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Ross Ulbricht, the brains behind the infamous Silk Road website, recently penned down a piece on the Maker Dao Protocol. Ross, who is currently serving a life sentence, coined the protocol as a ‘cool concept’ that provided the benefits of a cryptocurrency without the volatility usually associated with them.  In his Medium article, Ross acknowledged that he couldn’t have gotten all the details on Maker while behind bars. He, however, believed that he had read enough to give some suggestions…

The top peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto exchange LocalBitcoins has noted a 70 percent decrease in the number of transactions related to darknet since its adoption of AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and KYC (Know Your Customer) regulations in September last year. LocalBitcoins noted its ability to remarkably decrease the number of transactions related to darknet carried out using its platform between September last year and May this year. In the words of the chief marketing officer at LocalBitcoins, Jukka Blomberg to Cointelegraph, the…

The consolidation of Binance Coin (BNB) has been within a narrow trading range. Within the previous two months, most of its price action has been between the $15 support level and the $18 barrier. Regarding the technical outlook of the cryptocurrency asset, the current stagnation phase is due to the Bollinger bands squeezing its 1-day chart. Such squeezes suggest times of low volatility, generally succeeded by wild price movements. The possibility of having a robust breakout increases with a longer…

IOTA - A Brief History IOTA is a cryptographic protocol that runs on a unique form of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), significantly different from most cryptocurrency projects. It is different for one vital reason; IOTA doesn’t run on a blockchain! As we have tried to iterate multiple times, blockchain, the distributed database technology, is just a subset of DLT. So then, what kind of database technology does IOTA use? IOTA was developed and initiated by David Sønstebø, Dominik Schiener, Sergey…

Venezuela’s failing economy has often barred the country from the global financial system. Over the last few years, President Maduro has been turning to cryptocurrency to savor the failing economy.  The South American country has been at the forefront of cryptocurrency adoption, with several projects in play. The recent move by the government is accepting bitcoin for passport payments.  The news hit the country by storm after a twitter user put out a screenshot of the government website, showing cryptocurrency…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has enjoyed a strengthened narrative in 2020. This is such that some DeFi tokens like Aave (LEND) have incurred more than a 1,000 percent increase while the price of Ethereum increased by 90 percent since the beginning of this year. It appears that investors are developing more interest in this market sector. According to cryptocurrency derivatives analytics company Skew, Ethereum will enjoy this trend the most in the long-term. Skew noted that these DeFi tokens powered by Ether appear to…

We are ready to work on the establishment of a European central bank digital currency, says the Italian Banking Association (ABI). The ABI announced its willingness to support the implementation of a digital currency from the European Central Bank. The association’s website noted the approval of guidelines governing its position on digital currency and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) on June 18. The ABI, which represents a group of banks in Italy, said it was ready to take part in projects and…

The intense increase in the popularity of DeFi created a notable buzz for Ethereum in the cryptocurrency space within the previous few days. The popularity of DeFi in recent times is majorly influenced by an emerging trend known as ‘yield farming.’ Yield farming allows the leveraging of different protocols to receive huge payouts (up to 200 percent APR). Due to this trend, several tokens related to DeFi have seen huge uptrends, even as COMP rallied by over 100% percent and…

Alexander Vinnik was arrested in Greece on an extradition order from the U.S. as prosecutors said he allegedly controlled a Bitcoin exchange that laundered billions of dollars for criminal networks. After his arrest in 2017, he was extradited to France where he is still in custody. He was said to have allegedly laundered 300,000 Bitcoin (about $4 billion) within six years through BTC-e, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world at the time. Further, he was accused of facilitating money…