Crypto News

New Research Suggests Bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto Also Created Monero (XMR)

New evidence suggests that the anonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, might have also created privacy-focused cryptocurrency, Monero (XMR). For one thing, Bitcoin (BTC) and Monero share quite a number of similarities including the anonymity of their founders. Nakamoto same as Nicolas van Saberhagen? Conducted by Monero Outreach, a workgroup of the decentralized Monero community that aims to drive greater Monero adoption and awareness, the research claimed that Nakamoto and the unknown author of the Monero whitepaper, Nicolas van Saberhagen, may have been the same person or group.  According to

Coinbase Bootstraps USDC; Invests $1.1M in DeFi Products Uniswap and PoolTogether

 Leading US-based cryptocurrency exchange and wallet provider, Coinbase has announced that it has made a direct investment up to the tune of $1.1 million in two different Decentralized Finance (DeFi) products – Uniswap and PoolTogether.  According to the official announcement today, the funding was made via the exchange’s stablecoin, USD Coin (USDC) and it is part of Coinbase efforts to increase the projects’ chances of competing against other existing financial products.  Uniswap The Uniswap platform is an automated market maker built on the Ethereum blockchain that is currently simplifying exchanges’

Vitalik Buterin: Ethereum is DeFi Chain as Much as Bitcoin is Digital Gold

Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin has recently asserted that aside from the numerous potential applications of Ethereum in various areas, its use as a cryptocurrency, for settlements, cannot be overlooked. This is coming after Ryan Sean Adams, the founder of Mythos Capital, shared how Bitcoin Maximalists are trolling him about how pointless Ethereum is. Got Maximalists trolling me about how pointless Ethereum is meanwhile I just sent a crypto backed stablecoin in a private transaction on the Ethereum mainnet peer-to-peer w/o a bank Keep trolling We’ll keep building the bankless future

Printer Goes Brrrr: Rich Dad Poor Dad Author Calls Bitcoin People’s Money

The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on global economies, which has left the less privileged in most affected nations exposed to series of hardships and has made many experts provide insights on possible ways to avoid such reoccurrence in the future. Robert Kiyosaki, a bestselling author of popular financial literacy book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, is the latest to weigh in on the topic as he encouraged his followers on Twitter to save their money via Bitcoin instead of fiats currencies. Kiyosaki who recently started a series