Ethereum is currently focused on upcoming hard fork Istanbul. However, this upcoming hard fork will not include the most-talked-about Ethereum Improvement Protocol, ProgPow. The main reason behind this move can be attributed to the security audit of the protocol. ProgPow has been one of the most-awaited upgrades as the protocols aim to tackle ASIC mining....Read More
2018 was a year to forget for the virtual asset industry. A majority of the assets were impacted by crypto winter which had prevailed after the bullish run in late 2017. In light of that situation, 2019 has been a positive year for digital currencies. Ethereum improved its valuation by almost 45 percent at press...Read More
The future belongs to those who prepare for it, and the long term of XRP demands preparation for a fall. The coin’s performance in the bull’s market has been bearish and with the fall of Bitcoin, the coin also registered a fall on August 14. Despite several tries, no relief was in sight for the...Read More
Digital silver has not had the best couple of weeks. With anticipation about its block halving raising its price by over 300 percent in 2019, the event itself saw bearish price movement. Litecoin, after reaching a high of over $140 in price two months prior to the halving, has seen a slump since. At press...Read More
If just 0.023% of Bitcoin addresses hold 50% of the total wealth, isn’t the new boss turning out to be a lot like the old one? | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: Research released by blockchain analysis group PARSIQ this week did much to weaken Bitcoin’s image as a global freedom currency. The findings detail...Read More
Photo: Pixabay Last week we reported how China is preparing their own digital currency dubbed CBDC after five years they have been working on it. However, after the analysis of over 50 patent applications that were filed by the People’s Bank of China, it has become clear that the pattern of this digital currency will...Read More
Move over, Craig Wright! The “real” Satoshi Nakamoto vows to reveal himself this week and claims he’s hodling 980,000 bitcoin. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: Move over, Craig Wright! The “real” Satoshi Nakamoto vows to reveal himself as the true inventor of bitcoin over the next few days. What’s more, the “real” Nakamoto claims...Read More
Can the unstoppable force move the immovable object? Since the dawn of time, innovation is viewed from two different perspectives. One from the perspective of the innovator, and the other from the perspective of the innovation enforcer. With the world moving at such a fast pace, the unwritten rule is: innovate or perish, and in...Read More
The market experienced a surge in the number of transactions occurring between unknown wallets, as Bitcoin maintained its position above the $10,000 mark. The king coin was priced $10,413.87 at press time with a jump of 3.30% over the 24-hour cycle. As the crypto-market joined the bullish ride, the transfer of crypto coins also surged...Read More
Digital Silver, despite being the third-largest gainer in the top-10, in 2019 alone has been on a bit of a slump. Following its block halving at the start of the month, the 5th largest cryptocurrency on the market has lost 49 percent of its price since late-June when it was priced at $144. To put...Read More
TronWallet Play, the desktop version of TronWallet is ready to be released as stated in the official announcement. With the popularity of TronWallet, native mobile App for Mobile Wallets, the company were seeking new opportunities to introduce it for the desktop too. After starting a beta program 3 weeks back. The desktop version comes the...Read More
The XRP’s price might have taken a hit over the past few days falling the Bitcoin dump. The coin has been moving towards stabilizing its price, but with the bears in the market, the recovery has been difficult. The short term prediction point towards a fall and rise trend in XRP’s price, while the long...Read More
Rupiah Token, on the event of Indonesian 74th Independence Day, announced IDRTB to be introduced on Binance Chain. With this, IDRTB will be the first ever non-USD Asian Currency to be listed on Binance Chain. In addition, they plan to introduce IDRTB as a currency exchange pair on Binance DEX. After the launch of IDRT...Read More
Wednesday’s Bitcoin flash crash was not due to a sell-off from Chinese ponzi scam, PlusToken, a researcher has claimed. Sid Shekhar, the co-founder of London-based, TokenAnalyst, said the disputed coins were moved earlier on the blockchain. We Can All Relax, It’s A False Alarm As Bitcoinist reported on Thursday, cryptocurrency influencer, Dovey Wan, brought the $3 billion...Read More
A potential trader looking at Ethereum at the moment will be demoralized with its current price movement. At press time, the token indicated a price growth of 1.23 percent at press time but prior to that, ETH had slumped over 8 percent on 14th August. Ethereum’s one-day chart Source: Trading View If a trader was...Read More
Yesterday’s big announcement that regulatory approval has been granted to Bakkt could be the best news bitcoin investors have had this year. It opens the door to institutional investors and is a huge step forward for crypto industry legitimization in the US. Bakkt To Launch Next Month After months of procrastination, the new cryptocurrency trading...Read More
One of the biggest news last year was the announcement made by the New York Stock Exchange’s parent company, Intercontinental Exchange. In August 2018, The firm announced that it would be venturing into the cryptocurrency space with the launch of a new company – Bakkt. This turned out to be an extremely bullish news in...Read More
Bakkt, a subsidiary of ICE(Intercontinental Exchange), has got a clearance to launch the much awaited Futures Trading on 23rd September, 2019. As we write, Bakkt has already started User Acceptance Testing to release the vision in September. In a Medium post, CEO Kelly Loeffler, quoted “Clear to Launch”, stating that their much awaited and highly...Read More
Beating the street estimates, Nvidia has posted 16% rise in its earning for Q2 fiscal 2020 in comparison to the previous quarter. California-based chip manufacturing giant Nvidia released its second-quarter results for fiscal 2020 on Thursday, August 15. Compared to the Q1, Nvidia has posted a 16% rise in its overall revenue which stands at...Read More
One of the most advanced and secure cryptocurrency exchanges, KuCoin released an official announcement stating its support towards KickCoin (KICK) Token Swap. As per the blog post the token swapping will be held on 29th August 2019. As per the KickEcosystem report, there are chances of getting up to 150% bonus KickTokens during the swap....Read More
While the cryptocurrency world is ensconced with news of Bakkt confirming their September 23 launch of BTC futures, the altcoins are looking in awe. At press time, none of the heavyweight alternates to Bitcoin are trading in the thick of the green. Litecoin, fresh off its halving, has been on a downward slump, dropping by...Read More
On August 16th, Founder and CEO of Tron Ecosystem, Justin sun tweeted saying, All he wants is to create a better Blockchain world. He also asked users what’s the next Dapp you would want to see in the future? It is quite obvious that, Justin’s vision for the future is to integrate blockchain technology and...Read More
With the end of the week, the cryptocurrency market is showing mixed results. Although major altcoins are seeing growth, few coins are still struggling to gain back the momentum. At present Verge coin is the second largest leading cryptocurrency in terms of gains with 13% growth. While Lisk coin holds the 1st position with more...Read More
Bitcoin Price Analysis (BTC/USD) On an intraday chart, the price of BTC/USD pair has further dipped from the previous price of 10473.00 and is currently changing hands at $9917.57 that translated to an intraday dip of 5.3%. The bulls seemed to have lacked the means or strategy to pull up the market momentum. This was...Read More
Turkey interest in bitcoin remains robust as the economy struggles to recover from the collapse of the lira from 2018. | Source: Shutterstock By CCN Markets: Turkey likes bitcoin more than any of the other 14 nations polled in a recent survey by Dutch banking group ING. Sixty-two percent of Turks were crypto positive, while...Read More
On August 15, the San Francisco-based digital currency exchange Coinbase announced that it had acquired the cryptocurrency custody service Xapo’s institutional branch. The business move puts Coinbase in the limelight, making it the largest custodial service for digital assets worldwide, with more than $7 billion under custody. Also Read: Hong Kong Protest Leader Hopes to...Read More
By Dmitriy Gurkovskiy, Chief Analyst at RoboForex The second cryptocurrency in terms of capitalization, the Ethereum, continues a declining correction. The test of the important support level of $165 is close; if it happens, the buyers will have to demonstrate a bounce in order to prevent further decline. It is possible that the ETH is...Read More
It has been a tough 24 hours for XRP and Ripple. Over the last 24 hours, Ripple has suffered a massive devaluation for over 10 percent, taking its valuation to a a new low for 2019. However, Xpring, Ripple’s XRP adoption initiative, recently revealed a collaboration with Coil and announced that Xpring had granted 1...Read More
Crypto exchange Coinbase disclosed a potential vulnerability Friday, announcing that a tiny fraction of its customers’ passwords were stored in plain text on an internal server log. However, the information was not improperly accessed by outside parties, the exchange said. In a post-mortem shared with CoinDesk, Coinbase outlined “a password storage issue,” impacting less than...Read More
Ethereum core developers finalized late Thursday a list of six different code changes to be activated for ethereum’s next system-wide upgrade, Istanbul. As agreed in prior meetings, Istanbul will be executed in two parts. The first, which will feature all six code changes, or ethereum improvement proposals (EIPs), is tentatively expected to execute on ethereum...Read More
