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
PNC has gone beyond the normal by creating a tech startup Numo that exists within its ecosystem. Will the new trend be a unique mix of partnerships between finance and technology or just a hybrid? National Banking Network PNC just went one step further into the future. The wizzes at one of the largest banking...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 latest McAfee Labs report brings to light significant research on the ever-increasing threat of ransomware and the new family of emerging ransomware. In the first quarter of 2019 itself, the number of ransomware attacks rose by 118% while there were several new classes of ransomware detected as well. The investigation also found out that...Read More
Apple has sent out media invites to an event on September 10 in California. The big four tech company is expected to unveil a few new products including the new iPhone as well as a new Apple watch. It’s been almost two years since Apple released the iPhone X in November 2017. Now according to...Read More
Bitfinex Exchange which is one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world has come up with a new version to its mobile app. The new version released is the version 3.17.1. of the Bitfinex mobile app. According to a recent announcement from the Bitfinex Exchange, this latest update includes Santiment support. This allows the...Read More
An interactive bird feeder that will take your crypto to release food for birds is still live on YouTube at press time. | Source: YouTube/Mr. Dove Bitcoin may not be for the birds afterall. An interactive bird-feeder which is being live-streamed via YouTube allows users to feed birds with cryptocurrency donations. Despite Bitcoin being the...Read More
Boeing announced that it is joining the Hedera Hashgraph Council becoming the 10th member with commentators stating that it is a major milestone for the company to dive into the blockchain technology. Although the nascent blockchain and crypto industries are yet to enjoy mainstream investment and usage, developments are constantly taking place. It is believed...Read More
China has confirmed President Donald Trump was lying when he said his people at the White House received phone calls from China offering to reopen stalled negotiations to end his trade war. President Donald Trump is becoming more and more disturbed with the possibility of U.S. stock slump and is spinning to find victories that...Read More
UK billionaire Alan Howard’s Elwood is reportedly making major investments in crypto hedge funds. | Source: Shutterstock A new crypto venture is on the horizon, boasting a $1 billion treasury and a mentor that Forbes in 2013 listed as “one of the 40 highest-earning hedge fund managers.” The unnamed platform is a part of Elwood...Read More
Binance has come up with a detailed research report about the new People’s Bank of China (PBoC) Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). The research reveals that the new currency will be a two-tiered system and is aimed at replacing cash. Binance Research, which is the analysis and data research arm at Binance, recently came out...Read More
OneLedger announced a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) who will provide cloud computing services that facilitate an on-demand environment for developing software applications. An interoperable blockchain platform OneLedger announced their new partnership with the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). GCP supplies cloud computing services that clear the way to an on-demand territory for developing,...Read More
Photo: Binance Blog Crypto exchange Binance has unveiled its new platform offering to developers called Binance X. This new developer-driven initiative from Binance focuses on fostering innovation in the blockchain ecosystem. As per the company announcement, Binance X would majorly focus on helping developers learn and collaborate in the blockchain ecosystem. Moreover, the platform also...Read More
Facebook has been seeing a lot of regulatory issues from the day they announced the launch of Libra. Keeping this in mind the Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange, Binance planned for a different approach to launch it’s cryptocurrency Venus. In an interview with Bloomberg, the co-founder of Binance, He Yi said, “If we want to launch Venus...Read More
Hedera Hashgraph has announced the launch of its mainnet in September which will be followed by the release of its native HBAR coins. The platform has called for all interested developers to use its DLT for the creation of diverse DApps. Hedera Hashgraph, an enterprise public distributed ledger platform, has officially announced that it will...Read More
According to local media news reports, police officers in the customs department of China’s northeastern province, Jilin, have recently stopped a cross-border deal involving drugs paid for by using Bitcoin. According to the customs officers, buying drugs with cryptocurrencies has become a new trend and poses many difficulties to Chinese law enforcement agencies. On 16...Read More
Cutting through the squiggly lines of technical analysis, here are three very simple reasons why you should NOT be buying any Bitcoin in the short term. | Source: Shutterstock Bitcoin’s recent drop below $10,000 split an already fractured cryptocurrency community into two distinct camps. On one side are the optimists who believe Bitcoin’s drop to...Read More
Grayscale Investments, a cryptocurrency asset manager reported its Assets under management [AUM] tripling from $926 million to a whopping $2.7 billion, in its Q2 report. Grayscale products like Grayscale Bitcoin Trust and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund reported 178.8% and 147.6%, respectively in returns, this quarter. Source: Grayscale Investments The company noted a strong quarter...Read More
The Ethereum issuance of Tether (USDT) is quickly becoming the most utilized version of the stablecoin – and pushing Bitcoin and Omni out of the game. | Source: Shutterstock Tether (USDT) transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain are losing ground to Ethereum at an ever-increasing rate. Ever since the Tether stablecoin was issued on Ethereum in...Read More
Litecoin’s hash rate continued to plummet as it entered the third week after its halving on August 5th. According to the popular cryptocurrency stats website, BitInfoCharts, Litecoin’s hash rate on 28th August was 331.4 TH/s, a decline of 33.3% from a hash rate of 458.3 TH/s on the day of halving. In the words of...Read More
Pantera CEO, Dan Morehead, highlighted 4 upcoming projects to research blockchain scalability and interoperability in their newsletter. They aim to spark further adoption and use-cases of blockchain technology. Progress in blockchain technology is often taken for granted, while developers work every day toward removing bottlenecks holding back mass adoption and scalability. Using decentralization against legacy...Read More
Investors have swung wildly between risk-on and risk-off postures, as Sino-U.S. trade tensions rise and fall. While crypto-volatility is still too strong for most investors to stomach, there could be a more reliable refuge for investor value. At present, equities-averse money has very few places left to go.The Swiss National Bank recently intervened to dampen...Read More
TRONSCAN, a blockchain browser for TRON community announced its support for the Sun-network, where it would be developing a block explorer for the Sun Network’s Dapp chain. The block explorer will be integrated into the TRONSCAN according to the latest TRON weekly report posted by TRON Japan. Check out the weekly report made by @TRON_JPN...Read More
Hut 8, one of the largest public Bitcoin mining farms by operating capacity, has released its financial report for the second quarter of 2019. The mining firm recorded a tremendous surge in its net profit and overall revenue for Q2, with the net profit for the firm reaching $33.7 million Candian dollars while the overall...Read More
The bitcoin price suffered a painful crash this week, but bulls shouldn’t imagine the worst is over. This dump isn’t finished – not even close. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: The bitcoin price suffered a massive setback on August 28th, crashing through support at $10,000 before testing the low $9,000s. We warned that this...Read More
The Hong Kong protests started in June 2019 over a controversial bill and now after weeks of demonstrations, marching citizens are fighting for the future of Hong Kong. In the midst of all the activists protesting, digital currencies like bitcoin cash are being promoted as a way for people to remove themselves from China’s system....Read More
GRAM tokens are finally coming to investors, Telegram says. The company behind the second-largest cryptocurrency sale expects to ship tokens in the next two months, the New York Times reported yesterday. The issuance will end a saga that began almost two years ago, when a handful of private investors put $1.7bn into the proposed Telegram...Read More
Photo: Wikimedia Commons PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. finally went live with the blockchain payments platform RippleNet. By doing this, it became a first-ever American bank that decided to process cross-border payments just a year after they decided to adopt Ripple’s technology. As one of the ten largest banks in the U.S., the inaugurating of...Read More
The entire cryptocurrency market was in free fall yesterday, with all major cryptocurrency reporting a significant slump. The first in the line to succumb, as usual, were the top altcoins and the king coin. At press time, the market remained red, with Bitcoin recording a fall of over 5 percent and Ethereum spotting a negative...Read More
As bitcoin prices continue to post strong rallies, traders are looking at higher potential valuations for BTC/USD on a long-term trend basis. Not surprisingly, many of these projections deal with important psychological levels that may be likely to guide market activity. By most accounts, market valuations in BTC/USD have had a strong year. Bitcoin has...Read More
