ALTCOINS

Chainlink’s LINK Crypto Price Surges to a New All-Time High, Signaling a Strong Altcoin Season

Chainlink has surged to an all-time high, $8.48, as recent new partnerships have instigated its bull run. Likely factors that pushed the crypto into its strong momentum were recent high-profile partnerships, price discovery, and the strong altcoin market.

Bitcoin is 57,000 Times Less Environmentally Friendly Than the "Green Cryptocurrency" XRP, Says Ripple

Ripple claims that its cryptocurrency, XRP, is 57,000 times more environmentally friendly than the largest cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. According to Ripple’s blog post, the firm criticizes Bitcoin’s consensus mechanism, proof-of-work (PoW), as a major issue contributing to the vast amounts of energy consumed for validating and processing transactions on the network.

McAfee's Ghostcoin Gets Backing as Payment in Hong Kong

John McAfee's Ghostcoin gets backing for use as a payment coin in Hong Kong across 60 vending machines including Disneyland.

FC Barcelona Fan Tokens Worth $1.3 Million Sold Out in Two Hours

FC Barcelona Fan Tokens (BAR) got sold out barely 2 hours after it went live on sale. With BAR, fans all over the world will be more engaged in the decision at the club.

Chainalysis Adds Compliance Support to Track Privacy Coins Dash and Zcash

Chainalysis has just launched support for two of the most popular privacy coins, Dash and Zcash. Privacy coins are cryptocurrencies with privacy-enhancing features that allow users to gain total anonymity when making blockchain transactions. Privacy coins protect the identity of the users and the origins of the transactions, taking the anonymous and private nature of Bitcoin to the next level. Comparatively, Bitcoin protects some information, hence remaining pseudo-anonymous. The rest of the information, including transactions, addresses, and balances, is recorded in a public and permanently available ledger.

Ripple CEO Urges US Regulators to Embrace Crypto as Country Risks Falling Behind China

CEO of Ripple, Brad Garlinghouse, has disclosed how China has taken the lead in blockchain and crypto as the US risks losing out.

Tezos Looks Set to Beat Bitcoin In 2020

Minor cryptocurrency Tezos is making serious gains and is on track to rival bitcoin this year.

TRX Mortgage Lending Platform Now Available to Public On TRON’s Nile Testnet

The Tron Foundation announced that the TRON TRX mortgage lending platform which is being launched on the Nile test net is available for the public testing phase, according to a medium post on Monday. The foundation believes that the platform will expand the quality of Tron ecosystem and foster awesome ecological prosperity within the loans sector.

Is the Price of Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) Driven by Fake News?

The BSV (Bitcoin Satoshi Vision) price chart is peculiar to analyze. Given the state of cryptocurrency investment, it is safe to say that a large influencer of crypto value is derived from speculation, and BSV is plagued by speculation as its chain leader, Craig Wright, continues to claim that he is Satoshi Nakomoto—the anonymous original creator of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin SV Moons As Craig Wright Tells Court That he Has Access to Tulip Trust

Bitcoin Satoshi Version (BSV), a fork of the Bitcoin Cash, is surging in trades following Craig Wright’s compliance with a court order to open up the mysterious Tulip Trust for inspection.