Earlier in Q4 2023, we replaced all customers’ deposit addresses to improve our use of Bitcoin block space, so that they no longer use an on-chain multisignature wallet containing the BitMEX founder private keys. You can find more information about the wallet upgrade announcement here. This time around, we will transfer the remaining Bitcoin from…
BNB Chain successfully completed its Haber hard fork yesterday, which implements BEP-336 based on Ethereum’s recent EIP-4844 and introduces ‘blob’ data structures to the network. According to BNB Chain, BEP-336 will see gas fees fall by up to 90%, due mainly to efficiency gains to data storage and verification resulting from the use of blobs….
XRP erlebt ein Comeback, da Ripple-CEO Brad Garlinghouse die Einführung eines XRP ETFs erwartet. Mit der Reduzierung der Strafe durch die SEC von 2 Milliarden Dollar auf 102,6 Millionen Dollar ist der Markt voller Optimismus. XRP Preis Analyse: Der Erwartete Anstieg Aktuelle Preisbewegung In der vergangenen Woche hat XRP einen Anstieg von 1,08% verzeichnet, mit…
The German government transferred around US$195 million worth of Bitcoin to exchange wallets over June 19-21, according to Arkham Intelligence. The transfers were conducted by the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), which had seized nearly 50,000 BTC from suspects running a piracy site earlier this year. Fears of a large Bitcoin liquidation have been…
The introduction of spot crypto ETFs to the US market has been a resounding success. With Ethereum ETFs just around the corner, many in the community are pondering whether other altcoins will sneak through the SEC’s rigorous vetting process. Canadian fund manager 3iQ has submitted documents for its spot Solana ETF, which would be the…
Bitcoin has dropped by more than 9% over the last 30 days to now trade around the $65,000 mark in a plunge that has seen investors become “mainly fearful or disinterested” toward the cryptocurrency. That’s according to on-chain analytics firm Santiment, which noted in a post on the microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter)…
(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions.) I have just finished the first book, “Red Mars,” in a trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson. One of the…
Real Vision macro expert Julien Bittel believes that Bitcoin (BTC) is on the verge of going parabolic based on historical precedence. Bittel tells his 69,400 followers on the social media platform X that Bitcoin is in a historical “boring” phase ahead of an expected “banana” rally that has come after the halving events when miners’…
With spot Ethereum ETFs on the horizon in the United States, should existing Bitcoin ETF holders split their crypto holdings into ETH? In a Twitter thread on Thursday, Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan offered three reasons for why this might be a good idea. Why Bitcoin Holders Should Buy Ethereum The first, Hougan wrote, is for…
Liquid staking and, by extension – liquid restaking – have been some of the most interesting and fast-growing narratives in the past year. Lista DAO is introducing an open-source liquidity protocol that’s designed to earn yield on collateralized cryptocurrencies such as BNB, ETH, certain stablecoins, and other assets, while also enabling the borrowing of the…