The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced pressing charges against Bitqyck Inc. and its founders for defrauding investors in securities offerings of two digital assets and operating an unregistered exchange. Quoting the official statement, “Bitqyck and founders Bruce Bise and Sam Mendez created and sold Bitqy and BitqyM (tokens) in unregistered securities offerings to more...Read More
If you’ve ever had to buy a used car, you know how easy it is to be taken for a ride. Between rolled-over odometers and new cars that have never seen a drop of oil, secondary markets are a rusty minefield of hidden problems and iffy maintenance. Now, one of the leading auto giants is...Read More
Bitcoin has lost almost 7% during the last 24 hours, according to Coinmarketcap data, taking analysts by surprise. Here are main reasons why the cryptocurrency is testing new support levels right now. CME’s Bitcoin Futures Bitcoin’s latest crash, which started on Wednesday afternoon, sent prices below the $9,500 level for the first time since July....Read More
Cryptocurrency markets are in the midst of a significant sell-off, with top digital assets losing over five percent in value over the past twenty-four hours. As the Bitcoin price has now fallen through two key support levels, analysts are predicting further losses, with BTC likely to fall below $9,000. Cryptocurrencies experienced a sharp drop at...Read More
The UN’s cyber czar blamed Bitcoin and other crypto assets for making it significantly harder to fight child sexual exploitation and other crimes. | Source: Twitter (i), Shutterstock (ii). Image Edited by CCN. By CCN Markets: A senior UN official, Neil Walsh, claims that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have made the task of fighting money...Read More
XRP is down 5 percent on the day and has seen a significant retreat this year. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: To say that Ripple (XRP/USD) is a laggard would be a huge understatement. The cryptocurrency has been in a long downtrend ever since it posted an all-time high of $3.30 in January 2018. It...Read More
Looking beyond short term market peaks and troughs paints an entirely different picture for the crypto industry. Doom merchants and mainstream media will have a riot when bitcoin prices plummet ten percent, but they rarely acknowledge industry interest which can be measured in education. Crypto Studies Double in 2019 According to US crypto exchange Coinbase,...Read More
In recent news, Microsoft announced that the much-anticipated HoloLens 2 will go live on sale in September, Harry Shum revealed at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghay on Thursday. Recently Microsoft finally announced that HoloLens 2 will go on sale in September, the head of AI and research Harry Shum, revealed on stage in...Read More
Apple has now made its own Apple Card available for all consumers within the United States. Apple promises to keep user data very private and not compromise on security, especially with Apple Card partners MasterCard and Goldman Sachs. Apple has finally released its own credit card called the Apple Card. In partnership with American multinational...Read More
The Bitcoin price has seen a downward fall below $10,000 within a span of half an hour. The steep fall in the BTC price has also affected the crypto market and some of the well-known crypto enthusiasts and investors. The BTC price fell drastically to $9,400 giving a weekly low. Analyzing this price fluctuation, the...Read More
Court proceedings against defunct Canadian Bitcoin exchange QuadrigaCX will focus on people in Ontario, say liquidators. EY: ‘Few Ties’ Keep Bitcoin Case In Nova Scotia In a court document filed this week, Ernst & Young (EY), the accounting giant acting as the exchange’s bankruptcy trustee, petitioned for a relocation of their case. Currently taking place...Read More
According to a recent study by Coinbase on higher education, the adoption of academic courses on digital currencies and the underlying blockchain technology by top institutions around the world is on the rise. A Coinbase‘s survey was carried out on the top 50 universities in the world (i.e., according to the U.S. News And World...Read More
Bitcoin price fell sharply on Thursday’s trading to land around the $9,500 level. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: The bitcoin price crumbled overnight, breaching the psychological barrier of $10k and dropping as low as $9,334 on Coinbase. The fall marked a nine percent collapse in a matter of hours, wiping out a total of...Read More
Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, has been in the news all month for a host of reasons. The exchange had a rough beginning to the month after the exchange’s old KYC data was leaked on a Telegram group. However, the exchange has managed to keep the community informed with a series of positive developments in its...Read More
Nutanix, which is a leading enterprise cloud computing company, announced their new Q4 and fiscal 2019 financial results. Soon after the company’s stock price shot up to even 15%. Nutanix, a company which operates in the cloud computing industry, announced their Q4 Fiscal 2019 Financial results. It beat all the expectations that the financial experts...Read More
Cryptocurrency figures are putting renewed faith in Bakkt to lift markets after the company announced it was ready to launch Bitcoin storage. Bakkt: Bitcoin Storage Starts Next Week Bakkt, a cryptocurrency ecosystem for institutional investors, is currently testing its first product, physical Bitcoin futures. The main launch will begin next month. As of September 6,...Read More
The former Amazon employee who hacked the Capital One Bank has now used it’s servers to mine cryptocurrencies for herself. On August 28, the court filings revealed that the hacker Paige A. Thompson is charged for Capital One breach and for cryptojacking attempt. Basically, cryptojacking is all about crypto mining attacks. This works by installing...Read More
Fitbit, a smartphone wearables company, released its new Smartwatch Versa 2 upgrade. It comes with a few next-generation upgrades along with the Amazon’s Alexa addition. Also, the company announced the launch of its subscription service. In recent news, Fitbit, which is known as the rival to Apple in the wearable war, announced their newest upgrades...Read More
Sharding is widely hailed as a solution to blockchain scalability. But projects that implement sharding technology may be introducing new security risks into their blockchains, according to the CEO of Solana, which could make them vulnerable to consensus attacks. Speaking to Crypto Briefing, Anatoly Yakovenko said that the risks associated with sharding far outweigh any...Read More
China’s Government and Central Bank just can’t seem to align on the proposed central bank digital currency (CBDC). On Tuesday, government-supported tabloid, Global Times, reported that the Central Bank called speculation on an upcoming launch ‘inaccurate speculation’. Then yesterday, it published an article suggesting that plans are gaining momentum, with a pilot-scheme in Shenzhen imminent....Read More
Litecoin has dropped below $70 for the first time in four months. Early this month, the fifth-largest cryptocurrency in market experienced its halving, dropping the block rewards from 25 LTC per block to 12.5 LTC per block. However, the price fall began well before the halving, a trend which flies in the face of conventional...Read More
Photo: Christopher Michel / Flickr The XRP crypto has encountered a lot of bearish volatility lately. The token closely linked to the Ripple FinTech Company has made many analysts think that its bearish trend has resulted from Ripple selling a large number of tokens onto the markets every quarter. The third biggest crypto, XRP, registered...Read More
By leveraging R3 Corda’s blockchain solutions, the Wethaq platform aims to improve the market infrastructure used for issuing and trading the Sukuk securities. Enterprise software company R3 has entered into a strategic partnership with Dubai-based fintech firm Wethaq to develop a blockchain-based framework for Islamic capital markets. According to the press release on Wednesday, August...Read More
As predicted, a big movement came for bitcoin following a week of consolidation. Analysts have been mixed all week but those that leaned towards bearish were right as the king of crypto plunged back into four figures a few hours ago. Bitcoin Nearing New Low A huge red candle resulted in a dump of over...Read More
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. has gone live with RippleNet on August 29, becoming the first-ever American bank to process cross-border payments, reported FintechFutures. The bank inked the deal with RippleNet in September 2018 and announced that its Treasury Management Unit would be using Ripple’s current software solution to carry out cross-border transactions. According to...Read More
Bitcoin and the wider crypto market are taking an absolute beating on Thursday. | Source: Shutterstock Following an abrupt drop from $10,277 to $9,700 in the bitcoin price on August 28, the dominant crypto asset has continued to demonstrate weakness in its short term trend. The bitcoin price has dropped by more than $1,000 in...Read More
Bitcoin Fees in December 2017 were almost always above $10, sometimes reaching nearly $30. Today we are nearly at the same price and fees have dropped considerably; less than a dollar in most cases. But has Bitcoin actually scaled, or is it just a case of fewer transactions happening on the network? Fees are only...Read More
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference kicked off in Shanghai Thursday with a much-anticipated keynote summit between Alibaba founder Jack Ma, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk debating the future of AI. At the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, visitors could attend an immerse debate between Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Alibaba founder...Read More
Bitcoin and a few major altcoins have shocked the market as they have shed significant weight in a considerably short time. Right now, the crypto market prices have lost billions and there is no pointer to a bull run in the near future. The entire crypto market has been in a free fall of sorts...Read More
One of the pioneering payments and cryptocurrency platform, Crypto.com has now listed Ontology Gas’s ONG on it’s application. The cryptocurrencies and stablecoins that are presently listed on Crypto.com are Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), XRP, TrueUSD (TUSD), PAXOS (PAX), and its own MCO and CRO Tokens. The Ontology holds two tokens, one of which...Read More
