Cryptocurrency news from around the world and beyond. We cover what happening with cryptocurrency today. We cover things like countries embracing or rejecting cryptos, price milestones for Bitcoin and Alts, new projects, upcoming forks, etc.
There was a vulnerability in Bitcoin’s code. Meanwhile, since Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash and some others are based on Bitcoin, they also had the bug. Luckily, the Bitcoin Cash developer who caught the code shared it, and Bitcoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, and more have all fixed the issue. Other crypto teams who based their code on Bitcoin, like Doge and Verge, have come out to assure people that they never had the vulnerability.
The SEC’s decision on the Bitcoin ETF from Van Eck Securities Corp. and SolidX Management is postponed while the SEC requests another round of comments from the public. The exact decision date isn’t clear, but essentially it is 21 days for comments from Sept 20th (when the order was published in the Federal Register), 35 days for rebuttals from that date, and then with that information another decision has to be made.
XRP took off running over news of XRapid and almost every other crypto followed suit this week.
David Chaum, cypherpunk, early crypto pioneer, and inventor of the Bitcoin precursor ecash, says he has built a better Bitcoin with his new project Elixxir.
CryptoVest.com did a study that showed international transfers of Bitcoin were 1,000s of times cheaper than international wire transfers of USD.
XRP has been on a run for the past few days. This is likely due to excitement over the upcoming xRapid system. To understand why that is the case, you have to understand what XRapid is and how it relates to XRP.
Charlie Lee, Litecoin’s creator, fired back at critics in a series of epic Twitter posts. In other words, Charlie Lee lays out a list of reasons why Litecoin is awesome. See the Tweets below.
The NY A.G. report on crypto eludes to the idea that 20% of Coinbase trades are done by Coinbase. This is a misunderstanding, Coinbase doesn’t trade for the benefit of Coinbase… they fill Coinbase customer orders.
The New York Attorney General (the “NY A.G.”) created a consumer report on cryptocurrency with the help of some crypto exchanges who operate in New York. We explain the report.
Bitcoin just flash crashed right before CBOE futures expire (09/19/2018). For the most part alts didn’t seem to be buying it, as they mostly refused to panic and drop against Bitcoin.
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