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March 4, 2019

Bitcoin and Ethereum Whales Move $33,280,222 in Crypto, Plus Ripple and XRP, Tron, EOS, Cardano: Crypto News Alert

By Daily Hodl Staff

From a herd of Bitcoin and Ethereum whales to new adoption for EOS, here’s a look at some of the stories breaking in the world of crypto.

Bitcoin and Ethereum

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Bitcoin and Ethereum whales are on the move at the start of the week with a handful transferring their crypto to exchanges, which indicates they may be gearing up to sell.

One whale just moved 1,870 BTC worth about $7.2 million from Poloniex to an unknown wallet. A second sent 721 BTC worth $2.8 million from an unknown wallet to Coinbase.

A crush of Ethereum whales have been active in the last 24 hours, moving a total of 174,450 ETH worth $22.1 million.

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34,588 ETH worth $4.6 million transferred from unknown wallet to ZB exchange
19,863 ETH worth $2.6 million transferred from Bitfinex to unknown wallet
50,000 ETH worth $6.6 million transferred from unknown wallet to ZB exchange
50,000 ETH worth $6.6 million transferred from unknown wallet to ZB exchange
10,000 ETH worth $1.3 million transferred from OKEx to unknown wallet
9,999 ETH worth $1.3 million transferred from OKEx to unknown wallet

Ripple and XRP

Ripple sales director Ross Darcy will speak at the Dublin Tech Summit on April 10th. This year’s focus is on emerging technologies, scaling startups and how to turn groundbreaking ideas into reality.

Meanwhile, crypto enthusiast Hodor has published an overview of a number of recent developments for Ripple and XRP.

  • Ripple’s investment in San Francisco-based startup Kava Labs, which is focused on interoperability
  • New feature from the micropayments company Coil
  • XRP community meetup in the Netherlands
  • Accenture’s expected growth for Ripple

EOS

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CoinPayments, a leading online payment processor for cryptocurrency, has added EOS to its platform.

Now over 2.2 million merchants can use EOS as a payment method. CoinPayments was the first payment processor to support altcoins, in addition to Bitcoin. Founded in 2013, the company has over 2,000,000 clients across 182 countries, and processes payments for 600 altcoins.

Tron

BitTorrent has released a full recap of its recent ask-me-anything featuring Justin Sun. The AMA covers Tron’s future plans for the peer-to-peer file sharing platform, the ongoing BitTorrent Token (BTT) airdrop, and Tron’s recent mainnet upgrade to Odyssey 3.5.

Cardano

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson just sat down for the latest edition of Thriller Podcast.

Hoskinson talks about Joe Lubin and ConsenSys, Coinbase, simulation theory, philosophy, and the future of Cardano and its cryptocurrency ADA.

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