• Maisie Williams Arya Stark bitcoin question
    Cryptocurrencies,  People

    ‘Should I long Bitcoin? ‘Game of Thrones’ Arya Stark asks, Elon Musk answers

    The actress that played the face-changing assassin asked Twitter for advice, major personalities from the tech and crypto space weighed in

    Williams asked in a Nov. 16 tweet whether she should “go long on Bitcoin” and received answers from major cryptocurrency personalities and even tech tycoon Elon Musk himself. So did Grayscale Investments’ Barry Silbert, founder of crypto bank Galaxy Digital Mike Novogratz, and Tron’s Justin Sun who reacted quite enthusiastically...

  • Crypto must-reads
    Cryptocurrencies,  People,  Technology

    CRYPTO MUST-READS FOR JUNE 19, 2020

    These Are The Crypto Stories You Should Be Following Today: Crypto can help free the Black community from the power of the dollar; researchers discover Tron may not be a scam; Mike Novogratz just might suck; blockchain can strip bias from AI

    On a Juneteenth when the national dialog is dominated by #BlackLivesMatter, take a look at how “Bitcoin & Black America” author Isaiah Jackson thinks crypto can change his community. In the “keep an open mind” vein, researchers surprised themselves by finding Justin Sun’s Tron isn’t just legit, its ahead of 90% of the projects out there. Switching to keep an open jaw mode, after more than $350 million in losses over two years, Mike Novogratz says Galaxy Digital might “suck”—while sticking to his pro-Bitcoin guns. And if HAL had blockchain he might have opened the pod bay door on his own.

  • Ethereum

    Upbit exchange hacker relieved of ill-gotten gains

    After Whale Alert tweeted a warning that $27,000 in ether stolen from Korean exchange Upbit last year had been sent to his exchange, Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao acted quickly

    At 12:06 p.m. on May 13, @whale_alert tweeted out a warning that 137 ETH stolen from the South Korean Upbit exchange last November had been transferred to a wallet address on Binance. Of course, there's another 341,863 ether still missing.

  • Binance jumps into bitcoin mining
    Bitcoin,  Cryptocurrencies,  People

    Binance jumps into bitcoin mining

    The biggest cryptocurrency exchange promises ‘the lowest rates’ but also raises concerns about the concentration of mining power in a few hands

    Cryptocurrency exchange Binance jumped into bitcoin mining business today, announcing the launch of Binance Pool. The move comes only weeks before the third “halving” will reduce the reward for mining a Bitcoin block from 12.5 BTC to 6.25 BTC—an event that has preceded big price increases in the past.