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Category: Crypto News
Ethereum Basic–Upcoming Ethereum Fork for better governance
Ethereum Basic is fork of Ethereum, which is second most popular cryptocurrency by marketcap. While Ethereum is the first turing complete cryptocurrency with smart contracts, it is still plagued with problems related to scaling, difficulty bomb, PoS consensus, ASIC mining and high gas fees.
Bytecoin Hard Fork 2019–how to prepare for upcoming hard fork of Bytecoin
Bytecoin team will be doing a hard fork at block 1792117 on Friday, 17th May 2019, four days from now. If you are storing coins on Bytecoin wallet, you must upgrade to v3.4.2 to ensure you are on correct blockchain. Otherwise, you will be at risk of loosing your funds.
CoinGecko combats fake volume, launches Trust Score
CoinGecko is now launching something called “Trust Score” that will help users to identify cryptocurrency exchagnes with fake exchange volume. CoinGecko will not be sorting exchanges by reported volume but by their web traffic and orderbook data.
Bitfinex found guilty by court – USDT on Verge of collapse
“That Martini Guy”, a crypto YouTuber has churned out a video claiming that Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange has been found guilty by New York court. While there is no official press release or tweet from Bitfinex, “That Martini Guy” claims that his source has never let him down and he believes it “to be true”. He adds he has no reasons to doubt his source.
PivX coin plauged with libzerocoin vulnerability
Lead developer of PivX coin has published an important message about libzerocoin vulnerability that is affecting all coins based on Zcoin forks. While PivX coin was not affected / attacked with this vulnerability, for safety reasons, zPIV feature has been disabled.
Jaguar Land Rover partners with IOTA Foundation to integrate Smart Wallets into cars
JLR has partnered with IOTA foundation to integrate Smart Wallet into their cars. The UK drivers will be able to earn IOTA cryptocurrency and make payments on the move using IOTA’s smart wallet technology.
Innovative Cryptocurrency Mixing Technology Offers Total Anonymity
As the global take-up of cryptocurrencies increases, so does the regulatory and public scrutiny of digital transactions.
Ripple employees dumping XRP at Coinbase
There is a thread on XRPchat that clearly shows Riple employees have been sending their XRP tokens, 700,000 at a time on Coinbase. Now while the moderator of XRPchat thinks that Coinbase employees are providing liquidity to the popular cryptocurrency exchange, many believe that they are dumping their coins.
LiteBit delists Vertcoin (VTC), Breakout, Breakout Stake (BRX), Revolution VR (RVR), Pinkcoin (PINK)
On April 24th 2019, LiteBit.eu will be delisting five coins from its exchange. The most popular one amongst them is Vertcoin (VTC) which faced 51 percent attack few months back and made exchanges loose a lot of money. Other four coins are Breakout, Breakout Stake (BRX), Revolution VR (RVR) and Pinkcoin (PINK).