Ransomware extortionists get counter-offered to zero. | Source: Shutterstock When ransomware attackers targeted the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts, two months ago demanding $5.3 million in Bitcoin, they must have felt very confident when turning down a counter-offer of $400,000 that the city presented. That feeling probably turned to regret soon thereafter as it has...Read More
Huobi University, the research and education arm of cryptocurrency exchange Huobi, announced its collaboration with the University of Gibraltar on various blockchain initiatives. On Sept. 5, Houbi Group, the parent company of both Huobi University and Huobi exchange, announced what the firm describes as its “first formal collaboration with a Western university.” As Cointelegraph reported...Read More
Holding some Cosmos coins? Want to explore about its future? Or want to know how high will it go in 2020? Either way, all of your questions will be answered in this Cosmos price prediction. Let’s get started with this Cosmos price prediction article from scratch, explaining what this Cosmos project is all about. Then...Read More
Bitcoin Cash – ABC – Sees Red Bitcoin Cash ABC slid by 1.75% on Friday. Following on from a 0.62% decline on Thursday, Bitcoin Cash ABC ended the day at $287.96. A bullish start to the day saw Bitcoin Cash ABC rally from a morning low $292.54 to a mid-morning intraday high $301.3. Bitcoin Cash...Read More
Market.Biz’s evaluation of “Global Carrageenan Market 2019” emphasizing technological evolutions, modifications, and growth outlooks. The report studies the latest industry trends, Carrageenan market 2019 development aspects, market profits, and business situation throughout the forecast period. The Carrageenan report provides the details related to fundamental overview, market dominance, development status, latest progress, and business dynamics. The report...Read More
Photo: Shutterstock Why? Because all purchases are online and these payments need to be very fast to process, just that is one of the main characteristics of cryptocurrencies. Now let’s see, is it really worth the effort? Development of the Videogame Industry The gaming industry is no longer a niche arena for a certain age...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and Ripple, the blockchain startup behind XRP, have fallen out of the top 10 of this year’s business and employment-oriented service Linkedln’s “The 50 hottest U.S. companies to work for” list. According to the new LinkedIn’s list published on Sept. 4, Ripple moved to the 28th place (was seventh in 2018) while...Read More
During the webcast discussion in Switzerland, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said that the Facebook’s stable coin, Libra would probably have so many users that it might cause instability in the financial system if something went wrong. In a discussion in Zurich with Swiss National Bank Chairman Thomas Jordan, Powell claimed that. “With Facebook’s very...Read More
Bakkt Warehouse custody opened yesterday, as clients were able to deposit Bitcoin funds into the accounts. However, minutes after the tweet announcing the opening, the price of Bitcoin dropped by $700 — a classic example of buying the rumor, selling the news. Let’s take a look at the charts to see where the market is...Read More
XRP’s performance has been bearish for most of 2019, and the bears are not ready to quit yet. The coin registered a devaluation of 6.40% on September 6 and the lowest bid was marked at $0.2461, close to its support at $0.2419. The coin has put in a solid effort to recover from the fall,...Read More
Bakkt picked a tough day to begin securing assets, but it’s still been on bitcoin’s highlight reel in 2019. | Source: Shutterstock Bakkt has been hailed as the leading catalyst for the bitcoin market this year, while visions of institutional capital danced in the crypto community’s collective heads. Today the bitcoin futures exchange made one giant...Read More
Cardano is ranked at #12 to the north of TRON in the market. Since the last 2 days, the altcoin has been backed by bearish momentum. A decline rate of 0.04% affected the digital currency in the course of the past 24-hours. The trading volume recorded is $42.339 million, whereas the supply has 25,927,070,538 ADA...Read More
The Takeaway: Crypto lending startup Celsius raised $50 million in a token sale in 2018. Lending volume has surged since then, with 10,415 Celsius users taking out fiat loans after locking in crypto collateral. BitGo confirmed to CoinDesk that it held $1 billion worth of crypto deposits from Celsius over the past year. CEL tokens...Read More
Scalability is an issue that has been used against Bitcoin for a long period of time. Bitcoin currently lords over the market with a dominance of 70.9 percent at press time, but people from the community continue to raise arguments against its inefficiency to facilitate faster transactions. The world’s largest cryptocurrency hasn’t been quiet either....Read More
Leading Cryptocurrency Exchange, Binance announced the next project on Binance Launchpad – Band Protocol (BAND). As per the blog post, the Band token sale will follow a lottery & airdrop format, with the recording of the user. BNB balances already having started on 2019/08/17 00:00 AM (UTC). The Band Protocol is a layer-2 protocol for...Read More
LTC/USD fell from $67.35 to $65.15 within four hours this Friday. The relative strength index (RSI) indicator is trending around 34.85. Litecoin has gone up from $65 to $65.15 this Saturday following a bearish Friday wherein it fell from $65.40 to $65. The hourly breakdown shows us that LTC/USD had a bullish start to Friday,...Read More
The Blockchain technology is mainly designed to enable the maintenance of a permission less distributed databases which consists of a growing list of data records that preserves the integrity, singularity and validity of the stored information, without involving any trusted third party for verification purposes. It has potential to protect the identities of the user...Read More
After a high $178 earlier this week, Ethereum price is having a hard time staying afloat above the $170 level. Currently trading at $169.32 on Bitfinex, the market seems to be recovering. Today wasn’t the best day for cryptocurrency as its market cap lost close to $10 billion in value. Let’s take a look at...Read More
The Chinese central bank has a new digital currency chief who says its upcoming digital yuan has features not offered by Facebook Libra. Changchun Mu – previously deputy director of the payments and settlement division at the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) – recently stepped into the lead role at the Digital Currency Research Institute, reports Shanghai Securities...Read More
IOT/USD drops from $0.243 to $0.23 this Friday. The Elliott oscillator had a bearish session after four straight bullish ones. IOT/USD had an extremely bearish Friday, wherein the price fell from $0.243 to $0.23. In the process, IOTA had three bearish days in a row. The price has met massive resistance at the long-running downward...Read More
China’s upcoming digital currency is reportedly going to be very similar to Libra in terms of network design, but it will take a more holistic approach to find harmony between money-laundering prevention and anonymous payments. EJ Insight reports that the country initially set up a research team to launch a digital currency back in 2014,...Read More
ETH/USD dropped from $174.15 to $169.20 this Friday. The price has so far gone up to $169.55 this Saturday. The Elliott oscillator has had a bearish session following five straight bullish sessions. ETH/USD daily chart Ethereum daily chart shows that the asset has had a bullish start to Saturday following three straight bearish days. ETH/USD...Read More
View Bitcoin is likely to end the current week (Sunday, UTC) on a positive note, having registered losses in the previous three weeks. Prices are currently up 10 percent on a month-to-date basis. The weekly gain could be much bigger if prices invalidate a bearish lower highs pattern with a UTC close above $10,956 (Aug....Read More
Bakkt picked a tough day to begin securing assets, but it’s still been on bitcoin’s highlight reel in 2019. | Source: Shutterstock Bakkt has been hailed as the leading catalyst for the bitcoin market this year, while visions of institutional capital danced in the crypto community’s collective heads. Today the bitcoin futures exchange made one giant...Read More
Stellar (XLM/USD) XLMUSD Chart By TrasingView XLM/USD pair has been on a sideways move over the last 24hrs. The formation of horizontal channels that also acted as support and resistance level that is at $0.0600 and $0.0612 validated the sideways trend. The pair’s price escalated from the opening price of $0.0605 to $0.0606 that showed...Read More
The Tron community rejoiced with the announcement of Justin Sun’s lunch with Warren Buffett being on track. Another positive development is that Tron DApps continued to increase as they reached 569 in total. Also, the number and volume of transactions surged over the past week, according to the latest Tron DApp report. This boost can...Read More
