The cryptocurrency market lost around 10% of the total market capitalization yesterday and then stabilized at around 300 billion dollars. Today, however, the total market capitalization dropped to 267.8 billion dollars, which presents another drop of almost 10% in the last 24 hours. The price of Bitcoin, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, dropped below 6,500 […]
Bitcoin, the main blockchain network in the cryptocurrency ecosystem, continues with to grow constantly. The processing power of the Bitcoin network experimented an accelerated growth in the las period, at a much faster rate than other cryptocurrencies with high levels of adoption. In the last two weeks, the processing capacity of the Bitcoin blockchain network […]
Matt Corallo, one of the developers from the Bitcoin Core development team, made a proposal for improving the Bitcoin blockchain network by focusing on the independence of the mining nodes from the mining pools. Corallo published his proposal called BetterHash Mining Protocol(s) using the mailing list of the Bitcoin Core team. Corallo says: “We propose […]
This week the Bitcoin blockchain network registered one of the lowest values of its commission rates this year. The commissions even managed to get lower than the commissions in the Bitcoin Cash blockchain network. This phenomenon happens for the second time this year. The statistics published by fork.lol illustrate how the average commission per transaction […]
This week the Bitcoin blockchain network registered one of the lowest values of its commission rates this year. The commissions even managed to get lower than the commissions in the Bitcoin Cash blockchain network. This phenomenon happens for the second time this year. The statistics published by fork.lol illustrate how the average commission per transaction […]
During the past week the cryptocurrency market managed to recover lightly, after several weeks of a bearish trend. The price of Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency with the highest market capitalization, went from 7,350 dollars per coin to 7,717 US dollars per coin. The current price of Bitcoin is 7,452 dollars, with a market capitalization of around […]
According to a functionary of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the fiat currencies need new ideas to compete with the cryptocurrencies. New ideas are necessary to make them more attractive for the users in the digital era. Dong He, the Deputy Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the International Monetary Fund, published […]
The value of the cryptocurrency market descended during the last week. In the past seven days, the total market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market went from 381.8 billion dollars down to 325.9 billion dollars, which presents a 14.6% drop. Bitcoin, the most popular and the cryptocurrency with the highest market capitalization, lost 14% of its […]
Due to the demand coming from its clients, CheapAir, an online travel agency, decided to amplify the cryptocurrency payment options by accepting Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash and Dash. The travel agency already accepts Bitcoin for flight and hotel reservations. The announcement was made a few days ago on the official website of CheapAir. According to the […]
During the last three years the number of nodes in the Bitcoin blockchain network rose by 5001 percent, according to data published by Jameson Lopp, a developer and well known figure in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Lopp’s publication compares the quantity of miners that validated a block during a period of five seconds in the period […]