Crytocurrency / Rumours - 2 years ago
An anonymous user apparently not only predicted yesterday’s massive sell-off on the crypto market but also claimed that it was an organized China-related campaign aimed at a single “stakeholder”—half a day before the trading carnage actually began. ...
Crytocurrency / Rumours - 2 years ago
Silicon Valley venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) plans to launch a new $1 billion fund focused on investments in cryptocurrencies and blockchain startups, several knowledgeable sources told Financial Times yesterday. Per the report, th...
Crytocurrency / Rumours - 3 years ago
Bitcoin.com, one of the most recognizable domain names in the world of crypto, was listed for sale by American Internet domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy for $100 million yesterday. “This domain is currently registered but has been lis...
Crytocurrency / Rumours - 3 years ago
American multinational investment bank Morgan Stanley is currently in talks to acquire a stake in top South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb, local news outlet Naver reported on Friday. “Morgan Stanley participated in the acquisition of Bithumb...
Crytocurrency / Rumours - 3 years ago
Electric car giant Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in Bitcoin is less than one-third of the total crypto reserves held by Elon Musk and his companies, Anthony Scaramucci, CEO of investment firm SkyBridge Capital, asserted today. “Elon Musk didn’t sto...
Crytocurrency / Rumours - 3 years ago
Tron has been marred with controversy ever since its launch in 2017. First was its plagiarized whitepaper (which was found to be directly lifted off Ethereum), and then came all the negative press around Justin Sun, the project’s starry-eyed, flamboy...
Crytocurrency / Rumours - 3 years ago
Counterpoint Global, a $150 billion unit of multinational investment bank Morgan Stanley, is considering investing in Bitcoin (BTC), knowledgeable sources told Bloomberg today. Morgan Stanley may bet on Bitcoin in $150 billion investment arm, Bloomb...
Crytocurrency / Rumours - 3 years ago
Following Tesla’s $1.5 billion purchase of Bitcoin, the internet is awash with rumors on which high profile corporate entity is next. However, even at this stage of the game, corporate BTC buys attract controversy from the trad-fi diehards. The...
Crytocurrency / Rumours - 3 years ago
The price of Stellar XLM soared to as high as $0.39 on January 6. Having made a 31 month high, Stellar moved keenly back into the top ten, usurping Chainlink to take 9th place via market cap. Throughout this week, there has been no shortage of positi...
Crytocurrency / Rumours - 3 years ago
Payments protocol and zkRollup exchange Loopring said this week that rumors of its partnership with oracle provider Band Protocol were greatly exaggerated and a mistake. Earlier this week, Loopring said it was onboarding Band Protocol oracles for the...
Crytocurrency / Rumours - 3 years ago
A dubious crypto fund, Zeus Capital, is reportedly offering prominent Twitter members up to 5 Bitcoin to post a short-biased price analysis for Chainlink (LINK). Rewards for spreading “FUD” Screenshots and tweets on Thursday showed the fund — whose i...
Crytocurrency / Rumours - 3 years ago
China’s surging ahead with its blockchain aspirations even as the world grapples with the basic regulation around distributed systems and digital currencies. Moving into public blockchains A fund manager revealed Sunday the country will soon onboard...
Crytocurrency / Rumours - 3 years ago
Reports on China shutting down bank accounts for individual Bitcoin traders and OTC firms are unfounded and untrue, a local investigation found this week. Dispelling FUD China Times said Wednesday the country’s national and central banks were not clo...
Crytocurrency / Rumours - 3 years ago
Ethereum’s much-awaited move to a PoS consensus algorithm, the so-called 2.0 or “Serenity” update, just got longer. Project developers confirmed late on May 12 any purported shipping dates were a clear case of miscommunication. It’s not coming...
Crytocurrency / Rumours - 3 years ago
UPDATE (27 Apr. @18:42 UTC): After publishing, Digibyte founder Jared Tate informed via a series of tweets rectifying the various points reported in this article. We certainly aim to present all the publicly available sides of any story without direc...