Pantera Capital, a distributed ledger technology (DLT) focused investment firm and hedge fund has adopted four blockchain projects aimed at solving the age-long scalability problems of the cryptoverse. The projects include Polkadot, BloXroute, Origin, and Filecoin, reports Forex Crunch on August 29, 2019. Pantera Capital Focused on Eliminating Scalability Issues Of a truth, blockchain technology...Read More
The NCAA has been taking advantage of student athletes for years. Thanks to California Senator Nancy Skinner, that could soon be changing. | Source: Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports Payday could finally be coming for some college athletes. California Senator Nancy Skinner just tweeted that her SB 206 bill won unanimous approval from the Assembly...Read More
The twelveth largest coin by market cap in the cryptocurrency market, Monero is well known for its privacy and anonymity features. The coin was recently in the news after being listed on Binance’s margin trading platform. In more good news for the privacy coin’s active community, Monero [XMR] was added as a payment option on...Read More
Automotive supplier Continental has unveiled an application called Earn As You Drive, which uses blockchain technology to monetize car user information. Parking space data for digital currency Forbes reported the news on Aug. 29. Per the report, Continental has partnered with tech firm Hewlett Packard Enterprise and open source network provider Crossbar.io to create Earn...Read More
The Bridgewater Associates co-chief investment officer warns that the stock market could be gearing up for a repeat of the 1930s. | Source: Shutterstock Forget all the recession talk, Wall Street tycoon Ray Dalio is afraid an economic depression could be in the cards. The Bridgewater Associates co-chief investment officer warns that conditions in the...Read More
South Korean art-focused blockchain project ArtBloc will conduct a fractionalized ownership sale of two paintings by popular British painter David Hockney. ArtBloc launch commemoration ArtBloc plans to host a special event introducing the blockchain-enabled fractionalized ownership sale of two of David Hockney’s paintings in Seoul on Sept. 19, local outlet KoreaTechDesk reported on Aug. 29....Read More
The Jack Dorsey hack may have been a protest against Twitter’s reluctance to censor hate speech while also highlighting no one is safe online. | Source: REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis/File Photo In a shocking display of Twitter’s vulnerability, CEO Jack Dorsey had his account hacked. The offending tweets were clearly intended to be as offensive as possible...Read More
Distributed ledger technology (DLT) company Iota partners with auto manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover for a proof-of-concept (PoC) demonstration for tracing car energy with DLT. Tracking energy source and usage Iota announced the news in an official blog post on Aug. 30. Per the announcement, Iota is partnering with Jaguar Land Rover and French energy R&D...Read More
One sports betting site just poste the BEST job listing ever: NFL food tester. That’s right, you’ll get paid to pig out and watch football. | Source: Joe Robbins / Getty Images / AFP The best jobs in the NFL are the ones where you earn a paycheck without risking catastrophic brain damage: general manager,...Read More
Epic Games is knee-deep in a cleverly orchestrated campaign for the hearts and minds of gamers – weekly free games on the Epic Games Store. | Source: Shutterstock While much of the press coverage dedicated to Epic Games focuses on the ethical merits of tempting developers with lucrative deals and community backlash to exclusivity, the...Read More
Switzerland’s largest supermarket chain and retailer, Migros is turning to blockchain to keep tabs on its supply chain for food. Migros announced the implementation of TE-Food’s blockchain-based food traceability system, Aug. 29. Whilst many retailers are incorporating such systems to provide transparent information to customers, Migros is looking to the technology to optimize processes and...Read More
Telegram’s new blockchain project will be compatible with ethereum, according to a tech startup building tools for the network. The messaging company is expected to release the code to run a node on the Telegram Open Network (TON) on Sunday, allowing users to trial its project in advance of the project’s expected mainnet launch on...Read More
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin represent a new asset class that has the lowest correlation to traditional assets, as well as one the best annual performance records. This is the conclusion of blockchain-oriented hedge fund Pantera Capital, which recommends investors to diversify portfolios by allocating a share of it to cryptos. Bitcoin Has Almost No Correction to...Read More
Bitcoin price surprises the market by slipping below $10K levels on August 28. Crytpo analysts trace Bitcoin whales moving massive BTC tokens ahead this week. On Wednesday, August 28, Bitcoin price showed a sudden downward movement crashing below $10,000 levels in just a few minutes. The BTC movement surely took the crypto investors by surprise...Read More
Bitcoin investor, trader and cryptocurrency celebrity hailing from England, Peter McCormack is about to file a lawsuit against Craig Wright, Calvin Ayre and Jimmy Nguyen on account of forgery and fraud. Recently we reported on Craig Wright’s losing the Kleiman case. However, it seems that karma surely is a b**** especially for a person who...Read More
It is important to have the option of replenishing your assets by buying crypto with a credit card or through exchanges. The assets should be secure and transferable. The only correct answer is this: the one that serves your needs. For me, the most important things in a cryptocurrency wallet are the support of all...Read More
Samsung’s Blockchain Keystore which is available on the company’s range of Galaxy S10 phones as well as Note 10, has included support for Bitcoin as well as more than 30 other cryptos. The app also supports more than a few DApps as well. A few months ago in March, Samsung launched its new Galaxy S10...Read More
When crypto markets fall hard in a few hours panic usually sets in. A torrent of sell orders usually floods the market until Bitcoin price finds support. This is exactly what happened yesterday, but zooming out will provide an opportunity to breathe as not all is as bad as it seems. Bitcoin Takes a Breather...Read More
The Electric Coin Company (ECC), the for-profit company that supports the development of the zcash cryptocurrency has issued its Q3 transparency report, revealing it has so far avoided layoffs during the bear market despite financial losses. According to the report, the company ran an average a monthly deficit of 30 percent in Q1. The ECC...Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has said that it will learn from the regulatory issues that have plagued Facebook’s proposed Libra digital currency. In an interview, Aug 29, Binance co-founder He Yi claimed that the company will engage with regulators from day one regarding its Venus stablecoin project. He also confirmed previous rumors that Venus will be...Read More
Jumanji the video game doesn’t need your money nor time as the latest Fortnite ripoff. | Source: Shutterstock Video game adaptations of Hollywood movies have a sketchy track record as haphazardly-assembled money-makers offering the bare minimum in terms of game play and art-style. Going by a new game play trailer released yesterday, developer Outright Games’...Read More
Bitcoin price extended its decline and traded towards the $9,300 level against the US Dollar.The price is currently correcting higher, but it is likely to struggle near $9,600 and $9,760.There is a short term breakout pattern forming with resistance near $9,500 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken).The price is...Read More
The total crypto market cap extended its decline below the $240.0B support area.Bitcoin price is under a lot of pressure and it even broke the $9,500 support area.EOS price is slowly moving lower towards the $3.100 and $3.000 support levels.BCH price broke the $280 support and it seems to be moving lower towards the $270...Read More
Malta-based crypto exchange Binance wants to spur greater research in open-source blockchain development. To that end, the exchange unveiled Binance X on Thursday, announcing that it was funding more than 40 developers conducting research into open-source crypto software. Binance X also hopes to facilitate collaboration in the Binance ecosystem by providing resources to projects in various...Read More
A top United Nations (UN) official said cryptocurrencies are making international efforts to combat terrorist financing, money laundering and cyber-crime “exceptionally difficult.” Neil Walsh, chief of the Cybercrime and Anti-Money Laundering arm of the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime, said that the anonymizing and pseudo-anonymizing attributes of cryptocurrencies provide a “new layer of secrecy...Read More
A year after China banned local fiat on-ramps for crypto exchanges, Chinese traders continue to drive the market forward by using the dollar-pegged stablecoin tether (USDT). “Crypto trading businesses are restricted from accessing banking services in China, but they are thriving nonetheless,” Dragonfly Capital Partners co-founder Alexander Pack told CoinDesk. Traders generally work around such...Read More
Cybersecurity company McAfee Labs has released its August 2019 threat report, which notes an increase in cryptojacking campaigns and ransomware attacks in Q1 2019. Cryptojacking on the rise McAfee Labs posted their report on the company’s website on Aug. 28. According to the report, crypto jacking — installing and running a cryptocurrency miner without user...Read More
After breaking below $10,000 yesterday, Bitcoin has faced a significant influx of selling pressure that has sent its price reeling down towards the lower-$9,000 region. This sell-off has drastically altered the overall market sentiment and came shortly after BTC made a failed attempt to surge towards $11,000.Some major Bitcoin bulls are still expressing confidence that...Read More
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based bank holding corporation has successfully processed its first cross-border payments for clients’ using Ripple’s blockchain solution, RippleNet, according to a Fintech Futures report on August 29, 2019. PNC Joins DLT Bandwagon Per sources close to the development, PNC Treasury Management has become the first U.S. bank to...Read More
A code vulnerability that could have forced computer shutdowns was found on Tuesday in the second most popular ethereum client. Parity connects over 3,000 computer servers around the globe to the ethereum blockchain network. On Thursday, Parity Technologies, the startup responsible for building and maintaining the ethereum client, released updated code to fix the bug. Only...Read More
