Month: February 2021
Litecoin briefly flips XRP as 4th largest crypto amid Ripple–SEC spat
Litecoin (LTC) and XRP briefly traded places in market capitalization rankings over the weekend, highlighting the impact of the recent lawsuit against Ripple filed by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. The so-called “flippening” […]
Four cryptocurrency block reward halvings to look out for in 2021
Block reward halvings cut the rate at which new coins are generated on a given blockchain by 50%. Such events, known jokingly as “halvenings,” have long been anticipated by cryptocurrency traders as catalysts for pushing […]
The adventures of the inventive Alex Mashinsky – Cointelegraph Magazine
The way Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky tells it, he not only invented DeFi, but also Uber and VoIP — and he even had a crack at creating Bitcoin, four years before Satoshi Nakamoto. Weirdly enough, […]