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Nearly 1% of the Total Ethereum Supply is Locked in the MakerDAO Smart Contract
MKR.tools creator Mike McDonald raised a celebratory alarm on Twitter yesterday morning. According to the Ethereum blockchain, about 1 million ether – or almost 1 percent of the total Ethereum supply – is presently locked in MakerDAO smart contracts. View image on Twitter Mike McDonald@mikeraymcdonald There is now 1,000,000 ETH locked in @MakerDAO smart contracts as […]
What are 2100News Movers of the day
»Upward momentum has a way of snowballing in crypto markets no matter what the drivers of that momentum may have originally been.” 2100NEWS is the information highway for all stakeholders in the crypto community. Movers of the Day and Weekly Crypto Report are pebbles in the crypto mosaic, added by 2100NEWS. Snapshot of the situation Mainstream crypto »approach« In […]
Australia’s Science Agency & Commonwealth Bank Trial Blockchain ‘Smart Money’
A trial conducted by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and the Data61 unit of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has proven that blockchain-powered smart money possesses immense social and economic benefits for Australia’s insurance scheme for persons living with disabilities. In the proof of concept, it was demonstrated that participants in Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) […]
Blockchain Wunderkinds Headline Forbes 30-Under-30 List
The blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem is well represented in this year’s Forbes 30-Under-30list, with four young founders and CEOs aged between 25 and 28 featured for their work on crypto finance, blockchain scaling and crypto asset management. Olaoluwa Osuntokun (25), Nader Al-Naji (26), JB Rubinovitz (26) and Hunter Horsley (28) have made their debut on this […]
$3 Billion Deleted From Crypto Market as Major Digital Assets Perform Poorly
Over the last 24 hours, the crypto market has seen a drop of $3 billion from $212 billion to $209 billion, as major cryptocurrencies including Stellar (XLM) and Cardano (ADA) have fallen by 3 to 6 percent. Peculiarly, Stellar and Cardano are amongst three cryptocurrencies alongside Zcash that are expected to be integrated into Coinbase, […]
Movers of the Day
Tokens and coins that moved the most in the last 24 hours: Top movers of the day are still the tokens from the bottom of the table. After a big drop at 6 pm ODEM managed to come back: it surged 18.60%. All groups of 2100NEWS DA Indexes ended the day deep in red. Their changes […]
Looking back – The decade of Bitcoin
On 31st of October Bitcoin became 10 years old and the currency has much to show in this decade. In 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto, »the father of bitcoin«, authored the Bitcoin white paper, simply called ‘Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.’ The publication was then sent to selected cryptographic experts, who were among the first to […]
Op-Ed: UK Central Bank Holds Venezuela’s Gold Hostage – Bitcoin Users Unaffected
Venezuela, where bitcoin trading is at an all-time high and the socialist government has issued its own cryptocurrency amid record-breaking inflation and other economic woes, has been denied access to its own gold reserves by the Bank of England. The justification used for denying the country’s request to repatriate 14 tons of gold, worth about $550 million, is that there […]
Greg Maxwell: Bitcoin SV ‘Maybe’ the ‘Real Fake Bitcoin’ – ‘But Who Cares?’
Greg Maxwell made headlines recently when an e-mail he’d sent to “Fake Satoshi” Craig S. Wright was revealed to the public. Parts of the e-mail were published on CoinGeek. Maxwell is quoted as saying: I believe it would be adverse for interests that concern me if your influence or prominence in BCH were in any way […]
Busted: Indian Crypto Ponzi Scheme Lured Muslims With Halal Investment Promises
An Indian cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme masquerading as an investment company has crumbled in the aftermath of the Reserve Bank of India’s declaration of cryptocurrency as “illegal tender”. The Deccan Chronicle reported this week that Ambidant Marketing and Investment Company, run by father and son duo Syed Fareed and Syed Afaq Ahmed, used promises of Halal investments alongside misused Ulemas (Islamic […]