Op Ed: Drivechains Could Kill Off the Altcoin Market
Sidechains have been viewed as Bitcoin’s way of dealing the altcoin market since 2014, when a proposal for a two-way peg between two different blockchains was first proposed in a public setting. Three years later, it appears that drivechains, which are a specific way of implementing sidechains, will be the way in which extensions for Bitcoin are rolled....
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Drivechains, like softchains, are another sidechain implementation with two-way peg functionality.
Rapper Kanye West has managed to kill an altcoin named in his honour, six months after it was launched by a team of developers. Called Coinye West, the altcoin was subsequently renamed Coinye in an attempt to continue its business activities even in the face of legal pressure. The developers envisioned Coinye as a fun and simple altcoin for the hip-hop community, and even tweeted news about its development to the rapper in the hopes he would embrace the concept. This plan backfired, however, as Kanye West sued the Coinye team on 8th January, starting a lengthy legal process that has been....
Altcoins have been on a real tear for months, but Jarvis Labs analyst Ben Lilly says we’re not in an "alt season" just yet. Few traders would argue against the fact that Bitcoin (BTC) is in a bull market, but there is less consensus on whether the market is in the midst of an "altcoin season." A quick view of Crypto Twitter shows the schism between traders who are certain we are halfway through alt season and those who believe it has yet to begin.Typically, traders rely on a wide swath of indicators and metrics, like Bitcoin’s total market capitalization versus the total altcoin market....
The bitcoin price crashed below $300 on October 5. Although it has since climbed back above the $300 mark, the bitcoin price has fallen 6% in the past 24 hours. Because altcoin prices are coupled to the bitcoin price, most altcoin market caps have fallen dramatically. Also Read: Analysis: Bitcoin Price Crash Below $300 - How Much Lower? Bitcoin Price Decline Makes Altcoin Market Caps Bleed. As the CoinMarketCap chart below demonstrates, altcoins have taken a huge hit over the past day. The bitcoin price decline caused nearly every altcoin market cap to fall by default. Additionally, many....
The top ranked altcoin, Ethereum, has broken its all-time high and like Bitcoin’s big breakout, it has attracted more and more participants to the cryptocurrency market. Valuations are rising everywhere, and the total altcoin market cap is on the verge of a life-changing breakout, if history repeats. And given the current momentum and FOMO across […]