Ron Hammond took to Twitter today to confirm to the XRP community that he is the new manager of government relations for Ripple. Token Taxonomy Act On Sept. 3, Ron Hammond took to Twitter to announce that as of today, he is the new Manager of Government Relations for Ripple. Hammond was reportedly part of...Read More
Growing from a boutique web hosting service into one of the most demanded ones, GeeksHosted has become a major player in the market within 6 years of its inception. The company offers high-quality web hosting, development and other related services at competitive rates. More importantly, GeeksHosted has a reputation for listening to what its clients...Read More
Designed for Geeks! GeeksHosted, the web hosting ecosystem built “for geeks, by geeks,” has recently announced that it will be accepting crypto payments on its platform when clients opt to pay in either Bitcoin or a host of other 50 alternate cryptocurrencies. This allows the web host, whose range of services is well patronized by...Read More
Walmart is taking its toughest stance ever on gun-related sales. With the nation screaming for gun control, investors seem just fine with the ramifications. | AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File Walmart’s latest hard-line stance on gun sales and even carrying the weapons in its stores may be drawing sharp criticism but not from investors. Despite the...Read More
Tron (TRX) appears to be fading fast as the project’s Twitter engagement slumps to near all-time lows and TRX price struggles to find bullish support. Tron Fans Depart The vast community of an otherwise well-hyped Tron is depleting at an increasingly faster rate, as brought to notice by The Tie. The crypto data analysis firm...Read More
With Bitcoin maintaining its position above the $10,000 mark, the crypto-market saw a host of significant whale movements between wallets. In spite of the larger market’s sideways movement, Ripple and its token, XRP, have benefited from the king coin’s surge.Whale Alert, one of the web’s major cryptocurrency transaction trackers, shared news of a significant transfer...Read More
The Electric Coin Company (ECC), the developer of second-biggest anoncoin Zcash (ZEC), has reneged on its declared intent to share its trademark with the non-profit Zcash Foundation. The decision has — from the perspective of the Foundation — lowered the Zcash ecosystem to the level of “decentralization theater,” according to an official blog post on...Read More
The altcoin market continues to bleed out, setting one fresh low after the next. It’s caused the overall crypto market sentiment to reach extreme fear and despair, with many worrying that the altcoins they hold may never again return to their previous all-time high prices.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
2019 DevCon, Contestants and Winners The 2019 Bytom DevCon (DevCon) was held in Fort Mason, San Francisco, United States. During the event, more than 50 teams from all over the world, including the US, India, Belgium, Russia, China and Brazil took part in it. The teams were given a chance to develop practical use cases...Read More
VanEck plans to launch a bitcoin fund designed for institutional investors that The Wall Street Journal falsely describes as a “limited version of a crypto ETF.” | Source: Shutterstock The bitcoin bulls have wrestled back control of the BTC price, with the leading cryptocurrency barreling for $11,000 once again. While the positive momentum emerged over...Read More
Last week, Bitcoin price fell below $10,000 yet again, and with the break of support, much of the market turned bearish and began calling for lows around $8,000 to be tested. However, before the long Labor Day weekend concluded, Bitcoin price was back well above $10,000, and is already closing in on $11,000 not even...Read More
This week, Litecoin creator Charlie Lee tweeted another round of criticism against Dash, claiming that the coin has become a highly centralized project. This is just the latest potshot in Lee’s long-running feud against Dash, which seems to have become his favorite target. Lee has even called Dash “trash” and “a scam“ in the past....Read More
With many industries globally finally embracing the benefits associated with cryptocurrency payments, the travel industry is also stepping up to include it in its business operations. Doing so is contributing towards increasing adoption of cryptocurrencies across all sectors. Booking platform Travala’s recent revelation that more than 62% of its bookings were done using digital assets...Read More
Although XRP seems to be heavily undercapitalized, Ripple keeps its business policies on course, and the sales of massive chunks of XRP continue despite the rage of some hodlers. Just a few hours ago, Ripple released 500M more XRP out of escrow. The transaction took place on 03 Sep 2019 04:45:10 UTC and is part...Read More
Bitcoin bull Anthony Pompliano wants Satoshi Nakamoto to win the Nobel Peace Prize, but other crypto fans aren’t sure that’s a good idea. | Source: Shutterstock Whoever the real Satoshi Nakamoto is, one long-time Bitcoin enthusiast thinks he, she, or they should win the Nobel Peace Prize. The recommendation came from Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano, a...Read More
Oil-rich economies of the Middle East and North Africa are looking for ways to diversify, and the Jibrel Network (JNT) is leveraging blockchain technology to make it happen. Private financing has a new avenue for building wealth, according to the development company, with “young and tech-savvy entrepreneurs” in the region moving into new industries and...Read More
Tuesday morning brought a holiday hangover to the stock market, with significant losses to start the shortened week on Wall Street. Concerns about new tariffs that took effect over the weekend continue to hurt sentiment, and fears about past seasonal trends that have included substantial sell-offs in the months of September and October aren’t helping...Read More
This week was calm in terms of trading until Bitcoin skyrocketed in the last day and boosted the overall market confidence along with the price. One of the reasons for the increase is probably related to the Bakkt’s trading platform that will launch in the coming days. The picture shows the flow of money into...Read More
Since the end of June, Ethereum’s price has been progressively declining as the bulls have failed to pick up pace after their 3-month run. ETH’s valuation dipped below the support of 239.43 and at press time, it was acting as a major resistance. Over the past week, the valuation witnessed another slump down to $163.9,...Read More
Litecoin price on Tuesday is trading in positive territory by 3.80% in the second half of the session. LTC/USD upside is going to be heavily capped by a strong prior support zone seen at $70. The bulls are retesting a breached pennant structure, which at present continues to contain the price. Spot rate: ...Read More
China’s link with cryptocurrency is not only limited to government initiatives but also the local users that still dominate the Bitcoin mining landscape. Primitive Ventures’ Dovey Wan, who also holds deep understanding of China’s financial market, recently claimed the aforementioned reason as the primary factor for China’s sizable local crypto supply. She also added, “Probably...Read More
Interest in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin tumbled 13.9% in Japan in the latest quarter, according to Japan’s financial regulator, the FSA. | Source: Shutterstock Interest in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin tumbled 13.9% in Japan, according to the country’s financial regulator. In data posted Sept. 3, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) says the volume of crypto-related inquiries fell...Read More
Bitcoin has bounced back above the $10,000 level, gaining over $700 since Sunday. Here are three of the main drivers for why the dominant cryptocurrency is rallying right now. Binance & Bitfinex Announce Bitcoin Derivatives While Bitcoin started as a decentralized digital currency meant for peer-to-peer transactions, crypto exchanges reshaped the coin’s flow by handling...Read More
Bitcoin Returning to the resistance levels at around $10,500 brings little confidence in the market, but as long as the price hasn’t broken the market trend line, the fear is that this movement is a trap. The resistance of the falling trend is at around $11,000, but the resistance that will change the pattern of...Read More
Crypto markets are back with a vengeance. Following a lukewarm Monday start, BTC jumped 6% in a single four-hour period. The rest of the market followed Bitcoin into the green, though altcoins are showing smaller gains – resulting in fresh highs for Bitcoin dominance. Cryptocurrency market dynamics since September 2. Source: Coin360 The rise has...Read More
Bitcoin bounced right off of the key triangle support on all time-frames at $9,350 on the 30th of August causing bullish divergence to play out. Since then price levels have pumped to $10,700 as price levels near a key breakout point. Bitcoin 1-Hour Analysis On the 1 hour chart for XBT/USD, we can see where...Read More
Chinese crypto exchange Huobi plans to launch its blockchain-powered smartphone Acute Angle in Southeast Asia next week. Official launch is coming next week Huobi’s new blockchain phone was already available to some users in China, but the actual launch is scheduled for next week as part of the sixth Huobi Prime launch, according to a...Read More
PwC Luxembourg will accept your bitcoin for services rendered. | Source: Shutterstock The Luxembourg unit of the Big Four accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers has announced that its clients will be able to pay for services in Bitcoin a month from now. In a press release, PwC Luxembourg indicated that it will begin accepting Bitcoin payments from...Read More
The current payment infrastructure surrounding retail stores prevents them from tapping into potentially substantial businesses from the cryptocurrency community. Eligma is an one of the growing exceptions, with the firm raising over €4 million ($4.4 million USD) in investments from Bitcoin.com and Pangea Blockchain Fund. Eligma plans to bridge this gap using Elipay – an...Read More
Trying to time the stock market? New research suggests you need to start paying even more attention to President Trump’s Twitter feed. | Source: Shutterstock There’s no doubt that President Donald Trump loves watching the stock market go up. After all, he has bragged at least 60 times about how the Dow Jones Industrial Average...Read More
