EXMO Cut Monero Withdrawals by 50 Times

 Users of leading eastern-European cryptocurrency exchange EXMO who trade Monero (XMR) on the platform will be ecstatic to hear the withdrawal commission have gone done by 50x, among other new updates cocerning trading with the currency via their service. These means that the value for Monero, the 13th large cryptocurrency by market cap which is […]

Project Libra Very Existence In Question

A draft bill from the US Congress has allegedly found its way online and could spell the end of Facebook’s Project Libra and other similar projects. This will hardly be the first or even the last hurdle for the social media giant’s entry into the crypto industry, but it looks like part of the US […]

Pundi X Launches Card Readers Which Also Accept Crypto

Pundi X, a cryptocurrency payments startup company, has announced that it has launched a payments system which accepts both traditional debit and credit cards, as well as crypto payments. This innovative integration was done using a VeriFone point of sale device, which is used by a large number of retailers in America and across the […]

Tether Accidentally Creates 5 Billion Unpegged Tokens

Controversial dollar-backed stable coin Tether, confirmed yesterday that they mistakenly created $5 billion worth of their token in a monumental blunder. The mistake has been put down to human error which saw an intended $50 million transfer turn into a $5 billion one after decimals points were put in the wrong places. This occurred during […]

A Portion of Bitpoint’s Hacked Funds Have Been Found

The Japanese exchange platform, Bitpoint have managed to recover $2.3 million of the $32 million stolen from them by hackers last week. There are a few things worse for an exchange platform than to be hacked. This year has already seen several hacks of major exchanges, including Binance and Cryptopia. With the latter demonstrating just […]

To Merge or Not To Merge? Merged Mining Research Released

Analysis revealed by the research arm of Binance has detailed the results of merged mining between two of the most prominent coins in the cryptocurrency world, Litecoin and Dogecoin, which could indicate its wider operability uses. In recent months, Litecoin and Dogecoin have become frequent fixture in the cryptocurrency news world. The former having soared in price ahead of its halving next […]

Binance Team Give Up Allocated BNB for Burn

Every quarter, Binance burn a large number of its native coin, BNB. which has so far happened 7 times. However, for the 8th burn, things will be a little bit different. In a letter penned by Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao, he announced that the 8th burn from the company of their native coin, BNB, will […]

Firm Behind BitMex Offers $60,000 Grant to Developer

HDR Global, the firm that own and operate Bitmex, an exchange platform for seasoned traders, has awarded a grant of $60,000 to Michael Ford, a bitcoin contributor. Ford, aka Fanscape, has been a bitcoin contributor since as far back as 2012 and recently emerged as part of the Bitcoin Core software project. For so long in […]

Binance Margin Trading Officially Launches

After several weeks of build-up, the Binance’s Margin Trading service is now up and running. News of the Margin Trading service first came to light several months ago. But now, the option has finally materialised in full form and beckons a whole new era for the exchange platform with it now offering leveraged trading to users […]

Blockchain For Dummies: A Basic Guide

Blockchain is the underlying technology upon which digital tools are built. The most popular amongst these tools are cryptocurrencies. In fact, blockchain was developed as a way to support the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. Beyond just supporting digital transactions, however, blockchain is poised to revolutionise the world, by facilitating everything from smart contracts to national elections. […]