[ad_2][ad_1] Ripple and CEO Brad Garlinghouse say an ongoing lawsuit fails to prove how Garlinghouse committed fraud when allegedly sold millions of dollars worth of XRP in 2017. Attorneys representing the San Francisco-based blockchain company said in a court motion Monday that lead actor Bradley Sostack did not prove a …
Read More »Here’s how the Bitcoin network works in detail
[ad_2][ad_1] Bitcoin is the largest cryptocurrency in the world running on blockchain technology. To understand what Bitcoin is, you need to start your journey by understanding blockchain technology. So what is blockchain technology? This is the question many technicians ask in today’s digitized world. Blockchain technology is a type of …
Read More »66% of Coinbase users are willing to leave the exchange due to growing privacy concerns
[ad_2][ad_1] Two-thirds of people using Coinbase are willing to leave the platform following reports that the US exchange plans to sell user data to two government agencies for $ 250,000. Cryptocurrency trader and analyst John Rager performed a poll on Twitter, asking his 73,000 followers: “Would you delete or stop …
Read More »The Monero-for-Bail project sees growing demand during the protests
[ad_2][ad_1] A software program that mines Monero to save people from prison has seen a surge in use as protests over the police killing of George Floyd continue in the U.S. The software is called Bail Bloc and runs in the background of your computer , passively generating the monero …
Read More »CoinMarketCap’s metrics review keeps Binance on top
[ad_2][ad_1] The most popular cryptocurrency price aggregation site has launched a new way of ranking exchanges that keeps owner Binance at the top of the exchange chart. CoinMarketCap was criticized last month after its new web traffic-based ranking system gave Binance – which acquired the aggregator for $ 400 million …
Read More »Poloniex, Bittrex named in lawsuit involving alleged Tether-powered crypto pump
[ad_2][ad_1] On April 3, the cryptocurrency community learned of 11 class action lawsuits against various executives and digital asset companies. The law firm that filed the lawsuit is also involved in a collective action against Tether and Bitfinex for alleged manipulation of the bitcoin price. On June 4, plaintiffs and …
Read More »Binance Acquisition of CoinMarketCap: Centralization in Action
[ad_2][ad_1] Even with all that is going on with the 2020 global health and economic crisis, this year still brought other major events to the crypto community. One of these was the deal that ended on March 31 and formalized Binance’s acquisition of CoinMarketCap. The undisclosed price of this purchase …
Read More »Litecoin – CoinDesk
[ad_2][ad_1] Litecoin is a software fork of Bitcoin, which means the two share a lot of code. Litecoin is intended to act as Bitcoin’s “silver to gold” rather than compete with it. Lee sought to make Litecoin technically distinct from Bitcoin in two different ways. First, it initially aimed to …
Read More »XRP – CoinDesk
[ad_2][ad_1] Created in 2014, XRP is the native asset of the XRP ledger, developed by Ripple Labs, which uses blockchain technology to improve cross-border payments. XRP is used on xRapid to provide liquidity in cross-border payments involving illiquid trading pairs. 100 billion tokens were created at the launch of the …
Read More »David Hunter, former CEO of Ukash and veteran of the payments industry, joins leading crypto payment processor CoinPayments as a consultant
[ad_2][ad_1] GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, June 3, 2020 / PRNewswire / – CoinPayments, the world’s leading cryptocurrency payment processor, today announced a payments industry veteran and entrepreneur, David Hunter, as a consultant of the company. In this new role, Hunter will provide strategic direction relating to CoinPayments’ ongoing expansion and …
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