contest in which contestants must solve a puzzle to win over $100...
Markets Update: Cryptocurrency Traders Are Still Searching for the Elusive ‘Bottom’
The entire crypto-economy has been meandering just above $109 billion after the last two weeks of market dumps. Volume has been light this week as digital asset enthusiasts and...
Markets Update: Crypto Analysts Remain Uncertain After 2019’s First Week of Trading
Since our last markets update, cryptocurrency markets consolidated within a tight range and have been less volatile over the last few days. The market capitalization of the entire cryptocurrency...
BCH Leads the Way as Crypto Markets Brighten Up
One year to the day since reaching its all-time high, BTC did something it hadn’t done in a long time on Dec. 17 – it posted double digit growth....
