Band is one of Chianlink’s main competitors in the oracle space that is based on Cosmos technology. In a recent Cointelegraph interview, Soravis Srinawakoon, the CEO of Band Protocol, said: “If you look at Chainlink, one data request right now can take almost $450 because someone needs to submit the request data to ask for the data. Let’s say 20 data providers need to receive that, respond to that with 20 transactions, and then the aggregation contract to do all the computation before returning the final result, all of these…
Day: September 1, 2020
The company behind Zcash just made its new source code public
The Electric Coin Co., or ECC, the entity responsible for the advancement of privacy coin Zcash (ZEC), unveiled new code for the blockchain and crypto community. The company opened its Halo 2 source code — “an updated, more efficient version of ECC’s recursive proof composition that eliminates the need for a trusted setup in Zcash,” said a Sept. 1 blog post from the ECC. “It may also advance a promising scalability solution for Zcash and other blockchains,” the post added, noting the Halo structure adds speed, among other things. Initiating a…
PornHub now accepts Bitcoin and Litecoin
Pornhub now accepts Bitcoin (BTC) and Litecoin (LTC) as payment for its premium services. The company has been accepting Verge since 2018, later adding several other cryptocurrencies, but this is its first foray into the major leagues. Pornhub’s vice president Corey Price said in the press release: “As a leader in adult content with over 130 million visitors per day, Pornhub is excited to now offer two widely-used and leading digital currencies for our users. Our team continues to pave the way for tech development, testing and implementing new technology…
A legal asset after all? Governments are cashing in on seized crypto
It is customary for government officials around the world to profess their disdain for crypto on the grounds that it is widely used to facilitate crime and finance terrorism. Although (government-backed) cash still remains criminals’ preferred financial tool by a wide margin, it is true that nefarious actors also turn to digital assets. When corrupt plans go sideways, law enforcement and other government agents can find themselves in possession of hefty sums of crypto. It appears that reports of such instances are becoming more common as crypto adoption widens. In…
Another Electrum user is claiming that their coins were stolen
Details of a previous Electrum wallet hack surfaced following the massive 1,400 Bitcoin (BTC) theft that hit headlines a few days ago. “I had a similar situation 2 months ago,” a Github user named Cryptbtcaly posted on the social media platform on Aug. 31. The user claimed someone pilfered 36.5 BTC from one of their wallet addresses. The BTC reportedly ended up spread across five different addresses. “Some of the stolen Bitcoin went to Binance, but they ignore my appeals and do not return,” cryptbtcaly added. Details of a larger hack…
A deep dive into crypto’s most notorious Ponzi scheme
The latest ruling in the class-action lawsuit against OneCoin has dismissed Konstantin Ignatov, co-founder of OneCoin, as a defendant after he agreed to testify against his sister. Ignatov is the brother of Ruja Ignatova, the infamous leader and face of OneCoin also known as “Cryptoqueen.” Ignatova disappeared in 2017 and has since managed to evade authorities and the general public. While Ignatov was dismissed from the lawsuit initiated by defrauded OneCoin investors, court documents indicate that this same case will continue to target Ignatova. Both siblings are still the defendants…
Tether surpasses XRP by market cap again
Tether (UDST), the world’s largest stablecoin by market capitalization, has again surpassed major altcoin XRP. On Sept. 1, Tether surpassed XRP as the third-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, becoming the second-largest altcoin after Ether (ETH). As of press time, USDT market cap accounts for more than $13.4 billion, according to data from crypto analytics website Coin360. XRP is now the fourth-largest coin by market cap at $13 billion. The latest movement in ranking is not new to the crypto market in 2020. Tether surpassed XRP as the third-largest crypto in…
2 On-Chain Signals Show Ethereum Has Room to Run After 10% Jump
Ethereum has room to rally after surging 10% in the past 48 hours, according to recent on-chain data shared by Santiment. The blockchain analytics firm just noted that there are a number of trends suggesting ETH has room to extend to the upside. ETH’s latest bout of strength comes as Bitcoin has inched higher as the U.S. dollar has continued its spiral to the downside. The Dollar Index is seemingly dictating the directionality of all assets, as these markets are denominated in the foreign currency. Related Reading: Crypto Tidbits: MicroStrategy’s $250m…
Binance may know who is behind the 1,400 BTC Electrum wallet hack
On Aug. 30, a Github user made a post about losing 1,400 Bitcoin (BTC) via an elaborate hack that affected his Electrum wallet. N-chain analysis indicates that the hackers had a Binance account and that some of the transactions used to move the stolen coins may have originated in St. Petersburg, Russia. However, It is important to note that conclusions afforded by on-chain research are generally more probabilistic than deterministic. On-chain analysis of the hack. Source: Cointelegraph, Crystal Blockchain. Even so, there is no clarity on how the attack was…
Vitalik Buterin compares DeFi tokenomics to the Fed’s money printer
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum (ETH), has again taken to Twitter to warn against naive bullishness in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, comparing the economics of yield farming tokens to the Federal Reserve’s money printing. Yield farming – providing liquidity to earn interest in the form of tokens – has taken the crypto community by storm and sparked the DeFi boom. However, Buterin highlighted the aggressive supply inflation of many governance tokens, saying this puts downward pressure on the prices of “coins that are getting printed nonstop to pay…