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Tim Draper, founder of leading venture capital firms Draper Associates invested early in both Tesla, Hotmail, and Skype. Back in 2014, he bought 30,000 BTC during the U.S. Marshals Service Silk Road auction. Draper told CNBC back in December that he is still holding on to those coins. That is equivalent to 268 mln USD at today's price level. When asked during a...

The lightning network aims to solve Bitcoin’s (BTC) problem with scalability, and it has been growing quickly since its introduction. The goal for the lightning network is to lower transaction times and fees. Recently, Armin van Bitcoin, an active voice in the crypto community, tweeted the following: We just passed 2,000 nodes with over 5,650 open channels on mainnet. The...

Will Tron's network become more superior than Ethereum's? Justin Sun has claimed just that. "From today to the last day, we are no longer the ERC20 token and in the future, we will compete with Ethereum as a DApp platform," said Sun "We will compete face to face with Ethereum and we have confidence we will build a large...

A survey that was conducted by D-CYFOR (a UK based market research business) has claimed that 93% of UK adults have heard of Bitcoin (BTC). This number is up 2% since November 2017, showing good progress in the awareness of Cryptocurrency. However, the study also shows that almost two-thirds of those surveyed believe BTC will decrease or collapse in value...

Bitcoin (BTC) will be in the green for two consecutive weeks if it stays above $8250 for the remainder of today. Bitcoin has been steadily rising after its miraculous volume on April the 12th which took it out of a channel downtrend according to many analysts. In fact, Bitcoin has risen by over 35% in the last two weeks,...

Binance is the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange. Founded less than a year ago by Zhao Changpeng, the platform quickly established itself as a leader in the exchange space. In the last 24 hours, Binance has handled 2.5billion dollars in trading volume, half a billion more than the runner-up, OKEx. Recently, rumors have been spreading about Binance adding USD trading pairs...

The cryptocurrency market has surpassed $ 390 billion in market cap after a strong rally over the past 1,5 weeks. Major cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and Ethereum have led the valuation of the cryptocurrency market surge to April highs, but also altcoins have seen incredible growth over the last 10 days. Brendan Bernstein, Founding Partner at Tetras Capital – a...

If you hold it, Propy is likely the recent hero of your portfolio. Yesterday, the Seattle-based Exchange Bittrex listed Propy (PRO) on their exchange. PRO experienced a parabolic >100% jump. Interestingly, Propy—at the time of publishing—continues to hold its new price. Propy has not been at its current price point since late January 2018. Propy was created to solve problems...

Jesse Powell, CEO of the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, refuses to comply with the New York Attorney General’s request for information. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is seeking to improve transparency and accountability of major cryptocurrency trading platforms in order to protect the investors. “With cryptocurrency on the rise, consumers in New York and across the country have a...

Bitcoin stabilized after the sudden price jump of $ 1,000 last Thursday. A new Bitcoin bull run seems almost inevitable, but how big is this chance? History has taught us that a Bitcoin bull run can be a force of nature, but what are factors that can speed up the next bull run?  1. Yearly Bitcoin Cycle Bitcoin might shoot up...