Bitcoin and its forks are the most auditable blockchains, according to a Dec. 17 report from CoinMetrics. The report examines the blockchains behind the top ten cryptocurrencies, eight of which CoinMetrics operates nodes for. CoinMetrics synced data for each blockchain, reconstructed its ledger, and verified its coin supply.

Roger Ver, a co-founder of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and owner of Bitcoin.com, finally responded to criticism after listing the controversial altcoin, HEX. “If you don’t like HEX, don’t trade it,” he wrote on Reddit.

ZenLedger announced today in a press release that the blockchain tax service and analytics startup received $3.4 million in funding. The Seattle-based company provides tax software for cryptocurrency investors and accountants and assists with tax filing and financial analysis.

One of the lead investigators at CipherBlade, Richard Sanders, alleges that the cryptocurrency exchange HitBTC is the “largest-scale criminally fraudulent entity” in the industry. 

One of the lead investigators at CipherBlade, Richard Sanders, alleges that the cryptocurrency exchange HitBTC is the “largest-scale criminally fraudulent entity” in the industry. 

• EOS has a bearish short-term and medium-term trading outlook
• The four-hour time frame shows that a bullish inverted head and shoulders pattern has been invalidated
• The daily time frame shows that a bearish wedge pattern breakout has occurred

EOS is under heavy downside pressure, following Monday broad-based cryptocurrency market sell-off. EOS/USD now trades at its weakest level since Nov. 25 this year.

Pseudonymous blockchain blogger Hasu has released an analysis of the latest Vertcoin attack. Published on the Deribit blog, the article makes a credible argument that ASICs enhance blockchain security by introducing an incentive to act in the interests of the network.

Bitcoin continues to trade below the psychological $7,000 level, following Monday’s wide-spread crypto sell-off that caused the market to shed over $10 billion in value. 

All top 10 cryptocurrencies continued to trade at fresh monthly trading lows, though XRP was affected and continued to rack up losses under the $0.20 level.

Venture capital is the latest industry to get a taste of decentralized governance. Peter Yuan Pan announced the launch of MetaCartel Ventures, a decentralized autonomous organization that will invest in the Ethereum ecosystem.

Bitcoin broke below $7,000, dropping over 3% in the last 8 hours. The move proceeds a drop three weeks ago that had BTC touch $6,500⁠—does the market have more legs down?

Bitcoin lost 3.4% of its value in 8 hours, dropping from $7,092 to $6,852 on Coinbase. The dip was accompanied by a substantial increase in volume, with 24-hour volume up 9.7%—at $19.2 billion⁠—compared to its 7-day average, according to CoinMarketCap.