The cryptocurrency market is back in high spirits today after the wider market bounced back from the Dec. 3 downturn in Bitcoin (BTC) price. Currently, bulls are aiming to send BTC price above the $52,000 support/resistance level and Ether (ETH) is trying to reclaim $4,400 but both assets are encountering push back at overhead resistance. Even with BTC and ETH consolidating, traders' change of sentiment has been a boon for altcoins and many have seen gains in excess of 50% within the past 24-hours. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that a few of the biggest gainers over …

Blockchain startup “Chia Network” has raised $61 million in a funding round which included investment from top venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Richmond Global Ventures. The decentralized smart contract platform was valued at around $500 million in the funding round, according to an anonymous source cited by Bloomberg. The funding round was also backed by the CEO and co-founder of AngelList Naval Ravikant, Breyer Capital, and True Ventures. Chia’s president and CFO, Gene Hoffman, told Bloomberg the firm hopes to go public through an initial public offering, or IPO, this year: Blockchain startup “Chia Network” has raised $61 million …

If this past weekend is any indication of the current bull market cycle, then an altcoin season may be well underway. Similar to previous cycles, after Bitcoin (BTC) makes a significant run-up in price and then enters a consolidation period, funds begin to migrate into large and small market cap altcoins. Data from Cointelegraph Markets and TradingView shows that while Bitcoin traded in a range between $57,000 and $60,200 over the past week, multiple altcoins saw double-digit gains as exchange listings and protocol developments brought a new wave of enthusiasm and trading volume for select projects. Tron ecosystem leads the …

BitTorrent Token (BTT), the native token of the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol BitTorrent, has surged nearly 30% in the past 24 hours. The rally took the valuation of BTT to over $5.2 billion, making it the 24th-most-valuable cryptocurrency by market capitalization. What's more impressive, the token's value has increased more than tenfold in the past two months. Is there any catalyst behind the BTT rally? There has been no clear fundamental catalyst behind the BTT rally to date. Nevertheless, the token has demonstrated strong technical momentum since it spiked by nearly 120% within a week in mid-March. Since then, the …

DLive, the decentralized streaming platform that Justin Sun purchased and migrated to Tron in December 2019, was used by several far-right extremists to livestream their insurrection in the United States Capitol building on Wednesday. The extremists were also able to raise donations during the broadcast, and the platform has been accused of allowing extremists to raise “hundreds of thousands” of dollars, mostly in cryptocurrency, since it was founded. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog, at least five DLive accounts livestreamed Wednesday’s shocking protest: “Murder the Media,” “Loulz,” “Woozuh,” “Gloomtube” and “ Baked Alaska.” However, the organization could …

Peer-to-peer file sharing service BitTorrent, and little brother uTorrent, have now been downloaded more than two billion times on various platforms. Last year the network accounted for 3% of all downstream, and 28% of all upstream, traffic across the internet. The company attributes the figures to the “longstanding popularity of its classic desktop torrent clients, as well as its new web-based torrent downloader and player built for the streaming age”. It said the Android version of the service on Google Play Store is the “most popular torrent downloader”. In the announcement, Sun hinted that BitTorrent would soon be releasing new …

BitTorrent, a major file sharing service operating under Tron (TRX) developer, has added Binance’s USD stablecoin, BUSD, as payment option. As officially announced on July 9, BitTorrent users are now able to buy BitTorrent and µTorrent Classic Pro with BUSD and Binance’s native token, BNB. With the new addition, BitTorrent now totally features six crypto payment options on its platform. Binance’s BUSD joins the list of already supported cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin (BTC), BitTorrent’s utility token BTT, Okex’s OCB, TRX, and BNB. Alongside the BUSD addition, BitTorrent and µTorrent have also replaced the ERC-20 BNB token with the faster and more …

Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin lamented what he regards as an example of the “Justin Sun dictatorship,” after the TRON (TRX) founder was implicated in yet another plagiarism controversy. A recent rebranding of the BitTorrent File System (BTFS) was met with outrage by Juan Benet, creator of IPFS — or Interplanetary File System. Benet pointed out similarities between the new BTFS logo and that of IPFS, and alleged that the similarities don’t stop there. He tweeted: “Aaaaaahahaha it’s not enough to fork all our code, rebrand it and lie its theirs; copy paste random chunks of our papers, and defraud their investors …

Refereum, a blockchain-based platform that rewards users for video game engagement and streaming, has partnered with Tron. The collaboration allows Refereum to pay out its video game streaming users in Tron’s TRX coin, and BitTorrent’s BTT token, said an April 2 statement provided to Cointelegraph. Partnerships, more partnerships, and purchases Tron bought software company, BitTorrent Inc, in 2018. BitTorrent also utilizes an associated crypto asset called BTT, which is built on Tron’s blockchain. Refereum teamed up with DLive, a blockchain streaming service, near the end of 2019, giving video game live streamers reward-collecting potential. Furthering the connective web, Tron made …

Born in China’s Qinghai Province, 29-year-old Justin Sun is the founder and CEO of Tron, one of the largest blockchain networks in the world. Sun, who holds a master’s degree in East Asian studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor of arts in history from Peking University, launched the Tron Foundation in Singapore in September 2017. Later that year, Tron released its open-source protocol, followed by its mainnet launch in May 2018. Tron’s cryptocurrency, Tronix (TRX), currently ranks as the 14th-highest-performing cryptocurrency in the world. According to the Tron website, TRX is capable of handling 2,000 transactions per …

Two former employees at BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer torrent client acquired by Tron in 2018, have sued Tron founder and CEO Justin Sun for alleged labor violations and harassment. Unsealed court documents filed in California on Oct. 28 reveal that plaintiffs Lukasz Juraszek, 28, and Richard Hall, 50, are seeking $15 million in damages against Rainberry Inc. (the legal operating entity for the Tron Foundation), Sun and his head of engineering, Cong Li. The plantiffs’ complaint for damages rests on claims of wrongful termination, racial discrimination, a hostile work environment, fraud and whistleblower retaliation, harassment and unfair employment practices, including labor …

Peer-to-peer filesharing giant BitTorrent announced on Dec. 30 that DLive, the blockchain-based live streaming platform, will be joining its ecosystem. Through this partnership, DLive will bring peer-to-peer content sharing and live streaming capabilities to BitTorrent's 100 million monthly active users. BitTorrent CEO Justin Sun told Cointelegraph that following YouTube’s crypto-content ban, decentralized content platforms are the future. “It’s unfortunate to see content platforms such as YouTube taking down crypto-related content, this is the issue with centralized agencies. Decentralized content platforms such as TRON’s newest partner DLive are the platforms of the future.” DLive, which was launched nearly 2 years ago, …