Friday, Sept. 6 — The Bitcoin (BTC) price is holding around the $10,400 price mark after the largest cryptocurrency got rejected in its attempt to break $11,000. Market visualization. Source: Coin360 Bitcoin was well on its way to the $11,000 price mark, hitting an intraday high of $10,895 when it lost $400 in less than an...Read More
Regulation has always been a hot topic in the cryptocurrency space, with some governments banning them altogether and others struggling to introduce it in a way that won’t hinder development. While these regulatory bodies seem to have a positive approach towards Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies, it’s quite the opposite for privacy-focused cryptocurrencies. Owing to...Read More
One of Japan’s largest newspapers has published a report that contains two very interesting tidbits for Canon mirrorless shooters. First, they claim that Canon will release a 1D X-level EOS R in 2021; and second, the report revealed that Canon is working on some sort of ‘converter’ that can turn a mirrorless camera into a...Read More
Binance Coin has surged twice as fast as any other cryptocurrency over the past year, including bitcoin. Here’s why BNB is leading the pack. | Source: REUTERS / Darrin Zammit Lupi Binance Coin suffered one of its worst losses this year on May 7th after hackers took off with 7,000 bitcoins. The heist cost cryptocurrency...Read More
Bitcoin price has been consolidating since June, after it was rejected from former bear market resistance at $13,800 – stopping Bitcoin’s parabolic advance short of retesting its previous all-time high of $20,000.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
Jennifer Bailey, the vice president of Apple’s payments service, Apple Pay, said that the company was watching cryptocurrencies closely as they believe it has long-term potential. The company claims that Apple pay processes about one billion transactions every month. With such a wide reach, Apple’s move to crypto, similar to Facebook, will be a huge...Read More
The given report is an excellent research study specially compiled to provide latest insights into critical aspects of the Global Blockchain IoT Market by INNOVATE INSIGHTS. The worldwide market for Blockchain IoT is expected to grow at a CAGR of roughly over the next five years, will reach million US$ in 2024, from million US$...Read More
The Chinese government is working on its own digital currency. Very little is known about this project so far. In a recent press release, the country’s central bank offered some intriguing details. It seems this currency will be similar to Libra, although it has nothing to do with social media. A Mobile Currency While very...Read More
The much-anticipated, fully-regulated Bitcoin exchange and custody offering from Bakkt looks on track to make good on its previously-announced launch date later this month. The company has just announced that its Warehouse custody solution is now open for customer deposits and withdrawals.The Bakkt platform seeks to make investing in Bitcoin more friendly to institutional investors...Read More
Lithuanian blockchain startup DappRadar, a platform for discovering and analyzing blockchain-based decentralized applications (DApps), announced it raised $2.33 million in seed funding. $2.33 million to expand services On Sept. 5, DappRadar announced the closing of a $2.33 million seeding round, which was led by Naspers, a South African-based global internet and media group, with participation...Read More
Electronic Arts (EA), is one of the most popular video game companies headquartered in California. It’s the second largest game company based on revenue, coming after Blizzard and ahead of Ubisoft. Last year, the EACommunityTeam account on Reddit made a comment in regards to their newly released Star Wars Battlefront game. The comment was in...Read More
When we talk about an open playing field in the Bitcoin ecosystem, price predictions on the asset’s future generate the most attention. Bitcoin has been around for little under a decade, and the limited time-period often leads to contrasting predictions. Personalities in the space are often predicting the price based on different factors, as the...Read More
Grin Market Opportunity Grin is a privacy focused coin, which places it in the same sector as Monero, Zcash and the like. By protecting, sender, receiver, and transaction data information, the project aims to become digital cash in the true sense of the term. This is a $36.8T market. Just like its privacy brethren, Grin...Read More
Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Jerome Powell said that the United States Federal Reserve is monitoring digital currencies carefully, but not working on its own at the moment. Speaking at a forum in Zurich, Switzerland, on Sept. 6, Powell addressed the issue of cryptocurrencies, arguing that central banks would likely will not release...Read More
A massive 94,505 bitcoin transaction made crypto headlines as investors and investigators speculated from whence the BTC came. The wallet, first accessed late on September 5, 2019, has been involved in only seven transactions including the massive whale move. Other moves include a $6,644 deposit early on September 6 and a deposit of $6.66 a few...Read More
September 6, 2019 21 Views This past Thursday, dapp.com closed a $1 million Pre-A Investment round led by Hashed, a South Korean blockchain VC firm, and Du Capital. Dapp.com provides data analytics for decentralized app products built on blockchains such as ethereum, EOS, tron, steem, and others. In a statement, Dapp.com Founder and CEO, Kyle...Read More
Overnight Bitcoin (BTC) was able to incur a significant amount of upwards momentum that sent it shooting past its previously established resistance level around $10,800, and any extension of this upwards momentum is highly likely to send the crypto into the $11,000 region in the very near-future.This upwards momentum has also allowed Bitcoin to begin...Read More
Japan’s financial regulator has reportedly given messaging giant LINE a licence to operate the cryptocurrency exchange, BitMAX, through LVC Corporation, the digital asset and blockchain-focused arm of the Japanese company. The exchange will allow users to trade Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, XRP and Bitcoin Cash. LINE will be re-using much of the back-end infrastructure from the...Read More
Bitcoin price has posted positive returns every quarter this year till date. Last time this happened, we saw BTC hit $20,000 in 2017. Is bitcoin preparing to repeat history then? Bitcoin Hit Green in All Quarters This Year Bitcoin is quietly inching towards the $11,000 price mark, as the contents of this piece are being...Read More
The Faysal Bank, Islamic Commercial Bank of Pakistan, has made a partnership with Ripple to make the process of payments very secure and efficient across the borders. 6 Sep,2019 Faysal Bank become first bank in Pakistan Sign Up Contract With Ripple (Xcurrent). Dato Arif Siddiqui-SEVP/Chief Digital Officer Faysal Bank. @Hodor @AlexCobb_ @digitalassetbuy @CKJCryptonews@stuart_xrp @BankXRP @XrpCenter...Read More
The crypto bros are a smart bunch. They know a thing or two about cryptography; they know how money is moved electronically across the world; and they know more than most about multiple interlocking positive feedback loops. But more than anything else, they know how to spin a “this is good for crypto” story when they see...Read More
Bitcoin price is closing in on $11,000 after a period of extreme volatility. Last week, the crypto asset fell below $10,000 in what many are calling a bear trap, and quickly bounced from lows around $9,400 back up the current price of $10,900 where it is currently trading.Along the way back up, yet another CME...Read More
The leading cryptocurrency exchange has revealed new details about its upcoming move to the United States. In a blog post published today, Binance announced that the new Binance.US marketplace will open to North American customers “in the coming weeks.” In the post, Binance promised a “fast, compliant, and secure digital asset marketplace” for traders in...Read More
IOHK, A technology company in the field of Blockchain has recently partnered with Cardano and launching a Hackathon to support more adoption of Cardano in September. We are teaming up with Cardano Foundation, other influencers in the blockchain industry, and University of Wyoming to foster the adoption of Cardano and smart contract development at the...Read More
The new breed of stablecoins led by Facebook’s Libra could be vulnerable to failure in periods of network stress. According to an analysis from JPMorgan released on Sept. 5, they lack the short-term liquidity of other payments systems, so usage could grow faster than the network can safely support. Transaction growth could outpace network capacity...Read More
The introduction of Facebook’s Libra has been one of the highlights of 2019, but it was not smooth-sailing for the virtual asset. The Facebook-backed stablecoin received collective criticism from government officials, crypto-personalities and a majority of the community, with many questioning its potential use cases and characteristics as a cryptocurrency. In the latest edition of...Read More
Switzerland’s central bank is running scared over its control on monetary policies in the face of stablecoins pegged to foreign currencies. | Source: Shutterstock; Edited by CCN Switzerland’s central bank is fretting over the possibility of stablecoins pegged to foreign currencies eroding its ability to use its monetary policy tools effectively, further complicating the path...Read More
It may be the official end of summer, but this week has been a bumper one for the Bitcoin price. Spot markets appear to be reacting to bullish news that institutional involvement is increasing. A SIMETRI Research analysis (below) highlights that if Bitcoin successfully passes $11,000, the market might see a retest of $15,000. Following...Read More
Social media giant Facebook has hired two more lobbyists to aid the release of its forthcoming Libra stablecoin. As Bloomberg reported on Sept. 5, lobbying disclosures filed earlier this week revealed that William Hollier, the president of legislative and regulatory counseling firm Hollier Associates LLC, began lobbying for Facebook on blockchain policy, among other matters,...Read More
Facebook stock is tanking and puncturing Nasdaq in its spiral. | Source: REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo Facebook stock (FB) plunged after a nine-state antitrust investigation was announced against the social-media monopoly. As of this writing, Facebook is the worst-performing stock in the Nasdaq. Facebook tumbled 1.9% shortly after the attorneys general of eight states and the...Read More
