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 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 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.
“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.
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.
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.
As the global take-up of cryptocurrencies increases, so does the regulatory and public scrutiny of digital transactions.
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.
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).
OmiseGO, an Ethereum token is now available for trading on CEX.io, a popular exchange that offers USD and EUR offerings along with BTC pair. Starting April 22, 2019, at 3 PM UTC, you will be able to trade OMG against USD, EUR, and BTC.