Crypto News: August 2020
Crypto stories without the hype
My favourites from the cryptouniverse.
Advice, Global, Crime?, Coins, National, Swiss, Business, Wild Side, Catch Up
Advice
Top Crypto Wallets, Ranked — 14 August 2020
Writing Bitcoin Smart Contracts Is About to Get Easier With New Coding Language — 14 August 2020
Sundays Are the Perfect Time to Buy the Bitcoin Dip, Data Shows — 8 August 2020
GoChain Academy — 1 August 2020
Global
Citizens Of China Moved $50 Billion Of Crypto Out Of The Country — 22 August 2020
European Union (EU) Proposes the Creation of a Single Market for Trading Cryptocurrencies — 20 August 2020
Capital One Files Patent for Cryptocurrency Market AI Prediction System — 19 August 2020
Ontology, NEO and Switcheo Launch New Interoperability Network as Basis for Next-Gen Internet — 18 August 2020
Bitcoin Is Now Bigger than Bank of America and NZ Dollar by Market Cap — 17 August 2020
Blockchain Investments Fell 63% Due to Pandemic — 14 August 2020
ESG And SDG Alpha Backed By The Blockchain — 14 August 2020
Bitcoin Transaction Fees Plummet as Network Congestion Eases — 11 August 2020
Average Ethereum Fees Surge to $3 on High DeFi Demand — 11 August 2020
North American Investors Vastly Favor Bitcoin Over Other Cryptocurrencies — 6 August 2020
Lost Bitcoin: 3.7 million Bitcoin are probably gone forever — 6 August 2020
$1 Billion Worth of Bitcoin Just Sent For a $4 Fee — 6 August 2020
European Union Selects IOTA as Prime Mover in Funding Projects — 6 August 2020
Crime?
US Homeland Security Can Now Track Privacy Crypto Monero — 31 August 2020
Uber Exec Allegedly Concealed 2016 Hack With $100K BTC ‘Bug Bounty’ Pay-Off — 21 August 2020
VeChain (VET) to be Used in Over 2,200,000 State of the Art Hotels — 19 August 2020
1,543,000 XRP Stolen by Scam Artists on YouTube, 60% of Victims Use Coinbase — 17 August 2020
— 18 August 2020
Co-founder of major crypto exit scam One Coin escapes 90-year jail term as plaintiffs decide to settle — 8 August 2020
The US travel management company CWT paid $4.5 million in a Bitcoin ransom attack — 3 August 2020
Hackers Steal Over $1.3M from European Crypto Trading Platform — 3 August 2020
Federal Agents Arrest Suspected 17-Year-Old Twitter Hack 'Mastermind' in Florida — 1 August 2020
Coins
Here’s why Bitcoin’s Year-to-Date RoI is greater than Gold’s — 22 August 2020
VeChain Developer Upgrades VeChain Thor to New Version — 20 August 2020
Bitcoin Plunges Below $12,000 As The Crypto Market Loses $10B In Hours — 18 August 2020
Crypto Market Cap Nears $400 Billion — 18 August 2020
VET’s New Partnership Will Bring Blockchain To Many Untapped Industries — 18 August 2020
Nervos Network integrates Chainlink oracles for off-chain connectivity — 15 August 2020
$99 Tx Fees on Ethereum: Are DeFi Builders Looking for Other Blockchains? — 14 August 2020
TRON (TRX) Ecosystem towards Strongest Privacy Protection in the Industry — 14 August 2020
Band token sees 300 percent growth in one week — 13 August 2020
IOTA Is Preparing To Launch Its New Upgrade, Chrysalis — 11 August 2020
Swipe Introduces New Products: SXP Is Already Up Over 100% In 10 Days — 11 August 2020
Bitcoin is Almost as Big as Bank of America — 8 August 2020
EOS Ecosystem Dies: High Costs And Community Fragmentation — 8 August 2020
European Union Selects IOTA as Prime Mover in Funding Projects — 6 August 2020
Bitfinex Lists Cardano [ADA] After Increased Demand From The Crypto Community — 6 August 2020
National
Nothing this month
Swiss
Nothing this month