The U.S-China trade war has left both nations’ economies in a state of distress, accelerating geopolitical tension. However, several analysts speculate that the ongoing trade war between two of the world’s largest economies has been beneficial to Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s entry into the monetary world was during a period of economic recession and the coin’s resistance...Read More
This year, cryptocurrencies seem to have lured huge private tech companies like Facebook, JP Morgan, and Fidelity into the cryptocurrency market. The latest addition to this list is instant messaging service, Telegram, and it is set to launch its very own cryptocurrency “GRAM” very soon. On 1 September, the messaging giant will debut testing its...Read More
Compeititon is the currency of success in the crypto-community, and the proponents of one virtual asset often draw out comparisons with others to establish their own supremacy. Charlie Lee seems to have fallen in the the same group as in a recent Twitter thread, the creator of Litecoin re-ignited the Dash-Litecoin debate after taking a...Read More
All that glitters is not gold; it might be Bitcoin The tussle between digital gold and tangible gold is one for the ages. One rising from its fallen ‘standard’ for the global financial order, and the other born from the debris of financial collapse. Bitcoin and Gold have charted similar paths, yet from the traditional...Read More
If I got an XRP each time someone asked me about the price, I might have become a successful hodler! Addressing the elephant in the room -the question of XRP’s price swings in short-term; surprisingly the grass is green on this side of the coin as key indicators point towards a trend reversal. August was...Read More
Cardano’s Shelley has been one of the most anticipated development projects for the virtual’s asset ecosystem. IOHK’s Charles Hoskinson has released a series of updates, with regards to the progression of the project in his recent AMA. It was reported earlier that Shelley’s testnet program would be categorized into three phases and according to Hoskinson,...Read More
The Electric Coin Company’s privacy-focused coin, Zcash, was in the news lately after the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, announced that it no longer supported the altcoin for UK customers. The exchange did not disclose any details for the delisting of the coin, which in turn led to several speculations by the crypto-community. A recent...Read More
Litecoin is facing death by the cross. Litecoin’s 2019 has taken a sharp U-Turn. Hailed as one of the top gainers among large-cap cryptocurrencies in the market, the fifth largest coin is staring down at an imminent bearish run. The digital silver’s massive gains of 2019, which took it to a 320 percent price high...Read More
Set Protocol, an Ethereum DeFi project, has announced that it will be deploying their own 50 day moving average strategy. It is designed to rebalance when the price crosses the 50 SMA technical indicator, and it does so automatically. The strategy involves selling into the USDC stablecoin during an economic downturn and ETH buyback during...Read More
The news of Tron CEO Justin Sun’s much-awaited lunch with Warren Buffett created a lot of waves within the Tron community today after it was revealed that it is still on its course. Another positive development is that TRX got listed on IDAX exchange, a move which will boost the token’s presence in the market....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
2019 has been largely considered as a breakthrough year for the cryptocurrency market, largely because it was poles apart from the bearish crypto-winter that preceded it. Investors are flocking into the industry, with the virtual asset ecosystem starting to gain attention from financial institutes. At press time, it was being reported that a major management...Read More
Ethereum’s performance in the DApp space has dropped over time, despite the fact that users were bound to rely on Ethereum’s Solidity to build DApps. In spite of it being a prominent smart contract programming language, users have often had issues with the platform. In order to up its DApp game, Ethereum Classic Labs, the...Read More
During the FiNext Conference in USA, Ripple’s Director of Corporate Payments, Ryan Gaylor, claimed that bank coins like JP Morgan’s do not fix the ailing issue of centralization as opposed to XRP, reported VisionaryFinanc. This statement came up when Gaylor was discussing Ripple’s partnership with Santander. Santander Group, a commercial bank “has been planning for...Read More
Stellar Lumens [XLM] currently stands as the world’s tenth largest cryptocurrency by market cap. At the time of writing, XLM was valued at $0.0629 with a market cap of $1.24 billion. While the price of the coin has fallen since the beginning of the year, it recorded a 1.17% increase in price over the last...Read More
With a circulating supply of 42,932,866,967 XRP and a market cap of $10,995,406,740 at press time, XRP is just recovering from revisiting its lowest value in quite some time. Looking at the 1 hour chart for XRP, a diamond pattern alongside the MACD indicator suggests a short period of stabilization moving into an upwards breakout...Read More
San Francisco-based crypto-lending and borrowing firm, Dharma, has clarified that it is not working actively on any projects related to XRP. The question arose on Twitter after the firm announcing its closed beta for Dharma version 2. While addressing the controversy surrounding the alleged case of “XRP dumping,” Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse had previously stated...Read More
In any financial trading space, market sentiment plays a huge role in deciding the outcome or direction of the price over a certain time period. In the cryptocurrency ecosystem, market sentiment is even more evident and sometimes, it is more important than the fundamental properties of the coin itself. Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, usually...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
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
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
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 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
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
The decentralized cryptographic ledger and the house of Ripple’s native cryptocurrency, XRP Ledger index 49624361 contained 370 transactions and the closing time for the ledger was just 3.5 seconds in the early hours of 28th August. The total fees for the transactions executed was 26.27 XRP. This event was tweeted by a Twitter user called...Read More
The twenty-fourth episode of Magical Crypto Friends focused on Litecoin, the development FUD surrounding the coin, the recent halving and its Mimblewimble implementation. The creator of the cryptocurrency, Charlie Lee, addressed various questions pertaining to these topics in the 25-minute discussion. Addressing the development FUD, Lee stated that this was one of the most common...Read More
Ripple’s efforts towards XRP adoption led to a partnership with SBI Holdings, which led the way to a joint venture “SBI Ripple Asia”, to promote the use of the Virtual currency in Asian markets. Under the said partnership, SBI announced Shareholder Benefits Campaign to grant them with 30 XRP, on August 28. An excerpt from...Read More
Currently employed methods used by traditional financial system make it difficult for the system to maintain records effectively and efficiently. In light of the same, OKEx aims to simplify the entire process by integrating the platform with blockchain technology. OKEx aims to fill the gap in a cost-effective way. With a wider user base, OKEx...Read More
Tron-backed BitTorrent grabbed the attention of the crypto-community yet again after it announced the internal testing of its live social streaming platform. Testing will be carried out in the present quarter by combining blockchain technology with a community live streaming application. This new feature will empower users by connecting them with others at a global...Read More
Wietse Wind, XRPL developer, creator of the XRPTipBot and XRP Text, announced on Twitter today that the XRPL Testnet provided by Ripple had been reset. Please note: the XRPL Testnet provided by @Ripple has been reset (this happens every now and then: a fresh testnet ?). I just gave the @XRPLLabs testnet node (wss://testnet.xrpl-labs.com) a...Read More
