EOS remains technically bearish across the short and medium-term, as the cryptocurrency looks set for its fifth straight week of trading losses A bearish head and shoulders pattern suggests that a drop towards the $3.00 level is coming. EOS is back under downside pressure on Thursday after the early week rally towards the $3.80 resistance...Read More
Cardano is ranked at #12, below Stellar but above both LEO and TRON on coinmarketcap. While Justin Sun, the head of TRON has boasted that TRX will soon brush past ADA, Emurgo and IOHK have been working diligently with regards to the roadmap [and the Shelley reveal]. ADA rose at a rate of 2.41% in the...Read More
A volatile Dow Jones clung to gains amid a broader stock market decline thanks to a rally from one key $200 billion stock. | Source: REUTERS / Eduardo Munoz By CCN Markets: The Dow Jones stood resolute amid heavy selling pressure on Thursday after the inversion of the US yield curve once again proved to...Read More
Another bitcoin scammer’s run comes to an inevitable end. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: A Michigander is facing 20 wire fraud and money laundering charges for carrying out a crypto investment scam that raked in an average of nearly $15,000 daily. According to the prosecutors, James Matthew Thomas defrauded approximately $206,000 from his victims...Read More
Photo: Flexa / Medium After introducing crypto payments to its SPEDN app earlier in May 2019, merchants payment startup Flexa plans to bring this functionality to other apps as well. This is a massive step by Flexa to boost up crypto spending in the global economy. Flexa plans to implement this project by staking its...Read More
Unlike Bitcoin currency hacking, Bitcoin ATM robbery used to be uncommon. A certain incidence has come to our notice. Two masked thieves stole a Bitcoin ATM from a mall in Washington on Aug 3. The surveillance camera has caught them while carrying out the ATM machine in a van. Violent raids targeting Bitcoin businesses and...Read More
Blockchain company Pundi X has revealed that it has partnered with Traki, the biggest chain of department stores in Venezuela, which will implement the blockchain-powered point-of-sale device XPOS into all its stores. Singapore-based Pundi X will have its XPOS available in all of Traki’s 49 stores from across the country. Traki customers can use the...Read More
Bitcoin Core developer, Peiter Wuille, has introduced a new programming language called Miniscript, to simplify smart-contract development for Bitcoin. One of the most prolific and respected Core-developers, Wuille is responsible for the creation and implementation of Segregated Witness (SegWit). ‘Miniscript’ Is Like An Enhanced ‘Script’ For Bitcoin Miniscript is built on top of the existing...Read More
Paradigm, a messaging service, integrated with Deribit, a Bitcoin and Ethereum futures and token exchange platform on Thursday, August 22, 2019. Initially, the Telegram app is useful to negotiate crypto trading. Block trade functionality is an essential step to attract institutional traders to the world of crypto. As per the announcement, trading is possible on...Read More
On Aug 21, 2019, kompany announced that their API platform, BREX, had brought 5 more XRP Ledger validator nodes live, for a total of 6 nodes verifying thousands of transactions each, every day. And now there are 6 – We’re happy to announce that kompany’s #API Platform BREX has taken 5 more #RippleNet XRP Ledger...Read More
A recent plunge in the bitcoin price is looking to negate some of its losses as China’s currency weakens to its lowest level in 11 years.Renminbi on Thursday dropped 0.2 percent to 7.00749 against the US dollar after remaining in focus owing to the ongoing trade dispute and US allegation of currency manipulation. The legal...Read More
Ripple continues to build its ecosystem whenever possible. Particularly its RippleNet solution is of great interest to remittance providers. Numerous companies are already embracing this technology today. It now seems another name can be added to that list in the form of Xendpay. This further validates the technology stack on a global scale. What is...Read More
Have you ever needed to send money overseas? Often, the most important question involves costs. How much is it going to cost you? Ripple, a payment infrastructure and blockchain technology solutions provider, offers cheaper payment services and is alleged to be more convenient than Swift, according to a new report from DBS, an Asian bank...Read More
MouseBelt‘s Blockchain Accelerator, a VC-backed blockchain firm, was live on Wednesday at UC Davis, UC Los Angeles , and UC Santa Barabara, the 3 California universities, focusing on the educational importance in US Schools. The program splits into two divisions. The first funding is for the research department while the other is for the Engineering...Read More
The endorsement for blockchain technology and skepticism of exisiting technologies is reflected in Yang’s campaign website which states that traditionally used machines are vulnerable to tampering and hacking, when compared to the world’s latest available technologies. One of the candidates for the 2020 presidential election in the U.S., Andrew Yang, says he wants to modernize...Read More
Untrusted exchanges still command the lion’s share of global cryptocurrency trading volumes, a CryptoCompare report published on Aug. 21 reveals. As of July, D-E rated low-quality exchanges represented 64% of trading volume — a staggering $316 billion — whereas top-rated AA platforms accounted for just 5% or $31 billion. A-rated exchanges nonetheless increasing share Lower...Read More
One of the leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance has enabled OCO order types (One Cancels the Other) to the web trading interface. PC and App clients will have the OCO order type enabled at a later date. Basically, OCO is a pair of orders combining a stop-limit order and a limit maker order on the same...Read More
Harmony(ONE), a new public blockchain is in addition to KuCOIN. The supported trading pairs are ONE/BTC and ONE/USDT. Basically, ONE token is equivalent to 0.00000113 BTC (0.011499 USD). Deposits have started as we write. Trading and Withdrawal will take place at 18:00 and 20:00 on August 22, 2019 (UTC+8) respectively. To celebrate Harmony ONE’s listing...Read More
About Bitquick Bitquick is an US-based exchange which allows users to buy and sell Bitcoins using fiat currencies. The exchange was established in 2013 by Jad Mubaslat founded, with its headquarters in Cincinnati, US. On February of 2014, Bitquick became the first-known Bitcoin marketplace to provide public proof of reserve. According to the exchange, up...Read More
Bitcoin price is struggling to get back above $10,000 following recent bearish price action. Last week, Bitcoin dropped nearly $2,000 within 48 hours, and while there was a week of relief in between, the bearish sell pressure appears to have picked up steam once again.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
Telegram has yet to publicly or formally acknowledge the project, but investors in last year’s $1.7 billion token offering, widely publicized in the press, are selling their gram allocations via OTC desks, exchanges and special-purpose vehicles. Telegram TON Board channel announced the first version of TON, Telegram blockchain, will be released on September 1st. From...Read More
For years the method for crypto-derivative trading had a basic implementation that brought a significant amount of risk. Institutional traders were communicating and negotiating privately large trades via Skype and Telegram, whereas the order book’s execution was manually coordinated afterward. The main risk is mostly related to the execution itself as the combination trades, and...Read More
Your favorite altcoin may be up 100% year-to-date, but make no mistake, Bitcoin is currently the alpha of the cryptocurrency pack.Related Reading: Bears in Charge as Bitcoin Price at Risk of November 2018 Style DumpSince Bitcoin dominance hit some 32% in early-2018, altcoins have underperformed. Dramatically. In fact, dominance for the leading cryptocurrency now sits...Read More
The early week’s run-up in the bitcoin price has continued to run out of breath as BTC dips back under five figures. The BTC/USD instrument settled a session low of $9,841.59 at around 16:05 UTC today, establish its five-day low. The pair moved downwards despite having full-backing of strong fundamentals. Late last week, Intercontinental Exchange’s...Read More
Blocko, a Korean based Samsung SDS backed infrastructure provider, raised $7.5 million (KRW9 billion) in a Series B+ funding round. Shinhan Bank, KEB, Hana Bank, Investment Dadam including major domestic financial institutions participated and invested in the startup. Blocko came into existence in December 2014 and has received series A, Series A + and Series...Read More
View Bitcoin’s defense of the 100-day moving average and a bullish divergence of an hourly chart indicator suggest scope for a minor price bounce to $10,300 Bitcoin will remain in the hunt for a drop to $9,467 (Aug. 13 low), as long as the rising wedge breakdown seen on the 4-hour chart remains valid. A...Read More
Peter Schiff, Tom Lee, and Anthony Pompliano tussle in the Gold vs. Bitcoin battle. Current cryptocurrency prices are struggling with BTC slipping below $10,000. Here are the next levels to watch according to the Confluence Detector. “Gold will reach $5,000” claimed Peter Schiff, a crypto critic, and a gold bug. “Bitcoin will reach $50,000,” said Tom...Read More
Paxful, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace established back in 2015, has decided to expand its services in East Africa after seeing significant growth in the region over the years. The expansion plan is part of Paxful’s long-term goal of providing financial services to the unbanked and underbanked across Africa. Paxful has established itself as one of...Read More
Although the whole crypto market is bleeding red, few altcoins are gaining significant growth. One coin that stood out among the rest is the Basic attention Token (BAT). The coin received a major push with 11.80% spike and is currently holding 30th position. The Basic Attention Token price is continuously surprising investors and traders. Yesterday,...Read More
We are on our phones a whole lot. And for good reason because lots of business and personal activities are done on a mobile device – which explains why there are very nearly 1.3 billion more mobile connections than there are people in the entire world. Smartphones have become a huge part of our lives...Read More
