According to Santiment's data, Ripple's XRP outperformed Ethereum in social volumes for the first time in seven months. Development activity for the XRP Ledger has increased approximately 5 times compared to 18 months ago. Cryptanalysis service provider Santiment stated yesterday that XRP outperformed Ethereum in a key metric for the first time in seven months.

Bitcoin hashrate has dropped quite significantly from 124,250, 397 TH/S to 82,285,031 in last seven days. Bitcoin hashrate has dropped by over 50%.

Bitcoin's emergence as a global digital currency has been as revolutionary as it has been erratic. But while fledgling investors obsess over every fluctuation in the cryptocurrency market, nation-states are more interested in the underlying blockchain technology and its ability to revolutionize how business is done on the internet and beyond.

r/btc markets itself as a "censorship-free" sub. In reality it attempts to silence the voices of people it disagrees with.

A hearing in the Kleiman v. Wright case concluded Monday with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida rejecting Craig S. Wright's testimony. The judge determined that "Satoshi Nakamoto" is a partnership of three people, but awarded half of its bitcoin holdings to the Kleiman estate.

Bitcoin is back on the radar in Zimbabwe as the country's economy continues to struggle. The cryptocurrency is trading briskly here after president Emmerson Mnangagwa's government banned the use of foreign currencies for settlement of local transactions.

Market participants have raised questions concerning the application of the federal securities laws and the rules of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA") to the potential intermediation-including custody-of digital asset securities[1] and transactions.