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Despite epic price rises since the start of the year and the fact that it’s the second-biggest cryptocurrency by total market capitalization, Eth2 lags behind competitors in the staking rankings. So, why isn’t Ether (ETH) the number one staking cryptocurrency? A brief history of proof-of-stake Back in 2012, Peercoin developers Sunny King and Scott Nadal

On Jan. 26, the internet came to a screeching halt along much of the East Coast. Email services went down; YouTube videos flickered out midstream; millions were likely affected, if only temporarily. But the outage, attributed to a surge in traffic, underscores the metastasizing vulnerabilities surrounding the way most of the world conducts commerce, consumes

Austrian regulators are calling for stricter crypto laws amid a spate of elaborate investment scams involving cryptocurrency and digital assets. According to a Bloomberg report of Friday, Austria’s Financial Market Authority has revealed that more than 60% of all reported financial fraud in the country involve crypto trading products. The FMA says these crypto scammers

An Israeli start-up that aims to establish a digital ledger technology-based digital securities exchange in the country has received its first, encouraging go-ahead from the Israel Securities Authority. In an application letter filed with the regulator on Feb. 14, Simetria had sought the ISA’s approval to operate a digital bulletin board as a preliminary step in

Sweden’s central bank has extended an ongoing pilot aimed at creating a digital version of the Swedish krona until 2022, as was recently announced by the nation’s Riksbank. In combination with professional services firm Accenture, the “e-krona” pilot program was created to address what the Riksbank sees as “the marginalization of cash”: “The Riksbank sees

At the age of 26, Wisconsin web designer Michael Winkelmann began creating a new piece of digital art in his personal time every single day. He calls them ‘Everydays’. “I saw a pretty big step-up in the work that I do,” he says. “The ‘Everydays’ are basically just the pictures that I do every single

Celsius, a centralized cryptocurrency lending platform, claims to have paid out over $250 million in rewards to its 415,000 users, underscoring the rapid growth of blockchain lending protocols.  Celsius announced the milestone in a Monday press release, which highlighted the company’s significant growth over the past two years. “Celsius remains one of the fastest-growing companies

Crypto industry actors in Hong Kong have been trying to push back against a forthcoming law that would restrict legal cryptocurrency trading to professional investors, locking out 93% of the local population from the market. In comments to the South China Morning Post published on Feb. 15, industry body Global Digital Finance warned that the proposed

The price of Bitcoin (BTC) achieved a new record above $49,000 on Valentine’s Day on Feb. 14, rising to as high as $49,344 on Coinbase. There are three main reasons Bitcoin surged to a new all-time high, namel high stablecoin inflows, clean break of the $38,000 resistance area, and a prolonged consolidation phase. BTC/USD 4-hour

In a post today on their governance and research forums, the team behind decentralized finance(DeFi) AMM aggregator 0x announced initial plans to decentralize their governance by creating a “community-owned treasury seed-funded by 0x Labs.” “As we continue our mission to create a tokenized world where all value can flow freely, 0x Labs intends to experiment

Major Canadian universities have submitted new research to the Bank of Canada centered around the development of a central bank digital currency, or CBDC, underscoring the innovation underway in this space. The research began last year after the BoC engaged four institutions around potential designs for a national cryptocurrency. A total of three proposals were published

Today, Bitcoin-on-Ethereum yield vault project BadgerDAO and fellow yield vault platform Yearn.Finance announced a partnership designed to bring Yearn’s sustainable vault expertise to Badger.  “Today we’re excited to develop a partnership that will bring our teams together to further accelerate best in class BTC vaults for the industry,” BadgerDAO said in a blog post. “This

Growing institutional interest in Bitcoin (BTC) helped elevate the top cryptocurrency to a new record high on Feb. 9 and led to a total market cap value higher than the market cap of the Russian ruble.  Data from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView shows Bitcoin established a new all-time high of $48,220 in the early hours

Bitwise, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency fund managers, has filed a new prospectus with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, to launch an exchange-traded fund for so-called “crypto innovators.”  The fund manager filed Form N-1A with the securities regulator on Feb. 5, where it outlined its intent to offer the Bitwise

The Anon Powered development team has announced today the launch of Premia, the latest decentralized finance (DeFi) options platform live on Ethereum.  In an interview with Cointelegraph, the group of semi-anonymous developers behind Anon Powered — who collectively requested that they be referred to as “members of the Premia Republic,” the name for Premia’s forthcoming

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Bitcoin eyes $50K less than a month after BTC price

Bitcoin’s (BTC) correction from its January high has not shaken the confidence of institutional investors. According to Glassnode analysts, the number of whales holding more than 1,000 Bitcoin has increased by 200 this year. Along with the institutions, several high profile investors have also committed money to the crypto sector. Hedge fund manager Paul Tudor

A growing number of options traders are sitting on large unrealized losses following Ethereum’s (ETH) latest price surge, highlighting once again the volatile and unpredictable nature of the cryptocurrency market.  Pankaj Balani, the CEO of Delta Exchange, a St. Vincent-based cryptocurrency derivatives platform, tells Cointelegraph that he has observed “a lot of naked call writing