The continent is the third-fastest growing bitcoin economy globally, powered by retail users seeking to save and transfer money. Bitcoin adoption in Africa has skyrocketed over the past year, growing over 1,200%, according to a report by Chainalysis. The increased activity in the region has been fueled by retail investors, who resort to bitcoin every […]
Solana Blockchain Hit By Technical Difficulty, ‘Intermittent Instability’ Remains Unresolved
Solana, a high-performance, censorship-resistant blockchain, is currently facing difficulties in terms of validating transactions on its network.According to a recent statement from Solana Status, the official media account for Solana’s updates run by the Solana Foundation, the network was experiencing “resource exhaustion” which has caused “intermittent instability” across transactions on its usually high-throughput blockchain. Resource […]
Solana Blockchain Hit By Technical Difficulty, ‘Intermittent Instability’ Remains Unresolved
Solana, a high-performance, censorship-resistant blockchain, is currently facing difficulties in terms of validating transactions on its network.According to a recent statement from Solana Status, the official media account for Solana’s updates run by the Solana Foundation, the network was experiencing “resource exhaustion” which has caused “intermittent instability” across transactions on its usually high-throughput blockchain. Resource […]
Sen. Warren goes after Ethereum network fees in committee hearing
“High, unpredictable fees can make crypto trading really dangerous for people who aren’t rich,” said Senator Warren. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, known by many as an outspoken cryptocurrency skeptic in the U.S. government, criticized outages at exchanges and high transaction fees during periods of price volatility. In a Tuesday hearing of the Senate Committee on […]
Governance proposals and layer-two launches provide a boost to altcoins
RGT, CRV and SNX saw double-digit rallies after new governance proposals and migrations to layer-2 platforms. Bullish sentiment is on the rise on Sept. 14 as the price of Bitcoin (BTC) climbed higher throughout the morning and now takes aim at the $47,000 level. The building momentum also had a positive effect on altcoins and […]
Solana Block Production Stalls for Hours, SOL Holders Unable to Transact, Validators Deploy a Fix
According to reports on social media, crypto forums, onchain metrics, and the Solana Status Twitter account indicate that Solana’s blockchain has stalled. Solana mainnet-beta suffered a four-hour downtime and is still down after a technical glitch. Solana’s Network Stalls In recent times, solana (SOL) joined the top ten crypto assets by market valuation and today, […]
A Look At The $2 Million R Fund For Projects On Cardano That Revuto Just Launched
The post A Look At The $2 Million R Fund For Projects On Cardano That Revuto Just Launched appeared first on Coinpedia – Fintech & Cryptocurreny News Media| Crypto Guide At the Infobip Shift conference, Revuto co-founder Josipa Majic announced a groundbreaking initiative to look forward to. Revuto is launching a fund worth $2 million […]
SAFCOIN’s HotBit Listing makes South African History Books
The post SAFCOIN’s HotBit Listing makes South African History Books appeared first on Coinpedia – Fintech & Cryptocurreny News Media| Crypto Guide SAFCOIN makes history as SA’s first cryptocurrency to go global SAFCOIN, Africa’s first Proof of Work (POW) coin that launched exclusively to South African buyers in 2018, is going global with its listing […]
Paxful Integrates The Bitcoin Lightning Network
The peer-to-peer bitcoin trading platform will now enable its over seven million users to cheaply and quickly transact BTC. Peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange Paxful announced that its platform has fully integrated the Lightning Network, Bitcoin’s second-layer scaling solution. The firm, one of the leading peer-to-peer trading platforms worldwide, will now allow its more than seven million […]
President Biden announces picks to fill CFTC vacancies
All CFTC nominations must be confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a simple majority vote. U.S. President Joe Biden has tapped acting chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Rostin Behnam to assume his position on a permanent basis, as well as two others to fill vacant commissioner seats. In a Monday announcement from the […]