The EU and ECB Complicated View on Stablecoins
The ECB would like to launch a digital euro, but is not sure yet. Until then, restrictive regulation should prevent a privately…
May 20, 2022
Stablecoin but not so Stable, UST Loses Dollar Peg
The crash in crypto markets yesterday had some unpleasant consequences. One of them was that the “stablecoin” UST no longer remained stable and…
May 10, 2022
BIP-119: The Bitcoin Soft Fork Proposal
The Bitcoin scene is currently heatedly debating BIP-119, which is intended to introduce a new function into the Bitcoin protocol. In the discussion,…
May 7, 2022
“We’re sorry for temporarily turning off the lights on Ethereum.”
Yuga Labs, the publishers of the NFT hit Bored Ape Yacht Club, have all but crippled Ethereum with the Otherdeed mint. Fees hit…
May 4, 2022
Monero developers announce hard fork on July 16th
The main privacy coin Monero (XMR) will undergo a non-backwards compatible upgrade of the protocol in mid-July. This brings some small but significant…
April 27, 2022
The Axie Infinity Hack: $660 million, the Metaverse, and North Korea
Big hacks say a lot about the crypto ecosystem. The Axie Infinity hack makes no exception. Perhaps the biggest crypto hack of…
April 20, 2022
Crypto Vampire Attacks – A Blessing or a Curse?
An increasingly common way to attack ‘incumbents’ in an otherwise brand-new industry such as crypto are vampire attacks. The name is not…
April 18, 2022
Great Britain plans to become a “Global Hub for Crypto Assets” – and is preparing Regulatory Adjustments for this
The UK wants to position itself as the global hub of the crypto industry with a series of planned legislative and regulatory…
April 12, 2022
BitPay Enables Cheap Bitcoin Transactions Adding Lightning Payments
The major Bitcoin payment service provider now allows payments with the Lightning network. This could be the long-awaited breakthrough for offchain payments. It’s…
April 7, 2022
Bitcoin Price Could Hit 1 Million Dollars According to this Prediction Scenario
Bitcoin, after soaring to all-time highs last year, has to some degree slowed down in 2022, however, traders are prepared for “big…
April 5, 2022