As the altcoin market continues to bleed out and sentiment around Bitcoin’s crypto cousins reaches a point of extreme despair, the question about their long-term value has come up often in recent days.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
The latest Binance Research, while showcasing China’s CBDC initiative, highlighted its possibility of being a renminbi (RMB) replacement. Creating a buzz in the context, the report read, “The People’s Bank of China plans to replace China’s M0 money supply with its CBDC. Several potential improvement areas were discussed as reasons to justify this move including...Read More
China’s aggressive push towards cryptocurrency has forced global economies to ensure a common-ground for crypto-innovations within their jurisdictions. Taking a closer into the Chinese government’s crypto initiative, Binance Research released a report that details on the People’s Bank of China’s (PBoC) proposed digital legal tender. Highlighting the primary concern, the report stated, “Following Facebook’s recent...Read More
Telegram has announced it will launch its own cryptocurrency as soon as October, sources have said, in a direct move against Facebook Libra. Sources: Gram Cryptocurrency To Appear By October 31 Speaking to the New York Times on August 27, three anonymous investors said that Telegram had confirmed the issuance of its Gram tokens would...Read More
The VideoCoin Network, a decentralized ecosystem for the sharing of video material, has announced the debut of its fully-working product. The project seeks to create a realistic decentralized alternative to leading video streaming platforms such as Netflix and Hulu, providing a blockchain-based alternative to established cloud providers such as AWS and Google Cloud. The program...Read More
Litecoin’s hash rate has declined by over 30% since its block size halving event earlier this month, the latest data shows. Litecoin Trades At Lows Against USD The increasingly troubled altcoin, currently the fifth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has lost 30% of its value since the halving, which occurred on August 5. Data from monitoring...Read More
Recently a political action committee (PAC) BitPAC announced that they are going to conduct an initial coin offering (ICO) to support the candidates for public office. By donating, participants will receive Politicoins in return. BitPAC, which is a political group in the U.S., decided to launch an ICO for the support of public office candidates....Read More
Litecoin is looking to slump even further. The world’s fifth largest cryptocurrency has been in a slump since its halving earlier this month, dropping below resistance after resistance and breaching the $75 mark. Now, the coin is on the precipice of a slump below $70 for the first time in 4 months. The larger market...Read More
The vast cash hoard of Warren Buffett’s company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has been vaster only once before – just before the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Warren Buffett’s big pile of cash could act as a warning to other investors that stock market is becoming overvalued and that its crash is pretty near....Read More
After raising more than $1 billion in one of the most successful ICOs in the crypto sector, Telegram is now ready to launch its Gram tokens by October. Button Wallet has also announced it will facilitate trading of the tokens. There currently are more than a few thousand different digital assets in the market and...Read More
Recently in an AMA (ask me anything) session the Binance CEO, Changpeng Zhao or CZ, addressed Binance users and followers by revealing many details about the upcoming futures trading platform. Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, recently went live on his Binance‘s Twitter profile to do an AMA session. In the session, he described some...Read More
Silvergate Bank will allow Gemini’s customers deposit and withdraw U.S. Dollars from their accounts in real-time. This will help the customers to switch in and out of the crypto markets quickly. Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, founded by Bitcoin billionaires Winklevoss twins, announced its partnership with Silvergate Exchange Network (SEN), a USD payments platform. According to the...Read More
Manchester United FC, also known as Man City, one of the top British football teams, announced a partnership with an online gaming startup Superbloke in order to tokenize its players. On Monday, Man City announced its new partnership with an online gaming startup called Superbloke. It is an online football game based in South Korea....Read More
The performance of some of the altcoins this year was nothing short of spectacular. The likes of Litecoin hiked by an impressive 387 percent, registering its yearly high of $145. Bitcoin did not shy away from its consistent growth as it reached a yearly high of about $13,800. It was currently valued at $10,362.3. Since...Read More
Tether has maintained its prominence as the gateway coin in the financial ecosystem. Recently, the Tether ecosystem managed to create buzz after a whale transaction was caught by Twitter’s prominent crypto enthusiast @whale_alert, who tweeted, “? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 46,140,337,592 #USDT (46,169,056,069 USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown...Read More
The recently concluded IEO for the Perlin Network by Binance Launchpad has now been stated as the sale with the highest number of BNB staked. Binance has already begun trading PERL tokens with four pairs. The Binance Launchpad, a platform created by Binance and strictly for the launch of supported tokens, has officially announced the...Read More
The Ethereum Foundation has unveiled over $2 million of funding for the development of Serenity or ETH2.0. The official announcement read, “We are today unveiling over $2M USD in Foundation-led and co-funded grant funding aimed at furthering Serenity (Eth2.0) development as we move nearer to the launch of the Beacon Chain.” The update is primarily...Read More
The speculations to CZ’s Twitter teaser have proven to be true – Binance has now announced the upcoming launch of its crypto lending service. Users can earn up to 15% interest on BNB and other assets. Binance has officially announced its lending service which is expected to kick off on the 28th of August, at...Read More
As crypto businesses have started to make the move into crypto-friendly geographies to avoid risk of shutting down, Switzerland made headlines on the other side of this spectrum by announcing banking licenses to two cryptocurrency-focused banks. According to the official report, “For the first time, FINMA has issued banking and securities dealers’ licences to two...Read More
Tron Foundation’s Justin Sun hasn’t steered away from the spotlight. In a recent interview with Freewallet, Sun shared his thoughts on ongoing ventures in the ecosystem. Sun began the segment by talking about potential partnerships in the industry. He suggested that the conglomeration of resources and ideas influences growth of the space. He also assured...Read More
Binance announced the launch of a platform termed as Binance Lending, which would allow users to acquire and lend their virtual assets, while asset holders would also be able to gain interest and improve their token balances. It was revealed that Lending products would be available for Binance Coin and Tether (USDT) on a subscription...Read More
2019 was deemed as a positive year for virtual assets as a majority of the crypto experienced a positive hike; XRP surged in the market as well which took its valuation from $0.300 to $0.475, registering a growth of over 58 percent. However, recent bearish pullback impacted XRP’s price to take a dip below its...Read More
Weekend trading has been largely lack luster as usual. Bitcoin spent most of the time hovering just above $10k while the altcoins stayed in bed. A Monday morning push in Asia has sent BTC up to a five day high but its brethren have yet to react.Bitcoin Dominance Reclaims 70%A few hours ago Bitcoin hit...Read More
Following a visit to Switzerland to meet with the country’s financial regulators, United States lawmakers are still concerned over Facebook’s proposed cryptocurrency project, Libra. A delegation of the United States House of Representatives visited Switzerland last week because they have been concerned about cryptocurrency issues, especially regarding Facebook’s yet-to-come stablecoin Libra. Representative Maxine Waters published...Read More
Early Bitcoin investors and founders of Gemini, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were making news even before they entered the crypto space. They were famous for suing Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook, and their journey was documented in the movie ‘Social Network’. The Winklevoss twins were interviewed by Today, where they were asked about their opinion on...Read More
Bitcoin has quite evidently dominated the ecosystem since the time of its origin. Bitcoin’s dominance and popularity in the financial world have quite often resulted in the community debating about altcoins. Several times strong correlations between the two have been witnessed. However, in a recent discussion by CNBC, early Bitcoin investor Charlie Shrem was asked if...Read More
The Tron Foundation has been under the crypto spotlight for its dominance in the DApp space. The Foundation and its CEO Justin Sun have constantly worked on developments in order to retain their supremacy over decentralized applications [DApp]. The recently launched Sun Network stands as a perfect example. Even though Tron is fairly new to...Read More
Harmony partnered with Everstake, a Staking Service Platform will now add support for Harmony Nodes to their customer base. Blockchain protocol with principal innovations in P2P networking and state sharding, Harmony, announced they have partnered with Everstake, a leading Staking Service Platform which helps institutional investors and regular token holders to profit off their crypto...Read More
One of the main drawbacks associated with the cryptocurrency market is its highly volatile price activity. The volatility was and still is, considered a major hindrance when it comes to the mass adoption of virtual assets. The introduction of stablecoins was meant to tackle this associated crypto-volatility. However, not all stablecoins operate the same way...Read More
An early version of Polkadot has been released today, allowing developers and the broader community to experiment with new features ahead of the mainnet launch. Known as Kusama, the network is a “proving ground” where projects can build parachains, stress-test new technologies and trial the Polkadot network’s governance system. It appears to be named for...Read More
