In recent news, Microsoft announced that the much-anticipated HoloLens 2 will go live on sale in September, Harry Shum revealed at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghay on Thursday. Recently Microsoft finally announced that HoloLens 2 will go on sale in September, the head of AI and research Harry Shum, revealed on stage in...Read More
Apple has now made its own Apple Card available for all consumers within the United States. Apple promises to keep user data very private and not compromise on security, especially with Apple Card partners MasterCard and Goldman Sachs. Apple has finally released its own credit card called the Apple Card. In partnership with American multinational...Read More
Hedera hashgraph, the super-fast blockchain network, will open Mainnet Open Access from September 16th, 2019. Under this project, any developer can start building dApps on Hedera’s platform. Developers can also run mirror nodes that provide access to all consensus decisions. Hedera claims Open Access beta will allow up to 10,000 transactions each second. Bitcoin and...Read More
The Binance exchange has announced that it has launched a developer-focused platform, called “Binance X,” which will further the crypto adoption movement. Binance X will serve as a learning and collaboration platform for developers looking to get into the blockchain ecosystem. The project will also help developers get involved with Binance’s own solutions such as...Read More
Binance launched an initiative platform to help developers leverage Binance infrastructure for their ideas and projects. There are 3 themes of this program – Learn, Collaborate and Grow. Learn provides official third party resources for information. Collaborate provides tools and channels to develop the infrastructure. Grow refers to different Binance programs already designed. Binance has...Read More
Bitcoin lost upwards of $800 in the past 24 hours, marking a sharp decrease of around 7 percent on the day. Conditions like these would typically leave room for altcoins to thrive, but this isn’t the case. The entire market is bleeding heavily, while Bitcoin manages to retain a high dominance of around 69 percent. ...Read More
The four-hour and daily time frame shows that multiple head and shoulders patterns are close to reaching their bearish targets Technical analysis highlights the $55.00 level as a possible turning point for the LTC/USD pair Litecoin has fallen to its lowest trading level since April 2nd this year, as the fifth largest cryptocurrency by market...Read More
Bitcoin developers have created a multi-signature (multisig) user interface for both hardware wallets and full nodes to enhance Bitcoin Wallet security. Wallets protected by multisig technology need more than one private key to access the wallet. Thus it is less likely to breach the security as no single party possesses all the information to access...Read More
The Bitcoin price has seen a downward fall below $10,000 within a span of half an hour. The steep fall in the BTC price has also affected the crypto market and some of the well-known crypto enthusiasts and investors. The BTC price fell drastically to $9,400 giving a weekly low. Analyzing this price fluctuation, the...Read More
Bitcoin has dropped towards the $9,300 level for the first time in the last 30 days as investors continue to explore traditionally perceived safe-haven assets against global market risks.The benchmark cryptocurrency plunged by $950 within a matter of a few hours. The move downhill coincided with the expiration of CME bitcoin futures contract, which typically...Read More
Court proceedings against defunct Canadian Bitcoin exchange QuadrigaCX will focus on people in Ontario, say liquidators. EY: ‘Few Ties’ Keep Bitcoin Case In Nova Scotia In a court document filed this week, Ernst & Young (EY), the accounting giant acting as the exchange’s bankruptcy trustee, petitioned for a relocation of their case. Currently taking place...Read More
South Korean exchange Bithumb has announced a new committee which will evaluate the cryptocurrencies listed on the platform on a monthly basis. The new committee called “the Listing Eligibility Deliberation Committee,” will take into account certain factors, such as 24-hour trading volume, base market capitalization variations and project backing. “The specific conditions for the delisting...Read More
According to a recent study by Coinbase on higher education, the adoption of academic courses on digital currencies and the underlying blockchain technology by top institutions around the world is on the rise. A Coinbase‘s survey was carried out on the top 50 universities in the world (i.e., according to the U.S. News And World...Read More
Bitcoin price fell sharply on Thursday’s trading to land around the $9,500 level. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: The bitcoin price crumbled overnight, breaching the psychological barrier of $10k and dropping as low as $9,334 on Coinbase. The fall marked a nine percent collapse in a matter of hours, wiping out a total of...Read More
Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has been in the news all month for a host of reasons. The exchange had a rough beginning to the month after the exchange’s old KYC data was leaked on a Telegram group. However, the exchange has managed to keep the community informed with a series of positive developments in its...Read More
Coin burning is a method by which cryptocurrencies keep their market value high and attempt to offset inflation. When a large portion of a coin’s supply is removed, that coin experiences heightened demand, and as a result, the coin’s price goes up. At least, that’s how it works in theory. In practice, any price increases...Read More
Nutanix, which is a leading enterprise cloud computing company, announced their new Q4 and fiscal 2019 financial results. Soon after the company’s stock price shot up to even 15%. Nutanix, a company which operates in the cloud computing industry, announced their Q4 Fiscal 2019 Financial results. It beat all the expectations that the financial experts...Read More
Coinpedia had reported about Bakkt’s Futures Launch. Intercontinental Exchange‘s (ICE’s) Bakkt platform has tweeted about Bakkt’s Warehouse starting this Sept 6. Bakkt’s Warehouse will offer secure storage of customer bitcoin to prepare Bakkt Bitcoin Daily & Monthly Futures launch on Sept 23. Moreover, the platform will enable the physical delivery of Bitcoin with end-to-end regulated...Read More
Market makers have a reputation that is entirely disproportionate to what they do. Despite what half of crypto Twitter would have you believe, MMs, as they are colloquially known, are a neutral force when used correctly. But should tokenized projects be routinely deploying these tools on crypto exchanges, and what are the long-term ramifications of...Read More
Over the past few months, Bitcoin (BTC) has been lauded by economists, investors, and commentators as an up-and-coming “safe haven” asset.You see, during a period of global turmoil, the cryptocurrency has managed to outpace effectively every other asset class in the books.Related Reading: Bitcoin Bull Run “Guaranteed”: Federal Reserve Expected to Cut Rates Into 2020As reported...Read More
Cryptocurrency figures are putting renewed faith in Bakkt to lift markets after the company announced it was ready to launch Bitcoin storage. Bakkt: Bitcoin Storage Starts Next Week Bakkt, a cryptocurrency ecosystem for institutional investors, is currently testing its first product, physical Bitcoin futures. The main launch will begin next month. As of September 6,...Read More
The financial situation in Venezuela continues to evolve in interesting directions. While Bitcoin is still frowned upon in the country, it is also becoming more common. XPay, a cryptocurrency payment processor, is now offering its services in Colombia and Venezuela. As such, pharmaceutical goods can now be purchased with Bitcoin, assuming people are willing to...Read More
French authorities recently disabled a botnet server which infected 850,000 other servers across 140 countries with a cryptojacking virus. The French cybersecurity revealed yesterday that shut down a botnet force comprising of 850,000 servers which operated mostly in Latin America. The main server of the operation was located in France and infecting computers with Monero...Read More
Syrk released a cheat plan for Fortnite players. This was malware in disguise. Fortnite players were at a risk of their cryptocurrencies held as ransom. Additionally, if the players refused to pay the ransom, Syrk would delete system files after the set time completes. Emsisoft, a leading antivirus company has developed a decryptor for this...Read More
The former Amazon employee who hacked the Capital One Bank has now used it’s servers to mine cryptocurrencies for herself. On August 28, the court filings revealed that the hacker Paige A. Thompson is charged for Capital One breach and for cryptojacking attempt. Basically, cryptojacking is all about crypto mining attacks. This works by installing...Read More
Fitbit, a smartphone wearables company, released its new Smartwatch Versa 2 upgrade. It comes with a few next-generation upgrades along with the Amazon’s Alexa addition. Also, the company announced the launch of its subscription service. In recent news, Fitbit, which is known as the rival to Apple in the wearable war, announced their newest upgrades...Read More
Success for us as working people is one of the most rewarding and best things that happens in a worker’s life. But recent generations are redefining what it means to be successful, what identifies people, and even what it means to be an adult. Gen Z is starting to define themselves by their achievements in...Read More
Bitcoin (BTC) price fell below $9,500 on Aug. 29 as the largest cryptocurrency’s sudden bearish move continued to bite. Market visualization. Source: Coin360 Bitcoin price must finish week above $9,533 Data from Coin360 painted a gloomy picture for day traders Thursday, BTC/USD having lost 8% in the past 24 hours. The turbulence began late on...Read More
Sharding is widely hailed as a solution to blockchain scalability. But projects that implement sharding technology may be introducing new security risks into their blockchains, according to the CEO of Solana, which could make them vulnerable to consensus attacks. Speaking to Crypto Briefing, Anatoly Yakovenko said that the risks associated with sharding far outweigh any...Read More
