Cryptocurrency News

According to security researcher VriesHd’s tweets, the number of Mikro Tik routers that have now been infected with cryptojacking malware has doubled to 415,000 since this summer.

The Blockchain subsidiary of Overstock.com, Medici Ventures has invested in a grain tech firm. Medici bought equity worth $2.5 million in GrainChain, an agricultural Blockchain based project.

GBTC (Grayscale’s Bitcoin Investment Trust), which is supposedly the only Bitcoin investment trust in the United States, saw its worth drop to less than $1 billion for the first time in 2018.

The G20 (Group of 20), an international forum of governments as well as central bank governors for the top 20 countries of the world, holds annual Summits to discuss various economic issues around the world with the aim of promoting international financial stability.

In the latest cryptocurrency news, there is no doubt that November will be a month to remember for all Bitcoin investors. That is because the world’s largest cryptocurrency ended the month down 37 percent, its worst drop since April 2011 when it fell about 39 percent.

Taiwanese technology giant ASUS announced that it has entered into a partnership with Quantumcloud, a GPU (Graphics Processor Unit) mining platform. Through this partnership users can mine cryptocurrencies using their ASUS graphics cards.

Daniel Larimer, the creator of EOS and the Chief Technology Officer of Block.One, the company behind the cryptocurrency, says he is planning to develop yet another cryptocurrency as a side project.

The Singapore headquartered cryptocurrency exchange Huobi has launched its own derivatives market called Huobi Derivative Market (Huobi DM).

Cryptocurrency data and research company Messari is opening a disclosure registry for cryptocurrency projects that issue tokens. Now, information that would otherwise have been difficult to find about these projects will be publically available.

The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, Binance announced that it is merging its stablecoin market. The exchange announced that it was going to change the name of its Tether (USDT) Market to Stablecoin (USDⓢ) Market.