New Website Ranks 600 Cryptocurrencies by Github Activity

From market cap to trading volume, there’s a lot of ways to assess and quantify cryptocurrencies. Traders evaluating new crypto projects are prone to diving deep in their quest to uncover diamonds in the rough. Github activity – the frequency with which the code governing cryptocurrencies is updated – provides a good indicator of which projects are still being cared for and which have been allowed to go to seed. Cryptomiso is a new website that logs and charts the Github commits for over 600 cryptos, and its top 10…

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Bitcoin Futures Report Shows Bullish Sentiment Is In the Air

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency markets, in general, have been bearish during the first month of 2018 after many digital assets reached all-time price highs this past December. A lot of people have been following the correlation between the newly added bitcoin-based derivatives markets offered by Cboe and CME, alongside bitcoin spot prices over the past four weeks. Over the last few weeks, most of the bitcoin futures contracts have been bearish as traders forecasting the recent downtrend in value ‘shorted’ the market. However, according to recent data, bitcoin-futures bets are showing…

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Japan’s Largest Consumer Electronics Chain Trials Bitcoin Payments

Japan’s largest consumer electronics retailer Yamada Denki has partnered with the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Bitflyer to trial bitcoin payments. Initially, bitcoin will be accepted at two of Yamada Denki Labi stores in Tokyo, but the company plans to roll out the digital currency payment option nationwide in the future. Also read: Japan’s DMM Bitcoin Exchange Opens for Business With 7 Cryptocurrencies Yamada Denki Stores Accept Bitcoin Japan’s largest consumer electronics retailer, Yamada Denki, has announced that it has begun trialling bitcoin payments starting on January 27. This is in partnership…

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Dr. Doom (Professor Nouriel Roubini) Calls Stablecoin Tether a Scam

It’s no longer just anonymous internet trolls calling out Tether on twitter. One of the most influential economists in the world today, Nouriel Roubini, has just entered the debate, coming down hard against the controversial company. Also Read: Analyst: IOTA Sharply Overvalued Due to “Overwhelming Evidence of Serious Flaws” Dr. Doom vs Tether Renowned economics professor Nouriel Roubini (commonly known as Dr. Doom) has called out Tether today for being a scam meant to artificially prop up the price of bitcoin. He thinks that without this “criminal manipulation” the price…

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Bitcoin Cash Games Arrives — Play Your Favorites Faster With BCH

Last September the premier source for everything bitcoin-related, Bitcoin.com, launched our casino gaming platform Bitcoin Games. Since then we decided to create a portal that uses bitcoin cash (BCH), making things far cheaper for gamers playing their odds. Our new portal ‘Bitcoin Cash Games’ offers the same variety of provably fair games for BCH users who want to play for high stake jackpots. Also read: South Korean Card Companies Block Transactions to Overseas Cryptocurrency Exchanges Bitcoin Cash Games Has All of Your Casino Favorites At Bitcoin.com we prefer cryptocurrencies and platforms…

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