Brexit is going to end soon. How will Fintech Companies fare in the UK post-Brexit? Is Brexit good for cryptocurrencies or bad for it? Brexit has been on the front burner for most of the past two years. Theresa May has already resigned following her inability to make Brexit happen. Boris Johnson is facing the...Read More
Dr. Robert J. Shiller, 2013 Nobel Laureate for Economic Sciences, listens during a Nobel Laureate Symposium at the Embassy of Sweden November 19, 2013 in Washington, DC. Nine people from the United States were honored this year with the Nobel Prize in the fields of medicine, chemistry and economic sciences. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI Nobel laureate...Read More
A venture arm of major global crypto exchange Binance has led a $5.7 million funding round to launch new decentralized blockchain protocol, the FIO Protocol. According to a press release shared with Cointelegraph on Sept. 5, Binance labs has invested in Denver-based blockchain usability firm Dapix, which is developing the Foundation of Interwallet Operability’s (FIO)...Read More
A partnership between two cryptocurrency firms could bring 20 new bitcoin ATMs to cities around Colombia. The bitcoin exchange, Paxful, and crypto ATM company, CoinLogiq, announced the partnership Sept. 5. By integrating the Paxful kiosk feature with CoinLogiq hardware, users will be able to purchase BTC using cash, credit and online debit transfers. According to...Read More
This is a paid press release, which contains forward looking statements, and should be treated as advertising or promotional material. Bitcoin.com is not responsible for or liable for any content, accuracy or quality within the press release. We can state boldly today that cryptocurrencies will be in great demand in the future, as the cryptocurrency...Read More
Samsung’s flagship Note 10 is getting a special crypto edition in South Korea. | Source: REUTERS/Toby Melville Samsung launched the KlaytnPhone in South Korea on Thursday, a spinoff of the Galaxy Note 10 equipped with blockchain apps and a cryptocurrency wallet. It furthers Samsung’s position as the most crypto-friendly smartphone maker, putting it lightyears ahead...Read More
Economic hardship, whether driven by trade wars or political divisions, usually drives investors into safe haven assets. It has been the case for gold and Bitcoin this year as currencies get crushed and recession fears loom. Britain’s Brexit woes may spell short term doom for the fintech industry but it is likely to have the...Read More
Bitcoin price is trading with a positive bias and recently climbed above $10,800 against the US Dollar.The price is currently trading above the $10,500 support and it could continue to rise in the near term.Yesterday’s highlighted key bullish trend line is providing support near $10,510 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed...Read More
With day one of North Queensland’s Bitcoin Cash City all wrapped up, conference attendees were left with an overflow of big ideas to distill, process, and potentially integrate. These include underwriting merchant adoption, building tech parks and mining operations, BIP70 applications, separation of money and state, government applications of crypto, user experience, and regulation. The...Read More
Switzerland-headquartered food retail giant Nestlé says it has had to adopt a “start-up mindset” in order to push ahead with its challenging blockchain venture. Insights into the retailer’s blockchain development work were revealed by Nestlé Digital Technology Manager Armin Nehzat in a Sept. 5 interview with TechWire Asia. A long-term journey, not a short-term bet...Read More
Plants vs. Zombies Battle for Neighborville is now available for those who buy the Founder’s Edition. Image via EA EA has stealth launched Plants vs. Zombies Battle for Neighborville, a fresh spin on the popular Plants vs. Zombies series. The new game offers class-based shooting gameplay as well as multiplayer modes and social spaces as...Read More
September 5, 2019 33 Views Samsung Electronics is releasing a new edition of its Galaxy Note 10 smartphone that will come with a pre-installed cryptocurrency wallet in its bid to further boost adoption for blockchain. According to a Wall Street Journal article on Thursday, the new product is a variant of Samsung’s flagship product Galaxy Note 10...Read More
In the midst of an unfavorable political climate in Hong Kong, Telegram, which has been used to organize protests in the region, will launch more privacy-enhancing features on its platform, as reported by South China Morning Post, September 4, 2019. Even though Carrie Lam has announced the withdrawal of the extradition bill, this was only...Read More
<div innerhtml=" Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and blockchain startups exploded onto the London financial technology scene over the last few years, but now, due to a combination of potentially tougher new regulation and the UK’s looming exit from the European Union, things could be about to take a turn for the worse for the fledgling bitcoin and...Read More
With Britain reeling from a parliamentary showdown aimed at thwarting the government’s threat to pull the country out of Europe in a no-deal Brexit, Bitcoin (BTC) is relatively stable as compared with the British pound sterling. The United Kingdom’s liberal-leaning daily newspaper The Independent reported on Sept. 3 that Bitcoin has, amid the country’s parliamentary...Read More
From the moment 2019 began, Bitcoin has been on a steady rise upward. And while it began as a slow trickle, the crypto asset soon after starting moving like a rocket.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey says he has not even considered creating a Libra-like native currency for his own social media platform. Instead, the entrepreneur believes Bitcoin to be much more suited for use as a “currency for the internet” than anything else available or in the works to date.Dorsey claims that Bitcoin’s resilience,...Read More
Slack stock plunged in after-hours trading after it forecast a wider-than-expected Q3 loss. This happened even though Q2 results beat expectations. | Source: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Slack stock (NYSE: WORK) plunged as much as 15% in after-hours trading after it forecast a wider-than-expected loss for the third quarter. The stock tumbled even though second-quarter results beat...Read More
Rainforest Foundation US is a New York-based, non-profit NGO working in Central and South America, which is now hoping to support anti-deforestation efforts with crypto and blockchain tech. Deforestation and fires in the Brazilian Amazon On Sept. 4, the Rainforest Foundation reached out to the crypto and blockchain community to ask for their support to...Read More
While cryptocurrency’s volatile market stands as another road block for new investors, Bitcoin and its altcoin competitors continue to set new records in various niche metrics. According to the latest report from Coin Metrics, the market cap for BTC, ETH, XRP, LTC, and BCH decreased while witnessing a spike in the transaction count. Moreover, it...Read More
The altcoin market is currently in crisis mode, with most of the various individual crypto assets outside of Bitcoin reaching new yearly lows, and in general, bleeding out all remaining value generated during the 2017 crypto hype bubble.The post appeared first on NewsBTCRead More
President Trump doubled-down on a previous prediction that the stock market would be trading 10K points higher were it not for his obsession with China. | Source: Shutterstock The broader stock market finished the day in the green, with all three of the major indices extending their 2019 gains. Not only that but year-to-date, the...Read More
In 2017, Union Square Ventures co-founder and managing partner, Fred Wilson had said that Ethereum’s market cap will surpass that of Bitcoin by year-end. That didn’t happen and now he is taking his words back, for good. Wilson: Ethereum ‘Confounds’ Me Not just the USV chief, Ethereum has left many of its investors in a...Read More
Finding new use cases for Bitcoin as a payment method is a struggle. Most companies do not see merit in exploring this option now or in the future. Surprisingly, FanDuel is one of the service providers willing to take a chance. The company confirmed Bitcoin payments will go live very soon. Payments will be processed...Read More
Jonathan Johnson, the interim CEO of Overstock in a recent interview with Fox Business Network addressed the speculation that SEC’s investigation being the reason behind the controversial exit of former CEO Patrick Byrne. Johnson claimed that the two-year investigation by the SEC into Overstock’s blockchain business is “almost dormant.” Johnson claimed that SEC has not...Read More
After a bearish crypto-winter towards the end of 2018,, the market regained some modicum of bullish momentum this year. Off late, the king coin has struggled to stay above $10,000, with its price oscillating within the range of $9,400 and $12,000. Owing to this movement, altcoin volume has dipped to all-time lows, with the world’s...Read More
<p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="The number of Bitcoin addresses holding at least 10 bitcoins ($105,000) recently hit an all-time high.” data-reactid=”28″>The number of Bitcoin addresses holding at least 10 bitcoins ($105,000) recently hit an all-time high. <p class="canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)–sm Mt(0.8em)–sm" type="text" content="As of September 1, there are 157,000 addresses holding...Read More
Two years ago, on September 4, 2017, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) shut down local cryptocurrency exchanges over concerns that unregulated assets like bitcoin allow residents to bypass strict capital controls. Not-So-Happy Anniversary Despite the formal ban, Chinese traders have continued to explore methods to trade bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, often by using...Read More
Bitcoin (BTC) has incurred increased volatility as of late, which was first sparked when it briefly touched $9,400 before surging to highs of $10,800, which is the price at which it faced some levels of resistance.Analysts are now noting that BTC is still trading within a long-established wide trading range, and that its mid-term trend...Read More
Taxes are never popular, but in the U.S., paying for crypto gains is like solving a Rubik’s Cube without touching it. While blindfolded. You might have correctly filed your obligations, but there’s no knowing until the tax authority explains exactly what those obligations are. Leaving aside the fact that the government is seeking revenue on...Read More
