The Block: Bitcoin Cash miners propose 12.5% share of block rewards to support ecosystem

CoinTelegraph: Price Analysis Jan 22: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, BSV, LTC, EOS, BNB, XLM, ADA

Wednesday, 22 January 2020 18:47

The price action of most major cryptocurrencies suggests a minor correction or consolidation for the next few days

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bitcoin.com: Bitcoin Cash Miners Plan $6M Development Fund by Leveraging Block Rewards

Wednesday, 22 January 2020 22:30

A group of Bitcoin Cash mining pool operations have decided to help fund BCH infrastructure development. On January 22, Btc.top founder Jiang Zhuoer revealed that five mining pools are preparing a short-term developers donation plan. Miners from Btc.top, Bitcoin.com, Viabtc, Antpool, and Btc.com plan to give “12.5%…

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bitcoin.com: Polkadot Will Finally Launch This Year – But Is the Multi-Chain Network too Late to Catch Ethereum?

Thursday, 23 January 2020 01:55

Remember Polkadot? It’s the multi-chain network that raised $145 million in 2017 and hasn’t been seen since. But unlike many of the blockchain projects from that era, Polkadot hasn’t taken the money and run. Its team, led by Ethereum founder Gavin Wood, has been beavering away at…

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bitcoin.com: Regulatory Roundup: New US Crypto Tax Bill, Central Banks Join Forces on Digital Currencies

Thursday, 23 January 2020 04:55

In this roundup, we cover an exceptionally busy week for crypto regulations around the globe. We start our coverage with the U.S. Virtual Currency Tax Fairness Act of 2020, actions by the SEC, Ripple’s lawsuit, India’s supreme court hearings, Australia green-lighting a bitcoin retail fund, Thailand approving…

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The Cryptonomist: Bitcoin Cash: a new funding plan

Thursday, 23 January 2020 09:42

Unprecedented news coming from the BCH world: miners have published a revolutionary proposal in the world of SHA-256 The post Bitcoin Cash: a new funding plan appeared first on The Cryptonomist.

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bitcoin.com: More BS on Lightning: Blockstream Pours Liquid on Thick

Thursday, 23 January 2020 10:30

Blockstream reps have long been pushing for full implementation of the perpetually-delayed Lightning Network as the main solution for BTC scalability. With the recent announcement of “federated sidechain” Liquid’s integration with Btcpay, however, the tune seems to have changed. Past weeks have found Blockstream execs Adam Back…

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The Block: BitPay adds support for XRP

Wednesday, 22 January 2020 06:15

Blockchain payments processor BitPay has added support for XRP, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. XRP has been integrated on BitPay’s platform via Ripple’s open developer platform, Xpring. The two companies first partnered on the initiative in October. At the time, Sean Rolland, BitPay’s director of…

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CoinSpice: Vodafone Abandons Libra Association, XRP Live on BitPay, CoinEx Airdrops SPICE Token Red Packets

Wednesday, 22 January 2020 15:13

TL;DR: Welcome to In Case You Missed It (ICYMI), a daily crypto news update. Vodafone abandons Libra Association. BitPay adds XRP support. CoinEx airdrops SPICE token red packets for Chinese New Year. Square to build a Lightning Network development kit. Grayscale Bitcoin Trust registered at the SEC, and Binance…

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CoinSpice: Bitcoin Cash Mining Pools to Implement Infrastructure Fund: 12.5% of BCH Coinbase Rewards

Wednesday, 22 January 2020 16:54

TL;DR: Influential mining pool operator BTC.TOP and its founder, Jiang Zhuoer, announced, in response to Bitcoin Cash infrastructure concerns, it, Antpool, ViaBTC, Bitcoin.com are launching a dedicated fund. Designed to last six months, and to begin in conjunction with the scheduled BCH May 15th, 2020 upgrade, the…

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