Coinbase Accused of Technical Incompetence After Hoarding Millions of UTXOs

The Coinbase development team has been accused of “technical incompetence” after amassing millions of UTXOs through careless housekeeping. Unspent Transaction Outputs, or UTXOs, are the change that’s left after sending a bitcoin payment. Wallet providers are supposed to sweep these crumbs up and bundle them in with future transactions. Coinbase, it transpires, has been hoarding … Read more

Markets Update: Major Crypto Markets Dump in Unison

The majority of crypto markets appear to have regained correlation with bitcoin, with BCH, ETH, LTC, DASH and many other major markets dumping in unison with BTC. For bitcoin, today’s retrace down to test the $11,000 USD line comprises the sixth consecutive day that BTC has lost value after testing the $20,000 area, whereas BCH … Read more

PR: Money Metals Exchange – Investors Can Now Buy and Sell Precious Metals Using Various Crypto-Currencies

Money Metals Exchange Now Transacts in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, and More… National precious metals dealer Money Metals Exchange today announced expanded services for customers engaging in precious metals transactions and wishing to make or receive payment in any of several crypto-currencies. The post PR: Money Metals Exchange – Investors Can Now Buy … Read more

Popular Chat App Kakao’s Exchange Upbit Claims Number One Spot in South Korea

Kakao’s cryptocurrency exchange Upbit now claims to be the largest crypto exchange by volume in South Korea, one of the top three markets globally. Listing over 120 coins and leveraging Kakao Talk’s massive user base, Upbit currently facilitates an average daily trading volume of 5 trillion won. Also read: South Korea Clarifies Position After Reports of … Read more

Forum Wars: r/btc Mod Hacked and r/Bitcoin Continues to Censor

One of the worst aspects of modern culture is that many people have gotten used to living only in their own media bubbles. Any differing opinion must be wrong and all information from outside our own echo-chamber is automatically labeled FUD, Russian propaganda or #FakeNews. Sadly, some in the bitcoin community not only do this … Read more

Coinbase Launches an Investigation After Major Bitcoin Cash Price Manipulation

It has been a pretty eventful day for the Coinbase team as well as supporters of Bitcoin Cash. Although it was only a matter of time until this altcoin was added to the platform, things have worked out in a rather interesting manner. More specifically, the company temporarily froze all trading activity across both its platforms due to … Read more

Markets Update: Bitcoin Price Continues to Feel Bearish Sentiment

The price of bitcoin (BTC) has been suffering from a bearish decline since it reached $19,600 USD across global markets and had touched a low of $15,299 on December 21. Over the past two days, most of the other alternative digital asset markets were stable or made some significant gains. However, now that BTC markets … Read more