Cryptocurrencies

I’m Sam Volkering – author of Crypto Revolution: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and The Future of Money – which has sold over 40,000 copies and counting. I first bought Bitcoin in 2011 when it was trading for a mere $12, I bought Ethereum for $10 and got into Ripple way back in 2015… riding it to an eye-watering 20,000% […]

One of the challenges of cryptocurrencies is the consumption of a high amount of electric power. Powerful computer systems need a high amount of electrical power for mining new coins. Proof-of-work came into existence in 1993. It was created to solve the problem of spam emails. Proof-of-work was adopted by Satoshi Nakomoto (the founder of […]

New York accepted the law that was issued for the suspension of bitcoin’s proof of work mining procedure. The law is on its way to the office of the Governor; where it will be signed. However, if the law gets signed New York will become the number state to attack Bitcoin; using the law as […]

Netscape was founded in 1994 by Marc Andreessen. Back then when he founded the company, he was in his early 20s. Netscape is a web service providing company. At that time, no one saw the opportunities that the venture has to offer. In the early 90s, people were afraid of putting their important personal information […]

It is going to almost a month now as BTC/USD seems to be unable to break away from the $30,000 area. After the incident of BTC’s crash in May, the price action appears to be performing on a sideway pattern. The consolidation is around the $30,000 area. As at the time of writing this analysis, the price action is at […]

Binance changed the name of the previous Terra (LUNA) token to Terra CLassic. This was done as part of the  assistance for Terra airdrop. Hence forth LUNA will be otherwise called LUNC, while the UST token will also be otherwise called USTC. The previously announced airndrop disbursement to LUNA holders; before the crypto crashed, has […]

New LUNA: starting as low as $0.50 (50 cents), rose by around six thousand percent to thirty dollars ($30) on Bybit. However, this was the price that the new crypto reached before it changed direction; dipping to thirteen to sixteen dollars ($16). Also, the LUNA versus Tether USD fell to roughly around five to seven […]

Lucky Block (LBLOCK)’s highly-anticipated $1 million jackpot is only a few hours away. At press time, the LBLOCK jackpot and NFT winner will be announced in 35 hours, according to data from the network’s website. Apart from the $1 million jackpot up for grabs, Lucky Block is also giving away another $1 million in its NFT […]

In the world of Defi, and among the top 20 blockchain ecosystem platforms, Tron is now ranking in the third position. In addition to that, it is catching up with Binance. Tron is growing fast as its value of assets in stake has risen to $5.8 billion. Tron is just $1.1 billion different from Binance […]

The latest Terra blockchain went online just yesterday, and it is currently producing blocks. The latest- blockchain is targeted at resuscitating; the Terra community following the crash of TerraUSD recently. This crash saw Terra lose about $40bn in worth. After the recent Terra wreck, Terraform put forward a new blockchain. It was after some days […]